Rubio looked like a bug that hit a windshield yesterday

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8. I think Rubio is the Crown Prince in Republican circles.

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Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump are all dyslexics. So is Rubio. Dyslexics can be smart or dumb or good or evil like any other person. Dyslexics counterpunch, speak plainly, paint a big picture and can mess up manipulators (if they are not in thrall to them). They explore and find novel information. They are not good with the known details of human constructs. They see things around the constructs. They see things concretely. They are sharp at pattern recognition, think divergent thinking so they are good at debates (coming up with multiple reasons for things or ideas on a topic. Look at how stymied Kamala Harris was when asked on the View if there was anything she would have done differently than Joe Biden and she came up blank because she is not a divergent thinker and does not have 5 possible answers to any querry. She is good at known details as required of a prosecutor. Not unknowns).

Jeb Bush was not a dyslexic and he tanked in 2015/2016 nomination race. Many people expected him to do well. He is a smart political guy. George W. Bush nobody thought was brighter than Jeb at all, and he thrived in the 2000 nomination race and won. Then won 2 elections.

Fact is dyslexics are populist like George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt (FDR's eyes and ears since he couldn't travel easily), Woodrow Wilson, Churchill, most of the Kennedys especially JFK, Al Gore...... all dyslexics. Napoleon too. The Republicans figured it out and captured a dyslexic in the wilds of California by the name of Ronald Reagan and have been running dyslexics for President ever since.

Dyslexics are populists and see through the human constructs of others (often elites) because they think concretely and don't know the details of establishment policy or structures (human constructs) very bright non-dyslexics human beings have built up. They appeal to the regular people at their level fanning their gripes. They can pull down the human constructs of the elites (like Kennedy trying to move civil rights forward against racists in the South or Reagan getting people to not like government). They can use this dyslexic power of populism for good or bad depending on their characters or mental deficits. The worst dyslexic ever was Hitler. He was also a psychopath. Look at how he got his people to feel strong by hating jews who had been successful, and then all jews, other europeans, homosexuals and communists..

Trump is no different than Hitler in the 1930s with MAGA lying narrative as he slowly rolls out hate of one group or another that has/had a bit of power of late...... even if it was power for only a second or two like trans folk or women or african americans or immigrants from certain places.. Part of this is Putin's influence. He's instigated the the anti vax thing, the anti-immigrant thing, anti feminist thing and Trump and the far right authoritarians complied and got with groups in the US that were already there. Trump is now fused to Putin, a war criminal.

Rubio took on Trump in 2016 and lost, was disgusted with his own sexual innuendo joke at Trump's expence, lost out to Trump and quit politics. Republicans quickly brought him back. He is the Crown Prince afterall. Republicans were not expecting Trump to be the dyslexic they ran in 2016 but they went with him when he seemed to be very good at building a cult and won the nomination race..

When they get into power dyslexics get others to do the detailed work of taking apart or building up the system their base wants to change, while the dyslexic does the big picture. Foreign affairs and economics should be done by experts with great working memories, not dyslexics who rely on episodic memory and do not have good working memories.

Trump is a fool to be such a Putin stooge. So bankrupt is he to foreign affaires information, on traditions and practices that he is doing everything Putin asks him to. Trump 's big picture is a criminal on top. Putin and Trump have fused. Trump is no longer in control of his actions but insists the experts be shown the exits.....whatever Putin wants. Trump is fully owned. He is one of those rare dyslexics that doesn't see through big psychopaths that he spends any time with. Roy Cohn kept Trump happy when he was Trump's lawyer and they could sleaze together.. Seems psychopaths are an addiction for Trump. He needs to be possessed by one to be happy..

Churchill was hands on in the war which is a big picture lots of moving parts thing. Look at how heroic Churchill was in going after the NAZIs and weaponizing the english language. Or Teddy Roosevelt, as a Republican, introducing income taxes to make sure the rich payed their fair share of taxes. Amazing things or horrible things can happen. These two were amazing.

I'm thinking Rubio can see the bullshit in MAGA and how bad it is for the world and the country but made his bed because he wanted to burnish his resume for a future Presidential run by being SOS so he has to lay in it. Powerlust and fear of having no power it is. When the dyslexic populism is only a ruse to get power for the few, like Republicanism has been for the last 50 years, that is authoritarianism or illiberalism. When authoritarians take over only the powerful live decent lives. 1/4 of Russians don't have indoor toilet facilities in read somewhere in the last few days.

* also noted that dyslexics make great inventor/scientists like Einstein, Darwin, Edison, Davinci or Alexander Graham Bell.