Here’s one from the vaults of “just when you thought you’d seen it all.”
I suppose what we can infer from this is that the Mr. Pillow guy actually pays his bills, unlike Giuliani’s former employer.
Seriously, how large is the audience of people who think Rudy is a credible human being? Who believes he was smart in choosing to go from one of the most respected people in the country to a lying, criminal Trump lackey?
One word stands in mind: Slippers!
Normally, we hear about stupidity that comes from some corner of the world we’ve never visited, and perhaps never knew existed. But here’s one from the small town in rural Santa Barbara County, Santa Ynez, in which 2GreenEnergy makes its home:
From this:
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland orders new environmental review of the leasing program, saying the Trump administration did an ‘insufficient analysis’ of drilling’s impact.
The Biden administration on Tuesday suspended oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, targeting one of President Donald Trump’s most significant environmental acts during his last days in office.
Well, a lot has changed. Now he was a family man, and he had no jail experience. Also, I’m sure he had a job. Perhaps he was well respected in his community.
Make no doubt, this is a tragedy, one that is unprecedented in U.S. history. Never did we elect a clever conman to presidential office, one who cared about nothing and no one but himself, one who would sacrifice the lives, without limit, of rubes who trusted him, in order to ensure a continuation and expansion of his power.
When these poor fools’ trials come around, we can expect to hear a lot of, “I just wasn’t thinking straight. It’s as if I had been abducted by a cult. I was simply doing what I was ordered to do by our leader.” News flash: That doesn’t work as a criminal defense. Human beings are expected to use reason as a guide to their behavior, and obey the law, regardless of what their hero instructs them to do.
Re: the meme here, as reader notes: Please explain the cultural differences between the U.S. and Japan. Or perhaps run the numbers per capita for the other countries? While this lovely poster is powerful it’s comparing apples to oranges to pineapples!
It’s true that this would be more meaningful if the killings were presented on a per capita basis, but what’s happening in America is still disgusting. The U.S. population is about 2.5 times that of Japan, not 4000. Btw, the poster is wrong: these figures include weapons of war as well as handguns. You can’t wipe out an entire movie theater with a handgun. (more…)
Regarding the red MAGA hat, I beg to disagree. Both the swastika and the Confederate flags are signs of evil, of genocide and slavery, respectively. The red hat incorporates those as well, but it adds in an important ingredient missing in both: stupidity.
We don’t associate stupidity with the slave-owners or the Nazis, but it’s impossible to see pictures of people in red hats and not think: How effing dumb can these people be? (more…)
The subject of gun rights for convicted felons is a little more complicated that this, but it’s true in the main.
How ironic.
Whether you remember Dick Van Dyke from Mary Poppins, his sit-com of the 60s, or any of the other hundreds of things he’s done in his long, eclectic, multi-award-winning career, it’s clear that, at age 95, he’s still totally lucid.
“It bothers me that people can’t read him (Trump).”
Me too, good sir.
From Facebook:
Last month, the Oversight Board upheld Facebook’s suspension of former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts following his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6. But in doing so, the board criticized the open-ended nature of the suspension, stating that “it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension.” The board instructed us to review the decision and respond in a way that is clear and proportionate, and made a number of recommendations on how to improve our policies and processes. (more…)
There are times in life when the point being made here is 100% apt. It applies very nicely to beliefs: religion, art, philosophy, even the political positions that had existed until recently.
However, it does not apply at all to what U.S. politics of today has become. Flat Earthers, anti-vaxxers, climate deniers, voter fraudsters are simply wrong. The Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world see the figure here and say it’s 4. That’s not a perspective; it’s a delusion.
