The title of this blog post is just one stupid utterance documented in the video below. Another stupid is utterance in that the pandemic has caused an outbreak of crime:
Is America waking up to the insanities documented above and prepared to vote out certain feckless leaders and "cancel" their sycophantic mouthpieces in the media and in academia?
While there's an audience that wants to hear that liberals are stupid, Carlson can deliver that audience to advertisers by telling them just that. He has no incentive to present left/liberal ideas faithfully. He informs you no better than CNN did last year about Trump.
Partisan news reduces the audience to picking their poison. We need there to be better options.
Our nation has been run by a confederacy of dunces for decades. We are now seeing the results. "Expert," like most other words in this Orwellian age, means nothing.
The only things dumber than a Trump supporter are two or more Trump supporters gathered to hear another Trump supporter speak.
Over the weekend, self-confessed Russian intelligence asset Michael Flynn was (once again) making his seditious call to overthrow the government with a military coup.
Explosions of crime rates, homelessness, civil unrest, unemployment, the ubiquitous backlash against law and order and policing... all disturbing trends that absolutely began under Trump. Sorry, Silverfiddle. We're not going to come out of the worst Presidency America will ever have and have nothing to point at.
Jez, Today's experts are too often avid promoters of an agenda, regardless of the objective data related to that agenda. This is true not only in politics but also in the field of education. For decades on end, education has thrown out curricula that work for new pie-in-the-sky curricula.
"Efficiency experts" spring to mind. Often, anything but actual efficiency is the result.
As it regards TC and others who don't toe the "company line"... it makes for better discussion. I've always felt the only way to better understand people and subject our own biases to critical evaluation is by hearing other points of view.
I realize it gets tiresome at times, but if we are only willing to be in a room with people we agree with, how do we move ahead together?
BTW Silver... as to your question about "Daddy Trump", he's only been gone 4 months. Many ppl do consider him one of the worst presidents in US history. I've seen many comments in just the last few months from more than a few commenters here and on other associated blogs still assailing Obama for Benghazi and and number of issues.
What is the statute of limitations on criticism of past presidents? At what point should we let it go and move on? If those actions result in dead service members, or dead capitol police, should that time frame be extended?
Dave, as you very well know, no one here gets canceled for not Towing the company line. For a comment to spark good conversation, which is what we all enjoy, it must first be coherent, and have some kind of a point to it. You always fit that bill, TC unfortunately dot-dot-dot I don't know what has happened to him. My criticism is not that he disagrees with me, but that he just seems so fleckspittle ranty 1 with no a larger point then to puke out nonsense
I also understand that some fragile souls are still psychologically shaking from the presidency of El Donaldo, but the big bad orange man is not the subject of this blog post.
@ Dave Miller: In case you haven't noticed by now; the comments in question are off topic, not to mention asinine and juvenile. We are not going to put up with every post being hijacked by some anti-Trump obsessed troll with delusions of relevance.
So, when you host a Cucker Tarlson video entitled "Stupid people took over our country" we're not to talk about who these allegedly stupid people took control of the country from?
Well okay. Control of the country was taken from you by "stupid people." Let's put you defeated by stupidity types back in charge lol.
@Dave - you get it, I think. Your sense of irony is intact. Ever since conservatism has been "reimagined" into celebrating hypocrisy as a favorable trait, you get Silverfiddle types who only want Republican-flavored corruption and grift to succeed. We should all remember a time when only dirty hippies wanted to tear down "the Establishment" and other left-wing derived Trumpisms. For me, it's fun, entertaining even, to watch the hamster wheels spin when the alleged "party of law and order" has to explain the stream of handcuffed perp walks coming out of their shrinking redoubt. Get the 4 dimensional chess grandmasters on the line STAT lol
Okay lol. Let's stretch our imaginations to include the razor-thin possibility that you're actually capable of rational discourse but for some unrevealed(?) reason forever choose to eschew doing so. (Don't hurt yourself.)
Let's go back in time to when your train of thought ran out of coal, mere moments before you clicked the blue "publish" button on each of your concessions of defeat above...
The unfortunate difference between Cucker Tarlson's video and dipshits such as yourself is Cucker's just slapping around a strawman and you're mad that I caught you masturbating to it.
