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Well... it's Trump... again. #47, here we go.

GenesisNemesis said:
TSwizzle said:
GenesisNemesis said:
I hate to say it but part of the dumbing down of America happened when people started to listening to comedians for political guidance. Instead of coming to their own conclusions through actual thought. This partly allowed people like Joe Rogan to become popular.
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The dumbing down of America (and much of the West) started when leftists started to get control of the education system, the schools, the universities etc. and turned these institutions into madrasas, churning out the blue haired, tattooed, pierced antisemites we see trashing university campus and targeting Jewish students with their bile. The vast majority of them voting democrat.
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The fact that you think having blue hair is a problem in any way, only shows how dumb you are.
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Along with their they/them pronouns.
 
TSwizzle said:
The dumbing down of America (and much of the West) started when leftists started to get control of the education system, the schools, the universities etc. and turned these institutions into madrasas, churning out the blue haired, tattooed, pierced antisemites
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And, research scientists, tech wizards and tech and medical breakthroughs that keep 350,000,000 people alive, with enough left over to afford a thousand or so right wing billionaire oligarchs trying to out-compete each other in the Olympics of Wretched Excess.

Yeah, let’s keep the oligarchs and get rid of the scientists. That’s the right wing plan. Because Doctor Fauci couldn’t help making the Felon look stupid.
 
TSwizzle said:
GenesisNemesis said:
TSwizzle said:
GenesisNemesis said:
I hate to say it but part of the dumbing down of America happened when people started to listening to comedians for political guidance. Instead of coming to their own conclusions through actual thought. This partly allowed people like Joe Rogan to become popular.
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The dumbing down of America (and much of the West) started when leftists started to get control of the education system, the schools, the universities etc. and turned these institutions into madrasas, churning out the blue haired, tattooed, pierced antisemites we see trashing university campus and targeting Jewish students with their bile. The vast majority of them voting democrat.
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The fact that you think having blue hair is a problem in any way, only shows how dumb you are.
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Along with their they/them pronouns.
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Today on people and their poor ability to determine what is actually important.
 
Elixir said:
Doctor Fauci couldn’t help making the Felon look stupid.
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It was Fauci's cunning disguise that I thought was particularly impressive.

Once he washed the blue dye out of his hair and removed his facial piercings, you would hardly know he was educated at all, until he opened his mouth and all that far left wing "fact" and "reality" started pouring out.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
TSwizzle said:
GenesisNemesis said:
TSwizzle said:
GenesisNemesis said:
I hate to say it but part of the dumbing down of America happened when people started to listening to comedians for political guidance. Instead of coming to their own conclusions through actual thought. This partly allowed people like Joe Rogan to become popular.
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The dumbing down of America (and much of the West) started when leftists started to get control of the education system, the schools, the universities etc. and turned these institutions into madrasas, churning out the blue haired, tattooed, pierced antisemites we see trashing university campus and targeting Jewish students with their bile. The vast majority of them voting democrat.
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The fact that you think having blue hair is a problem in any way, only shows how dumb you are.
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Along with their they/them pronouns.
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Today on people and their poor ability to determine what is actually important.
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That's what they he it she said.
 
And now it's personal...

My sister has been having lots of meetings that were not previously scheduled. She is an historian, and works for a firm that does restorations of historic buildings and sites. The funding comes from many sources, mostly private, but a good amount of the money comes from federal grants or flows through a federal agency (like the National Park Service, for example) and now that's all on hold with Fuckface Von Clownstick's freeze. She may lose funding for the projects she's working on, or it may be in stuck in limbo. If it gets bad, she could be laid off.
 
Our state and system-wide officials are still sending out blandly reassuring memos assuring us that EVERYTHING IS FINE and core programs won't be affected by the freezes, even as all mail and any other communication from federal agencies and services appears to have effectively vanished, and everyone is panicking and no one has any concrete information, not even the people who work for those agencies and are currently in Schrodinger's Employment Situation. Sometimes I really despise Democrats... insisting that all is well and a compromise will be reached is fine in normal times, but sometimes there really is a war in Ba Sing Se and you need someone to have your back.
 
GenesisNemesis said:
Swammerdami said:
"Jon Stewart is an American actor, comedian, and political satirist who has a net worth of $120 million." Has this dulled Stewart's once-progressive and once-rational perspective?
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I hate to say it but part of the dumbing down of America happened when people started to listening to comedians for political guidance. Instead of coming to their own conclusions through actual thought. This partly allowed people like Joe Rogan to become popular.
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I think objections to comedians as political commentators are misplaced.

Comedians are smart and good at communication; this already makes them probably well above average among political commentators. If their comedy centers on social or political issues, they are probably well-informed on such issues. (Singers, artists, doctors, top athletes, etc. may also tend to be smarter than average, but with a different sort of smartness, less useful in this context.) I certainly learn a lot about political topics by watching, say, John Oliver. In fact John Oliver's "comedy" show gives better insight into issues that matter than most American TV news shows.

