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"gullible" Definitions
  1. too willing to believe or accept what other people tell you and therefore easily tricked

393 Sentences With "gullible"

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The gullible You can't help but feel sorry for the gullible type.
Chuck Todd: So, I think what my sort of shock to the system was just sort of how gullible a big chunk of the country was to this and gullible because maybe they want to be gullible.
Mosseri wouldn't say this out loud, but I'm assuming that one answer is: There are lots of gullible people, and since Facebook has 1.8 billion users, many of its users will be gullible.
Apparently, Americans are very gullible, and that's disappointing to me.
The law protects the gullible as well as the sophisticated.
As Vox's Ezra Klein has written, Trump is remarkably gullible.
Anyway, the lesson here is that you're all quite gullible.
Some pals may feel gullible, but that's not on you.
Good luck to those who are as gullible as this.
You can't help but feel sorry for the gullible type.
If you're gullible enough, you'll pay $10 for a printout.
But only the underhanded and gullible ones will allege a conspiracy.
Journalistically indefensible, though gullible additional reporters are spreading it of course.
It remains an open question how gullible and malleable he is.
You'd have to be a gullible moron—or an alienated young white male—to fall for that logic, but America has been known to produce its fair share of gullible morons and alienated young white males.
"I've always felt we were time-dumb, time-gullible," he tells PEOPLE.
We're careful not to suggest that we're more or less gullible today.
Interiano said that he didn't consider the victims to be unusually gullible.
Don't BE something because that's what's been beaten into your gullible heads.
No one should be gullible enough to believe that this has changed.
Science has some good news for the gullible: You'll get over it.
Going by the name Kevin, he shows the sweet and gullible Mrs.
Rules stifle naysayers who might rein in gullible or overly exuberant investors.
The "Greatest Generation" may have been great -- but they were awfully gullible, too!
It's not necessarily illegal to separate gullible people from their money — just unethical.
GULLIBLE STUPID LOW INFORMATION AMERICANS HAVE ALLOWED OBAMA MARXIST DEMS TO DESTROY AMERICA!
There was great concern about distracted and gullible listeners being susceptible to propagandists.
But it cannot be that 46 million Americans are foolish, racist, or gullible.
He wears Nikes, a Rolex, and sells fake Cuban cigars to gullible tourists.
It's just convinced some gullible investors to subsidize a lot of peoples' taxi rides.
The Russians were only as effective as the gullible or tendentious Americans they influenced.
True, this tactic will work only if news coverage is both gullible and innumerate.
In their view, parents who permitted vaccination were gullible toadies of status quo medicine.
He said Huong had been "naive and gullible" but she was not a criminal.
After he posted the fake meme, Perry was roundly ridiculed as gullible across social media.
Always gullible, Claire tells her former friend exactly why she and Jamie are in Jamaica.
Naturally, Stephanie's flawless parenting and gullible demeanor lands her the job... unfortunately for her. 221.
Dan said he was amazed at how gullible I was after four decades in journalism.
"They have absolutely no soul," he rages, after viewing one gullible couple's junk-filled home.
In spreading this propaganda, Trump hopes to convince a few more gullible souls to believe it.
"My 11-year-old is gullible," Orozco said, after describing how her son has defended Paul.
But this verification process leaves lots of room for a hoaxster to trick a gullible observer.
In truth, they are a billion-dollar crime paradigm preying on the gullible and savvy alike.
And because he's a master of authoritative self-presentation, gullible people are inclined to believe him.
Kimmy's offbeat ideas and gullible personality are only half of what make her character so enjoyable.
Don't look for apologies from Sopko, though, or from the gullible media outlets that believed him.
"The president might be gullible when it comes to China," Franken told NBC News's Katy Tur.
Until now, Kardashian's insistence on O.J. Simpson's innocence has made him appear simultaneously loyal and gullible.
For the gullible folks (right here), it was tough to distinguish the real from the fake.
If you believe everything that you see on CNN or Fox or MSNBC, you are gullible.
That was bad enough when gullible customers signed up for accounts they did not really need.
The problem is not that it exists, but that people are gullible enough to believe it.
When you hear tales of men offering women jobs at magazines they don't even work for in exchange for sex, you first assume that no one could be gullible enough to take such an offer seriously, then wonder why you're gullible enough to think they wouldn't.
Such was the enthusiasm for buying shares that many mining companies kept 'sucker lists' of gullible investors.
Those same psychological quirks that make humans so gullible also make many wonderfully adept at dismissing failures.
"We have to stop being so gullible and stupid of how we consume content online," Farid said.
Common sense might make you think being more gullible is a side effect of being more trusting.
Are we having a laugh at these gullible visitors by encouraging them to participate in this 'tradition?
It's born from people, sometimes lazy or opportunistic or gullible but generally trying to do the right thing.
We become more cliquish, we're quick to dehumanize, we're more gullible when it comes to fear-mongering rumors.
Those are the ones with the low prices, and desperate or gullible people are going to those clinics.
Existing research shows that being in an echo chamber can make people more gullible about accepting unverified rumors.
Mr Mnangagwa, Mr Mugabe's former chief enforcer, impressed gullible diplomats by promising a "new dispensation" and economic reform.
And if you believe it, you might be gullible enough to be interested in enrolling in Trump University.
That, and some very gullible Twitter users hopefully learned a lesson about just doing whatever they see online.    
They fined and arrested Austria-Hungary's travel agents, accusing them of duping gullible peasants into leaving the country.
The very last thing I want to be is gullible, fooled by parlor tricks or sleight of hand.
Malatesta convinces Norina to play his sister and to hoodwink the gullible Pasquale into a phony marriage contract.
It's all too easy to condescend to the character because, let's face it, he is a gullible idiot.
And the gullible people of Brabant, depicted as vaguely mothlike, are killed en masse by a single zap.
It's enough to make even the gullible wonder how many skeletons are stashed in Mr. Stine's abundant closets.
Maybe we're gullible or naïve, but that's why standup personas make such good springboards for memoirs or sitcoms.
At the bar, an older Polish neighborhood native fabulized tales of hunting elk in Wyoming to gullible newcomers.
"Looking back, I can now see how gullible I was, actually living in an imaginary world," he wrote.
Some false statistics, however, are so facially absurd that they are indeed harmless except to the most gullible.
But the gun lobby's campaign is relentless in leaning on gullible politicians who parrot fantasies about campus dangers.
His voters were those nostalgic for the Marcos years, not the allegedly gullible young who never experienced them.
But you can make it a bit harder for hackers to impersonate you with gullible tech support employees.
We're talking her stint on The City as the stylish antagonist to our jolly-yet-gullible Whitney "Eve" Port.
Could anyone be gullible or desperate enough to believe a single amateur had hoaxed the CIA with bad intel?
It's known that hackers can set up free wi-fi networks to catch gullible citizens looking for free bandwidth.
So, can we really fault her for exploiting gullible men willing to spend $5 just to see what happens?
"And they sure fooled you, because you're gullible enough to believe the state-derived and approved explanation," Corsi said.
For whatever reason, gullible people (often newbies) go with the flow until the gentle river becomes a tumultuous ocean.
