They need to stop talking about Ryan as if he is a deep thinker because he read Ayn Rand in HS

[kpete]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/magazine/paul-ryan-speakership-end-trump.html

[ProfessorGAC]

1. If That Turgid Prose Becomes One's Life Philosophy. . .

. . .one has already proven that "deep thinker" is not a good description.

[NewJeffCT]

2. This one quote sticks in my mind about Ayn Rand

Somebody well known said it, but I forget who and it's about how there are two books that are seminal in the lives of teen males - The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One book is a childish fantasy that leads to s a lifelong obsession with unbelievable heroes and leads to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled future as an adult who is unable to deal with the real world. The other book, of course, involves orcs and wizards.

I used to know the quote by heart and don't have time to google it now, but I think I captured the gist of it.

[exboyfil]

4. Here you go

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Rogers

Of course the Catwoman screenplay definitely brings his judgement into question.

[Greybnk48]

3. Trump and Ryan do have one thing in common.

Both of their public persona's are a myth. Trump's was created by T.V. and P.R. and lies. He's clearly a dullard that rules by bullying with his dad's money, and probably had someone else attend college for him like the Walmart Walton's granddaughter.

Ryan's "policy wonk," "think tank" persona is pure myth and legend that has NEVER, NOT ONCE been displayed in public. NEVER! He's a pathological liar about everything, even his gym workout.
He has never entered into a complicated policy discussion in public in his entire career and routinely defers answering complicated questions in public. His favorite line: "I'll have to get back to you on that." He's a fucking phony that the Republicans created. Another useful idiot.

Prediction: He will be implicated in the Russian espionage conspiracy.

[smirkymonkey]

5. +1000

[brush]

7. Yep, there's nothing there there (my apologies to Gertrude Stein).

I still remember how Joe Biden exposed and ridiculed his nothingness in the '08 VP debate. Joe treated him like the hyped-up phony he is

Biden's performance in that debate actually showed O how to take on the shape-shifting Romney in the last two presidential debates.

[Greybnk48]

14. Thanks for reminding me!

Joe Biden was amazing! He laughed at Ryan’s bs throughout. I LOVED it!

[Wellstone ruled]

15. Thanks for the post.

Heard the same description of Pauly Boy from a College Bud who knows him.

Total Fake through and through,understand he has a muti-million dollar job at a Koch funded think tank in January.

[cyclonefence]

6. When in the hell does *anybody* read Ayn Rand, if not in high school?

Doesn't that, right there, explain it all?

[brush]

8. Yes. I remember how euphoric he was when he got his boyhood fantasy...

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the tax scam for the rich, passed. He had lived his whole life to get an idea he had as a teenager passed into law.

Shortly thereafter he announced he would not run for re-election as his work was done here.

A classic case of stunted development.

[cyclonefence]

16. Honest to christ

you have hit the nail on the head. And they're all like that, and they don't understand why nothing works out the way they planned for it to.

[brush]

17. Yep, another one is Grover Norquist, the "no new taxes" pledge clown.

He thought up that foolishness as a 12-year-old boy and actual had grown ass repugs signing on to it for quite a while.

He's of course nowhere now, along with his adolescent pledge.

Funny how one repug adolescent's pledge was cancelled out by another repug adolescent's finally realized fantasy.

[alterfurz]

9. lather, rinse, repeat: the only plan that budget genius Lyin' Ryan has ever had...

[Paladin]

10. No one who clings to Ayn Rand beyond high school should be trusted. (nt)

[Adrahil]

12. I saw through that shallow bullshit during High School. NT

[Bradshaw3]

11. Plus a million n/t

[Cosmocat]

13. Scumbags, just pure scumbags

for 8 years they had not problem losing their minds in fits of hyperbolic hyperventilating trying to outdo themselves screaming about some heinously contrived bullshit over the sane, competent, civil POTUS.

Now, every single one of them meekly offering mealy mouthed tripe in hushed, whispered tones about the russian stooge megalomaniac.

[demigoddess]

18. I tried to read Ayn Rand in HS. It was horrible, repetitive and stupid. Made no sense.

gave up halfway. The year before I was reading Alexandre Dumas. Maybe I expected too much??