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Trump Is Like an Aggressive Chimp and May Not Last Long as President, Says Jane Goodall
Newsweek ^ | September 20, 2017 | Tufayel Ahmed

Posted on 09/22/2017 5:37:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Primatologist Jane Goodall has made her name studying chimpanzees for over half a century. So, if anyone can deduce a distinct correlation between a brash chimp and the egoistic hubris of, say, the president of the United States, it’s Goodall.

Pre-election, last October, Goodall made a comparison between then-Republican candidate Donald Trump and the primates she has devoted her life to understanding.

“In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals,” she told the Atlantic.

“In order to impress rivals, males seeking to rise in the dominance hierarchy perform spectacular displays: Stamping, slapping the ground, dragging branches, throwing rocks. The more vigorous and imaginative the display, the faster the individual is likely to rise in the hierarchy, and the longer he is likely to maintain that position.”

Trump’s election campaign was littered with plenty of metaphorical stamping and rock-throwing.....

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: animals; apes; junglejane; primates; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The left keeps digging that 2020 hole a little deeper. As for Goodall. Ah, whatever. She’s just another dumb lefty posing as a “learned” primatologist/scientist!


21 posted on 09/22/2017 5:46:14 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Commie useful idiots are piling on. Many, like Jane Goodall, are doing it to gain relevance after their glory in the sun has faded and economic problems have risen.


22 posted on 09/22/2017 5:46:44 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Was she talking about BOzo?


23 posted on 09/22/2017 5:47:09 PM PDT by jetson
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To: Salamander

Dian Fossey got chopped with a machete while trying to study gorillas.

All cultures are equal...


24 posted on 09/22/2017 5:47:15 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought she was dead?


25 posted on 09/22/2017 5:47:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I must have missed the esteemed Ms Goodall’s public views of ol jug ears like a bald chimp over the 8 years he occupied the DC zoo. Seems she only makes comparisons for conservative admins.


26 posted on 09/22/2017 5:47:48 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Mears

Roger has no balls, so he is kind of a woman.


27 posted on 09/22/2017 5:48:40 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In many ways, Ms. Goodall’s performance reminds me of female chimpanzees presenting their red, swollen nether regions in heat but getting no attention and thus becoming a reproductive failure because the alpha won’t touch her.


28 posted on 09/22/2017 5:48:48 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Trump Is Like an Aggressive Chimp and May Not Last Long as President, Says Jane Goodall"

She is intimately familiar with chimp behavior. Humans? Not so much.
29 posted on 09/22/2017 5:49:35 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Salamander

“I thought gorillas ate her.”

Me too.

Or, was that Sigourney Weaver?


30 posted on 09/22/2017 5:49:52 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Salamander
I thought she was dead...but I guess she is still alive. She does look like a little old lady who flipped me the bird for having this on my car:


31 posted on 09/22/2017 5:52:06 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

hahahahahaha!


32 posted on 09/22/2017 5:52:37 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

33 posted on 09/22/2017 5:53:19 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Isn’t calling someone a chimpanzee racist?


34 posted on 09/22/2017 6:02:48 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: 4yearlurker
President Trump sure does get the old hags riled up.

I wonder if he could get Helen Thomas riled up? Ewwww. What an awful thought. 😆😄 Best to leave that individual where she is. 😊

35 posted on 09/22/2017 6:05:21 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: RightGeek

Beat me to it ...


36 posted on 09/22/2017 6:14:05 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"The more vigorous and imaginative the display, the faster the individual is likely to rise in the hierarchy, and the longer he is likely to maintain that position.”

So Trump will be around for a while, and will probably be reelected. Got it.

I always thought Jane Goodall was a spinster who had devoted her life to science. But apparently she has been married twice and has a kid.

She actually has aged better than a lot of 83 year-olds and I don't think it is accurate to say she is or was physically ugly

37 posted on 09/22/2017 6:14:10 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hell ,,,, they said he would win the office .


38 posted on 09/22/2017 6:15:07 PM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: There is nothing democratic about the democrat party :-()
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To: dhs12345
Maybe he is the alpha chimp. Wonder if she considered that?

Jane needs to get busy biting tics off Trump's back fur like a good beta female before he gets pissed off and throws her off a really tall tree.

39 posted on 09/22/2017 6:16:29 PM PDT by bagster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is nothing off limits anymore on the left. And the children are watching. I thought Jane Goodall was dead.


40 posted on 09/22/2017 6:17:32 PM PDT by Hildy
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