A viral post about Snapchat shutting down is pretty inconsequential, but it shows just how gullible people can be.
But Colbert couldn't help dinging him for his initial enthusiasm, saying Trump had sounded like a gullible car buyer.
This can help fuel our biases, reinforce our beliefs, shut out opposing views — and perhaps make us more gullible.
We've become so ignorant and gullible that someone's opinion, no matter how misinformed, is deemed equal to empirical fact.
In boondoggling the gullible, Pyongyang will reap concessions from the richer, democratic and very much risk-averse South Korea.
Trump and Kushner and Bannon will face no consequences for any extreme actions taken by their most gullible supporters.
Or have we merely assembled here as gullible, unwitting accomplices to the engineering and celebration of self-censorship par excellence?
And there's Maria (Holliday Grainger) and Willem (Jack O'Connell), respectively Sophia's maid and a fishmonger, both rosy-cheeked and gullible.
Mr Maduro cast himself as the "son" of Chávez, who still inspired devotion among poor Venezuelans and gullible leftists abroad.
But they have less respectable step-siblings: people who scam gullible Americans and brawl with each other over the proceeds.
Like clockwork, an army of internet scammers has appeared to attempt to skim cash and information off gullible Fortnite fans.
" Nobody thought that in Russia in 1936: It was Mr. Volkov who raised the possibility for gullible Westerners in "Testimony.
What does it mean for a story to worry so much about Anakin's gullible hatred and leave all this behind?
It is contemptuous of outside fact-checking, no matter how assiduous, but endlessly gullible toward information shared on the inside.
Their hustle is working as "runners," riding the trains and convincing gullible tourists to check in at a seedy hotel.
Trump allies have been pummeling Gowdy in recent days, branding him a gullible or clueless backer of the intelligence community.
Pragmatic but blessedly naïve—she calls herself "gullible"—Howe's poetry takes a line-by-line approach to managing existential fear.
I felt gullible, duped, and amazed by the level of detail with which the artist had rendered this mythical world.
One man seems half-convinced by the argument — Mike — but the subjects of the study found him weak, gullible, and passive.
They are so dumb and gullible and had a full on, I can only describe as a fake news freak out.
She also upped the ante by saying that her flatmate would join too, just to see how gullible this guy was.
Sandhya (Shweta Tripathi) is a gullible 15-year-old schoolgirl who is inexplicably smitten with her school teacher Shyam (Nawazuddin Siddiqui).
That would allow the needy U.S. president to wave a "successful" agreement to the gullible when he flies back to Washington.
She displays a wide array of moods and emotions and is convincingly vain and generous, manipulative and gullible, brave and frightened.
Certain politicians, and gullible or careless members of the press, persist in claiming that social democracy is a form of socialism.
Maybe this has all been an act, a "part he's been playing," and you are the gullible audience who got played.
Samsam is innovative in that it targets vulnerable servers, relying on a gullible worker downloading a malicious email attachment, for example.
It's just a way for pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson to make a significant profit off gullible insurance companies and vulnerable patients.
Yet they're not gullible, as Ki-taek believes, but are instead defined by cultivated helplessness, the near-infantilization that money affords.
Bulge-bracket banks like JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, which were to lead WeWork's abortive IPO, may end up looking gullible.
Children&aposs belief in Santa may be taken as evidence that they&aposre gullible or unable to distinguish fantasy from reality.
"Besides proving that he was gullible and he got snookered, it's still not a smoking gun," said one former campaign adviser.
Hand of the King, he can predict, will be filled by the more gullible Ned Stark (whose wife he's long desired).
Most of them just want to help gullible people part with their money via saying exactly what they want to hear.
But Mufasa's bitter brother, Scar (Chiwetel Ejiofor), murders the king, and somehow persuades the extraordinarily gullible Simba that he is to blame.
It's that people are gullible, and it takes hardly any editing at all to make someone believe what they want to believe.
So it seems the gullible mind of an 11-year-old boy instigated this elaborate art hoax six months in the making.
It's only human to get exposed as gullible and then walk back your claim when you realize you've been spreading a lie.
It's poor digital literacy skills..." → I'd like to second this comment from Ann Marie Lipinski: "The gullible are not the only problem.
I've been in some heated debates with other specialists when we'd accuse each other of being too gullible or not critical enough.
They reveal a society that is painfully divided, gullible to misinformation, dazzled by sensationalism, and willing to spread lies and promote hate.
Don't possible third-party voters realize that Johnson and Stein are megalomaniacs promoting pie-in-the-sky ideas to their gullible believers?
Whatever else these so-called transcripts show, they speak to at least one truth: The president is a big dumb gullible idiot.
I say this to myself every few days, and sometimes it rings so naive and gullible that I can't trust myself anymore.
Or was he a gullible, perhaps criminal accomplice to patients who were conning him to feed an addiction or resell their prescriptions?
An increasingly affluent society was excoriated as soft, degenerate and vulnerable, while Americans were called (by other Americans) flabby and gullible dupes.
Sure, friendly algorithms have existed since the mid-'60s, when the talk-back program Eliza started convincing more gullible users of its humanity.
If her startup simply hosed gullible investors and pretended it invented a perpetual motion machine, it might earn a golf clap or two.
We are looking at a possible blow-out rally and a lot of gullible investors could end up losing their hard-earned money.
But this is American Horror Story, and if Murder House didn't clue viewers in as to how gullible homeowners can be, nothing will.
Going to his apartment has been the source of shame for the past 30 years, that I allowed myself to be so gullible.
Instead of using the dating app to, you know, get dates, she's using it to scam gullible guys out of $5, BuzzFeed reports.
One possible interpretation is that Wheeler is a gullible tool of the industry for whom he was a lobbyist before coming to EPA.
"Can you really blame a student," he said, "even if they are a little greedy, a little gullible, or a little too hopeful?"
The real damage, Katz thinks, is that we continue to show that we're gullible and susceptible to whatever the next fad diet is.
It didn't take long for the event page to ricochet around Facebook, fooling New York's most gullible and hungry for Animal-Style fries.
How gullible do you have to be to think that four burner Tinder accounts—with different ages attached—means you're talking to quadruplets?
Long before late-night talk show hosts began doing it, he conducted absurd interviews with gullible passersby with his comedic partner, Jim Coyle.
Long before late-night talk show hosts began doing it, he conducted absurd interviews with gullible passersby with his comedic partner, Jim Coyle.
Indeed, some gullible voters may even believe that Russian forces tried to help America by attacking Ukraine in order to find Clinton's Emails.
Khodorkovsky, who elsewhere compares the atmosphere to the Wild West, discusses buying monetary vouchers from the gullible for less than they were worth.
"He counts on his followers being so gullible and so cynical that they won't doubt the reality that he has constructed for them."
One day, I was on a shift with a co-worker who was an absolute ditz and probably the most gullible person on earth.
And the less-benign argument would be, they had all kinds of legal schemes, they wanted someone really young and gullible who wouldn't notice.
Their publishers take money from scientists who are either gullible or just looking for a quick way to tie a publication to their name.
