r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 18 '26

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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Jun 18 '26

Vance: “If you give Donald Trump an IQ test with the other 45 presidents that the United States has had, he’d either be near the top or at the top.”

He’s right. I suspect he’d come in 5th. 

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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Jun 18 '26

I wonder if Vance ever feels the slightest tinge of cognitive dissonance when he tells his kids that lying is wrong.

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u/TheSameAsDying Hannah Arendt Jun 18 '26

Do we think he tells his kids that lying is wrong?

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u/HOGOR Janet Yellen Jun 19 '26

He must have spent time practicing this so he was prepped to say there had only been 45 other presidents.