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underpants

(182,788 posts)
1. Ted: a microphone? Well of course I'll speak
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 03:53 PM
Jan 2022

Boy you all sure are lucky that I graced your presence with my intelligence

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
3. I heard yesterday that the Oath Keepers provided security at Cruz's rallies.
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 04:39 PM
Jan 2022

Eager to see further connections to each other.

LoisB

(7,203 posts)
4. What really enrages me about people like him is that he is NOT stupid. None of them are (well,
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 04:59 PM
Jan 2022

there are notable exceptions), they know they're spouting b.s. yet they continue to play to the most ignorant among us while laughing at them behind their backs. For what? To please the former guy? For power? For votes from the basest of TFG's base?

Harker

(14,015 posts)
6. They sure fooled me, then.
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 05:34 PM
Jan 2022

In my book, the "notable exceptions" are the rule.

They're profoundly stupid, and some of them will pay for their perfidy.

Jilly_in_VA

(9,966 posts)
8. Not so sure about that
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 05:55 PM
Jan 2022

As my dad always said, and I have watched and believed, because my brothers, both of them, have the same kind of education and know some of these people..."Having an Ivy league education does not mean you are educated...or smart. It means you went to an Ivy League school. So did an awful lot of idiots."

druidity33

(6,446 posts)
13. Tuberville? Johnson?
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 08:08 PM
Jan 2022

those would be my guess on the notable exceptions in the Senate. Gaetz, Boebert, Brooks and Greene would be my guess in the House. How'd i do?



Jilly_in_VA

(9,966 posts)
15. You forgot
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 08:50 PM
Jan 2022

Little Big Wheels (Cawthorn)
Louie the Gomer (as mentioned by someone else)
Andy Biggs
Paul Gosar

You do know that Cawthorn flunked out of Patrick Henry College, that place set up specifically for homeschoolers? (He will tell you that he withdrew, but if he did, it was "Withdrew Failing", which is the same thing as flunking out.)

wnylib

(21,433 posts)
18. It's not about intelligence.
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 02:39 PM
Jan 2022

Throughout human history some very intelligent people have done some very stupid things due to emotional and psychological issues.

Cops encounter very clever criminals all the time. Psychologists and psychiatrists deal with exceptionally brilliant patients.

For people who do not have the psych and emotional issues of criminals and racists, their behaviors are stupid. But to people who do have those issues, their behavior seems quite normal and reasonable. You can't reason with them until you cut through and disable the emotional and psychological issues.

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