Paul is too smug and self-satisfied

"You care too much about the comments. I don't read comments anymore. Rise above them." - Paul to JJ.

It really hits me just how annoying of a person he actually is. He loves saying he doesn't know very much, only to follow it up with "A truly smart person realizes they don't know very much.", implying that he thinks he's intelligent. He says "anti-intellectualism is based", as a lame excuse for why you shouldn't follow mainstream media, but instead someone who says they know nothing, because it's "based". He's way too self-satisfied with not learning, including "boring day-to-day politics", which could help keep him informed.

He revels in his own ignorance, yet he genuinely believes he's smarter than his audience and probably most people, including mainstream journalists. The shtick is beyond old. Except that I don't think it's a shtick, or "irony", I think it's his actual personality hiding behind "Well I'm just joking."