@AoW: it's funny, the last big education reforms in the UK (Micheal Gove in the early 2010s) were criticised for their lack of expert consultation. Is it better when politicians grind their personal axes without guidance or restraint? I understand that pointless disruption is resented, but when changes are made I can't see an argument against involving experts -- preferably including a significant number of experienced teachers!
Jez, The voices of experienced teachers are often ignored here on this side of the The Pond. The voices of administrators are included, but administrators are often out of touch with what's going on in the classroom.
It's not limited to politics. It's everywhere. Business is similarly run by people who are either stupid or insane. Why make public statements which will drive away half of your customer base, as does Coca Cola, among others?
Television entertainment is hardly essential to national security, but the scripts for dramatic productions are written today by writers with the intellect of an eight-year-old, and millions of dollars are spent producing and airing these childish monstrosities with comic book dialogs. The doctors on Gray's Anatomy wear isolatation hoods with short sleeved scrubs and no gloves, while mingling with other staff who are not even wearing face masks.
A person is told that since she has been vaccinated she can take her face mask off and declines because she says she feels more comfortable with it on.
Examples are endless. The nation has become extraordinarily stupid.
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
While there's an audience that wants to hear that liberals are stupid, Carlson can deliver that audience to advertisers by telling them just that. He has no incentive to present left/liberal ideas faithfully. He informs you no better than CNN did last year about Trump.
ReplyDeletePartisan news reduces the audience to picking their poison. We need there to be better options.
Our nation has been run by a confederacy of dunces for decades. We are now seeing the results. "Expert," like most other words in this Orwellian age, means nothing.
ReplyDeleteSF,
DeleteI often shudder when I hear the word expert. The very meaning of the word has become perverted.
The "salried bourgeois"....
DeleteThe only things dumber than a Trump supporter are two or more Trump supporters gathered to hear another Trump supporter speak.
DeleteOver the weekend, self-confessed Russian intelligence asset Michael Flynn was (once again) making his seditious call to overthrow the government with a military coup.
You still whining over your daddy Trump?
DeleteI look around, and you're the only one still bleating about him on this blog.
Explosions of crime rates, homelessness, civil unrest, unemployment, the ubiquitous backlash against law and order and policing... all disturbing trends that absolutely began under Trump. Sorry, Silverfiddle. We're not going to come out of the worst Presidency America will ever have and have nothing to point at.
Delete"The very meaning of [expert] has become perverted."
DeleteFrom what? Are you harkening back to the enlightenment-era ideals of disinterested judgement and objective knowledge?
Jez,
DeleteToday's experts are too often avid promoters of an agenda, regardless of the objective data related to that agenda. This is true not only in politics but also in the field of education. For decades on end, education has thrown out curricula that work for new pie-in-the-sky curricula.
"Efficiency experts" spring to mind. Often, anything but actual efficiency is the result.
TC: If you must blubber and crap yourself, why do it here?
DeleteWho else would you cast your blithering imbecility at?
Delete@ SF:
DeleteDelete his comments if you wish. I'm done with him and it's not like anyone will miss his dementia induced rants.
As it regards TC and others who don't toe the "company line"... it makes for better discussion. I've always felt the only way to better understand people and subject our own biases to critical evaluation is by hearing other points of view.
DeleteI realize it gets tiresome at times, but if we are only willing to be in a room with people we agree with, how do we move ahead together?
BTW Silver... as to your question about "Daddy Trump", he's only been gone 4 months. Many ppl do consider him one of the worst presidents in US history. I've seen many comments in just the last few months from more than a few commenters here and on other associated blogs still assailing Obama for Benghazi and and number of issues.
What is the statute of limitations on criticism of past presidents? At what point should we let it go and move on? If those actions result in dead service members, or dead capitol police, should that time frame be extended?
Dave, as you very well know, no one here gets canceled for not Towing the company line. For a comment to spark good conversation, which is what we all enjoy, it must first be coherent, and have some kind of a point to it. You always fit that bill, TC unfortunately dot-dot-dot I don't know what has happened to him. My criticism is not that he disagrees with me, but that he just seems so fleckspittle ranty 1 with no a larger point then to puke out nonsense
DeleteI also understand that some fragile souls are still psychologically shaking from the presidency of El Donaldo, but the big bad orange man is not the subject of this blog post.
