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#Dingbat Donald

Over my Christmas break, I started watching the early seasons of All in the Family, with the iconic main character Archie Bunk, who in the 1970s, represented the Everyman of racists and bigots. Archie Bunker was MAGA before MAGA was MAGA, and watching these sitcom episodes truly evinces the amount of growth and progress America has made during the intervening 50 years since the creation of Mr. Bunker. That progress, of course, is essentially zero. Seriously, listening to the character that the show writers created — as both a person to be mocked yet be completely representative of the times — echos what we hear today. One could easily update the stage set to something current and modify the dialog with today’s references while keeping the intent of the message the same, and the sitcom would be a perfect reflection of the 2000s. Everything Archie does and says about minorities, liberals, “my” president, the government, civil rights, taxes, and so forth back then is exactly the same sentiments that I hear from MAGA morons and RepubliKKKlans today. In 50 years, the sitcom has not skipped a beat.

Still, the show was not number one in the Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976 for no reason; the show is funny. In fact, there is one catchphrase that I think should come back into vogue: Dingbat! While Archie all too often refers to his wife as a dingbat, I think it can be easily repurposed to greater effect and for a more deserving target: Traitor trump. I think Dingbat Donald is perfect and says it all. It rolls right off the tongue. Now, if only I had the social media clout to make it trend.

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‘Chief Justice Roberts’s bad math’

From The Hill, “Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has a math problem. In his recently issued Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, the chief made a basic mistake that would be obvious to anyone who encounters simple math concepts – ratios, proportions, averages – in their work or pastimes, including sports fans, teachers, fulfillment center operators, bakers, mechanics, even lawyers and many others. Roberts’s miscalculation matters because it downplays an ethics problem among federal judges, as I will explain below.”

The title of the article from The Hill, which I used as the title of this post, intrigued me, and the substance of the piece coincidentally coincided with a couple of books I just read — How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg and The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rule Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow. These books were — mostly — a breezy read since their contents were laymans’ interpretation of mathematics and statistics demonstrated by real-world, practical applications. Although I have taken countless math and statistics courses during my undergraduate and graduate studies — and then through self-study with post-graduate work — these books were a refreshing way to think about the subject matter that wasn’t written in pedantic prose. Then it occurred to me how many adults simply are never taught the basics of probability, statistics, mathematics, etc. Of course, this epiphany only reinforced my unyielding premise that Americas are just really f***ing stupid. Allow me to give a real-world example of the massive knowledge gap that “informs” the average American idiot. The person who cuts my hair is one such American moron, and every two weeks I must swallow my disdain to be cordial, not knowing what dumb-dumb notions will come out of her mouth as she watches Faux News. So, you see, all my rantings about RepubliKKKlans and MAGA morons are well-grounded in my bi-monthly indoctrination of what’s new in crazy town. She may be a dingbat, but she cuts hair well, and I do need to stay in tune with the “other” side of “alternative facts” to justify my experienced writing. More to the point, she often likes to engage in the classic logical fallacy of cum hoc ergo propter hoc (“with this, therefore because of this”), which, in more colloquial parlance, means correlation proves causation. Of course, this is wrong reasoning. Correlation is not necessarily causation, but people in their failed ability to think critically like to assume that when two events occur together (or nearly together), one must be the cause of the other. A perfect example is when a moron like Joe Rogan contracts COVID, decides to take Ivermectin, claims the drug prevented his death, and thus touts its efficaciousness over vaccines, but never mind he probably was never going to die from the disease in the first place. But whatever! This is precisely how charlatan “medical” treatments by quacks get amplified and perpetuated, all because people are too stupid to think.

Then I am reminded of a friend who passed along part of a social media thread that was driving him crazy. The part of the exchange ended like this: Vaccinated people are 18 times more likely to die from COVID. Full stop! The logical conclusion (in the arguer’s mind) is that the COVID vaccine is bad and deadly, so don’t get it. My friend sent it to me as an example of some of the conversations he gets into, which probably are conversations he should avoid. But assuming the “18 times” number is a fact — doubtful, but again I have no idea where it came from because Lord knows these crazies quote everything and anything as gospel — what other piece of critical information is missing? Anyone? Does anyone at all have an answer? Can anybody out there provide one piece of information to support the counterfactual argument that vaccines are bad? How about this? The unvaccinated are 100 times more likely to die from COVID. Both statements can be true. Without the flipside of the argument (the unvaccinated), you are completely missing the salient point. Yes, of course, vaccinated people are going to die, but there is a greater chance you will die if you are not vaccinated. Clearly, having this additional piece of information would strongly suggest you should get vaccinated. But these lame-brained half “arguments” pervade everything when it comes to COIVD and anti-vaxxers more generally. Again, it is stupid thinking by stupid people meant to confuse other morons to make poorly reasoned arguments. COVID has not made America stupid; it’s only shone a light on just how benighted Americans actually are. And this is why traitor trump is the most popular politician in today’s profoundly stupid America. Oh my, I have severely digressed.

Getting back to Chief Justice Roberts. It is hard to say if Roberts does have a math problem or if his intentions were more insidious. It’s Roberts, so I’m going with insidious, duplicitous, malicious, and plain old mendacious. I’m sure he understands his sleight of hand calculations, knowing that the average moron does not. Therefore, he can get away with making profoundly wrong conclusions while having the air of infallibility disguised in high rhetoric and stately legal-esque prose, which all conveys a sense of logic beyond reproach. In short, Americans can be easily duped because they are not smart enough to know any better. Moreover, Americans are too stupid to recognize what they don’t know, and even if they were cognizant of such shortcomings, nothing would come of it because if the solution or information is not on Facebook or Twitter, then it does not exist. Try picking up a book, dare I say. Welcome to stupid America — always and forever. And no one cares!

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Democrats Will Always Get Outplayed

From CNN, “House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has vowed to remove three Democratic lawmakers from key committee assignments if Republicans win back the chamber in the upcoming midterm elections. Citing a ‘new standard’ that Democrats had created last year by removing GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona from their committees for inflammatory rhetoric and posts, McCarthy told Breitbart he would strip Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, both of California, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota of their committee assignments.” Of course, this was to be expected. Of course, RepubliKKKlans given their grievance and vengeance tantrums were always going to retaliate. And, of course, this expected threat — and soon to be a reality — should not have deterred Pelosi from kicking MTG and Gosar off their committee assignments. And it doesn’t matter that these RepubliKKKlans were disciplined for literally threatening fellow House members, nor does it matter RepubliKKKlans are seeking revenge just for the sake of revenge. I expected nothing less. What does matter, however, is that dumbass Democrats will always get outplayed; whereas Democrats reluctantly and judiciously act, they always see such restrained actions as a ceiling of behavior, taken only rarely and in extreme cases, such as removing treacherous people from their committees. RepubliKKKlkans, on the other hand, see the ceiling as the floor, so that no retribution is out of bounds. For them, there is no such thing as a proportional response. Just like traitor trump always vowed to hit back ten times harder, RepubliKKKlans will forever execute their spitefulness ten times as much. They always will, and dumbass Democrats will always be unwilling to raise their game in defense. Oh, well. Democrats’ weakness is killing the country. Once RepunliKKKlans take back the house, Democrats will never be able to regain the majority. Welcome to stupid America. Yuuuup!

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Biden’s January 6 Anniversary Speech

Sure, it was fine for what it was. Sure, Biden was more fiery and showed more fight than usual, but he still needed to evoke fire and brimstone in his content. All in all, though, I think it is too little, too late. Forty percent of the population are going to ignore him willfully and will never be convinced by anything he says. These people, of course, are RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and other assorted traitors to America. As for the remaining 60 percent of the citizenry to which the speech was chiefly aimed, I would say most of those people were listening half-heartedly. Where I think Biden soared with rhetoric and idealism, he failed to stir up the fear factor specifically for those who were tuned in. Once again, Biden and dumbass Democrats keep believing the average voter is smart. The average voter is a moron! Thus, voters are too stupid to react to intellectual arguments; they respond to emotional arguments that require the use of the amygdala part of the brain — aka the lizard brain. So, when Biden talks about saving American democracy and America’s founding principles and preserving America’s legacy and the soul of the nation and the will of the people and so forth, these ideas are still too abstract to concern the average voter, which is why you will never hear RepubliKKKlans try to make such arguments. Indeed, when RepubliKKKlans avoid talking about America’s democracy in general, it is a win/win, for they know their voters don’t care about democracy, and their voters don’t comprehend such abstractions, yet their voters love the conservative moment more because leadership does not tax their lizard brains with such perceived nonsensical notions like democracy. F***! In fact, every time I do hear RepubliKKKlans talking about anything to stir up fear in their base, it’s usually them railing against socialism taking over the country. That abstraction, for some reason, they do seem to misunderstand, naturally.