However, I'm not ruling out the possibility of 5-HTP being a placebo that had tricked my gullible brain into feeling good about itself.
I've tried it all, and each time I spend the moment after the first bite or sip mentally whipping myself for being so gullible.
Not just adventurous or gullible or brand-loyal people in American cities, either, but other people in Manila and Delhi and Stuttgart and Guangzhou.
But, like with many other cons, it only takes a few gullible people to take the bait and make the whole thing worth it.
From political scenes to shark invasions, the web is rife with fake photos thanks to easy-to-use image editing tools and gullible viewers.
The more-trusting people only seem more gullible because they're entering into more situations overall and, therefore, opening themselves up to way more pranks.
Where the book counts on reflective repulsion for Johannes, Waititi's Jojo, because he's so gullible and sunny, makes audiences' responses to him more complicated.
In Athens their particular hustle is working as "runners," riding the trains and convincing gullible tourists to check in at the seedy Olympos Hotel.
What's most painful for many Americans who worked in Afghanistan, often in risky situations, is how Sopko casts them as gullible buffoons or crooks.
Take a step back, and don't fall for the bullshit that the people around you may be falling for (Neptunian energy can be very gullible).
Still, Mike—and countless other scammers—are proof that the Nigerian email scam will thrive as long as gullible people exist on the internet. [Interpol]
Not even sell-side analysts—a notoriously gullible bunch, not exactly known for their skeptical thinking (trust me on this)—aren't buying into this yet.
It's actually astonishing how we've reached the point that a prank—meant to trick gullible people into thinking the unlikely is real—can became reality.
The in-ring confrontation was entertaining and grabbed the headlines from the gullible sports press—more so than Wilder's Knockout of the Year contender itself.
Even the show's moral heart, Jimmy's flatmate Edgar, an Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD and gullible naivety, is mercilessly belittled by the show's leads.
The Moon is in Pisces, a sign that can be accused of being too gullible—but today, everyone is at risk of believing wacky things!
If so, Trump will trumpet the news as proof that his economic policies are working — and some gullible journalists may go along with his claim.
Most cars do, but a few will use the still-available free lane to zoom ahead and scoot in front of the polite (gullible?) drivers.
They troll political, business and cultural waters in search of gullible or unprincipled individuals who become pliant in the hands of their Russian puppet masters.
There was a way to make all of this work, but having it happen so quickly just makes Mulder seem gullible and a little stupid.
Fortunately, I soon figured out that "gull" is an Old English word that means SCAM (it's where we get the word "gullible" from) and #NowIKnow.
Her gullible attendant, Dalinda (Mary Bevan, a luscious lyric soprano), has fallen for the duke, as she reveals in a demure aria suggesting her vulnerability.
But judging from the coverage of the deal so far, assuming that the news media will be gullible and innumerate seems like a good bet.
But perhaps more important is that journalists have become afraid to cover remedies, lest we seem gullible (which, for a journalist, is the greatest sin).
Believing that Santa exists is no more evidence that children are gullible than is your initial deduction that a wanted criminal broke into the apartment.
Equal parts tough and funny, maybe Philipps can even teach Kimmy a thing or two about being a little less gullible (it would be about time).
The figureheads of this vague political movement profited off angry, gullible people until it became unwise to do so, and then hung them out to dry.
As long as so many people are going to be gullible enough to give him exactly what he wants every time he tweets, this will continue.
Maybe they should stop thinking about how to get access to their sheeplike, gullible candidate, and start thinking about what it would mean if they couldn't.
Eventually, his giant was exposed as a hoax, but not before Barnum persuaded thousands of gullible innocents to shell out cold, hard cash to see it.
We're reputed to be braggarts; careless with money and our personal lives; a little gullible, but dangerous if crossed; insecure, but obsessed with power and prestige.
By day, the two, clad in Pepto-Bismol-pink tops and shorts, conduct walking tours of landmarks of dubious Los Angeles disco history for gullible tourists.
Bannon is by no means the first political operative in history to use grandiose malapropisms to impress gullible onlookers, but he may be the most influential.
At 35, I know who I am — a spontaneous, adventurous, vertically challenged, sometimes gullible, very sensitive, globetrotting writer who is open to love and new experiences.
If you do participate in the beauty system and you let your labor show, you are a gullible fool and also high-maintenance and self-obsessed.
Barack Obama's attempts to convince people that his policies led to the economic gains of the past two years show that today's voters are not gullible.
But that testimony was also a reminder of how gullible their audiences are, how readily we all believe when we perceive some benefit in the transaction.
Thousands of militants remain in those two countries and presumably are still able to tempt gullible Western recruits, who are within reach via laptops and smartphones.
Eddie Murphy plays multiple roles but stars as the optimistic yet gullible Prince Akeem, a young heir to the throne of the fictional African kingdom Zamunda.
"Nigerians and the International Community should not be gullible or even vulnerable to the machinations of groups desirous of misleading them," Afunanya said in a statement.
We can blame the millennials, not being as gullible as before and having less disposable income since their student loans are in the tens of thousands.
He relied on a "pump-and-dump" scheme, where his company bought really cheap stocks and tried to sell them at much higher prices to gullible bidders.
Scammers are tricking gullible Twitter users into sending their hard-earned ether (Ethereum's in-house cryptocurrency) to random addresses with the empty promise of a hefty giveaway.
"I'm pretty certain now it was actually written by a royalist to poke fun at the parliamentarians for being so gullible and believing this stuff," he says.
"She's not your typical victim, she's not someone you'd think of as gullible, and her business is human nature," says Konnikova — yet she still fell for it.
It's ideal, he added, for criminal networks to use corrupt officials or military personnel, including "young, gullible and greedy" troops, to help them in their illegal activities.
Theranos's gullible investors acceded to Ms. Holmes's demand for supervoting stock and were willing to believe whatever she was selling, even as her story began to unwind.
They showed that North Vietnam controlled the South Vietnamese "resistance" from the beginning, even while Hanoi's propagandists convinced gullible Westerners that it was a purely local movement.
In his two-hour annual State of Nation speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin was preening himself, preparing his gullible masses to vote for him later this month.
The media establishment loves ''angry and frustrated'' as a safe couplet of graveyard words to stand in for more precise and judgmental notions — like maybe ''nativist'' or ''gullible.
Khabib in Russia, though, you have been duped even more harshly than those gullible folks who hoped the UFC might finally book Croke Park for a McGregor fight.
Normally I would find these things too sad to be funny, but Q followers (almost all self-described deplorables) blur the line between being tragic and hilariously gullible.
At some fundamental level, they don't really mean what they are saying, and if only they weren't so gullible or so vulnerable they would see things our way.
How did we come to associate the first day of the fourth month of the year with an opportunity to take advantage of the more gullible among us?
Anson rose to fame on "Happy Days" playing Potsie, the gullible singer ... and for his role he was nominated for the Golden Globe award for best supporting actor.
A braver film might have had Jojo being gripped more tightly by Nazism, whereas here his Hitler Youth membership is treated as a gullible youngster's laughably misguided hobby.
" — AMM in New York "One time, with one of these I.R.S. Treasury calls, I was particularly incensed, knowing that these scammers were going to victimize more gullible people.
