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Saturday Snarky Jam: Bill Laurance, "Swag Times"

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BeachDem3/18/2017 8:20:46 pm PDT

re: #107 Mattand

So, a friend on FB in utter exasperation wanted to know why Trump supporters were so !@#$% stupid. This hurt the fee-fees of some Trump supporters on her friends list.

One fine gentleman in particular wanted to know if my friend thought he was stupid, as took to reminding everyone he was a psychologist with a 154 IQ (twice, that I know of). Instead of just walking away, I wrote the following:

The guy laughed and said basically I couldnā€™t care less what you think. I snarked that sociopaths arenā€™t known for their bialy to care about others, which illicited a wink emoticon.

Part of me actually feels shitty about saying that. But then I started thinking about how this guy was basically smugly waving his IQ around, like some sort of mental phallus that inoculates him from making mistakes. I also started thinking about just the straight-up lying Trump and his crew engage in, that a supposedly high IQ person should recognize.

It really pissed me off. This guy at one point used a DARVO to claim that HRC was the amoral one. And then I started thinking about all of the false balance ā€œEveryone is in their own bubbleā€ and the ā€œWe need to reach out to and be nice to the Trump supportersā€ and Iā€™m like ā€œFuck. That.ā€

A person with a high IQ and works with mentally ill people who supports this monster and the party who enables him? Iā€™m sorry, thereā€™s something off there.

Needless to say, I got over my regret with the sociopath comment pretty fucking quickly.

I go with the simple mantra about Trump voters: stupid or hateful or both. It has not let me down yetā€¦