Adam Carolla: Is Jasmine Crockett Playing a Character?

"Adam and Dr. Drew break down Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s blatant code-switching and explore why so many politicians shift their tone depending on the audience." 

Source:Adam Carolla with a look at U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (The Squad, Texas)

From Adam Carolla

I think I agree with Adam Carolla's basic point here. (Which makes me want to consult a real shrink, instead of Drew Pinsky) Whether it's Jasmine Crockett or someone else, American politicians have a habit of sounding different, depending on who they are speaking too. 

A political example of this would be when a politician or candidate is speaking to a business association and talking about how great private enterprise is and how it creates wealth, etc, and perhaps on the same day when that politician visits a much smaller, less educated, less wealthy town, they're talking about "greedy corporations" who are "destroying the workingman in America". 

If you look at MAGA, a lot of those organizers, their leaders, are some of the most educated and wealthy people in the world, including their Dear Leader. 

Whether Donald Trump's net worth is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, or he's a real life billionaire, (we'll never know what his real net worth is until he releases his financial records) he's got enough money to buy his own country (perhaps start his own country) and be the dictator over there, instead of trying to become a dictator in America. But he talks and acts like he's a regular guy, and champion of "real Americans". 

As much as MAGA trashes elite universities, a lot of them graduated there and wouldn't be where they are today (mostly likely) without their Ive League degrees: 

Senator Ted Cruz, has a degree from both Princeton and Harvard. 

Senator Josh Hawley, Stanford and Yale. 

Vice President J.D. Vance, Ohio State, which is 1 of the best state colleges in the country and then later Yale. 

And that's just for starters. So much for MAGA being a "populist movement" when so many of their members are elitists.

And if you want to get back to Representative Jasmine Crockett and the so-called Squad in the House... when she's doing mainstream media interviews and talking to actual journalists, instead of just left-wing activists, she comes off as a mainstream politician, at least in the sense as far as how she presents herself. But when she's back home, (and the Carolla video makes that clear) it's like she's "back in the hood" (or some place) just "speaking to her peeps". 

And as far as politicians playing characters and we can focus on the Democratic Left here,,, as I wrote about this 3 weeks ago: 

"And I agree with the point that both Matt Lewis and Rik Schneider we're making. I think the left-wing of the Democratic Party, looks like a real-life, Hollywood political film, or "or reality TV show", where everyone else is trying to "out viral" the other person and use that to jumpstart whatever career that they want to have for themselves. 

But could you imagine if Socialists, even in the Democratic Party ever came to power in America? I mean their whole lifestyle, their culture, their way of life, is dependent and completely subsidized by the American capitalist and liberal democratic system. And most of them know that. Most of these folks are educated. Most of these folks make good livings for themselves, even millionaires... 

From The New Democrat

My point 3 weeks ago and I think Carolla got into this as well, a lot of what politicians do and say when they're just speaking to their people, (meaning their political faction) is just a show. They're there trying to make it clear that they're "still down for the cause", (as the left likes to say) that they're still as radical as the audience that they're speaking too. Even if they don't believe a damn word of what they told those folks and perhaps are even embarrassed by how they looked at that event. 

And I think this is just what happens when government can seem so boring to people, even for people who are in government and in elected office, that they feel the way not to be seen as boring, is to put on a show, an act, for their audience. And they create their own political reality TV show for themselves. But the Democrats didn't start this. I mean Donald Trump invented political reality TV when he ran for President the first time 10 years ago. And now the Democratic Left is simply trying to catch up to MAGA on this. 

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