The other part, and I want to be emphatically clear about this because people like to oversimplify things by saying TV makes people dumb or brainwashes gullible people.
They assert that the peaceful interpretations of Islam offered by Muslim authorities are a form of taqiyya designed to obscure the true nature of Islam from gullible Westerners.
"Going to his apartment has been the source of shame for the past 30 years, that I allowed myself to be so gullible," Post said to the LA Times.
Which is a pretty plain admission that chatbots are basically just data-mining interfaces with a faux human face, socially engineered to suck up conversation data from gullible humans.
She says that once this happens, they can run off together, and it's almost laughable how gullible Ferdinand is to her plan — if it weren't also kind of sad.
Some have suggested Trump's desire to work more closely with Russia results from gullible naïveté; others have raised the possibility of more nefarious reasons for Trump's pro-Russia tilt.
That's not actually how blackmail works, which Dr. Ashrawi should know since she and her comrades have been practicing it for years and to great effect on gullible Westerners.
He graced the cover of the New York Times Magazine and was fawned over by a gullible media as a blue-eyed pit bull with a heart of gold.
The windows in the Shawnee restaurant had to be boarded up last week and the seating area closed after gullible employees followed the instructions of a faux fire marshall.
In his Helsinki meeting with Vladimir Putin, the farce of the wouldn't/would "clarification" — which no one seriously believes — showed Mr. Trump's confusion and gullible vanity at its worst.
Dad and Mom soon join the subterfuge by posing as a professional driver and a housemaid for the Parks, who are as gullible as they are neurotic about cleanliness.
People fall prey to schemes because of "optimism bias," a bureau report found; they think typical victims are older, gullible or even stupid and don't see themselves that way.
Read more " _____ • Alex Pareene in Fusion: "A media apparatus that was built to fleece gullible, generally older people now holds sway over much of Congress and the president himself.
Most of these armed groups don't have an ideology, so the only people willing to fight for them are gullible children — many of whom have been drugged or kidnapped.
"But I think it would be superficial and you would be gullible to believe that the daughter would be able to do what Park Chung-hee did," he said.
La Roux "Gullible Fool" Why yes I was looking for an early '00s sounding dance track inspired by elements of Yacht Rock, thank you to La Roux for delivering.
Training materials and taped conversations, which investigators believe were made by call center instructors for training purposes, shed some light on an operation aimed to exploit the aged and gullible.
SINCE there are few folk more gullible than editors and reporters desperate to fill the front page, an invitation covertly devised by Alan Abel was sure to pull them in.
This rule is designed to protect the defendant, but let's face it, it's designed to protect the requested country -- in this case, the United States -- from looking really gullible, too.
Surely you've heard the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was (gasp!) faked and foisted onto a gullible public with the help of 2001: A Space Odyssey director Stanley Kubrick.
They have deftly played on such "fears," presenting themselves as paranoid, reactive victims nuking up for sheer survival, thus garnering sympathy from the gullible and willful denialists the world over.
Once again Mr. Trump proves his skill at the "long con" by his elaborate construction of fables with just enough superficial plausibility to persuade or at least distract the gullible.
It's also very well acted, with Ms. Lynskey (so good in the short-lived and sharply poignant HBO series "Togetherness") making the most of her rather gullible, New Agey character.
Hong Kong markets: Dramatic plunges in three stocks offer a cautionary tale about dubious practices that have gone unchecked and rules that stifle naysayers who might rein in the gullible.
Muscle stimulators are relatively old devices, and have a checkered history—ineffective and at times dangerous electric "training belts" were sold to gullible trainees at the turn of the century.
In hindsight, the sequence of events seems formulaically stupid—not unlike the process by which a gullible mark ultimately hands over his life savings to a get-rich-quick scam artist.
Mr Trump is to public service what professional wrestling, which he loves, is to sport: entertaining and ludicrously implausible, a suspension of disbelief for escapists, a crude deception for the gullible.
You can see these trolls squinting into screens, clacking away on keyboards, making their fake content show up in bad fonts down the Facebook feeds of gullible people all across America.
I do think that we have a tendency to be gullible and always believe that it's the end of days — whether it's the Christian rapture or the rapture of the nerds.
To all the gullible reporters who are "reporting" that I asked to be on the guest list at a Nine Inch Nails concert: uh, no, NIN is not my music taste.
This also provides instant opportunities for unscrupulous characters to dump worthless investments on gullible investors and ruin capital markets for the legitimate raising of the capital needed to grow the economy.
Neither remotely credible nor more than minimally entertaining, Stacy Cochran's New York City romance, "Write When You Get Work," presents rich folk as gullible idiots and blue-collar crooks as heroes.
A HACK, as it is commonly understood, is when someone stealthily gains access to a computer system using vulnerabilities in the code or by tricking a gullible user into revealing their credentials.
The resilient Stark kids, knowing that Jon is too gullible and Bran is too creepy, come to their senses and appoint Sansa to the Iron Throne (with Brienne as her chief general).
For the same reasons that a hoax article saying the Pope endorsed Trump managed to thrive in the News Feed, so too could fake videos that play to Facebook's most gullible users.
"If you're gullible enough to fall for this, you kind of deserve it," said Jimmy Song, a Bitcoin developer and prominent cryptocurrency commentator, in a phone interview after reviewing the Breitbart email.
Internet trolls hired by the Russian government used social media to persuade gullible Americans to do things like walk around New York City dressed as Santa Claus with a Trump mask on.
The women who live in this system are not bad or wrong or stupid or gullible for doing whatever they have to do to get through it as best they see fit.
Noakes — who was originally a victim of child sexual abuse — reads to many people as an adult man with autism, despite Gervais's insistence that the character is actually just naive and gullible.
Having acquired the ability to control the hosts from dim, gullible Felix and dim, odious Sylvester, Maeve decides to rewrite Lee Sizemore's hackneyed saloon heist as a test of her newfound powers.
Now, the viral post is popping up once again with a new man's photo, and it seems there are still plenty of gullible homeowners who are sharing the warning, this time, on Twitter.
So it wasn't just gullible people who were interested in spiritualism, there were also scientific people who were looking for genuine evidence of spiritual phenomena and using scientific methodology to research the unknown.
Two women whose names don't matter (played by Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza) trick our gullible heroes into taking them to their sister's destination wedding by pretending to get hit by a car.
Their stance was that the wire transfer service didn't do nearly enough to protect the gullible folks among us from the Nigerian princes of the world and other people running advance-fee scams.
Taking advantage of gullible tourists and proud Americans, Kelvin Li successfully pranked nearly everyone he encountered in New York's Time Square by telling them he won the gold for Team USA in badminton.
The Orientalisms they mix in are fresh enough to engage not just gullible U.K. ravers but an openminded outsider like yours truly; their trance grooves don't go for that overbearing Ibiza-style attack.
Others, like SMW Central moderator leod (a gullible 13 year old at the time) figured out that the rad ass laser suit was actually created with a level editor tool called Lunar Magic.
