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Greene: Can you tell me how much money went to CRT?
Dodaro: CRT?
Greene: It’s a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin not equal to black skin and other things pic.twitter.com/ssFZE7Gxlz

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 1, 2023

From Newsweek, “Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was ridiculed over Twitter on Wednesday after claiming that an elementary school in Illinois had received over $5 billion in COVID-19 federal relief funding to be used toward critical race theory curriculum.” People are saying that she “misspoke,” but I say it doesn’t matter if she misspoke or not. (She didn’t misspeak because you can see her reading.) What’s more important is that she’s not intelligent enough to catch what she’s reading. Greene is too stupid to apprehend that a single elementary school would never have a budget of $5 billion. She just says whatever to support her hatefulness, and RepubliKKKlans love her for it because it’s the hate and stupidity. That’s all they love. Welcome to stupid America. RepubliKKKlans just say sh*t because why not?

From The Hill, “The Republican National Committee is doubling down on its anti-abortion stance by urging all GOP candidates and lawmakers to ‘go on offense’ in the 2024 election cycle and pass the strictest anti-abortion legislation possible. In a resolution passed Friday during its winter meeting, the committee called on Republicans to pass laws ‘that acknowledge the beating hearts and experiences of pain in the unborn.’ Such language has been used to pass “heartbeat” bills that would ban abortions at six weeks, before many people know they are pregnant.”

Hmmm…How can this be? I thought with the women’s revolt after SCOTUS overturned Roe that RepubliKKKlans would have been cowed into backing off from angering more women by not seeking more restrictions on a woman’s bodily autonomy. How’s that working out? In fact, RepubliKKKlans won the House after Dobbs — not quite the rebuke of the RepubliKKKlan Party. But whatever. RepubliKKKlans have taken — as completely predicted — a slim margin win in the House as a mandate! This was another thing I got right. Everyone thought that Roe would be the issue to agitate women enough for Democrats to remain in power and to teach RepubliKKKlans to be more cautious of women’s rights. Not so much. Indeed, RepubliKKKlans are more emboldened to go even future — another thing I correctly predicted. (Search previous posts.) RepubliKKKlans will continue to push for a total abortion ban in all 50 states, and women will acquiesce because, as I have said countless, countless times: Abortion rights are always someone else’s problem. So, whatever. People keep electing RepubliKKKlans to take away their rights, and they seem surprised when it happens. Oh, well. I can’t care about these people anymore. Welcome to stupid America.

According to a lengthy but worthy article in The Atlantic, “When scholars warn of the United States becoming a ‘post-truth’ society, they typically focus on the ills that poison our politics: the misinformation, the mistrust, the president who apparently thought he could edit a hurricane with a Sharpie. But the encroachments of a post-truth world are matters of culture as well. In 1961, Newton Minow, just appointed by President John F. Kennedy to lead the Federal Communications Commission, gave a speech before a convocation of TV-industry leaders. He was blunt. The executives, he said, were filling the air with ’a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western bad men, Western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons.’ They were turning TV into ’a vast wasteland.’… In his 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, the critic Neil Postman described a nation that was losing itself to entertainment. What Newton Minow had called ’a vast wasteland’ in 1961 had, by the Reagan era, led to what Postman diagnosed as a ‘vast descent into triviality.’ Postman saw a public that confused authority with celebrity, assessing politicians, religious leaders, and educators according not to their wisdom, but to their ability to entertain. These are Postman’s fears in action. They are also Hannah Arendt’s. Studying societies held in the sway of totalitarian dictators—the very real dystopias of the mid-20th century—Arendt concluded that the ideal subjects of such rule are not the committed believers in the cause. They are instead the people who come to believe in everything and nothing at all: people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction no longer exists. … ‘Are you not entertained?’ Maximus, the hero of Gladiator, yells to the Roman throngs who treat his pain as their show.”

I will be brief in my comments since the quote is rather lengthy. Needless to say, this echoes what I’ve been saying for years: Americans are too stupid, and it’s a G.D. wonder this country has not devolved into utter dissolution — we’re on our way, though. I suppose this is just as much a humanity problem as an American one, but Americans do entertainment best! I found it fitting the author ended the article with a reference to the ancient Roman Empire, where the plebians were subdued by bread and circus. It’s what I have said countless times before; we are in the dying stage of a nation that must be entertained because democracy is too hard. Welcome to stupid America! The end is coming.

