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‘Gray Matter’–Deficient Americans
National Review ^ | February 25, 2020 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/25/2020 6:22:13 AM PST by artichokegrower

Former New York mayor and multibillionaire Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, four years ago at Oxford, England, dismissed farming, ancient and modern. He lectured that agriculture was little more than the rote labor of dropping seeds into the ground and watching corn sprout — easy, mindless, automatic. “I could teach anybody,” Bloomberg pontificated, “even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer.”

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“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."

“Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”

“Just went to a Southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support.” In case you wondered what the liberals in America think of you and your families:

“Trump’s supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS.”

“If you put everyone’s mouths together in this video, you’d get a full set of teeth.”

1 posted on 02/25/2020 6:22:14 AM PST by artichokegrower
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(HAT TIP AMERICAN THINKER)

A YouTube video of Bloomberg speaking at Oxford Dec 2016 reveals much about Bloomberg’s beliefs and thinking:
<><> he is dismissive of the working class,
<><> he sees the average guy as an ignoramus,
<><> the working class are unintelligent, unable to find useful work in the technological age.

Bloomberg considers himself the crown prince....a member of an intellectual elite.


Those working class types (voters) he deplores are paying close attention.

They quickly grasp his real opinion of them and they are unlikely to vote for someone
who sees them as serfs in need of the noble guidance and patronage from know-it-all Bloomberg.


2 posted on 02/25/2020 6:28:06 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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3 posted on 02/25/2020 6:28:51 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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That made me LOL!


4 posted on 02/25/2020 6:32:16 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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He’s so ingenious, maybe Bloom can put together a computer program for debating.


5 posted on 02/25/2020 6:35:47 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Mikey is a classic example of Dunning-Kruger. He’s not very bright, but, Lord Knows, he thinks he’s a genius. Using an ability to play F%ck-My-Buddy to get rich is not a sign of genius. A certain sociopathy, perhaps.


6 posted on 02/25/2020 6:50:13 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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Mikey is self-made to the tune of $70B—from the tech, financial and media worlds. He obviously has plenty of grey matter (stuffed into his tiny little head), but he has been warped by the resulting decades of privilege, protection and presumption.

The net effect is to make him say idiotic things.


7 posted on 02/25/2020 6:54:28 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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I don’t think I’ve ever read a more devastating condemnation of the elites. VDH calls them out, one by one, and smacks them down. But good!


8 posted on 02/25/2020 7:02:32 AM PST by Theophilous Meatyard III
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And a bunch of Democrats want this dim-bulb for President ??

Then again, look at the rest of their candidates....

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9 posted on 02/25/2020 7:19:12 PM PST by elbook
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