So does he.
Cruz PR team: You gotta show your human side tonight. Tell a joke or two.
Cruz: I know, I’ll pretend I’m contemptuous of their insolence.
team: Mmmm, maybe ease in a little first. Something lighter.
Cruz: Ah don’t worry they’ll get it. It’s not like everyone thinks I am that big a jerk
He doesn’t know how. I saw it, sorta kinda, a facial tic that mimics the one used by people who are joking.
We monkeys are real big on that stuff, more of our brain works on what faces and postures signify than the words being said. His monkey face message isn’t “I’m pulling your leg, here”, its “I am done speaking for the moment, you may now gasp in wonder.”
Perhaps the next generation of implantable chips will overcome that.
In place of the existing 4. That way it’ll be appropriately Great enough.