Some of the smartest people around are not always smart in ALL ways, and

[mtnsnake]

it's a shame that the media does not seem to get that.

I don't know how many times lately that the media has reported how smart Josh Hawley (Stanford/Yale) and Lying Ted (Princeton/Harvard) are, and how they just can't understand how those two assholes, with such prestigious academic backgrounds, can be so incredibly intelligent and still act the way they do at the same time.

Just because Hawley and Cruz are so intelligent in terms of academics and debate skills, it does not mean that they are not incredibly stupid in other ways. The media, in fact anyone, should know by now that smart people aren't always smart in all ways. My father told me that when I was a kid. That is all.

[ananda]

1. Brainsmart is not necessarily heartsmart, for sure!

!!!

[mtnsnake]

5. Definitely. My sister refers to people who are brainsmart but not heartsmart as stupidsmart.

[BusyBeingBest]

2. Ben Carson.

Literally a brain surgeon. Thinks the Egyptian pyramids were grain storage bins.

[mtnsnake]

4. Yup, good example.

[drray23]

3. If you are referring to some of Cruz' statements its not because he is not smart.

Its because he knows his audience is not and he tells them what they want to hear. For example the paris accord thing where he was making it sound its about the wishes of the paris citizens. Obviously he knows it is not but the rubes that vote for him do not.

[underpants]

7. Also don't confuse intelligence and drive or ambition

I see nothing about Hawley Cruz DeSantis or Kayleigh that in any way implies any measure of being outstanding. They all seem to be very driven and probably worked very hard to earn their academic accomplishments.

[peggysue2]

6. Academic smarts do not cancel out raw ambition

Both Hawley and Cruz imagine themselves in the catseat and hope to run for POTUS in 2024. It's also obvious that both men are willing to sell their souls (if they still have them) to advance that goal. They're even more dangerous than Donald Trump.

We need to make sure these ambitions are strangled in the crib. Because another round of Trumpist gangsterism will be national suicide.

[underpants]

8. Wow

See post 7.

✅

[peggysue2]

12. We're on the same wavelength, underpants!

[wishstar]

9. Being smart does not mean someone cannot be dishonest and have corrupt motives due to ambition

[Arne]

10. There are those people that can't think straight or are always plastered,

but they know how to take a test.
They can skate thru education because they have figured out answers
without knowing or reading anything.

I saw evidence that Trump did not even know how to read or at least not very well.

[Silent3]

11. They may indeed be stupid in some ways, but amoral is the chief problem here

If it might seem smart to get off the Trump train now, but as a pure political calculation that’s still up in the air.

Even if the odds of political success are low staying on the election fraud bandwagon, Cruz and Harley might see it as the best card they have to play, with political oblivion being their only other option.

[pwb]

13. Ivy league colleges are failing America?

Going to them after seeing their people disappoint may lose their allure.

[RobinA]

14. Well, As I Tell My Mother

who is constantly commenting that Man is supposed to be so smart but does such dumb things, "smart" does not mean people do what some others of us think they should do. We think that because it is good to be smart, smart people do good things. Nope, smart is value neutral. I liken it to energy. Smart is potential. You can cook food with heat, or you can burn down the Capital with heat. Smart is good or bad depending on what you do with it. I work in a psychiatric hospital and there is no one more disruptive than a smart person with serious mental illness.

Smart can be used for good or for evil.

[lame54]

15. Cruz read Green Eggs and Ham...

And COMPLETELY missed the point of it

[Mike 03]

16. Exactly. Like Hawley pretending he doesn't understand the First Amendment

doesn't entitle him to a book deal with Simon & Schuster.

Isn't there famous quote about people pretending not to know something when their paychecks depend on them not knowing it?

Mark Twain perhaps?

I guess I come down on the side that people like these, and John Cornyn and that demented Senator Kennedy (NOT one of our Kennedys) are smart but pretend not to be when it's in their self-interest.

[nuxvomica]

18. The quote is from Upton Sinclair

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

[chowder66]

17. Some smart people become very arrogant because they are rewarded for their intellect

and rarely challenged when wrong.

That arrogance is what leads them to dangerous ideas.