"... coming to their own conclusions through actual thought" is not only condescending but misses important points. Pure thought (whether "actual" or not) does NOT provide facts on the ground. To get the facts requires reading or watching. But WHAT does one read or watch? The "best" writers are often opinionated. News shows without opinions are often vapid. Many political issues involve non-obvious subtleties; forming opinions without understanding the subtleties leads to faulty opinions! It is no surprise that Americans with the stupidest opinions are often the very Americans who proudly say "I do my own research."

Sure, it's possible to end up in a "bubble." But "comedians" like Mark Twain, Will Rogers, H.L. Mencken, Mort Sahl, George Carlin and, yes, even the comedians of post-rational America like Jon Stewart have contributed to political savvy. To equate their achievements with the "dumbing down of America" is wrong.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Old Woman in Purple said:
Google Maps plans to use Trump's new names for Denali & Gulf-of-Mexico.
:rolleyes::rolleyes2:

I understand that it's bad form to just drop a link and run, but I honestly don't know what to say....
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Trump changing these names, stupid.
People cheering on the changing of these names, head scratching.
Large conglomerates just going along with it... a bit alarming.
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I would think that Google should be smart enough to consult the International Geographical Union before making such mistakes. Apparently they are not smart (assuming that they actually do change the names this way).
TSwizzle said:
GenesisNemesis said:
I hate to say it but part of the dumbing down of America happened when people started to listening to comedians for political guidance. Instead of coming to their own conclusions through actual thought. This partly allowed people like Joe Rogan to become popular.
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The dumbing down of America (and much of the West) started when leftists started to get control of the education system, the schools, the universities etc. and turned these institutions into madrasas, churning out the blue haired, tattooed, pierced antisemites we see trashing university campus and targeting Jewish students with their bile. The vast majority of them voting democrat.
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Its amazing how a small quantity of individuals who have no control of the groups that actually control education (such as school boards and state education departments) somehow have all this power, when the actual individuals in charge are usually conservatives. Also, anti-semites are usually right-wingers. You are making the common mistake pushed by media propagandists that protesting actions by Israel is anti-semite when many such critics are themselves Jews.
Also education was generally fine for decades before Republicans ramped up their interference in it, bringing their ideological biases into play. For instance Texas has control of what's in many school texts, and Florida is on an anti-intellectual rampage, banning books, specifying weird things that must be taught and stopping traditionally taught facts and concepts, and so on. Both of these are Republican states.
 
This is one of those... oh... this funding isn't actually going down a toilet, and lots and lots of people's work depends on it.

They put forth this ridiculous freeze on all Federal assistance.. and then need to follow that up with... when we said "all" we didn't mean "all". I can't wait for the next one where they explain what actually is supposed to be frozen. These people don't know how to run a government. These people have been lying to themselves for so long about Government spending, they actually believe this stuff.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
This is one of those... oh... this funding isn't actually going down a toilet, and lots and lots of people's work depends on it.

They put forth this ridiculous freeze on all Federal assistance.. and then need to follow that up with... when we said "all" we didn't mean "all". I can't wait for the next one where they explain what actually is supposed to be frozen. These people don't know how to run a government. These people have been lying to themselves for so long about Government spending, they actually believe this stuff.
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Is the name Mr Chaos already taken? I think that Mr Evil is.
 
Spacetime Inhabitant said:
Its amazing how a small quantity of individuals who have no control of the groups that actually control education (such as school boards and state education departments) somehow have all this power, when the actual individuals in charge are usually conservatives.
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Not hardly. The US university system has fully embraced the woke bs and churns out clones and little brown shirts that try to quash dissenting opinions, particularly when it comes to gender or Israel.


Spacetime Inhabitant said:
Also, anti-semites are usually right-wingers. {snip}
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lol. The left has always hated the Jews.

Spacetime Inhabitant said:
Also education was generally fine for decades before Republicans ramped up their interference in it, bringing their ideological biases into play. For instance Texas has control of what's in many school texts, and Florida is on an anti-intellectual rampage, banning books, specifying weird things that must be taught and stopping traditionally taught facts and concepts, and so on. Both of these are Republican states.
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I am not familiar with these states but I expect you are disappointed that porn books have been purged from the kindergartner's library or something.
 
TSwizzle said:
Spacetime Inhabitant said:
Its amazing how a small quantity of individuals who have no control of the groups that actually control education (such as school boards and state education departments) somehow have all this power, when the actual individuals in charge are usually conservatives.
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Not hardly. The US university system has fully embraced the woke bs and churns out clones and little brown shirts that try to quash dissenting opinions, particularly when it comes to gender or Israel.
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According to exit polling, College Grades voted for Biden by 56% to 42%, not 95% to 5% as you seem to be claiming.
TSwizzle said:
Spacetime Inhabitant said:
Also, anti-semites are usually right-wingers. {snip}
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lol. The left has always hated the Jews.
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You and your ilk would have been leading them to the chambers. Who do you think you are kidding?
 
The hurt from unfunded programs needs to directly hit the lower income and working class voters that gave us Trump -- that may be the only way to rein in this man's worst and dumbest instincts.
 
In the news tonight Medicaid funds have been cut off to Washington state.
 
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