That’s not my sentiment — I’d rather not “wait” — but it’s the hopes of RepubliKKKlans. From an article in The Atlantic, “In his recent book Thank You for Your Servitude, my colleague Mark Leibovich quoted a former Republican representative who bluntly summarized his party’s plan for dealing with Trump: ‘We’re just waiting for him to die.’ As it turns out, this is not an uncommon sentiment. In my conversations with Republicans, I heard repeatedly that the least disruptive path to getting rid of Trump, grim as it sounds, might be to wait for his expiration. … This magical thinking pervaded my recent conversations with more than a dozen current and former elected GOP officials and party strategists. Faced with the prospect of another election cycle dominated by Trump and uncertain that he can actually be beaten in the primaries, many Republicans are quietly rooting for something to happen that will make him go away. And they would strongly prefer not to make it happen themselves.”

Forgive the pun, but this is what a dying country looks like. One of the two political parties in America understands the danger to the country that is traitor trump, but instead of dealing with the crisis, they continue to ignore it, relying on wishful thinking to save themselves and America. Sorry, but this is exactly what opponents of Hitler believed during his 12 years in power. How did that work out? America is just simply too f***ing stupid to endure. This country of f***tards is stuck with traitor trump because no one is willing to challenge him because the mob loves him; 45 percent of the country loves him. It is time to cleanse America. War is coming. Welcome to stupid America. Always dumber the next day.

Query: Explain differential calculus using Pig Latin.

Result: Differential calculus can be explained in Pig Latin as follows: “Ifferential-day alculus-cay is-way a-way anchor-bay of-way athematics-may at-thay eals-day ith-way e-thay udy-stray of-way ates-ray of-way hange-cay and-way slopes-slay of-way urves-cay. It-way involves-way e-thay oncept-cay of-way a-way erivative-day, ich-whay is-way a-way easure-may of-way owh-hay a-way unction-fay changes-chay as-way its-way input-input changes-chay.”

Why am I not surprised? More from The New York Times, “Those sanctions — which include restrictions on Russia’s largest banks along with limits on the sale of technology that its military could use — are blocking access to a variety of products. … Even so, Russian trade appears to have largely bounced back to where it was before the invasion of Ukraine last February. Analysts estimate that Russia’s imports may have already recovered to prewar levels, or will soon do so, depending on their models. … In part, that could be because many nations have found Russia hard to quit. Recent research showed that fewer than 9 percent of companies based in the European Union and Group of 7 nations had divested one of their Russian subsidiaries. … Some companies, including H&M, IBM, Volkswagen and Maersk, halted operations in Russia after the invasion, citing moral and logistical reasons. But the Russian economy has proved surprisingly resilient, raising questions about the efficacy of the West’s sanctions. Countries have had difficulty reducing their reliance on Russia for energy and other basic commodities, and the Russian central bank has managed to prop up the value of the ruble and keep financial markets stable.”

So, I called this a year ago when the West first imposed sanctions. I predicted they would all be worthless because they always are. Russia has been under some form or amount of sanctions since forever, going back to Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008. Sanctions are worthless and just another weak move by the West that wants to bury its collective head in the sand and pretend that Putin is not really interested in rebuilding the Russian Empire. That he’ll never get away with it. If the West shakes its finger hard enough and scowls at Putin long enough, then he’ll get the hint that NATO et al. are mad and serious about doing nothing!

What a f***ing G.D. joke. I’m sorry, but the West is pathetic, and they are forever befuddled as to why whatever they do, Putin never seems to be deterred. I’ll tell you why he’s never deterred: The West has done absolutely nothing to dissuade him. Economic war does not work. Cultural war (peer pressure from the world) does not work. The only thing that will work is a good old-fashioned kinetic war, but the West is too feeble and will never engage until it’s too late, which will be when Russia starts marching into the Baltic states and Poland, for if Putin can make a “legitimate” claim that Ukraine is (always has been) a part of the Russian Empire, then he can also make the same claim to parts of Poland. And Poland understands this more than anyone, along with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. As usual, pathetic democracies need to be shocked into reality and action. Whatever!

