Well stated. I thought the brain rot got underway when everybody was adopting Dubya’s (remember him?) formulation of “good guys” and “bad guys”. Simplemindedness didn’t go away after his / Dick Cheney’s reign and grew exponentially worse with Trump I and “deals” replacing “bills” and “treaties.”
As Orwell noted, when you don’t have enough words, you can’t express or maybe can’t even think of certain concepts anymore.
Mostly in the early 1700s.
One of the more insane paradigms of the new world order is that those of us who have spent our lives not being sucked in and brain damaged by conspiracy theories are confronted more and more every day by semi-plausible conspiracy theories.
The kindest thing ever said about her!
1680 approx. and in “Virginia” before it was called that.
Also – what did he get in return for dropping his punative, tantrum-based tariffs?
Zip. Bupkis. Nothing in return. Back to square one, with nothing to show for it but lots of unneeded consumer grief, extra bureaucracy, disruption of commerce and grocery stores, probably tweaking his “farmers”, too.
All he got was Page One headlines everywhere. And momentary distraction from his Epstains. Which, of course, is all he ever wanted.
It’s going to be a great fight between two absolutely reprehensible and terribly stupid bigots. My money is on Marge.
Weird to see him smiling. Was there another measles outbreak? Did he learn that polio has returned to the United States? A dead weasel in the road near his house?
And sadistic older women - Noem and Bondi.
A failure of our public school curriculum design is that we don’t teach kids from an early age how to develop a bullshit detector. It may come up as a side topic in some areas, and some teachers may try to do it on their own. But it’s not a specific class subject and it should be.
Things like how to avoid the trap of “doing your own research” on the Internet and falling down a rabbit hole based on preexisting personal bias. How to avoid being sucked into conspiracies just because your friends or family are into it, all that.
ETA: Of course the risk, when it works, is that more kids might refuse to follow their parents’ religion. Personally I’d count that as a plus, but I’m an atheist.
AIPAC might want to chime in. Or at least close their wallets.
And when will the Catholics have their turn in the hot seat?
As one who suffered thru a case of polio in 1954 and still is paying for it with two arguing vertibrae in my lower back that compete to squash my sciatic nerve… RFKjr otta fucking know better…
Praps his brain worm woke up and is eating again.
Rick Wilson breaks down the Epstein emails, pizzagate, and why Trump is screwed.
When Governor Newsom runs for President. He’s Roman Catholic, so he’ll be pegged as the Popish Anti-Christ.
