The face of imbecility

[Greenman]

I think thats why the Star Trek utopia will never happen, because too many people will sit around all day, eating, fucking, making more humans, and our race will just become stupid and fat and useless.

Indeed.

 

[cytg111]

I think thats why the Star Trek utopia will never happen, because too many people will sit around all day, eating, fucking, making more humans, and our race will just become stupid and fat and useless.

Thats an uneducated guess. To reduce the amount of guess is why there be running trials on UBI all over the free world. And take a look around, our own democracies and further out. Its only the piss poor of places where people multiply out of control.

 

[1prophet]

I have zero interest in listening to conservatives discuss "extremism" on the left. They need to clean their own damn house. Until then, I have no interest in listening to them on virtually any topic.

Just because the conservative is naked doesn't mean the liberals invisible clothes shouldn't be called out for the farce that they are,

that is one of the methods the corporatized rich mostly white liberals use to get a free pass doing pretty much the same thing conservatives do but get a free pass or a finger pointing "you shouldn't do that" rebuke at best because there is an evil rich conservative out there worse then them to point at and Trump is a gift to them in that regard, a creation of a self entitled rich elite liberal house who look down at the blue collar "deplorable" working person like many of their kind in NYC.

The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative

The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative

Donald Trump was promoted and schooled, made famous and made wealthy, by the same culture and economy that now reviles him.

theintercept.com

after all, it wasn’t some Klan newsletter that first brought Trump to our attention: It was Time and Esquire and Spy. The Westboro Baptist Church didn’t give him his own TV show: NBC did. And his boasts and lies weren’t posted on Breitbart, they were published by Random House. He was created by people who learned from Andy Warhol, not Jerry Falwell, who knew him from galas at the Met, not fundraisers at Karl Rove’s house, and his original audience was presented to him by Condé Nast, not Guns & Ammo. He owes his celebrity, his money, his arrogance, and his skill at drawing attention to those coastal cultural gatekeepers — presumably mostly liberal — who first elevated him out of general obscurity, making him famous and rewarding him (and, not at all incidentally, themselves) for his idiocies.


Sure, he was a nasty man and a blowhard even then, a rich clown playing the media for publicity, a quintessential type: the eternal hustler, too nasty and vulgar to be entirely respectable, but too successful to be ignored. We’ve seen thousands like him and we’ll see thousands more. But he’d built a bunch of buildings, and real estate is to Manhattan what oil is to Texas: a toxic and destabilizing commodity, and a universal excuse for almost any bad behavior. So he wasn’t a liberal man, but he’d spent his life surrounded by them. How bad could he be?


If you think that sounds stupid and smug, imagine how it sounds to people out in the rest of the country. Liberals were sure the devil would come slouching out of Alabama or Texas, beating a bible and shouting about sodomy and sin. They didn’t expect him to be a businessman who lives on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. Rick Santorum was a threat, but your run-of-the-mill New York tycoon just couldn’t be, not in the same way — because even if the latter was unlikable, he was known, he was covered, he fell within a spectrum that the morning shows and entertainment press are comfortable with, much more so, anyway, than they are with what the slow learners among liberals still blithely call “rednecks.” When, a few years ago, Trump started going on about Obama’s birth certificate, no one said, “Hey, maybe we don’t want to associate with this guy anymore.” Instead, the Washington Post invited him to be its guest at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Its editors wouldn’t have extended the same backslapping generosity to David Duke or Alex Jones or any of the other rustic zealots with whom Trump is now, unquestionably, on all fours.


The culture that first made Trump wasn’t the one that goes hunting on weekends, or the one that’s been reborn in Christ. It was the culture of celebrity for its own sake, of kidding-but-not-kidding-but-maybe-really-kidding, a culture of materialism and greed, too forgiving of fame and too prone to taking nauseating crassness as just another act; a culture with delusions of its own moral faultlessness and its ability to control whatever conversation it’s begun, ever-tempted by the idea that absolutely everybody must see irony where we see it, that it’s all politics as usual, and whatever happens, Vanity Fair will cover it all with the same, slightly distanced knowingness, in between the ads for expensive watches and luxury cars.

 

[sdifox]

Just because the conservative is naked doesn't mean the liberals invisible clothes shouldn't be called out for the farce that they are,

that is one of the methods the corporatized rich mostly white liberals use to get a free pass doing pretty much the same thing conservatives do but get a free pass or a finger pointing "you shouldn't do that" rebuke at best because there is an evil rich conservative out there worse then them to point at and Trump is a gift to them in that regard, a creation of a self entitled rich elite liberal house who look down at the blue collar "deplorable" working person like many of their kind in NYC.

The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative

The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative

Donald Trump was promoted and schooled, made famous and made wealthy, by the same culture and economy that now reviles him.

theintercept.com

That's right. It's the liberals' fault the conservatives put Trump up as a candidate and elected him to presidency despite him being a NYC elite they despise.

 

[kage69]

Evangelicals, social media, fraud, Putin and desperate republican prostitutes put the conman in office, but it's really the fault of those liberal elites. Haha. It's not my fault for snorting a pile of coke and putting myself in the hospital, it's those commie coca growers in Columbia we should be talking about.

