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salin

(48,955 posts)
Sun Sep 22, 2019, 06:53 PM Sep 2019

Mnuchin on Meet the Press... stepford creepy in an automaton way.

Watching the rerun. Have seen him speak before. Aside from one or two smiles (one regarding Lindsey Graham), his face shows no expression, none - regardless how "passionate" he is trying to sound about one particular statement or another.

While it is a really different type of Creepy than Stephen Miller, today's performance equals, in my response to it, the level of creepiness.

Maybe a pod person (just kidding) - but watching him makes me wonder the degree of psychological toll it takes to play Trump's Toadie for going on 3 years.

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thegoose

(3,115 posts)
2. They're all Dump's Stepford Wives
Sun Sep 22, 2019, 07:00 PM
Sep 2019

This is all about sucking up as much money as possible while destroying the environment and killing the middle class. And humiliating that uppity black man who dared to be in the White House for two terms. The end game makes no sense (they'll be dead too) but they're so fucking evil they just want the win.

salin

(48,955 posts)
7. Yes. Mnuchin doesn't seem cultishly devoted ... but consumed with protecting his ability
Sun Sep 22, 2019, 07:23 PM
Sep 2019

to protect the emerging Oligarch powerstructure - damn the costs to the nation or to the global community.

salin

(48,955 posts)
5. I think you capture the distinction between the types of creepy.
Sun Sep 22, 2019, 07:19 PM
Sep 2019

A Rasputin vs an Igor (to Dr Frankenstein.)

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
3. It's hard to get past the size of his mouth
Sun Sep 22, 2019, 07:06 PM
Sep 2019

Not only extra wide, but he has huge teeth. His lips look like they go from ear to ear. When he kisses his wife on the lips her face must have slobber all over it. He’s skin crawlingly disgusting.

I always have to look away when he talks. He looks like he has terrible breath.

FakeNoose

(32,633 posts)
4. I know why he talks that way
Sun Sep 22, 2019, 07:07 PM
Sep 2019

He's wearing a hidden microphone inside his ear (like a hearing aid) and the whole time, he's listening to Chump dictate his talking points.

(not really)

salin

(48,955 posts)
6. That might account for it. Like his attention is only partially given to what question was asked
Sun Sep 22, 2019, 07:21 PM
Sep 2019

and what his answer will be.

It's really odd, unnatural, inauthentic, and creepy.

salin

(48,955 posts)
9. Nor his sincerity. Imagine every conversation being with such an uncaring/robotic poker-face.
Sun Sep 22, 2019, 07:41 PM
Sep 2019

Then again - she does seem to relish the opportunities to relish in the few moments in the limelight, her station of being his wife as he serves in this job provides.

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