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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts) Thu Jun 25, 2020, 08:26 AM Jun 2020

I tried listening to the audio version of Bolton's book last night

I download it off a torrent site and began to listen to it, I lasted a couple hours and realized it's just not worth torturing myself for a book that goes nowhere.

It's is a book by a Republican who finally discovered that Trump is a complete fuckup and doesn't realize he's the last person to find out, and as you would expect he has no problem randomly attacking Obama just for the sake of attacking Obama.

The one thing about this book that is painfully obvious is ... Bolton has been surrounded by morons most of his career which led him to believe he's much smarter than he really is.

Several times he refers to people trying to simply Trump's Presidency as "a toddler being babysat by the adults in the room" are "intellectually lazy" and then proceeds to spend 600 pages explaining how Trump's Presidency is nothing but a toddler being baby sat by the adults in the room along with Super Hero John Bolton trying to save America.

He still has no idea he was only hired as a distraction and would only be used to create distractions to change the news cycle. I guess he's just not intellectually lazy enough to realize he was played by a con man just as ever other idiot before him who made the mistake of working for Trump was.

Hopefully a lot of Republicans read this book because it is obviously geared to Republicans who still refuse to believe their own eyes rather than Trump's lies.

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I tried listening to the audio version of Bolton's book last night (Original Post) Snake Plissken Jun 2020 OP

True that... Many people find that when surrounded by morons constantly that their self assessment hlthe2b Jun 2020 #1

the dunning-kruger effect, I think Shanti Mama Jun 2020 #7

Thank you for your review Ohiogal Jun 2020 #2

He could have talked to Romney or Tillerson dalton99a Jun 2020 #3

Had Trump launched a military invasion of Iran, Bolton wouldn't have written his book. sop Jun 2020 #4

Bolton could be in a room with Einstein, Obama, SharonClark Jun 2020 #5

To be honest padah513 Jun 2020 #6

It might be funny if it was read in the whiny voice of Frank Burns in M*A*S*H hunter Jun 2020 #8

hlthe2b

(102,283 posts)

1. True that... Many people find that when surrounded by morons constantly that their self assessment

Reply to Snake Plissken (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2020, 08:30 AM

Jun 2020

(and head) swells beyond reality. No doubt he's smarter than a lot of the idiots R's he's spent time with, but that only goes so far.

Shanti Mama

(1,288 posts)

7. the dunning-kruger effect, I think

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:58 AM

Jun 2020

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability.