Welcome to Stupid America!

In honor of WelcomeToStupidAmerica joining Twitter — against my better judgment — I thought it only fitting to make my inaugural tweet about the site’s soon-to-be owner: Elon Musk. As CNN reports, “Tesla revealed on Friday a prototype of a humanoid robot that it says could be a future product for the automaker. The robot, dubbed Optimus by Tesla, walked stiffly on stage at Tesla’s AI Day, slowly waved at the crowed and gestured with its hands for roughly one minute. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the robot was operating without a tether for the first time. Robotics developers often use tethers to support robots because they aren’t capable enough to walk without falling and damaging themselves. … Tesla is not the first automaker to develop a humanoid robot. Along with Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics, Honda worked on robots dubbed ‘Asimo’ for nearly 20 years. In its final form, Asimo was a child-size humanoid robot capable of untethered walking, running, climbing and descending stairs, and manipulating objects with its fingers.”

I suppose if I’m going to use Twitter, then I’ll have to clean up some of my posts. I’ll try to keep this one clean, but my tens and tens of followers will readily understand that I do not like Musk — and that’s putting it hilariously mildly. He is a billionaire man-child carnival baker who poses as a genius. In reality, he’s just a grade-A jerk. That being said, of course, he touts his “new” walking, waving robot as if he invented sliced bread. What he really “revealed” to the world is a robot demonstrating first-generation capabilities in a world where everybody else is running on fourth-generation (at least) technology. Yet, I’m sure Musk sycophants could not wait to claim he has revolutionized the “untethered” robotic world. Furthermore, he claims Optimus will eventually be mass-produced and operate on the same AI technology as Tesla’s self-driving mode. So, should we expect killer robots in each home? Isn’t this the same guy who warned about AI-powered robots? Once again, he’s all showmanship, and morons eat it up. Welcome to stupid America!

First up on the docket, according to The Hill, “The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments of a case between Idaho landowners and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a dispute that could redefine the scope of the country’s clean water regulations. … ‘This is a very, very, big deal for the Clean Water Act. It will determine, likely, whether the Clean Water Act can protect half of the water bodies in the country, and if it can’t, meeting the water quality goals of the law that we all count on will be virtually impossible,’ said Jon Devine, who leads the Natural Resources Defense Council’s federal water policy team. Although overshadowed by the court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade, last term saw the court vote 6-3 to pare back federal agency power in West Virginia v. EPA, a case that reined in the government’s authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. Court watchers believe the conservative majority court will continue its rightward trajectory this term.”

Let’s not kid ourselves. Rolling back the government’s ability to regulate the air we breathe and the water we drink are just stumbling blocks to Court’s ultimate goal: To destroy the federal administrative state. Conservatives want to roll back as much federal power as possible and give it to the states as if air and water quality stops at state borders. But whatever! As I have written countless times in prior posts, the end of our freedoms — freedom to love who we love, not be discriminated against, have our votes count, and live without fear of drinking contaminated water or breathing polluted air, just to name a few things — is coming quickly, yet no one cares. Seriously. No! One! Cares! Least of all, SCOTUS.

The Court’s approval rating will continue to plummet, and they will continue to roll back more and more rights while rendering the federal government powerless to protect us on issues that should really matter to everyone. So, whatever. One need only search for my post the day RBG died to understand everything I predicted two years ago is about to come true — has already started coming true with the end of Roe. It’s only going to get worse with this (and all future) SCOTUS terms. This is what people voted for; this is what happens when voters elect RepubliKKKlans. If stupid Americans were paying attention, then all of this should have been foreseen, but people are morons, so when they elect conservatives to “protect their wallets,” they trade off all our rights. Welcome to stupid America! The end is coming, morons! Oh, well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

According to The New York Times, “Speaking to hundreds of Russian lawmakers and governors in a grand Kremlin hall, Mr. Putin said that the residents of the four regions — which are still partially controlled by Ukrainian forces — would become Russia’s citizens ‘forever.’ He then held a signing ceremony with the Russian-installed heads of those regions to start the official annexation process, before clasping hands with them and chanting ‘Russia! Russia!’” I have no f***ing clue how Putin walks this back. How does one declare to his countrymen that he’s absorbed large swaths of the Ukrainian population as Russian citizens “forever” and not back down the second “foreigners” “attack” them? (And Ukraine is going to want those regions back.) I’ll tell you how: By not backing down. I am now confident in declaring Putin’s little rally stunt today was a call to arms for World War III. We are there, folks! The time has come. Brace yourselves! These are two forces set on a collision course that Putin has now placed in stone. There is no negotiating when Putin has announced annexed Ukrainians to be Russians forever and Zelenskyy correctly declares no f***ing way!

And I think all these talking heads on MSM, as well as politicians, are being extraordinarily naive to brush off Putin’s bellicosity as just bluster or intimidation or the ravings of a desperate man on the defensive who is losing his war. This may all very well be true, and it may also be true that he is ready to push the world to the brink. I think he’s already decided; it’s now or never. I also hear pundits profess their perplexity by seeing the dichotomy of a Putin declaring Russia will push through to total victory and a populous less than enthusiastic about the state of affairs. There is nothing about which to be confused because it’s ultimately immaterial. Have these professional pundits already forgotten the lessons of Nazi Germany and Hitler? Allow me to remind the reader.

It was all fun and games for the citizens of Nazi Germany while Hitler was overrunning and winning against Poland, the low countries, Norway, France, Greece, the Balkan states, and North Africa. And then came the invasion of Russia. Even the German layman understood that taking on Russia was probably a bridge too far, but they trusted Hitler, so the citizens rallied behind the Fuhrer nonetheless. Well, how did that turn out? This is the point: Do not expect “the people” to rise up and save the country from its dictator, for they will not! Citizens will cower. They will oblige. They go along. Or they will flee — I’m talking to you conscription-eligible Russians! So, do not expect Putin to get thrown out of power or wait for some coup. It’s not going to happen. As I have repeatedly — repeatedly — said, the only way is through! Not around, not back, not over, not under. The only way to check Putin and the rise of authoritarianism worldwide is to smite it! The sooner everyone understands this, the sooner the world can pick up the pieces and move on. Now, what the state of the world looks like on the other side? I have no idea. Probably less free than you think. If being a part of this species for decades has taught me anything, it’s that humanity is overdue for a great conflagration because that’s what primates eventually do — hate, kill, and war. We’re nothing more than monkeys willing to throw our sh*t at each other. Welcome to stupid humanity. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

According to CNBC, “The Biden administration announced new economic sanctions on hundreds of Russian officials in response to the Kremlin’s illegal annexation of four regions of Ukraine. The newly sanctioned entities include shell companies formed specifically to evade previous sanctions on Russian military suppliers. They also expand prior sanctions on top Kremlin officials to include their wives and children, a sign that officials believe the family sanctions are having an impact.”

Let me see if I understand this correctly: Russia “steals” 15 percent of Ukraine’s land, and the U.S. slaps more pointless sanctions on Russian officials and shell companies. Un-f***ing-believable. Didn’t we do similar actions when Russia annexed Crimea? So, we still haven’t kicked Russia off the S.W.I.F.T. system to cripple its ability to conduct world financial transactions. We still haven’t banned Russia from trading in dollars (for oil). The West still imports its fossil fuels. I’m not quite sure at what point the Allies knock Russia out. What will it take? I suppose a nuke, but even then, the West will not respond in kind. The N.A.T.O and the U.N. are just projecting the usual weakness. If this is the worst of consequences for Putin for illegally proclaiming Russian imperial expansion, then I would say it’s an easy win for him. Welcome to stupid America! The West’s alliance is weakening and losing its punch even as Ukraine wins on the battlefield. Oh, but hurricane Ian. Welcome to stupid America. Eyes are always off the ball!

Some people just want to vote for the winner, f***tards! I’ll return to this point in a minute, but first, let me address the apparent paradox in the graph above. I typically value Nate Silver’s analysis, and he’s been right more than wrong. But I chuckled when I saw the above because I’m not quite sure how “slightly” squares with 68 percent. I think he is hedging his bets by “saying” one thing in the headline and indicating another in the numbers. By anyone’s standards, 68 percent is more than a slight chance of succeeding. It makes me wonder just how confident he is in his projections. Of course, he addressed the idea of probability more thoroughly after he missed correctly calling the 2016 presidential election, for people were very upset that he “blew” it. He had to reacquaint Americans with the world of statistics, which is a tall order for a country of morons. Nonetheless, technically, he was correct in that no matter the probability split — which he calculated to be a 71 percent chance of Clinton winning — there was still the possibility traitor trump could win. And he did. In other words, it was not a non-zero probability event that Clinton could lose.

Now, returning to my initial statement: Some people just want to vote for the winner. I believe this is the x-factor that many statisticians miss in their forecasting, and it’s related to the idea of the “mighty mo” — mighty momentum. Any pollster will tell you momentum is your friend, and you don’t want to “peak” too early. Yet, I fear Democrats have peaked too early. Unsurprisingly, races are tightening. Oz is gaining on Fetterman per an Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey. According to the most recent Fox News poll, Johnson overtakes Barnes in Wisconsin. Walker is still — incomprehensibly — statistically tied with Warnock in Georgia. There are other races where the Cook Report shifts favorability to Democrats. Yet, the momentum seems to be building in the most critical of Senate races, which gives license for morons to vote for the perceived winner rather than on the quality of candidates or issues. Look, f***tards. Faithful voters will vote for their respective party, but those squishy middle (aka “Independent”) voters who determine the outcome of elections are so uncommitted to issues and parties — as evinced by their inability to pick a political direction of the country and stick with it — that one is led to believe that when push comes to shove and when people secretly pull the lever at the ballot box they lose all sensibilities and vote for those who are perceived to be winning at the time — the politicians gaining (or having just gained) in the polls. No one wants to vote for a loser. It’s really that simple for many, and it may sound absurd that people put their futures in the hands of a political popularity contest rather than elect a suitable official based on reason and well-determined issues. Still, one would be surprised by the level of “logic” people engage when voting. Just ask voters how they select judges on the ballot. Then you will learn to fear people’s voting methodology. Welcome to stupid America! It’s as bad as it sounds.

According to AlterNet, “Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson suggested without evidence [he lied] on Tuesday night that the United States could be behind the suspected sabotage of Russia’s Nord Stream Pipelines, which transport Russian gas under the Baltic Sea to Europe and were discovered by its operational engineers to have suffered damage. … But Carlson – whose pro-Putin segments are regularly featured on Kremlin state television – blamed the Americans for the purported attack and then proposed several ways that Russia could strike back.”

Look, f***tards! Carlson is an American traitor who loves Russia more than America! Full stop! Of course, the most disgusting little factoid in all this is that Carlson is the most watched “news” show on cable. Think about that. This Russia-first “American” has more eyeballs on him watching his B.S. than anyone else because this is f***ing G.D. stupid America where people are unable to recognize their a**hole from a hole in the ground. But whatever! Like I’ve said countless times, the level of stupidity in America cannot be undone. It can only be eliminated, and the stupid breeds like rabbits. Welcome to stupid America.

We’re going on day three of non-stop hurricane coverage. WTF! Stop it already. Yeah, we get it! Total destruction. “Unprecedented!” Catastrophic! Record-breaking! A 1-in-500-year hurricane with a 1-in-1000-year rainfall. (All of which will be broken in a few years — thank you, climate change deniers!) Blah, blah, blah.

Nonetheless, has the MSM completely forgotten that Putin has basically stolen Ukrainian land, and the world barely blinked? I think a CNN analyst put it well, “In the longer term, the annexations will crystalize the reason why the United States and its allies have been so adamant about helping Ukraine’s war effort. The war threatens to enshrine a precedent of a bigger, powerful nation simply marching into a smaller one and seizing its territory on a spurious rationale. That scenario is not just a threat at the fringes of Europe; it is one that could arise around the world and be replicated by other autocratic regimes. It represents a fundamental challenge to the international rule of law if allowed to stand. And it tests the principle of the Western-led post-World War II world that free peoples have the right to choose their own national and political destinies.” And OMG, I’m about to agree with Ms. Lindsey Graham when he said, “‘We have to help our friends and neighbors here at home but we also have to stand up for what’s right abroad. So we are dealing with Hurricane Putin, for the lack of a better word. He’s trying to rewrite the map of Europe, he’s trying to do by force of arms what he can’t do to the political process.’” Wake up, MSM and Americans! This conflict is a few inches from World War III, and everyone is focused on anything else. Welcome to stupid America. We’ll just ignore our way through this until it’s too late.

Reporting form CNN, “A wife and husband from Maryland have been charged with conspiring to provide the Russian government with personal medical records from the U.S. government and military, according to a newly unsealed federal indictment. Anna Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist practicing in Baltimore, along with her husband, Jamie Lee Henry, a major and doctor in the U.S. Army, allegedly provided ‘individually identifiable health information,’ which is protected under federal law, to an FBI undercover agent posing as a Russian government employee. Both Gabrielian and Henry were arrested Thursday morning, according to the US Attorney’s office in the District of Maryland. After appearing in court, they were released on home detention with 24/7 location monitoring. Gabrielian also has a $500,000 unsecured bond.”

What the actual f***? Seriously!?!? These traitors to America have been released to “home detention” until further notice. NFW! This is B.S.! And I blame Garland’s pathetic, weak D.O.J. God-f***ing-damm*t! If America had a Siberia, then these traitors would be sent there pending a trial. But no! They’re allowed to betray our country and live in the comfort of their home. Whatever! I give up. So weak, so f***ing weak! Welcome to stupid America!

As the MSM covers and reveals the destruction of hurricane Ian, I can only think about all the f***ing trash strewn about everywhere and swept out to sea. No doubt, with this hurricane, cars, appliances, boats, homes, and whatever random items that were not bolted to the ground have been swept out to sea, further adding to the countless tons and tons of garbage the oceans and waterways collect every year. Humanity treats the planet like one giant f***ing toilet, and no one cares. Moreover, all the destroyed vehicles, houses, trailer homes, boats, appliances, furniture, and what have you will end up in some f***ing landfill because that’s what we do. We bury our problems. Out of sight, out of mind. Entire islands have been built on landfills. But think of all the trash that “decays” in these vast pits. And by decay, I really mean it goes nowhere, such as plastic and glass. What does degrade seeps into the ground, poisoning the soil and groundwater as gravity works its will. God! We treat Mother Earth like one f***ing giant garbage bin, and we wonder why she’s starting to fight back. We don’t live in harmony with nature; we live in spite of it. We curse it. We dominate it, if we can, in the name of human ingenuity and manifest destiny. Eventually, we’ll lose. Welcome to stupid America!

The Daily Beast dishes: “Perry Greene, the husband of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), filed for divorce on Tuesday, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Beast. The petition stated that the Greenes’ 27-year marriage was ‘irretrievably broken’ and indicated that the couple, who wed in college, had been separated for some time. Perry Greene motioned to have the divorce filed under seal, arguing ‘that the record will contain sensitive personal and financial information, the public disclosure of which would negatively impact the parties’ privacy interests.’”

Once again, the party of family values does not practice what they preach! What else is new? But the gays! It’s pretty much common knowledge that MTG cheated on her husband. As The New Yorker reports, “When, eight years later, it looked like she might be headed to Congress, Chambers got on social media and told the world that, back when he knew [Marjorie Taylor] Greene, she was having ‘multiple, blatant extramarital affairs in front of all of us.’ He added, ‘I don’t even judge that, until you say the kind of shit she does and claim the Jesus about it.’ (Greene, who was baptized at an evangelical church in a suburb just north of Atlanta, in 2011, and speaks frequently about being Christian, has said that she wants to bring ‘my faith and my family values to Washington.’).” It’s always the hypocrisy! But the gays! Nonetheless, she got elected and will get re-elected because nothing matters with these RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks. They love the hypocrisy. They love moralizing to the gays and liberals, as they, themselves, live lives of sin. And if they were to listen to D.J. Vance, who is going to win the Senate seat in Ohio, then Perry Greene would not be able to get a divorce because, as Vance believes, getting divorced should never happen. But whatever! The gays!

Just another example of why I hate all RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks with the heat of a thousand white-hot suns. I’m sick of the double standard. I hope the see you next Tuesday MTG’s divorce plays out in spectacularly public fashion. I hope her name is dragged through the mud. But no matter the utter embarrassment she brings to her office and constituents, they’ll gladly re-elect her because deep down inside, her voters love the adultery. It’s the f***ing mirror, morons! How many f***ing G.D. times do I have to keep telling you f***tards? Welcome to stupid America! But the gays!