I saw a “reject socialism” bumper sticker on a pickup truck yesterday. And directly under the piece at left on Facebook is the meme below.
This, of course, is hopeless. It’s easier to talk about political issues with a dog than it is with the people who don’t understand, or even want to understand, the issues surrounding socialism.
When I come across an animated video for a little and unattractive “car of the future,” I normally conclude: “Well of course it’s animated, because nothing even remotely close to this will ever actually be built, because it will have close to zero consumer demand.”
Yet, if you watch the video below, and the others like it, all asserting to prospective investors that their concept is just around the corner from achieving world dominance, you may think that your ship has come in.
The meme here got me thinking.
It’s hard to determine Ron DeSantis’ true motives. He knows that he has broad appeal with uneducated people who have no compassion whatsoever for the billions of non-white, non-Christians around the globe, and whose numbers, we’re now learning, are huge. And he’s ridden a rocket ride accordingly, threatening to become America’s 47th president.
We were not aware of this before Trump was elected in 2016.
When I came across the meme here, I had my usual response: Is DeSantis in any way different from bazillionaire televangelists like Joel Osteen, aggressively moving the assets of his dumb-as-f*** parishioners to his own bank account?
Is he any worse? Any better? If you have no integrity, there’s nothing preventing you from using people’s lack of intelligence against them. There is, to be sure , a sucker born every minute. And as long as that’s true, there will always be a Donald Trump or a Ron DeSantis waiting to pluck them like so many chickens.
This from a reader.
Are you suggesting she has any moments that aren’t ugly? Being ugly is her brand; it’s the only thing that makes her appealing to the hateful morons in a rural part of Georgia.
I laughed out loud when I saw this. Apparently, there are people stupid enough to turn to Tucker Carlson for financial advice and insights into the economy.
I happen to have an extremely wealthy friend who runs a hedge fund, and once told me, “I’ve never met anyone who made money from precious metals,” and then immediately corrected himself: “I’ve never met any intelligent person who made money from precious metals.” Obviously, there are idiots who think they are savvy investors in this space, and some of them get lucky.
When I was a small boy in 1965, my grandfather bought me some stock in General Motors at $32 per share. His purpose was to show me how wonderful capitalism is, by enabling me to see my money working for me, silently but powerfully.
GM closed today at $41.63, which means an annual appreciation of 0.45% over those 58 years.
I bring this up not to throw shade on my late grandfather’s prowess as an investor, but to bring into question GM’s competence in performing on its share-holders’ behalf.
I was reminded of this by their announcement that they will be spending $854 million in the development of yet one more V-8 engine, at a time when the entire world of transportation is turning electric.
The meme here comes from the Democratic Coalition.
In principle, these people have nailed it. A DeSantis presidency, coupled with a conservative Supreme Court, could turn the United States into a white nationalist theocracy.
Anything that required government spending, e.g. public education, would become a casualty. If you think our kids are falling behind now, see what four years of a DeSantis wrecking ball will do.
The irony in the meme here that electric vehicles perform like rockets, especially compared to diesel engines.
This from Donald Trump:
“Joe Biden’s weaponized Justice Department – and I’m a victim of it – is persecuting his political opponents. His administration is waging war on free speech. They’re trying to indoctrinate and mutilate our children,” Trump said in the video.
“He’s leading us to the brink of World War III. And on top of all of that, he’s the most corrupt president in American history.”
I know I’m not the only one wondering what’s going to take Trump down. Most of us are hoping that he’ll be indicted for seditious conspiracy or something similar, and that a significant part of his base will come to its senses about its leader’s crimes.
Another tack that history may take here, albeit less sexy, could be that his followers grow tired of the torrent of bald-faced lies, e.g. those above, and simply move on to some other horrible person.
