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I never knew that such a large portion of our population was so far below what I would have thought was the average intelligence until I heard they thought this man was smart. This guy is an idiot and that scares me to think what that means about his cult members’ intelligence levels.
No one dumb enough to think this guy is smart should be trusted with any adult responsibilities; not gun ownership, not voting and definitely not reproducing.
Fun fact: half the population has below average intelligence.
The issue is how far below average most of his supports appear to be.
This is apparent to me every day at work. The public washroom has an indicator beside it that will light up green with the words "OCCUPIED WHEN LIT" any time the door is locked from within. This is a very obvious indicator, though to the average person, green mean go. And every single time I'm using it, you bet your ass some fucking Neanderthal approaches that door, immediately becomes confused over the meaning of occupied, and decides it must be synonymous with vacant. They then grab ahold of the handle and not once, not twice, but often attempt to rip that fucking door down three times before their meat brain tells them "DOOR LOCKED!". You can literally feel the desperation and confusion in every one of those attempted breaches.
Every. Fucking. Time.
And I don't shit at work, so I'm not often in there more than a couple of minutes. I think I'm going to start bellowing "GREEEN MEEANN GGOOOOOOOO!" from inside every time this happens.
One of customers told me how much he likes Trump thinks he his smart. This was after him and his son were talking about how dumb Biden is.
I have lost respect for customer and wouldn't want him our his company working on my floor.
In fairness, I don't think Biden is some genius, either. Perception of his intelligence isn't helped by the fact that he apparently can't stop plagiarizing other people's speeches.
This gem also from the article should have made even the really stupid people in the audience walk out.
Right? That one hurt my head so much reading it that I couldn’t make myself watch the video out of fear my own brain cells would commit suicide.
By definition almost half of the population has an IQ of below 100. And IQ is obviously a flawed metric by itself, you can have a high IQ and still struggle with getting through a day without saying something stupid.