Their scheme goes off the rails thanks to a sharp security chief (Bernie Mac), a skeptical store manager (John Ritter, in his last film role) and a gullible 8-year-old (Brett Kelly).
Ke-jeon, who uses the Anglicized name "Jessica" with the gullible Park clan, is the true, unapologetic mastermind of her family (and can swig expensive alcohol out of a bottle like no other).
Though "Mary Toft; Or, The Rabbit Queen" offers much that speaks to our own slippery times, it's neither philosophy posing as a story nor a patronizing sneer at those gullible folk of yesteryear.
The meetups will inevitably be swamped by throngs of journalists, standing around in the cold and trying to look plausibly misogynistic in the hope that a gullible anti-feminist will feed them provocative quotes.
Foremost, fans seem to harbor the impression that athletes wield dangerous influence over other gullible fans; in this reading, Kaepernick and his conspirators are powerful Pied Pipers hoodwinking credulous audiences down a political path.
Oklahoma native Cindy Pickett was in her late 30s when she took on the role of the gullible and loving mother, Katie Bueller -- who can't believe her ill son could be absent niiiiiine times?!
The Chinese police and the news media have in recent months issued warnings and reports accusing Shanxinhui of swindling small-time investors through extravagant promises paid for by luring in yet more gullible investors.
Harry Houdini, the renowned illusionist and escape artist, attended hundreds of séances, trying to communicate with his dead parents, before deciding that many self-described seers were in fact con artists soaking the gullible.
In these cases, the press jumped on these stories, encouraged by the companies' professional PR people, skilled at creating headlines out of bits of truth, and playing to the strengths and weaknesses of gullible reporters.
But then again, seeing patterns and nefarious intent where none exist—like a broken website or a few emails discussing a common food item—is a beloved past time among the internet's most gullible users.
And if several years reporting on disaster tech companies is anything to go by, there are an inordinate number of very gullible, very rich people who would happily throw money at me to build it.
Jack Posobiec, conspiratorial mouthpiece for the gullible, was quick to post a breathless and indignant Periscope video where he too claimed Google was leading the charge for the creation of a "socialized" nationwide wireless network.
We live in the age of guilt by pull-quote, abetted by a combination of lazy journalism, gullible readership, missing context, and technologies that make our every ill-considered utterance instantly accessible and utterly indelible.
But he also craved a certain form of respectability that's led him to leave behind a staggering track record of broken promises and glowing press clips from journalists who were gullible enough to believe them.
That "Holmes & Watson" star portrays Buddy, a gullible human raised by elves in the North Pole, who travels to New York to reconnect with his biological father, Walter (James Caan), a crusty children's book editor.
Again, if you look at Ryan's actions, not the character he played to gullible audiences, he has never shown himself willing to sacrifice anything he wants — not one dime — on behalf of his professed principles.
Legislative efforts were augmented by violence and disinformation -- the latter preying upon a relatively gullible, unsophisticated population in a manner, one historian notes, which mirrors the role social media has come to play this century.
Is the whole thing just a gimmick created for vulnerable people like me to go out and buy her stuff just so we can feel a little better about our emo (and gullible) little souls?
But inevitably, gullible people buy into it, spreading more confusion throughout the world, and regardless of motive, filling an already lie-filled landscape with more lies is a fucked-up way to make a living.
If people are gullible enough to believe in conspiracy theories—so much so that they show up at Trump rallies with signs and shirts supporting QAnon—we don't need AI to fool anyone into believing anything.
Does he really think we are so gullible that we would buy his absurd claim that his "we'll stop it" text meant all of us – the American people – would act to stop Trump from becoming president?
At the same time though, as the internet grew and commercialized, the mechanics undergirding these campaigns started showing up in troublesome ways, pulling in gullible passers-by and people whose sense of reality was already shaky.
"I was surprised by how gullible the people in the Trump groups were, but as I continued to write ridiculous things they just kept getting shared and I kept drawing more viewers," the creator told PolitiFact.
Fueled by Balkan teenagers and gullible uncles, the fake news "epidemic" continues to spread across America, and experts are still trying to evaluate the degree to which it influenced the outcome of the US presidential election.
"Granite Staters are not gullible or naive, and we do not appreciate those who impugn the integrity of our state's voting systems based on unsubstantiated accusations," Shaheen said in a written statement to the panel Tuesday.
And it certainly doesn't matter that Gary Bettman told you that his constant lockouts were about keeping ticket prices low; if you were gullible enough to swallow that, then I'm not sure anyone can help you.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, then either the Republican Party is insane or it believes that the American people are incurably gullible.
It's a TV series!) As a counterpoint to Stan's growing awareness, Philip was now the too-gullible one, telling Elizabeth that Stan was satisfied with Philip's explanation (business woes) for his moodiness and his Thanksgiving exit.
"To all the gullible reporters who are 'reporting' that I asked to be on the guest list at a Nine Inch Nails concert:  uh, no, NIN is not my music taste," Cruz said in a tweet.
Those slaps I mentioned landed more forcefully on the administration in general than on the man-child at its apex, who is, in Carlson's tortured rendition, a gullible marionette, his strings pulled by inveterate, habitual warmongers.
In an alternate reality where, on any given night, a full moon brightens up Brooklyn, Loretta (Cher in an Oscar-winning role), an Italian widowed bookkeeper, is engaged to the gullible, soft-spoken Johnny (Danny Aiello).
Luckily for the president, a group of less gullible staff members stepped in before Donald Trump publicly mentioned the fake, debunking the already-debunked 1970s cover before the president had the chance spread the own fake news.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was caught pushing misleading claims about blocking a presumed visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House in a bid to squeeze donations from gullible donors, The Daily Caller reported.
I was just trying to play this prince that was a little bit gullible and a little bit unaware of what's going on and suddenly I realize, 'Oh yeah, I'm the prince in a romantic comedy. Cool.
Flynn's trafficking in conspiracy stories that a fourth grader would find incredible suggests either that he's highly gullible or that he's so consumed with malice that he loses his ability to judge what's fact and what's fiction.
Historically, the rube in sandals with a camera around his neck was a mark, someone gullible enough to buy a watch from a thief's open trench coat or get suckered into a game of three-card monte.
That is when those in control of the stock can dump their shares and leave those gullible enough to invest in the hope of getting in on the ground floor of the next big thing with losses.
It promotes the No More Ransom tools on its website and encourages their use by victims who might otherwise be reluctant to trust a strange website at a moment when they are feeling particularly gullible and vulnerable.
Andy Griffith makes a searing big-screen debut as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, a cracker barrel philosopher who first hoodwinks a gullible producer, then a cadre of New York network and advertising executives and, finally, an entire nation.
It promotes the No More Ransom tools on its website and encourages their use by victims who might otherwise be reluctant to trust a strange website at a moment when they are feeling particularly gullible and vulnerable.
The knock-on effect is that dark net dealers profit from what's essentially a gullible group, branding their latest batches as continuations of previous ones, over which the culture is instantly nostalgic and so eager to try.
"Back when Trump was spinning birther conspiracy theories, which were lapped up by gullible Republicans, one person who talked to Kushner says he offered assurances that his father-in-law didn't really believe that stuff," the report says.
