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CFLDem
(2,083 posts)liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)Yes, he is indeed this stupid, and much, much more.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)emanating from the mouths and tweets of politicians and pundits (did you know "pundit" is a Sanskrit word for "wise man"? Never has a word been so misused). And it's a sort of weapons-grade, industrial-strength *stupid* that goes beyond mere ignorance. It's intentional and targeted and defiant. It is a sort of stupid that they wave like the huge flags in front of Perkins' restaurants. You can't be that stupid without actually trying. Without working at it. Without going out looking for things to be monumentally, jaw-droppingly stupid about. Even George Bush wasn't this stupid. He started a tradition of unashamed idiocy, but Palin and Trump and Bachmann and just about everybody at Faux "News" have managed to transcend Bush's bumbling dumbness.
It's just astonishing, and I don't know where it will all end up.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)a drunken heiress and an orangutan? A love that dares not speak its name...
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)ananda
(28,859 posts)I constantly wonder how such stupid people make so much money.
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)Between Trump, Bush and a few others, the Business School at Harvard has taken a major shot to the prestige, IMO.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,957 posts)My guess is he's trying to be outrageous to get attention but then you never know.