Camacho was smart enough to see that someone else was smarter than him.
Re: Politics
3422I think it’s a red herring to make this about one’s own stance toward “educated” people, one’s personal experience of “intellectuals” and whether they cause as many problems as “dum-dums.” Whether one personally holds a degree or degrees, and so on and so forth.
That’s a lot of culture wars stuff that, yes, can decide elections, and might inform someone’s social dynamics and worldview, but is actually beside the point.
The issue here is that we don’t want the people running things to be too incompetent and impulsive, to make matters even worse. There’s a danger in throwing the baby out with the bathwater in the name of “getting things done.” It won’t end well with people like this in charge. Trump’s plea “What have you got to lose?” is telling because there actually is a lot to lose that the average struggling person might be too busy struggling to be aware of. That’s the devil hiding in plain sight.
Even in a best-case scenario, we’ve got loads of problems in this country that the most sure-footed leader would have trouble addressing. For some people, treading water, “maintaining the status quo,” etc. doesn’t cut it. I get that. So why not shake things up? Roll the dice, as they say? Okay. But what happens when something you’ve hitherto taken for granted goes away, perhaps forever? Like Social Security, or Medicaid, or roads largely without pot holes, or public libraries with good books and movies, or the internet as you’ve come to know it, or the power always being on, drinkable tap water, beaches clean enough to dip into, and so on and so forth.
In a way, it reminds me a bit of people who use their smartphones to denounce science. They’re using a product of the thing they’re denouncing to denounce it.
That things could always be worse is at once a poor consolation and entirely true.
That’s a lot of culture wars stuff that, yes, can decide elections, and might inform someone’s social dynamics and worldview, but is actually beside the point.
The issue here is that we don’t want the people running things to be too incompetent and impulsive, to make matters even worse. There’s a danger in throwing the baby out with the bathwater in the name of “getting things done.” It won’t end well with people like this in charge. Trump’s plea “What have you got to lose?” is telling because there actually is a lot to lose that the average struggling person might be too busy struggling to be aware of. That’s the devil hiding in plain sight.
Even in a best-case scenario, we’ve got loads of problems in this country that the most sure-footed leader would have trouble addressing. For some people, treading water, “maintaining the status quo,” etc. doesn’t cut it. I get that. So why not shake things up? Roll the dice, as they say? Okay. But what happens when something you’ve hitherto taken for granted goes away, perhaps forever? Like Social Security, or Medicaid, or roads largely without pot holes, or public libraries with good books and movies, or the internet as you’ve come to know it, or the power always being on, drinkable tap water, beaches clean enough to dip into, and so on and so forth.
In a way, it reminds me a bit of people who use their smartphones to denounce science. They’re using a product of the thing they’re denouncing to denounce it.
That things could always be worse is at once a poor consolation and entirely true.
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3423exactly. it's not just that they're dumb. it's that they're malicious, incompetent AND dumb.
Re: Politics
3425i think the first trump presidency could be linked to Idiocracy.penningtron wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 7:18 am I think the better movie analogy at this point is Groundhog Day. This is exactly how it felt when ding dongs and openly corrupt people like DeVos and Pruitt were nominated. I'm just numb to it now, there is no bottom.
this one is probably more linked to Silicon Valley.
remember how stupid the crap/not crap thread about Idiocracy got on the forum? not sure it survived the purge.
Re: Politics
3426True. There were a couple of sex pests in that cast..akosinski wrote: i think the first trump presidency could be linked to Idiocracy.
this one is probably more linked to Silicon Valley.
Re: Politics
3427RFK announced as Sec. Of HHS. Wants to immediately stop drug and infectious disease research.
So far we got a sexual predator under ethics investigation for AG, a Fox News morning show hosr heading the Dept of Defense, a possible Russian plant in charge of National Security, and a complete wackjob in charge of Health and Human Services.
Well, there won't be much of an electorate left after this cabinet gets their way. I mean, it's a great strategy if you want to loot the Treasury, but not great outside of that.
So far we got a sexual predator under ethics investigation for AG, a Fox News morning show hosr heading the Dept of Defense, a possible Russian plant in charge of National Security, and a complete wackjob in charge of Health and Human Services.
Well, there won't be much of an electorate left after this cabinet gets their way. I mean, it's a great strategy if you want to loot the Treasury, but not great outside of that.
Re: Politics
3428Hulk Hogan, Secretary of Agriculture. It's coming.
We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.
Re: Politics
3429Remember when W appointed an incompetent, work-phobic crony to run FEMA, and then a disaster happened?cakes wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:04 pm RFK announced as Sec. Of HHS. Wants to immediately stop drug and infectious disease research.
So far we got a sexual predator under ethics investigation for AG, a Fox News morning show hosr heading the Dept of Defense, a possible Russian plant in charge of National Security, and a complete wackjob in charge of Health and Human Services.
Well, there won't be much of an electorate left after this cabinet gets their way. I mean, it's a great strategy if you want to loot the Treasury, but not great outside of that.
Imagine that, times everyone.
Re: Politics
3430All of these picks are total ego-maniacs without many common goals other than the complete and total fellation of Trumpf. I think we'll see a repeat of last time where they don't actually do anything and the biggest problem is the judicial picks...
... except this time they have the whole DC shebang so who fucking knows.
... except this time they have the whole DC shebang so who fucking knows.