Smartly cast, it operates as a mystery, a satire, a battle of wits and perhaps foremost, a provocative consideration of the dangers of hero worship, and the way media manipulation can be used to seduce a gullible public.
But as psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova explains in her new book, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It, Every Time, you don't have to be particularly gullible or greedy to fall for one of these schemes.
What they'll find, should they be gullible enough to bite, is a thinly sketched out, wildly violent satire, one that rather cynically uses the current backdrop of partisan tribalism as the hook for an old-time exploitation piece.
"The media and the public are far less gullible now than they were [in 2003], but even now there's a tendency to take administration claims at face value, or at least semi-seriously," Krugman wrote in his newsletter.
Yes, we were all devastated when we found out the reason the dog filter is so flattering is because it also changes your face shape, but I'd like to think we've gotten a little less gullible since then.
How, in particular, did a man whose fraudulence, lack of concern for those he claims to care about and lack of policy coherence should have been obvious to everyone nonetheless manage to win over so many gullible souls?
Suarez's public defenders filed a brief in October with the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that a life sentence is cruel and unusual punishment for a young, gullible, first-time offender with no history of violence.
No, that's where the kitchen is, and we cannot for a New York minute imagine that you're really there, turning out this franco-dreck that's catching the fancy of hundreds of gullible eaters at the hottest bistro in town.
A crowd is a gullible thing, and no shortage of conmen have taken advantage of Bitcoin's supposed journey "to the moon" to bilk unsophisticated people out of actual money in exchange for digital securities they aren't required to repay.
This stupid stuff should never have spread in the first place, and it boggles the mind that a well-timed tweet aimed at the most gullible people in the country potentially affected the course of a major political contest.
"Although the gullible media still pretends to believe the doomsday stories offered by these researchers, the polar bear has fallen as a useful icon for those trying to sell a looming global warming catastrophe to the public," she wrote.
Playing a tepid lawyer, he was as warmly reserved as Ms. Mirren was strategically haughty in "Woman in Gold," and playing a gullible gambler in "Mississippi Grind" he made a fine exclamation point alongside Ben Mendelsohn's slumped question mark.
Article continues after the video below In 2012, SNK (Playmore) got on the nostalgia train with the Neo Geo X. The aim: to rinse a substantial chunk of cash from gullible gamers who really couldn't do without Fatal Fury.
On the Russian side, Aleksandra Revenko is the most striking performer as she uses her hard stare to play a pitiless lover or comically snap to life as a personified bot advertising a beauty product to a gullible woman.
The flawed hero is not the grifter of the opening chapter but one Mark Firth, a good-looking, occasionally wise but gullible building contractor from Howland who has lost his own mini-fortune to the same fraudulent financial adviser.
Matvey Natanzon, who was known as Falafel because he subsisted on deep-fried chickpea balls while hustling gullible opponents in Washington Square Park in Manhattan while he groomed himself to be the world's greatest backgammon player, died on Feb.
He cited Russia's efforts to cultivate relationships with people within the US. "They troll political, business and cultural waters in search of gullible or unprincipled individuals who become pliant in the hands of their Russian puppet masters," he wrote.
The simplified reading is that—as with Pizzagate—the figureheads of this vague political movement, like Cernovich, Yiannopoulos, and Alex Jones, profited off angry, gullible people until it became unwise to do so, and then hung them out to dry.
On the other hand, if Trump's so-called flexibility on his core issue, immigration, is received as pandering to a gullible voter base without any real intent to follow through, his campaign might find it difficult to keep its footing.
The whole thing is so spot-on that you might be forgiven if, like some of the gullible listeners who mistook 1938's War of the Worlds broadcast for an actual alien invasion, you take them at their word at first.
The winners in this scenario would be Mr. Putin, who would have outfoxed a gullible Mr. Trump; and Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, who will have further demonstrated that they can play this administration like a fiddle.
The root of the problem is that humans are weak, gullible dolts; every day many of us, even people who should know better — folks with fancy jobs and blue check marks next to our handles — keep falling for online hoaxes.
It's true that ISIS and the Taliban are rivals, but any administration willing to entrust the Taliban with being a bulwark against global terrorism is even more gullible than the poor saps who paid money for a Trump University training program.
Crime It's Thanksgiving Day in Richard Lange's latest novel, THE SMACK (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $26), and Rowan Petty is doing what he always does on a national holiday and every other day — swindling gullible people out of their hard-earned cash.
Dennis Ignatius, a former Malaysian ambassador to several Western Hemisphere countries, called Malaysian officials "naïve and gullible" in dealing with North Korea and questioned why the rogue state had ever been allowed to open its embassy in the first place.
It's true that ISIS and the Taliban are rivals, but any administration willing to entrust the Taliban with being a bulwark against global terrorism is even more gullible than the poor saps who paid money for a Trump University training program.
"Even if you take all of his ill-defined political beliefs out of the picture, he's still an ignorant, intemperate, foolish, gullible, intellectually incurious, pathologically dishonest conspiracy theorist who is utterly unqualified for the job of running a country," Collins told Gizmodo.
While it may be tempting to place gullible users as the common problem in the spread of disinformation, this relieves pressure from the platforms themselves, which designed their systems with terrible vulnerabilities, and remained asleep at the wheel as those vulnerabilities were exploited.
A satire involving an evangelical impostor who infiltrates the household of a gullible nobleman, the plot neatly transposes to a place where "a vulnerability to strange and rapacious belief systems" remains "endemic", as Christopher Hampton, the translator, puts it in the programme notes.
Apps distribute our cat pics, our workouts, and our YouTube rants to specific audiences of followers, audiences that were nearly impossible to monetize in the early days of the Internet but, thanks to gullible marketing managers, can be sold as influencer media.
A brand-new Twitter user, also claiming to be Jessica, then started tweeting "her side of the story," which went nearly as viral as Zola's original tweets, until the poster came out as an impostor and chastised readers for being so gullible.
But Vox's Ezra Klein has argued that he should — because it suggests that Trump is too gullible to be president candidate: His tendency to solicit, repeat, and retweet self-serving falsehoods served up by sycophants and hangers-on should be taken seriously.
But Vox's Ezra Klein has argued that he should — because it suggests that Trump is too gullible to be presidential candidate: His tendency to solicit, repeat, and retweet self-serving falsehoods served up by sycophants and hangers-on should be taken seriously.
By May 2017, McCabe implies he was in a state of panic on behalf of the gullible nation led by a Russian asset — but as Ohr said, McCabe and his cronies were aware that the explosive claims in the dossier were unverified.
Theories about Q's endgame abound, but after watching closely for several months now, I think the odds are in favor of Q being an elaborate troll, aimed directly at one of the most gullible demographics in the world—old people on Facebook.
As unbelievable as it may sound to legions of gullible Facebook users, it turns out that some of the shocking images of animal treatment which pop up on their feeds may be inaccurate, out of context, or, in some cases, completely made up.
But think about what it means when foreign leaders know that the president of the United States is: (a) gullible (b) easily susceptible to flattery and (c) eager to proclaim victory, and unwilling to admit that he didn't actually get anything significant.
