Well, I want to start today with how Republicans are continuing to use anti-intellectualism and

pseudo-intellectualism to divide America and very specifically and overtly to try to win elections, not an vague sense, they're trying to win today in Georgia by using anti-intellectualism to divide America and to create this narrative of good and evil, right and wrong, elite and working man or whatever sort of black, white framing you want to use.

I was doing research for a story that I was going to bring to you today and it's a clip of Republican Senator John Kennedy where he talks about, oh, don't let these high IQ people this that and the other thing.

All in a defense of why we should or Georgians should vote tonight in the December runoff, December 6th runoff, which is today in Georgia, for hersel Walker rather than Raphael Warnock, the framing being, okay, hersel Walker might be kind of dumb.

But don't let these high IQ people tell you that they're the ones you should be voting for or whatever the case may be and in doing my research for this, I came across a really great article that says just about everything that needs to be said as well as it can be said by Jason easily and Sarah Jones and so we're going to link to the article.

But but it gives us a great jumping off point for this discussion and in the article Jason and Sarah, right, how Republicans are using anti intellectualism to divide America Senator John Kennedy's comments on high IQ stupid people show that Republicans have weaponized anti intellectualism to divide America.

Anti intellectualism is nothing new in the Republican party they write, but Senator John Kennedy used hersel Walker's lack of intellect as a selling point while urging Republicans to despise anyone with a high IQ.

Now we're going to look at a clip and of course the irony of this is well, you might figure out the irony, but let's play the clip first.

And these high IQ stupid people have an answer for everything, you know why? Because they think they're smarter and more virtuous than the American people.

These woke high IQ stupid people that easy to recognize.

This is there are so many subtexts here, but let's keep playing it.

They hate George Washington.

Ah, they hate Thomas Jefferson.

They hate Dr. Zeus and they hate Mr. Potato here.

Dr. Zeus by the way, okay.

These woke high IQ stupid people, they walk around, they walk around with ziplock bags of kale that they can eat to give them energy.

Food does provide energy to the body. That's true.

Okay, there is so there's a lot there to comment on and I'm not going to comment on a lot of it. Notice how John Kennedy talks about how you can tell who the high IQ stupid people are.

One of the tells to some degree is the way people speak, of course, and maybe in hearing John Kennedy speak because of his accent, maybe he's not supposed to read like one of those high IQ stupid people.

But we know that John Kennedy is playing a character and part of the character is a character developed to appeal to exactly the types of people that vote for Republicans.

Because when you actually try to figure out, well, who is this John Kennedy guy? John Kennedy has a degree from Vanderbilt University and then he has a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.

And then he went to Magdalen College after that. I'm trying to see what exactly degree he has, he has from there.

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