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Why You May Not Like Ted Cruzs Facehttps://politicalwire.com/2016/03/06/why-you-may-not-like-ted-cruzs-face/
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Neurologist Richard Cytowic told Quartz that the unusual movements of Sen. Ted Cruzs face may make him seem less sincere to the human brain than other candidates.
Said Cytowic: The normal way a face moves is whats called the Duchenne smile, named after the 19th century French neurologist. So the mouth goes up, the eyes narrow and the eyes crinkle at the outside, forming crows feet. Cruz doesnt give a Duchenne smile. His mouth goes in a tight line across or else it curves down in an anti-Duchenne smile. So he doesnt come across as sincere at all.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)it's that he seems extremely creepy, like the guy who hangs around playgrounds offering candy to kids, with ropes and duct tape in his trunk. Insincerity is a characteristic of many politicians but that level of creepiness is unusual and disturbing.
applegrove
(118,816 posts)enid602
(8,658 posts)Eating one's own boogers on national TV doesn't endear one to the people, either.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)enid602
(8,658 posts)google ted cruz eats boogers. Not for the faint hearted though.
waddirum
(979 posts)... into Youtube. You really do not want to see it. It is that horrific.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)swinging wildly in his hand.
The Freddy Krueger mask is a nice, natural touch.
StandingInLeftField
(972 posts)and what does that say about the rethuglicans that vote for him?
elfin
(6,262 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)elfin
(6,262 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,665 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)He even ran for governor of New York under the Green Party in the late '90s. He didn't win, but he got enough votes for the Green Party to keep them on the state ballot for the next few years.
I'm sure he must be rolling in his grave over all these visual comparisons to the Booger Eater.
Bucky
(54,084 posts)Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)That alone repulses me on a visceral level.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)I think he would score pretty high on the Psychopathy Checklistrevised
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)sneaking over a cemetery fence!
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Orrex
(63,225 posts)He looks almost but not quite human. Like a booger-eating human.
lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)a greaser from the 50's.