Yet what remains rare are scenarios where the reverse is the case—in which the gullible masses sing the praises of powered individuals who they believe are protecting them, but who in fact exploit them and hold their puny lives in contempt.
The suavely aristocratic and yet strangely gullible Hugh Trevor-Roper first encountered Peters at Oxford in 1958 when Trevor-Roper, then a Regius professor of modern history, received a letter from an unknown supplicant on behalf of a Mr. and Mrs. Peters.
Kellogg's and Charles Schwab don't want their ads to appear on a site featuring headlines like "Birth Control Makes Women Crazy and Unattractive" or "Only Gullible Fools Believe the Great Barrier Reef Is Dying" unless they want to destroy their corporate reputations.
First, imaginary painting, then imaginary breakfast and so on—the happy life of a pauper, except that this pauper, exhausted and downhearted after a sleepless night, couldn't feel much happiness and scolded himself for being a gullible sap who had lost everything twice.
In much the same way the pizzagate conspiracy led to a gunman opening fire inside a Washington, DC, restaurant, two deeply gullible Qanon fanatics have been linked to an incident at the Hoover Dam and the nine-day occupation of a homeless encampment in Arizona.
I'm saying this, of course, as a gullible young woman who wants to watch people fall in love before her eyes even if it's a little bit fake, and as a grump with some standards who refuses to watch people pretend to fall in love.
"So now, I bake, I cook fantastic meals for friends, I garden, and I puppy-wrangle two little dachshunds while being entertained by the bullshit people feed others and what the gullible will not only believe, but what they will scream is 'fake,'" she said.
But Lord Leopold cements his status as leading possible villain when he insists a gullible Richard "stay the course" of the initiative — which is meant to create jobs for Aldovia in only Aldovia, leading to a booming economy — despite the fact it's a spectacular failure.
"Doping is on the rise because athletes are gullible and would want to earn so much without working so hard, while foreign agents want to make a quick buck," Ereng, who won gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics told Reuters in Eldoret on Wednesday.
"The Democrats and the liberal media are counting on voters to be gullible enough to swallow their selective crap about Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates so another non-leader, non-fighter and non-problem solver – Hillary Clinton – can get elected," he added.
Veselnitskaya has frequently argued in the Russian media that the entire story of what Magnitsky uncovered and the plight he endured is a fabrication accepted by a gullible US government from Magnitsky's former client, William Browder, the CEO of Hermitage and Magnitsky's posthumous flame tender.
The rush to passage in order to give President Trump his Christmas present and bragging rights of having finally achieved something significant in his first year in office is nothing short of a disgrace and a slap in the face to a gullible public.
Mr. Perklin and other people who have investigated recent hacks said the assailants generally succeeded by delivering sob stories about an emergency that required the phone number to be moved to a new device — and by trying multiple times until a gullible agent was found.
Whether Ki-taek's relish of illicit pleasures makes him the ultimate rebel or a gullible stooge for the sweet life is open to debate, and it's no surprise that, with half an hour to go, the plot of "Parasite" could yet turn in many directions.
At the start of the Winter Olympics two weeks ago, the nasty, brutish and short (and endlessly mockable) state known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea demonstrated it has the wits to boondoggle the gullible with a combination of glitz and sophisticated propaganda.
If they reached a person who was sufficiently terrified or gullible — this was known in the business as a "sale" — they would instruct that person to buy thousands of dollars' worth of iTunes cards to avoid prosecution, they said; the most rattled among them complied.
The gullible news media simply parroted the pro-independence propaganda promoted by Vladimir Putin — with his characteristic feigned detachment — portraying Spain as in a revival of the Franco era, despite 42 years of democracy and 203 as a member of the European Union. Nonsense.
Mr. Lampert, a billionaire hedge fund manager, could avoid becoming the "cartoon character" his critics have painted him as, Judge Robert Drain said — a cross between Jay Gould, the Gilded Age robber baron, and Barney Fife, the blustery gullible sheriff on the "Andy Griffith" show.
Nonfiction THE EMPIRE AND THE FIVE KINGS America's Abdication and the Fate of the World By Bernard-Henri Lévy GULLIBLE SUPERPOWER U.S. Support for Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements By Ted Galen Carpenter The American foreign policy establishment is two years into a prolonged existential crisis.
"Shadow banning" isn't just something you say to dupe a gullible person into thinking that they're being censored, but they actually are concerned that they might actually lose access in the way that Milo did, and the way that Alex Jones is losing access now.
So severe was the outcry that Ohio's Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted, who has admirably criticized Trump for calling the integrity of our elections into question, promised to get to the bottom of this obvious hoax, for the benefit of Drudge and Limbaugh's gullible followers.
Charlatan gurus prescribing dangerous feats to gullible followers were Carney's white whale, but Hof inspired the author so profoundly that he made him the subject of his latest book, What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength.
On her latest stop in her "it's not me, it's you" multi-nation pity party blaming American voters for being too racist, misogynistic and gullible to alleged Russian mind tricks, it feels like she's stopped just short of blaming reptilian aliens for her loss in 28500.
The problem: Fallows (and Scott Wilson, the national editor at WashPost) worry that NYT reporters were too gullible or trusting in their sources who claimed to have inside knowledge about Kushner's thinking and next moves, yet wouldn't go on the record saying they were formally speaking for Kushner.
As you've probably already figured out, it's a type of duplicity that all but the most gullible parent immediately sees right through, leading to the time-honored "conflict years" between child and progenitor that you've been immortalizing in your country ever since that "Yakety Yak" song was in vogue.
The princes in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, have been desperate to revive the regional status quo of the days of Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq, when a surrogate repressive despot, eliciting wealth and material support from fellow Arabs and a gullible West, countered the so-called Iranian threat.
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What really gets my goat is that money-for-nothing, supposedly low risk income generators have been constructed by snake oil salesman to sell to gullible and greedy investors without any real effort to educate as to what can go wrong in an anywhere near two-way market.
"The Philippines is immediately ordering the Bureau of Immigration to deny US Senators Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy — the imperious, uninformed, and gullible American legislators who introduced the subject provisions into the 85033 budget — entry to the Philippines," presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo told reporters Friday, according to CNN.
According to Bankston, these are the first lawsuits he is aware of in which a parent of a mass shooting victim has sued Jones, a notorious purveyor of vapid conspiracies whose main source of revenue is using InfoWars as a vehicle to sell the gullible on snake-oil diet supplements.
He can never give Mulder a believable motivation for just how gullible he seems to be throughout the hour, even when he's got a good potential reason in the fact that the alien colonization predicted for 2012 never arrived — a non-event that would surely have shaken Mulder's core beliefs.
When reporters are tasked with deciphering and spreading the messages from a White House filled with sources who mislead and often contradict each other, it's important that they're not too trusting or too gullible with those who claim to have inside knowledge about Kushner's thinking — especially if they're not Kushner himself.
Here we have a man who inherited great wealth, then built a business career largely around duping the gullible — whether they were naïve investors in his business ventures left holding the bag when those ventures went bankrupt, or students who wasted time and money on worthless degrees from Trump University.
