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skip fox

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6. It might be a good phrase to hang around the enabling Republicans' collective necks.

Reply to Blecht (Reply #5)

Sat Aug 1, 2020, 12:17 PM

Aug 2020

Sadly a meme of only two words inevitably lacks nuance.

Your point is well taken and is useful for a percentage of these folks, but doesn't explain "naturally stupid" people like Louie Gohmert.

A further nuance: If they want to act stupid, they are stupid. What intelligent person would act stupid when the stakes are so high? (Well, I imagine a great many, but we're back into nuance and nuance don't surf)

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"Weaponized stupidity" might the most accurate assessment [View all] skip fox Aug 2020 OP

Thanks, Putin. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #1

Putin could not have done it without a lot of help Turbineguy Aug 2020 #3

Moscow Mitch... Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #4

Don't give ReTHUGs or their base a pass malaise Aug 2020 #2

I prefer "weaponized willful ignorance" Blecht Aug 2020 #5

It might be a good phrase to hang around the enabling Republicans' collective necks. skip fox Aug 2020 #6