Dare I say, most Independent and Democratic voters understand just as little. This is why Biden should have spoken in more doomsayer tones and with concrete examples of fear pointed directly at the listener. Fear works, f***tards. I don’t know how many times I have to say it. Clearly, it is advice dumbass Democrats routinely ignore — at their own peril. Biden needs to layout the image of America when RepubliKKKlans regain the House or the Senate and when traitor trump returns to office. He should speak in declarative terms, not with a subjective mood. Your healthcare will be gone! Denying healthcare for pre-existing conditions will return. There will be lifetime caps on healthcare again. You can be denied healthcare for any reason once again. You and your children will be more likely to die from a lack of access to healthcare. There will never be an effort to combat climate change, so your insurance will be out of control expensive, and your beachfront property will be underwater. That is, of course, if your house is not consumed by fire or a tornado. There will be water wars as the West dries up, and states are left to fend for themselves because the federal government has abandoned all accountability. Your marriage will become illegal — gay, inter-racial, inter-faith, unproductive. You will get poorer as the rich get richer. Open carry will be legal in every state, everywhere, and for everyone without training or a license. Open gun battles will be the new norm to settle minor confrontations everywhere, and you’ll be caught in the crossfire. Your children will die in school at the hands of daily school shootings in a nation where guns are more valuable than lives because gun manufacturers will be writing all the gun laws. COVID will never be under control as anti-vaxxers become the lawmakers. SCOTUS will ensure any right to privacy is wiped away, so your actions in the bedroom will be illegal and subject to prosecution. Christian theocracy will be the law of the land; freedoms you enjoy today will be illegal and a sin tomorrow. (But you’ll still have your Facebook and Twitter! God! Kill me now!) Biden should have painted a real dystopian landscape of what awaits America if democracy fails. He should lie if need be because lying works in America; most people are not smart enough to discern truth from lies (or “alternative facts”). Idealism in a speech is admirable but not nearly enough to excite the Democratic base that is sleeping in the face of the RepubliKKKlan base, which is woke and raping the country.

Let me end by saying one more thing. Biden still refuses to say traitor trump’s name, which I think is a grave mistake. I don’t know why he refuses to do so. He need not call him “President [traitor] trump,” but instead by the more prosaic title of Mr. [traitor] trump. In fact, I don’t think Biden should ever refer to traitor trump as the “former president” or “my predecessor.” It should be Mr. [traitor] trump all the time, every time, as if he were never president. That would irritate the former traitor-in-chief more than anything. When Biden refuses to say his name, to some degree, he fails to recognize and clearly define the threat. Lord knows, this is par for the course for dumbass Democrats; they only see the disaster after it’s too late. Oh, well. You’ve been warned, f***tards. Welcome to stupid America.

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Happy RepubliKKKlan Insurrectionists and Dumbass Democrat Enablers Day!

America cannot stand and will fall — is falling now at this very moment! One year after the RepubliKKKlan coup attempt (actually it is still ongoing) and the state of the nation has only progressed for the worse. Pick any opinion poll and you will find conspiracy theories and pure unadulterated hatred guides and consumes the RepubliKKKlan Party and informs the political will of their voters more than ever, whereas dumbass Democrats are too f***ing weak and still hoping for a return to normalcy as if all the political violence of the opposition will miraculously resolve itself. RepubliKKKlans are the enemy and Democrats are completely blind to the threat. Peruse any one of my prior posts to understand more fully my perspective, but on this one-year anniversary, I have completely lost faith that America’s democracy will endure. It! Can! Not! A country of 40 percent of those too stupid (RepubliKKKlans) and 60 percent of those too apathetic (Democrats) cannot stand. Hope and goodwill cannot prevail against and vanquish stupidity and hate. These factions can never co-exist! Do not think for a second that 40 percent of the country cannot overpower the will of the other 60 percent. History is replete with examples of minority tyranny. In fact, tyranny is the rule in the history of humanity; democracy is the exception. Oh, well. I expected nothing less. Get ready, f***tards. The fall is coming! Welcome to stupid America!

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After Garland’s Address to the Country, I Wrote This to Him

(Needless to say, his speech was a disaster!)