Guys we've been over this: the microwave is not a hair drying device.

Maybe we'll get lucky and a whole swath of Team Treason will go down to covid-19. Even if that doesn't happen, the pandemic has exposed the corruption and criminal incompetence of these frauds as only a national health emergency can. And in such grand fashion! To say his own voting block is at risk is putting it mildly, this one seems tailored for anti-science types over the age of 60. Fox Noise must be petrified. This whole issue is like another brush with war in the Gulf or with NK. Proof TDS is a sucking affliction of dipshit's supporters, not of those who critique him. And once again it's looking like a republican who was handed a healthy and growing economy will pass on a broken one to his Dem successor to fix. There goes history rhyming again.

That's gotta hurt

"When, in January 2016, I wrote that despite being a lifelong Republican who worked in the previous three GOP administrations, I would never vote for Donald Trump, even though his administration would align much more with my policy views than a Hillary Clinton presidency would, a lot of my Republican friends were befuddled. How could I not vote for a person who checked far more of my policy boxes than his opponent?

What I explained then, and what I have said many times since, is that Trump is fundamentally unfit—intellectually, morally, temperamentally, and psychologically—for office. For me, that is the paramount consideration in electing a president, in part because at some point it’s reasonable to expect that a president will face an unexpected crisis—and at that point, the president’s judgment and discernment, his character and leadership ability, will really matter.


"Mr. Trump has no desire to acquaint himself with most issues, let alone master them” is how I put it four years ago. “No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness.” I added this:

Mr. Trump’s virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe. The prospect of Donald Trump as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American.

It took until the second half of Trump’s first term, but the crisis has arrived in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s hard to name a president who has been as overwhelmed by a crisis as the coronavirus has overwhelmed Donald Trump."'

Trump basically stuck his tiny lil thumb up his ass for 6 weeks regarding the pandemic. So. Americans will continue to die until enough of his followers are personally affected and realize just how bad they fucked up. Let's see how much the tune changes in the next 6 months now.

 

[Vic]

This thread title was prophetic in its prediction of conservative responses.

 

[alcoholbob]

Wait.. a mutually beneficial trade between 2 free parties is socialism? WTF?

Two cavemen aren't free parties though, they are blood relatives living in a tribal arrangement, which is basically the basis of all socialist systems. Although the example was definitely bad because it had nothing to do with any particular system. Specialization is just common sense.

Although I do like to point out "free parties" in a market who are unaffiliated and unrelated by blood dont actually getogether in said market without militaristic empires coming in and breaking down tribal boundaries with a ton of bloodshed and coercive activity. So the origin of these "free parties" has a pretty dystopian backstory.

 

[ShookKnight]

An imbecile calls a lethal virus a hoax and then declares a national emergency.

Also, an imbecile calls for prayer when it is clear we are woefully prepared, due to the imbecile's actions.

The only good news is that a certain group of people are going to get exactly what they deserve from these recent events.

 

[fskimospy]

That's right. It's the liberals' fault the conservatives put Trump up as a candidate and elected him to presidency despite him being a NYC elite they despise.

You can always tell when conservatives realize they've done something wrong as that's when they start blaming liberals for making them do it.

 

[cytg111]

IMO this is 99.9% written by Brad Parscale

https://twitter.com/x/status/1238599369466753026

 

[IronWing]

IMO this is 99.9% written by Brad Parscale

https://twitter.com/x/status/1238599369466753026

Yep, when it comes to faking religion, Trump can't do it. He doesn't know enough about the basic tenets of any religion to even deliver sweet nothings.

 

[cytg111]

Yep, when it comes to faking religion, Trump can't do it. He doesn't know enough about the basic tenets of any religion to even deliver sweet nothings.

Is that legal? I mean if his tweets are to be considered official statements from the POTUS .. I mean unless he reviews them before its posted...

 

[Pohemi]

Oh, there was an attempt to add abortion into the mix, now guess which party was trying it - Republicans Tried to Sneak Abortion Restrictions into the Coronavirus Bill

What do you mean, projecting?! IT'S ALL THEIR FAULT, DURRR...

 

[Moonbeam]

Indeed.

All that you know about human nature is based on what you know about yourself, the level to which you have personally evolved emotionally, intellectually, and physically. If we were to talk to somebody who had done extensive psychotherapy, a Tibetan Lama or a practiced Fakir, we might arrive at a completely different notion of what is possible in our nature. The problem that I have been suggesting is at issue with ordinary people is the unconscious assumptions that we actually know things. Arrogance of the ego, the need to believe in something outside our worthless selves we can claim make us worthy of things. I will say to you that in my opinion we have no idea at all what a human being can become who truly loves him or her self. You do not know what you feel, that within you buried so deeply you have no idea, is the feeling you are the worst in the world.

 

[zinfamous]

6 weeks of denial, I heard someone today blaming house Democrats for focusing on impeachment and not addressing the virus. Like, wtf lol.

smh, where's the senate at?

probably the same people that still think 9-11 was Obama's fault.

 

[zinfamous]

Wait.. a mutually beneficial trade between 2 free parties is socialism? WTF?

the great thing about socialism is that you can claim that it is anything you want it to be, when you need it to be, especially when you have no clue what socialism is!