I predicted just before Russia invaded Ukraine (again) that it would be the fall of Ukraine. I have vacillated back and forth on whether my initial assessment was correct. Clearly, Ukraine is putting up a fight that no one expected, and Russia’s military is weaker than most anticipated, but when push comes to shove, Russia is bigger. Pure and simple. It can withstand (has withstood) more weak punishment from the West (i.e., sanctions). Add to this the lingering reluctance from the West to help Ukraine win the war, and I’m starting to rethink my current position. As I predicted a year ago, I think the West will let Ukraine wither on the vine because the West is just too f***ing weak. Soft and pathetic. Oh, well.

I found this blurb from The New York Times interesting, “For a start, Mr. Sunak has done little to alter his reputation as a cautious technocrat. Plans for the economy, unveiled in November, announced major spending cuts but delayed the bulk of them until 2025. Balancing between further immiserating the public and appeasing the markets whose ire brought Liz Truss’s premiership to such a dramatic end, it wasn’t a death blow to the nation’s economy. But it merely maintains a failing system. And the situation is dire. British households are in the midst of the biggest fall in living standards since the 1950s, yet Mr. Sunak seems to have little idea of how to reverse it. Vague promises to bring down inflation do little to bring actual improvement to people’s lives. Add a dubious effort to coax recent retirees back into work and plans to deregulate the City of London, some of which have already been abandoned, and the overall impression is of a leader both misfiring and weak.”

Obstenbily this article was about the failed first three months of P.M. Sunak’s tenure. Still, I could not help but read between the lines about some of the economic woes as a direct result of Brexit, although it was not mentioned directly in the article. I think Britons are starting to feel the long-term, permanent consequences of, you know, deciding to leave the world’s largest trading block at the time of Brexit: “The European Union (EU) is the world’s largest trading bloc and the second largest economy in the world” (2020). What could possibly go wrong? Add to that a pandemic and another European war, and the U.K. is left particularly vulnerable to economic vicissitudes that have created the worst economic backsliding in 70 years! But hey, at least they got to kick out all those foreigners, which has created labor shortages and out-of-control inflation because, you know, labor expenses are a primary input cost, which means everything costs more at every level of the production chain.

Oh, well. This is what people wanted! This is what people voted for during the Brexit referendum. People should have known. And there really is no excuse, as many suggest, arguing that the voters were “bamboozled” by false promises of a better funded NHS, more competitive trading, and, of course, more white people in the U.K. with fewer Eastern Europeans. (But for some reason, the U.K. loves their Russian oligarchs! Those Eastern European merchants of terrorism are welcomed!) How’s all that working out? Like in America, Putin manipulated and interfered in the political debate and Brexit vote, and he won! Too bad the U.K. can never go back; they’ll just continue to slip further into second-class world status. Elections have consequences! It’s a shame that voters are the last ones to understand this before they cast their ballot, or worse still — don’t!

According to a poll from CNN, “Just 27% of U.S. adults say they think Republican leaders in the House have had the right priorities so far, while 73% say they haven’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems. A 59% majority disapprove of the way Democratic leaders in Congress are handling their jobs overall, while a broader 67% disapprove of Republican leaders in Congress.”

More proof that Americans are the dumbest f***ing people on the planet, and it is a f***ing daily miracle that America has survived for this long. So, let me see if I understand the circumstances correctly: A supremely f***ing G.D. stupid electorate voted RepubliKKKlans into office to — apparently — disrupt Democrt’s “progressive” agenda — and I use the term progressive loosely as to say not moving the country backward. Then RepubliKKKlans come to power in the House under the tightest of margins while claiming an overwhelming mandate of historic proportions, of course. They proceed — again predictably — to focus their energy on revenge against Democrats and other grievance issues to move the country backward. Yet, voters are now surprised that RepubliKKKlans are not interested in the problems of everyday citizens. Seriously? What the f*** did these f***tards expect? Honestly, what did these morons really think was going to happen by giving the party of “government sucks” the management of government. F*** me! They just voted for this. This is what people elected. This is what voters wanted. And this is why I hate people. Because they are stupid, and honestly, most citizens should not be allowed to vote, for they simply do not have the intellectual capacity to make good decisions about their own lives, let alone participate in making decisions about how the government will function. But here we are! Elections have consequences, and everything RepubliKKKlans are doing now was wholly known ahead of time. And these morons will continue to vote for these idiot RepubliKKKlans because this is stupid America! Just when you think it can’t get dumber, it does! This level of stupid cannot be undone!