Dear Attorney General Garland,

Please, just quit.  After listening to your address to the public today it has become painfully clear that Rep. Gallego is completely right.  You are feckless.  The only thing I heard during your speech was a bunch of platitudes that amounted to you saying just trust me and be patient.   Well, if how you are prosecuting the “small fish” insurrectionists whereby *judges* are questioning the punishment recommendations from the DOJ, then I have absolutely no trust.  And the patience of the country is wearing thin.  You caution that patience is needed to be thorough and to deliver justice.  Then, let me ask this: When your malingering in the name of justice runs into Trump declaring his candidacy for president — perhaps in a few months — then what happens?  Dare I say, you will then stand up in front of the country to deliver another address where you declare that to be fair to Trump and not interfere with the political process it is in the best interest of the nation that the DOJ should not pursue any investigations into him or the Republican Party.  Therein, you have single-handedly consigned America to the end of its democracy because you refused to hold insurrectionists accountable all in the name of patience and appearing to be justice [sic — that will be embarrassing].  We need an AG who has the fire in his belly to hold people accountable and who actually wants to save the country, not just pontificate about what justice means for America.  We need a prosecutor as AG who will act and not a scholarly judge who is too pusillanimous to fight for the preservation of democracy.

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We Are F***ed Thanks to Dumbass Democrats

In an excellent article from The Guardian, the author writes, “At this supreme moment of crisis, the left has divided into warring factions completely incapable of confronting the seriousness of the moment. There are liberals who retain an unjustifiable faith that their institutions can save them when it is utterly clear that they cannot. Then there are the woke, educational and political elites dedicated to a discourse of willed impotence. Any institution founded by the woke simply eats itself – see TimesUp, the Women’s March, etc – becoming irrelevant to any but a diminishing cadre of insiders who spend most of their time figuring out how to shred whoever’s left. They render themselves powerless faster than their enemies can. What the American left needs now is allegiance, not allyship. It must abandon any imagined fantasies about the sanctity of governmental institutions that long ago gave up any claim to legitimacy. Stack the supreme court, end the filibuster, make Washington DC a state, and let the dogs howl, and now, before it is too late. The moment the right takes control of institutions, they will use them to overthrow democracy in its most basic forms; they are already rushing to dissolve whatever norms stand in the way of their full empowerment. The right has recognized what the left has not: that the system is in collapse. The right has a plan: it involves violence and solidarity. They have not abjured even the Oath Keepers. The left, meanwhile, has chosen infighting as their sport. … There is one hope, however, that must be rejected outright: the hope that everything will work out by itself, that America will bumble along into better times. It won’t. Americans have believed their country is an exception, a necessary nation. If history has shown us anything it’s that the world doesn’t have any necessary nations [emphasis added].”

This was a fantastic article, and I encourage everyone to read it carefully. Of course, much of it echoes what I have been saying for well over a year now, and the portion I quoted above is particularly germane to my incessant argument: Dumbass Democrats are contributing to the end of America’s democracy. One may actually be forgiven for believing that I hate dumbass Democrats more than RepubliKKKlans, given how often I bash the left for its incompetence and reliance on hope as a change motivator. Honestly, it depends on the day how true that observation is. Apparently, I am not the only one. The selection above says it all. Dumbass Democrats (politicians and voters alike) are too f***ing weak, stupid, blind, and apathetic to the danger that is the RepubliKKKlan Party. How many times have I said that Democrats need to get out of the hope-y, change-y B.S. mindset? How many f***ing times? I am literally to the point that the moment I hear a Democratic politician say the word “hope,” I stop listening to anything that comes out of their mouth afterward because it’s all pansy sh*t. “I hope RepubliKKKlans will do the right thing.” “I hope insurrectionist organizers cooperate with the House January 6 Select Committee.” “I hope anti-vaxxers will get vaccinated.” “I hope AG Garland prosecutes the insurrectionist planners.” “I hope RepubliKKKlans don’t act like hypocrites.” Un-f***ing-believable. What a f***ing joke.

Democrats need to start fighting back and stop expecting some fanciful return to normal whereby RepubliKKKlans come to their senses to become willing partners and participants in democracy again. That state of the Union is gone forever, yet we have Biden trying to drag us back to normalcy and to some quaint notion of decorum while the right is ready to fight and destroy America. In fact, they are fighting and destroying now in plain sight. Democrats think by merely passing Biden’s agenda, they can win elections. That is not how it works, f***tards. Voters are not that smart; they are not paying attention; they don’t care. Recall, Democrats were decimated in the mid-term elections following the passage of the ACA because voters were too stupid to actually understand the benefits of the new law that people would come to enjoy and fear losing a decade later. (I could write 10,000 words about how Democrats keep overestimating the intelligence of voters as their primary political error. However, I digress.) But Democrats don’t fight because they are just too m*****f***ing G.D. weak! I’ve said it before, and I’ll repeat myself again: Dumbass Democrats need to turn on and turn up the rage and fear machine to get their voters out to the polls every time. F***! I can’t stand it anymore! Whatever! I give! Our democracy was lost the second traitor trump was elected in 2016, and nothing has changed the course of America’s demise since. Oh, well. No one cares! Welcome to stupid America, but not for long.

