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professional idiot 

In contrast to the rank-and-file "useful idiot" (typically a disposable agitator), a "professional idiot" earns a living satisfying regime objectives. Examples include teachers, scientists, economics, and journalists promoting establishment narratives, and shock jocks and controlled-opposition figures pushing fall-back propaganda (loudly-advertised phony deplatforming pogroms may be instituted against these latter figures with declining levels of interest in order to remind you, the rube, that they exist). The professional idiot is intensely adverse to actual productive work, and invariably gravitates to careers in government and its associated parasitic organizations, or to other roles permitting him to talk for a living.

The difference between a professional idiot and a traitor is that the idiot believes in the bullshit he spouts whereas a traitor is consciously aware of the hidden goals of the entity he supports or receives compensation from. That said, the line differentiating professional idiocy from treason is amorphous, and much apparent "idiocy" is simply a cunning ruse on the part of knowing agents of influence, so much so that, for the clearest picture, the prudent observer will invert Hanlon's Razor to read thus: "Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice."
"Paul Krugman is the quintessential professional idiot."
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Professional idiot 

When you are doing something so dumb, but you're so sure it's going to work
Terra was being a professional idiot when she tried opening a bag of glitter, the same way you open chips.
Professional idiot by ScarletShadow December 4, 2016

Professional idiot 

Born out of need to describe define a specific typ of conservetiv media talking head,

that rant and rave with little care about the arguments they are making.
Ben Shapiro is well paid professional idiot
Professional idiot by Sha ya January 8, 2020

Professional idiot 

Born out of need to describe define a specific typ of conservetiv media talking head,

that rant and rave with little care about the arguments they are making.
Ben Shapiro is well paid professional idiot
Professional idiot by Sha ya January 8, 2020
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