Nygyl Brynn Blackwolf, who founded an extreme metal record label and has known Matthews since 2014, said the 21-year-old was "a good kid" who never exhibited any signs of white supremacism, was "gullible and impressionable," and had been trying hard to make his mark in the Norwegian black metal scene.
Mr. Teller and Mr. Hill aren't a completely convincing pair — sometimes David seems gullible enough to be taken in by Efraim, and other times he seems too smart — and Efraim's "Scarface" obsession is played for one joke too many, but this is a movie you don't want to think too hard about.
I'll pass, and I'll note that while he and Ivanka Trump seemed at one point to be taking a wise break from center stage, he's back in the spotlight, identified as one of the most gullible fan boys of Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and exposed as an epic tax evader.
It is a fresh lesson in the power of disinformation to see decent, patriotic Chinese sharing tales of the CIA paying gullible Hong Kongers to join marches or smuggling in foreign rioters on late-night flights (a rumour sourced to a driver at Hong Kong airport, in the version that Chaguan heard).
We'll just say that he was one of the many gullible souls who were promised a fortune for their little apartments, their only property, and who woke up the next morning on a bench in a park, trying to remember what had happened and why their apartments were sporting new locks and curtains.
Solomon's work this year for The Hill feels a lot like the right-wing equivalent of the effluvia in which Resistance liberals partook during the Mueller investigation: inscrutable to people who are not already major Nellie Ohr enthusiasts, deeply satisfying to those who are gullible, thinly-sourced, and not moored to reality.
After the U.S. signs a peace treaty with the Third Reich, Herman's live-in nephew Alvin (Anthony Boyle) goes to Canada to go to war against the Nazis, while Bess' gullible naif sister Evelyn (Winona Ryder) embraces the Lindbergh administration because she's dating the right-wing Southerner Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf (John Turturro).
Photo: GettyGetting a phone call connected to Air Force One, even if you're someone without any sort of prestige or military or diplomatic rank whatsoever, is apparently about as challenging as using sleight of hand on a dog—a really gullible dog who swallows car keys and constantly runs into the same glass door.
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The brain is a gullible organ (the fact you even get motion sickness during VR despite being stood perfectly still is a testament to that), and many philosopher types are already worrying about the ethical implications of a world in which watching porn really feels like sex and violent games really feel like murder.
A host of characters orbit around the two figures of mother and son, and we occasionally zoom in on them, getting their perspective — including Elliot, Rhett's artist dad and Pearl's ex-husband; and Pearl's gullible boss, Carter, a self-made man who is portrayed as someone living a kind of duped and diluted life.
ASS has fabricated a gas explosion in Colorado, an Ebola outbreak in Massachusetts, and an incident of police brutality prompted by real police brutality in Missouri, using fake screenshots, photographs, and news footage that are then spammed at random as well as at targeted, gullible opinion leaders, like politicians and former reality-television stars.
Dunst's character is Krystal Stubbs, whose gullible and ambitious husband Travis (Alexander Skarsgård) is convinced he can make his family rich by following the tenets of FAM, a pyramid scheme run by the mysterious millionaire Obie Garbeau II. From the first shot of Episode 1, OBAG performs something of a magic trick with these two characters.
It was retweeted hundreds of times, and while I'd love to say no one believed it, it's my sad duty to inform you that there are extremely gullible people on Twitter: To be clear, RL didn't make much of an effort to pass this pathetic fakery off as the truth, and just about everyone who responded got the joke.
But while officials have acknowledged the incidents and say they're taking them seriously (and the prankster told Tapper he had no malicious intent) the White House needs to act quickly to prevent an apparently gullible staff from falling prey to other email hoaxes that could put sensitive information in the hands of terrorists or unfriendly states.
It was hard to tell if he was in the midst of the most thoroughly considered conspiracy to hoax the fashion gullible since Laura Albert created JT Leroy and fooled the literary world — a test of how elastic is the desire for a famous face and an insider product — or if he meant what he said.
Elsewhere, Iago's urgent command to the gullible Roderigo (Steffan Donnelly) to "put money in thy purse" is here repeated to increasing mirth from the audience, as if he is somehow so much more switched-on than those around him that he has been reduced to stating the obvious, or to repeating himself in order to be heard.
Go to Twitter or Facebook and invoke the letters FBPE (Follow Back, Pro-EU) and you'll soon get the impression that simply everyone agrees Brexit is a disaster, that everyone now realizes that Leavers (poor, gullible fools) were tricked into voting Leave and will now welcome the chance to change their mind and keep us in.
" They include, Mr. Edelman said, the belief that his predecessors were gullible, and that he will do better; that allies have exploited the United States, and must pay back their debts; that free trade is bad; and that military force should be used sparingly, but that "we should be strong and scary and that will make people afraid to screw with us.
We're romantics, and the world is wondrous when you believe that you belong to some brave and special tribe and have experienced enlightenment — about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, about the existence of extraterrestrials, about the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, about vaccines — that all the less perceptive, more gullible conformists out there simply can't comprehend.
It's hard for them to be thrust into the spotlight for this, but they're still committed to trying to get the word out there and to let people know that predators are out there and they take advantage of the weak and the naive and the gullible and I think, really, the message they want people to know is that anyone can be conned.
Please Listen to Trump Get Prank Called on Air Force OnePhoto: GettyGetting a phone call connected to Air Force One, even if you're someone without any sort of prestige or military or diplomatic rank whatsoever, is apparently about as challenging as using sleight of hand on a dog—a really gullible dog who swallows car keys and constantly runs into the same glass door.
Some of the ways that Fisk gathers his intel and amasses his power requires a certain suspension of disbelief: Fisk benefits from writing that always makes him the smartest person in the room, often at the expense of everyone else, including extremely gullible FBI agents acting completely idiotic and forgetting that this is a man who makes El Chapo seem like the Barefoot Contessa.
In truth, his record involves partnerships with shady characters, the abuse of investors whose Trump casino stock plummeted while he took a $5 million bonus, nonpayment of debts and the exploitation of gullible consumers like the ones who bought his courses at so-called Trump University (some paid as much as $35,000) only to discover they could have gotten an equivalent education at the public library.
Teller and Mr. Hill aren't a completely convincing pair — sometimes David seems gullible enough to be taken in by Efraim, and other times he seems too smart — and Efraim's 'Scarface' obsession is played for one joke too many, but this is a movie you don't want to think too hard about," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times, adding, "Just enjoy the insane ride.
Sen. Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart FrankenNative American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Al Franken urges Trump to give new speech after shootings: 'Try to make it sound like you're sincere, even if you're not' MORE (D-Minn.) said on Tuesday that President Trump might have been "gullible" to think that he could pressure China to effectively rein in North Korea.
But the most interesting part of this book (transcribed by a fan) is the partially obscured mentions of dragonglass having medicinal properties: ...dragonglass as a cure for ... his great work on illnesses and diseases ... whatever little harm incurs from the ingestion ... little known harm to the gullible (people who try to cure themselves) ... better spent on practical treatments... After reading this book, Sam somehow learns how to cure Jorah of his greyscale — perhaps with dragonglass.
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