Delete@ Dave Miller:
DeleteIn case you haven't noticed by now; the comments in question are off topic, not to mention asinine and juvenile. We are not going to put up with every post being hijacked by some anti-Trump obsessed troll with delusions of relevance.
So, when you host a Cucker Tarlson video entitled "Stupid people took over our country" we're not to talk about who these allegedly stupid people took control of the country from?
DeleteWell okay. Control of the country was taken from you by "stupid people." Let's put you defeated by stupidity types back in charge lol.
@Dave - you get it, I think. Your sense of irony is intact. Ever since conservatism has been "reimagined" into celebrating hypocrisy as a favorable trait, you get Silverfiddle types who only want Republican-flavored corruption and grift to succeed. We should all remember a time when only dirty hippies wanted to tear down "the Establishment" and other left-wing derived Trumpisms. For me, it's fun, entertaining even, to watch the hamster wheels spin when the alleged "party of law and order" has to explain the stream of handcuffed perp walks coming out of their shrinking redoubt. Get the 4 dimensional chess grandmasters on the line STAT lol
DeleteTC, or going off your former personality, lets call you Blaberish...
DeleteBlaberish,
Man up and provide quotes from me to back up your slobbery assertion:
"you get Silverfiddle types who only want Republican-flavored corruption and grift to succeed"
My posts and comments are out there. Back up your blubbering nonsense, or show yourself to be just another whiny diaper pisser blabbering BS.
We're waiting for your response, so take off your ass cheek headphones and provide us a coherent response.
Okay lol. Let's stretch our imaginations to include the razor-thin possibility that you're actually capable of rational discourse but for some unrevealed(?) reason forever choose to eschew doing so. (Don't hurt yourself.)
DeleteLet's go back in time to when your train of thought ran out of coal, mere moments before you clicked the blue "publish" button on each of your concessions of defeat above...
The unfortunate difference between Cucker Tarlson's video and dipshits such as yourself is Cucker's just slapping around a strawman and you're mad that I caught you masturbating to it.
@AoW: it's funny, the last big education reforms in the UK (Micheal Gove in the early 2010s) were criticised for their lack of expert consultation. Is it better when politicians grind their personal axes without guidance or restraint?
DeleteI understand that pointless disruption is resented, but when changes are made I can't see an argument against involving experts -- preferably including a significant number of experienced teachers!
Jez,
DeleteThe voices of experienced teachers are often ignored here on this side of the The Pond. The voices of administrators are included, but administrators are often out of touch with what's going on in the classroom.
Just as we thought, blabberish.
DeleteYou got nothing but angry little diaper rash ranting.
It's not limited to politics. It's everywhere. Business is similarly run by people who are either stupid or insane. Why make public statements which will drive away half of your customer base, as does Coca Cola, among others?
ReplyDeleteTelevision entertainment is hardly essential to national security, but the scripts for dramatic productions are written today by writers with the intellect of an eight-year-old, and millions of dollars are spent producing and airing these childish monstrosities with comic book dialogs. The doctors on Gray's Anatomy wear isolatation hoods with short sleeved scrubs and no gloves, while mingling with other staff who are not even wearing face masks.
A person is told that since she has been vaccinated she can take her face mask off and declines because she says she feels more comfortable with it on.
Examples are endless. The nation has become extraordinarily stupid.
Jayhawk,
DeleteMultiple up votes for your comment!
Business' are run by the "salaried bourgeoisie" who don't have any skin in the game and don't pay directly for their mistakes.
DeleteAre you a fan of Nassim Taleb? I just got done reading "Skin in the Game."
DeleteExcellent read.
Indeed. All my experts are named Lindy. ;)
DeleteThis tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
DeleteFriedrich Nietzsche
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
DeleteFriedrich Nietzsche
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
DeleteFriedrich Nietzsche
If stealing is reparations, that means that the reparations have all been made (cost of theft in USA = $48 billion per year).
ReplyDeleteSource.
Delete