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Trump Wants to "Open Up" the Country by Easter

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines3/24/2020 12:16:10 pm PDT

I think we have reached a crucial transition in Republican leadershp, from the power grifters, basically intelligent people who say and do stupid things to grift the rubes, to the actual stupids, the hereditary morons who are intensively trained in the ways of power and privilege but who lack basic intelligence. Louis Gohmert is the best example of the former, while Jerry Falwell and obviously Trump himself represent the latter. W Bush and Darth Cheney are an older pair of examples. Bush was an actual stupid (though nowhere near as stupid as Trump) while Cheney was a power grifter.

This is important because the stupids will make self-destructive policy decisions on the basis of their own ignorance; Falwell resuming classes at Liberty, for example; while the grifters will hesitate, and say things like, “Whoa, is it really going to help us to kill off a big part of our base?”