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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRonny Jackson's 'BEST' Trump Question Backfires Spectacularly On Twitter
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) asked a question on Twitter on Wednesday, but he probably didnt like the answers he received.
Jackson, a conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump acolyte who as White House physician once claimed the then-president could live to 200, wrote:
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He received some 20,000 replies over the course of the day. However, many of them were variations on the same answer:
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/wing-lawmakers-best-trump-backfires-085401924.html
PatSeg
(47,394 posts)Is he proficient at anything?
TwilightZone
(25,457 posts)PatSeg
(47,394 posts)but I'm not so sure about proficient. How could anyone that stupid become a doctor?
Edit to add: And a rear admiral in the Navy? Apparently he was a White House physician under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, so he wasn't always this screwy. Trump seems to have that effect on people. Well, plus the drugs I suppose.
TwilightZone
(25,457 posts)All of these high-level professionals that seem to have become brain-dead morons are running a con job. They act ignorant because that's what the base wants.
Same with Trump. That same base convinced themselves that a rich Manhattan socialite was an every-man who could relate to them at their level. He knows his audience and plays them like a fiddle.
PatSeg
(47,394 posts)though I must say in that case Ronny is an awfully good actor.
TwilightZone
(25,457 posts)Maybe, perhaps counter-intuitively, the education and experience better prepared them to fake it. I don't know.
It's also not a new tactic. Reagan was a master. I used to say that Reagan was a better actor as president than he ever was in Hollywood.
plimsoll
(1,668 posts)In Hollywood he was trying to act. As President he thought he was acting.
PatSeg
(47,394 posts)he is still on a reality television show.
PatSeg
(47,394 posts)I guess that until he entered politics, he had never quite found the right role. He was truly a forgettable Hollywood actor.
plimsoll
(1,668 posts)Trump is a bully, so they have that in common.
Mopar151
(9,978 posts)Exaggeration of their own personality traits, with the suggestion of erratic and crazy, and a side of shady. Some think that's real, and Congress is fake.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,449 posts)The best thing are the facts that he will be remembered as a 2 time popular vote loser, 2 time impeached President, and 1st pResident to lead an armed Insurrection against the United State3s of America.
CatWoman
(79,295 posts)Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)But, you know after reading about how they all behaved at tfg's restaurant in Washington I can see so much of it was probably all just egos. tfg's being the biggest. His demands to be treated specially trickled down to his "friends of the day" and I'm sure they loved feeling so important.
So much so that they lose their all important connection with the actual world!
mopinko
(70,076 posts)Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)bumbling idiot. I actually thought she had hung up the phone after she called me "crazy"
She was always so smart. In recent years she has told me about Bill Gates putting microchips in Covid vaccines. I wonder if it was the conservative husband she married right out of high school that ruined her brain???
They do not think 2 inches in front of what they say. I remember looking up if chips can be implanted under the skin after I heard that and they can......but they are big and would never fit into a vaccine needle. They can be put in at a tattoo and piercing place.
mopinko
(70,076 posts)second marriage, and was so happy to find someone. i havent talked to her since '18. middle of campaign season. another sister's hubs died, and she was at a low boil for most of the week she was here.
TwilightZone
(25,457 posts)All of these high-level professionals that seem to have become brain-dead morons are running a con job. They act ignorant because that's what the base wants.
Same with Trump. That same base convinced themselves that a rich Manhattan socialite was an every-man who could relate to them at their level. He knows his audience and plays them like a fiddle.
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)First she would get very mad if I ever said anything, "Political" and would be very defensive and change the subject if I did.
She also told me that she didn't want "Socialist healthcare" or rather she "Didn't believe in it"
And now I am coming to the conclusion that what guides her is money. She is always talking about working and how she needs to make money blah blah when she had made plenty of money of the years and has no kids.
Could it be that a lot of it with the highly educated tfg/supporters are just motivated by greed and they don't so much mind looking like idiots because of it?
"The love of money is the root of all evil"
I wonder.
TwilightZone
(25,457 posts)The only way that one can self-justify believing in people like Trump and agreeing with those tactics and positions is if they throw away any principles they might have.
"Could it be that a lot of it with the highly educated tfg/supporters are just motivated by greed and they don't so much mind looking like idiots because of it?"
Almost certainly. And the ignorance is quite intentional. Intentional ignorance is a defense mechanism and the only way they can justify believing things that are blatantly untrue and, in some case, just flat-out horrible.
I'm actually a bit amazed at how many people can pull it off.
leftieNanner
(15,081 posts)She won't be signing up for Medicare. Right?
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)Even if it was just a loan (Can't remember except her saying she was filling out forms online when she had to close for awhile)
I said it to her then....didn't make a difference.
leftieNanner
(15,081 posts)If she could document that she used the money for the right things (payroll, for example) then she didn't need to pay it back.
Assuming you are talking about the Pandemic stimulus money.
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)husband is probably getting it already.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Mark Burnett foisted this monster on the American public with his production of "The Apprentice", which brought Chump directly into the living rooms of America. The rubes were charmed, impressed, and motivated by his "Money, Money, Money", thinking that surely he'd share the wealth if he were to become their sacred ruler. Every bit of the image is a lie, but it was swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
ck4829
(35,043 posts)Kennedy switched parties from Democratic to Republican and for some reason also developed a folksy accent.
Its fake just like the rest of him, but his voters dont seem to care about it. Textbook pandering.
TwilightZone
(25,457 posts)People who worked with her prior to her nomination said that her entire persona during the nomination process was fake and that she was nothing like that prior to coming to national attention.
Then again, perhaps it was that "normal" Sarah that was the fake and she thought her true self would sell better to the R rubes.
leftieNanner
(15,081 posts)She Marge and Boebert might form their own caucus.
plimsoll
(1,668 posts)He's another one who plays the moron, but if he's trying to outdo MTG, Boebert and Palin he'll have to be start faking severe head trauma.
plimsoll
(1,668 posts)The Sarah Barracuda stuff was from high school and was not a compliment to how she played basketball.
Classic mean girl. And all the guys she would have laughed at in high school bought it because that's what they were acculturated to "desire."
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)Link to tweet
And this is the guy running against him!
https://twitter.com/GaryChambersJr
I think I might stick this up in the Louisiana forum.
Aviation Pro
(12,149 posts)When Bloated Tick dons his orange jumpsuit and later when I get to urinate and defecate on the public toilet that is his gravesite.
meadowlander
(4,394 posts)czarjak
(11,266 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)niyad
(113,254 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)... the past tense.