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skip fox

(19,359 posts) Sat Aug 1, 2020, 10:17 AM Aug 2020

"Weaponized stupidity" might the most accurate assessment

for what Trump has done to the Republican party and to millions of Americans.

The stupidity has always been there and will always be there, but it took a deranged lunatic with the charisma of a train wreck to weaponize it.

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"Weaponized stupidity" might the most accurate assessment (Original Post) skip fox Aug 2020 OP

Thanks, Putin. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #1

Putin could not have done it without a lot of help Turbineguy Aug 2020 #3

Moscow Mitch... Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #4

Don't give ReTHUGs or their base a pass malaise Aug 2020 #2

I prefer "weaponized willful ignorance" Blecht Aug 2020 #5

It might be a good phrase to hang around the enabling Republicans' collective necks. skip fox Aug 2020 #6

Kid Berwyn

(14,965 posts)

1. Thanks, Putin.

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sat Aug 1, 2020, 10:19 AM

Aug 2020

Turbineguy

(37,370 posts)

3. Putin could not have done it without a lot of help

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 1, 2020, 10:20 AM

Aug 2020

from fellow travelers and useful idiots.

Kid Berwyn

(14,965 posts)

4. Moscow Mitch...

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #3)

Sat Aug 1, 2020, 10:36 AM

Aug 2020

Cowpie Nunes...

malaise

(269,182 posts)

2. Don't give ReTHUGs or their base a pass

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sat Aug 1, 2020, 10:19 AM

Aug 2020

They dived right in hoping for spoils

Blecht

(3,803 posts)

5. I prefer "weaponized willful ignorance"

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sat Aug 1, 2020, 10:43 AM

Aug 2020

Because some of these people aren't stupid; they just pretend to be stupid or go out of their way to avoid learning anything about a subject for plausible deniability.

But "weaponized stupidity" is catchier, I'll agree with that.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

6. It might be a good phrase to hang around the enabling Republicans' collective necks.

Reply to Blecht (Reply #5)

Sat Aug 1, 2020, 12:17 PM

Aug 2020

Sadly a meme of only two words inevitably lacks nuance.

Your point is well taken and is useful for a percentage of these folks, but doesn't explain "naturally stupid" people like Louie Gohmert.

A further nuance: If they want to act stupid, they are stupid. What intelligent person would act stupid when the stakes are so high? (Well, I imagine a great many, but we're back into nuance and nuance don't surf)

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