I'm sorry, but we must regretfully decline your MENSA application
But you can have this lovely MAGA hat as a parting gift....
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Carlo M. Cipolla
Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.
Steve Alten, The Loch
Over the past eight years, we’ve seen an exponential rise in world-class arrogance in concert with unparalleled ignorance. It’s a variety of weapons-grade stupidity that makes you wonder how people get through their days. It’s not just the stupidity, though Lord knows that’s epic and, at times, virtually impossible to fathom. The astonishing arrogance- the egotism required to believe that one’s pretty intelligent when, in fact, one is a poster child for the Dunning-Kruger Effect- sets them apart.
Well, that and those g*****n red hats.
For some reason, most of these intellectual and moral reprobates can be found on the Far-Right side of the ideological/political spectrum. And, unsurprisingly, most of these folks are dumber than a post-turtle. Go figure.
ever notice how wingnuts are completely unafraid to come right out and say the stupidest shit imaginable, with a straight face?
why would anyone do this? don’t they know how ignorant they sound?
no, they don’t. these dimwits imagine that they’re voicing obvious truths.
why? because these people live inside the Wingnut Grievance Bubble.
And just what IS the Wingnut Grievance Bubble, you have every right to ask?
Well, it’s that magical
enclosed feedback loop where lunatic fantasies, feverish delusions, nutty conspiracies, repugnant behavior and harebrained notions are amplified. these people watch themselves on Fox News all day long. whatever crackpot ideas rattle around in their heads are never challenged.
for example, inside the Wingnut Grievance Bubble, everyone knows that Joe Biden took bribes from China because everyone knows that Joe Biden took bribes from China. it’s doctrine. it’s tautology. it’s an article of faith. it goes unquestioned.
it doesn’t matter that there’s no evidence.
which is why, every time one of these nudnicks steps outside the Bubble and opens their mouth, they fall right the fuck on their stupid face.
And, in case you’re wondering (I had to look it up myself…’cuz I’m not THAT smart)
The Wingnut Grievance Bubble is a wondrous place where the wingnuts pat each other on the back and congratulate one another for their rhetorical and intellectual brilliance. In reality, they couldn’t spell “cat” unless you spotted them the “c” and “a.” Nonetheless, they’ve convinced themselves that they’re correct AND brilliant. They have no problem letting their freak flag fly for all to see because, as far as they’re concerned, their MENSA memberships are all but guaran-damn-teed. They're just tied up in the mail somewhere.
This classic from Rep. Marjorie Trailer Greene (R-GA) is a perfect example of someone with a double-digit IQ and the arrogance of someone who believes she should be a Nobel laureate.
Uh, yeah, that’s “no bell.”
Fortunately, it’s only 30 seconds of a voice comparable to fingernails being scraped down a chalkboard…and an intellect to match. The contempt dripping from her voice is as amusing as it is wholly unwarranted.
Why would the Director of the FBI devote any time at all to the Twitter account of a batshit-crazy Congresswoman from Possum Holler, GA? No rational bureaucrat would piss on her if she were en flambe, which is as it should be. MTG is a waste of humanity who believes she’s God’s gift to Capitol Hill.
The poor woman’s as vacant as the Bates Motel on a Tuesday night.
just listen to the contempt in [MTG]’s voice — she can’t believe that she has to school this moron about about what’s on her twitter. look, Mister Big Shot FBI Director, everyone knows that [MTG] is being censored by the government, because everyone knows that [MTG] is being censored by the government.
and why wouldn’t [MTG] take even five minutes to find out what Wray’s job entails, instead of just assuming that the FBI has its tentacles in every facet of government? because everybody knows that the FBI has its tentacles in every facet of government, that’s why. duh. get a brain, morans.
Seriously.
And then there’s Jesse Watters of Fox News Channel, who has a lifetime membership in the Wingnut Grievance Bubble and never has to suffer the inconvenience and indignity of running for re-election.
No, all Watters has to do is be sufficiently racist and classless enough to make the old, underedumicated White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual viewer base forget Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Who?? Precisely.
Yeah, he’s well on his way.
Sure, when in doubt, accuse Joe Biden of everything short of giving Xi Jinping a wet, sloppy blowjob.
‘Cuz that’s always good for a few good laughs.
When Xi saw Joe, they couldn't keep their hands off each other. As Joe likes to brag, he spent more time with Xi than anyone else. Not to mention the fact that Xi's guys bribed the Biden family. The chemistry was unmistakable.
Sure, nothing like some cheap, unsubstantiated character assassination to pump up your ratings, eh, Jesse? Being a classless dick pays pretty well, yeah?
I’ll leave Waters alone for now, though. We can always count on him to say something unbelievably stupid down the road, so I’ll keep him in reserve for a slow news day.
But, for another look into the Wingnut Grievance Bubble, let’s go back to the same hearing that featured MTG grilling- or at least trying to grill- FBI director Christopher Wray. Later in the festivities, it was the turn of Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA)…who, quite frankly, made MTG look sane- no easy feat, that.
