I don’t lay much store by this guy Christian Michel. He is unlikely to
incriminate anyone. And though I am convinced Sonia, Rahul and some more Congis
and journos received bribes in the Agusta
scam, the CBI will need more than a confession from Michel. It will need large
withdrawals from his bank to have routed the bribes because it is unlikely
bribes would be paid with cheques. But as soon as he reached India, the
Congress was quick to arrange a lawyer for him – Aljo K Joseph. That was a dumb move by Rahul Gandhi. And when the Congis realised the faux pas of RG, they
quickly sacked the lawyer from the party itself. Their guilt was a dead
give-away.
Politicians are known to say the dumbest things.
And we love them for that; without their idiocies, our life would be dull. The
slip of tongue happens to all of us at some time but some utterances by
politicians aren’t always that. They’re not the most intelligent breed and can
be hilarious at times but not all the time. Dan Quayle, former VP of the US,
was one of them. He once even corrected a student’s spelling of “Potato” to “Potatoe”. He would be matched and surpassed only by Sarah Palin in
2008. Here are some samples of the idiotic utterances of even successful
politicians:
"If you give a
person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish,
they'll fish for a lifetime." – Dan
Quayle
"I think
gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman”. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
''For seven and
a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made
some mistakes. We've had some sex...uh...setbacks.'' – George H.W. Bush
“Two men raping
a woman cannot be termed as gang-rape… how can you say gangrape? Gangrape means
four-five people”. – KJ George,
former Karnataka Minister.
“I’ve now been
in 57 states. I think one left to go.” – Barack
Obama
I am sure we can fill a whole book on idiotic
statements by politicians as they keep coming like a tap in full flow of
unending joy every day. But nowhere in my life and in all my observation of
politics have I seen someone as stupid as Rahul Gandhi. None in the history of
politics can match RG. He possesses limitless “natural stupidity”. In the past, I have chronicled
the stupidity of RG in “The king of comedy” and “Return of the king of comedy”. Even then, I believed someone will crack some sense
into the guy and he will slowly become a serious politician.
His stupidity was
particularly egged on by equally brainless, moronic journos in the media who
went dancing down the aisles over his silly speech of “Morning in the night…
badminton with guards” crap in January 2013. They probably thought “Naturally
Stupid” would accidentally become PM and they could continue their
filthy-corrupt life uninterrupted in Lutyens. The people turned out smarter and
made wiser choices.
After all these years, I am now thoroughly
convinced that RG is not making any goofs or mistakes or tripping over with
idiotic utterances. I believe he is under the clear impression that he is
making some “intelligent” statements
in his speeches. Some of his recent passions are about “making” things
everywhere – from utensils in Jaunpur,
watches in Mirzapur or whatever you
want, wherever you want:
Make in Dholpur, Chitrakoot, Bhopal, Telangana – we
think this guy is just fooling around, making idiotic statements. But we could
be dead wrong. RG is probably making
these statements in all seriousness and imagining people are mighty impressed
his “imaginary vision”. Some morons in the media are attributing such
stupidity to RG taunting PM Modi on his “Make in India” campaign. Well,
whosoever is coaching him or if it is RG’s own innovation, they too must be
immeasurably stupid. He goes to Karnataka and cannot pronounce the name of a
legend like “ Vishweshvaraya” and
makes an absolute Hogvishery of his name. Few days back in Rajasthan, he ended
up mocking up Congress’ own former Jat leader “Kumbharam” (Video 0.15 seconds):
Kumbhakarna Lift Yojana? Like million others, I too
had a good laugh at yet another gaffe by Pappu. But something struck me this
time. No matter how much information or intelligence you feed this guy, he is
“disconnected” with all of it. In another site of mine (Educating Forward), I write about behavioural patterns of
children, deviant kids, why they fail, why they succeed and also on behavioural
learnings from criminals and anti-social characters. RG is not making gaffes; he is Naturally Stupid! And that makes him
more dangerous for the public than a politician making gaffes. I instantly
recalled a theory on this:
RG
is naturally stupid and cannot be tutored or injected with any intelligence or data
to reproduce impactfully. It will invariably backfire. His animations during
his speeches also reflect a monotonous discomfort – rolling up sleeves like
he’s ready for a wrestle or doing a “Swaha”
motion with either of his hands after every sentence. His hypocrisy of
promising the moon to Muslims in Telangana or becoming a “Fancy dress Hindu” in
some places is also not something he would be aware of. Here’s how writer Carlos Lopez (Author of Artificial
Intuition and the Deep Learning Playbook and Founder of “Intuition Machine”) describes
“natural stupidity”:
I have underlined the key lines in the above
description. It’s the method of least
action, requires least effort and the laziest thing a person does. Exactly
what ails RG? He does no real regular work. Campaigns during elections like
he’s the champion of people and then disappears abroad. Naturally stupid are
also usually propped up, defended and their stupidity washed clean by other
stupid persons. In the case of RG running around like a devout Hindu (With a
Gotra to boot) “English Lalu” Shashi
Tharoor explains the “idea behind the temple run”. Moron! And media stupids
also find the rise of a “new Congress” behind this stupid fakery of RG being
Hindu or Shiv-bhakt:
Apart from his natural
stupidity, RG has another serious problem. Being born rich and his family
having accumulated loads of money one way or another, RG has never had to do
any serious work to live his life. Even if being MP were to be taken as a job,
his attendance or his attention to law-making is very poor. His understanding
of concepts is very poor. Based on prompting by idiots in his party, he goes
around stupidly ranting “Modi is a Chor,
he gave 30000 crores to Ambani” in the Rafale
deal. And worsens it by challenging Modi’s “Hinduness” by claiming Modi doesn’t
know The Gita says “knowledge is everywhere, with everyone”. And each time we
scratch our heads at his level of stupidity. Being removed from norms or rationality
also arises from cognitive biases. And RG suffers from this syndrome too. “Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm
or rationality in judgment and are often studied in psychology and behavioural
economics”.
RG’s sidekicks and Chamchas cling to him only for
his “Gandhi” name, otherwise no one would touch him with a barge-pole. They dress
him like an “intellectual” on lecture tours abroad – he still goofs up. They
tutor him for election campaigns – he still goofs up. To add to all this
stupidity, RG demonstrates exceptional arrogance and indicates the behaviour of
someone who believes he was born to rule and anything less is an affront to
him. RG’s parents were not very bright or exceptionally intelligent either.
RajivG was more or less a Pappu in many of his utterance and the only
intelligence Sonia had was how to cling to power through her coterie and their
“Strong arm” tactics. Part of RG’s
natural stupidity may be hereditary. Some attribute his stupidity to drugs
but I don’t think that is possible. He can’t be on drugs and doing election
campaigns. And withdrawals only lead to a “cold
turkey” situation. So, maybe he uses drugs at other times when he’s not in
the public domain.
RG is a natural stupid and other events in his life may
have added to and enlarged his stupidity. He is psychologically debilitated and
does not appear to be in sound mental health. What RG needs is extensive psychiatric evaluation and treatment. RG
is not a nuisance to the public yet but to his own. He makes Modi’s job of
winning elections easier by comparison. The Congress knows it too but is
helpless, being a party of eternal slaves and cowards.