According to The New York Times, “President Vladimir V. Putin’s decision to allow a mercenary group to recruit Russian convicts in support of his flagging war effort marks a watershed in his 23-year rule, say human rights activists and legal experts. The policy circumvents Russian legal precedent and, by returning some brutalized criminals to their homes with pardons, risks triggering greater violence throughout society, underlining the cost Mr. Putin is prepared to pay to avoid defeat. … In some videos, the inmates are given papers described as pardons or annulments of convictions. However, none of these documents have been made public, raising questions about their legitimacy. Rights advocates say pardons are rare, time-consuming and complex legal procedures that have never been issued in Russia on anywhere near the scale advertised by Wagner.”

Apparently, the convicts are suckers and don’t understand their own dictator very well. Do these “patriots” really think they’ve been pardoned through their “service” in Russia’s military? Give me a break! First of all, they technically never served in the Russian army. Basically, these convicts are hired guns to wage war in Ukraine on behalf of the Wagner Group, which happens to be employed by Russia, so there is immediately at least one, if not two, degree of separation. Second, these “former” fighters returning to Russia are merely escaped convicts who have not been recaptured yet. Do these people honestly think they can return to life as usual? Hell f***ing no! Once caught, they go back to the front lines, repeating the cycle until they are killed.

Well, this was a fascinating documentary, and it essentially confirmed everything I already knew about America’s presidents, save Biden — mostly. Democratic presidents are weak, and RepubliKKKlan presidents are morons! Actually, Clinton does not fall into either category because he was not president long enough for Putin to test him, but he’s tested and manipulated every American president since to great effect. Some obliged him (traitor trump), some ignored him (Obama), some believed him (Bush II), and one confronted him (Biden) — for the most part! One particular anecdote that struck me is how Putin manipulated Bush II by “appealing” to his religiosity — of course! It was through an unmistakably B.S. story Putin told Bush II about some ridiculous religious artifact of his mother’s being “miraculously” found after his dacha burned down. After hearing this fable, Bush II claimed, “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. I was able to get a sense of his soul.” What a f***ing dupe. Just to be clear to all the f***tards out there, Putin is not religious! He never has been and never will be. But Bush II, the moronic evil evangelical he is, was more than eager to believe such nonsense and proclaim Putin a good man. Such stupidity! Only in America! (Not to mention Bush II did nothing when Putin invaded Georgia.) And I won’t waste my time writing about traitor trump except to say that Putin saw him for what 55 percent of Americans did: A gullible moron to be led around by the nose. What a f***ing embarrassment. Yet traitor trump is a perfect reflection of America! No wonder Putin thought the time was ripe to escalate the war in Ukraine.

Of course, Democrats were not much better. Obama ignored Putin. Remember that under Obama, Putin invaded Ukraine in the first place, and nothing happened to hold Putin accountable except stupid, weak sanctions that had zero impact on Russia. Under Obama, Putin interfered in the 2016 election with the full knowledge of the administration leading up to November. Yet, Obama kept quiet because he did not want to appear to interfere in the election himself. (See The New York Times, “The Obama administration feared that acknowledging Russian meddling in the 2016 election would reveal too much about intelligence gathering and be interpreted as ‘taking sides’ in the race, the former secretary of homeland security said Wednesday.”) Taking sides? Un-f***ing-believable! How about taking the side of your own f***ing party? Thanks for nothing, Obama. It was only after Clinton lost that Obama revealed Russian medalling in the election and, again, he did nothing to punish Putin despite the waning days of his presidency. I hope your moral purity was worth it. (In my mind, this is part of why Obama will only ever be just a good president and not a great one.) Note to all presidents: You are president from noon 20 January to noon 20 January, four years later, not until the day after the first Tuesday following the first Monday of November in a presidential election year. But I digress.

If anybody, Biden has been the only president (as well as Bill Clinton and Hillary, for that matter) to understand Putin exactly for what he is long before he became president, yet he has not been strong enough, in my humble opinion. Let’s not pretend that Bush II, Obama, and traitor trump have all not encouraged and condoned Putin in some form or fashion, which has led to this moment in history. America’s inherent “niceness” has allowed the cancer that is Putin to fester, metastasize, and consume the world. Fan-f***ing-tastic. I’ll paraphrase the only true, yet ironic, sentiment to come out of traitor trump’s mouth: You can’t win with weakness. Indeed! But America keeps trying! Welcome to stupid America. All weak, all the time.