Reply #48: In the junior college of theft, sleaze and shame, [View All]

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these scoundrels were genius personified and must have been the pride of the varsity with their innate ability to recognize a golden opportunity for flimming the flam on any less sleaze-astute mortals. I have met some impressively capable rounders whose social graces and general intellectual ham-handedness would have kept them at the foot of the table had not their inordinate ability demanded more consideration.

Being brilliant at creating solutions for feeding the planet or making a dollar for HIV treatment do the work of two or three differs so greatly from the mental shortcuts and instant sizing up for the plucking abilities that serve the thief quite admirably.

What you get is the sort of creep who can love his family dearly and yet have absolutely no sense of personal responsibility for someone whom nature has dealt a disastrous blow, without also giving lair space to the twin vultures of excessive "daddyism," wherein the creep assumes the mantle of responsibility for your spiritual and moral development, and a thick skinned clarity of moral superiority over the uninitiated; making "I love you" mean a heavier thumb on the head, punching you a little deeper into the mud.

Peeeyyeeww-the bright and shining self-inflated protector with feet of clay and a load of bigotry to pour into the first available open mind shows off his genius at being a crook and con man while flipping the switch that enables his little praise robots to crank up the "oh God, you're good," or "oh good, you're God" routine!