Wray: “if you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on Jan 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and/or agents, the answer is emphatically no.”
Higgins: “you’re saying no?”
Wray: “no.”
“you’re saying no?”
Wray: “no. not violence orchestrated by FBI sources or agents.”
Higgins: “are you familiar with … with … do you know what a ‘ghost vehicle’ is? Director, you’re the Director of the FBI, you certainly should. you know what a ‘ghost bus’ is?”
Wray: “a ‘ghost bus’?”
Higgins: “a ‘ghost bus’.”
Wray: “I’m not sure I’ve used that term before.”
Higgins: “ok, it’s pretty common in law enforcement. it’s a vehicle that’s … that’s used for secret purposes. it’s painted over. these two buses in the middle here, these were the first to arrive at Union Station on January 6, zero five hundred, I have all this evidence … these buses were nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters, to blow the entire Capitol on January 6th. your day is coming, Mr. Wray.”
OMFG. “Ghost Bus?” Has anyone suggested it might be time for Rep. Higgins to submit to a drug test?
Like MTG, Rep. Higgins’ voice is aflame with contempt, as if he can’t BELIEVE he has to explain what a “ghost bus” is to the idiot FBI director sitting in front of him. How could he NOT know what a f*****g ghost bus is?
DUH…. Get with the program, Director!!
“[T]hese buses were nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters, to blow the entire Capitol on January 6th. [Y]our day is coming, Mr. Wray.”
Don’t f**k with me, Mr. Wray. We have ways of dealing with lying asshats like you. We KNOW the FBI staged January 6th as a false flag operation. Your day is coming.
Holy heart failure, Batman. Someone needs to ensure Rep. Higgins has been taking his Thorazine, knowhutimean??
And then there’s Elon Musk, the “brilliant businessman, space nazi, and free-speech absolutist” whose $44 billion overpayment for Twitter has been beaten down by his own incompetence, ineptitude, anti-semitism, and racism into a shell of its former self. Musk’s idiotic “management” has decreased the platform's value to less than half his initial investment.
So much for the “brilliant businessman, space nazi, and free-speech absolutist” schtick, eh?
He’d have been better off sitting in front of his fireplace and tossing $1000 bills into the flames for a few months.
Now, he appears determined to drive away the few remaining advertisers Twitter/X has. Yes, the “brilliant businessman, space nazi, and free-speech absolutist” is a genius in a way few of us will recognize.
The “actual truth” is that Elon Musk is a racist, anti-semite, and a shitty businessman whose karma is coming back to bite him in the ass.
And I’m here for it. Grab your popcorn and pull up a seat….
A torrent of prominent brands halted their advertising on X on Friday, dealing a massive reputational blow to Elon Musk’s social media company after his public embrace this week of an antisemitic conspiracy theory favored by White supremacists.
The high-profile advertiser revolt includes some of the world’s largest media companies, such as Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Lionsgate and Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent of CNN.
X also reportedly lost Apple, according to multiple news outlets including Axios, which first reported Apple’s withdrawal.
It turns out that companies don’t like having their ads placed next to hate speech and anti-semitic content. Go figure, eh? And while Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino was proclaiming that the platform is combatting hatred and anti-semitism, her boss was working at cross-purposes with her.
Man, their meetings must be priceless.
imagine you’ve driven half the major advertisers off your failing app by being a raging antisemite. what do you do for an encore?
if you’re the SmArTeSt GeNiUs iN tHe GaLaXy, I guess you drive away the other half by calling them “the greatest oppressors of your right to free speech.”
The beautiful thing about being part of the Wingnut Grievance Bubble is that no matter what happens, all of the rationalization and evidence you’ll ever need is right there…BECAUSE EVERYONE SAYS IT IS.
You can accuse anyone in authority of anything because they should know what you’re talking about. You can rightfully treat them with contempt and threaten their career if they don't.
Your day is coming, Mr. Wray.
Never mind that Christopher Wray has done nothing wrong. That’s entirely beside the point. It’s that those within the Wingnut Grievance Bubble KNOW he’s screwed the pooch because EVERYONE KNOWS HE HAS. That’s just how it works, and if it seems like there’s no defense against that, it’s because there isn’t. These folks live in a reality with which the rest of us are wholly unfamiliar.
No matter what happens, those inside the Wingnut Grievance Bubble will always have the advantage of not being constrained by conventional reality.
Your day is coming, Mr. Wray. Let’s not forget that.
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Actually, that's not the "proper" definition of a tautology. A tautology is a sentence that is true purely in virtue of its logical form. The classic example is also known as the 'principle of bivalence," (two-values") which asserts that propositions are only ever true or false. The form is "Either p is true or p is not true" ("p v ~p" in symbols.) (Of course, if you reject the strictures of "classical" logic, then bivalence is one of the first things to fall by the wayside.
That purple jacket "I'm Too Corrupt for my Shirt" Santos is wearing is quite enough to make me nauseous. I mean, the guy should dye his hair green and practice his maniacal laugh if he wants to look like The Joker.