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Most Encouraging Poll I’ve Seen in a Long While — Not!

From The Hill, “More than 8 in 10 registered voters in a new poll are worried about the future of American democracy. The survey, conducted by USA Today and Suffolk University, found that 83 percent of registered voters are very or somewhat worried about the future of America’s democracy. For comparison, 15 percent of registered voters said they are not very worried or not at all worried about the future of America’s democracy. Both Democrats and Republicans said they are very or somewhat worried about the future of democracy, 82 percent and 86 percent, respectively.” RepubliKKKlans and Democrats sharing the same worries for America’s democracy? This could be an encouraging poll — maybe. Not! Without more detailed questioning it is possible that RepubliKKKlans worry about our democracy because of alleged voter fraud or more to the point because minorities are voting. So, one must be careful how to interpret these results. Considering RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, QAnon, evil evangelicals, and all the remaining assortment of insurrectionist groups account for no less than 40 percent of the American population, it is easy to see how a good portion of the “8 in 10” are worried democracy is working too well for minorities and against white supremacists. It is the classic white grievance argument. Poor white men. They don’t have enough privileges. I guess when the time comes 83 percent will be fighting over democracy fears of some sort. Welcome to stupid America. Stupid no matter how you spin the numbers.

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Of Course, He Did and They Would

According to Axios, “Former President Donald Trump endorsed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for re-election Monday, throwing his ‘complete support’ behind the nationalist leader. Orbán, a far-right, populist leader who says he’s turned Hungry into an ‘illiberal state,’ has changed election laws to benefit his party, the New York Times notes. It is Trump’s second endorsement of a world leader since leaving office. Last October, Trump endorsed Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, another far-right leader accused of authoritarian tendencies.” And then from CNN, “Thirty-four percent of Americans think violent action against the government is sometimes justified, according to a new poll from The Washington Post and the University of Maryland released days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the insurrection at the US Capitol. The new figure ‘is considerably higher than in past polls by the Post or other major news organizations dating back more than two decades,’ according to the newspaper. The survey, conducted between December 17 and 19, revealed stark partisan splits on the question: 40% of Republicans and 41% of independents said violence against government is sometimes justified, compared to 23% of Democrats.”

First, of course, traitor trump is all in with the dictators. It’s nothing new, but he does go out of his way to signal to his base that he is a full-on straight WASP authoritarian. Second, it is becoming increasingly evident that his base is willing (and wanting) to engage in political violence (aka an insurrection) to bring traitor trump to authoritarian power and destroy America’s democracy. Look, morons. I guess I’ll keep repeating myself until it sinks in with the masses — which may be never — or until the worst comes to pass. The warning signs are blinking brighter and faster. The stars are aligning. Decades of RepubliKKKlan machinations are coming to fruition. And the fecklessness of dumbass Democrats cannot stop the runaway train that is the rise of American Fascism. The 40 percent of Americans who are not RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, QAnon, or evil evangelicals simply don’t care enough to save the country from the crazies. They just fail to show up to vote — every time. RepubliKKKlans always get away with it; they always get re-elected no matter how much they display their utter contempt for democracy. As I have said countless times before, Biden is merely the intermission to the end. Conservatives are primed and pumped to steal the next presidential election and make traitor trump the permanent president. I wouldn’t give Democratic and Independent voters enough credit to be passionate enough to fight to keep our democracy. They’re too consumed by Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and all that nonsense. Oh, well. The end is coming; it’s just a few years away! Mark my words, morons. Welcome to stupid America.

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Twitter: MTG ‘Permanently Suspended’

OMG. I can’t take this oxymoron anymore, and I’m not talking about MTG. I have heard Twitter use the term “permanently suspended” (and MSM repeat it) so many times that I needed to look up the definitions of the individual words to confirm my sanity, thinking that all my life I misunderstood the words suspend and permanent. Taking the most common definitions of both words, one can only conclude the juxtaposition creates an insufferable oxymoron that people keep repeating. Granted, there is a lesser-used definition of each word which are subtle departures from their common use that makes the oxymoron less tortured, but seriously! Nonetheless, on its face, “permanently suspended” means forever temporary. F*** me! I can’t! Just say she has been banned! Until, of course, she’s not because this is stupid America where nothing is permanent, except the idiocracy.