35 thoughts on “What Is Wrong With These People?”

  4. not much has changed from his day, has it?

    ‘scepting maybe we’ve gotten worse.

     “I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man.  I find the result humiliating to me.  For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that the theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.”

    Mark Twain, “the Damned Human Race”

  5. isn’t this the guy who hogged all the questions at that marathon presser? craig, what’s his reputation with rest of the corps? aside from being a fauxnews toady that is.

    TheHill

    Fox News reporter Peter Doocy said late Monday that President Biden called him after being caught on a hot mic referring to him as a “stupid son of a bitch” hours earlier at an event at the White House.
    “He called my cellphone, and he said, ‘It’s nothing personal, pal,” Doocy told Fox News colleague and prime-time host Sean Hannity. “And we went back and forth, and we were talking about just kind of moving forward.” 
    Doocy said he told the president he would always “try and ask something different than what everybody else is asking,” to which he said Biden replied, “You’ve got to.” 
    Doocy at the White House on Monday afternoon shouted a question to the president after a meeting with administration officials on efforts to lower prices for working families. 
    “Will you take a question on inflation?” Doocy asked. “Do you think inflation is a political liability ahead of the midterms?”
    “No, it’s a great asset,” Biden deadpanned. “More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch.”

  7. Fluffy Carlson is a Russia implant?

    I don’t mean plant, I mean implant …and by implant, I do mean boob.

  8. What’s “wrong” with them is that they lack a basic understanding of science.   Carrots are good for you, but they are not antiviral.  School has failed them.

    What’s “wrong” with them is that TV and social media have trained them how to interact with others. If their mommas raised them right, it didn’t stick. Society has failed them, but they are part of society, so…

    A shirttail relative is in the hospital with Covid. She is 94 and unvaccinated, as is the rest of the family who cares for her in her home. Someone was asymptotic.

    A coworker’s adult kid (no vax) has Covid, as does his girlfriend (vaccinated, but only because she works in healthcare), so now he really thinks vaccines are pointless.

  9. Cycling News – Bernal crashed and had multiple injuries including spinal injuries.  When I read this I could feel myself getting queasy.  Rough being a world class cyclist, and how they can die.
     
    Right Wing Thought Police – NY Times Paul Krugman explains how the former freedom screamers are now into thought control. 
     
    for some reason linking is not working.

  10. Twain has explained what’s wrong with these people.  To state it from my perspective, they have a near complete lack of critical thinking ability, are easily fooled and comforted by being led and believe “facts” only if they are presented in short, simple slogans and will fit on bumper stickers. In short, they are stupid.

  11. milbank’s take on the human lemmings

    Opinion | The March for Life and anti-vaccine protest together show a deadly new direction for the right – The Washington Post

    The weekend began with the March for Life. It ended with a march for death.
    Anti-vaccine activists decided to piggyback on Friday’s annual antiabortion march in the capital by having a “Defeat the Mandates” rally on Sunday. Combined, the two groups of (mostly) conservative activists engaged in a demonstration of mass inconsistency.
    Friday’s crowd invoked the mantra of the pro-life movement: “A child, not a choice.” Sunday’s proclaimed the mantra of the abortion rights movement to oppose vaccines: “My body, my choice.”
    Friday’s crowd endorsed the most obtrusive of big-government mandates, laws telling women they can’t make their own reproductive decisions. Sunday’s argued that health decisions must be made by patient and doctor, not government.
    Friday’s crowd pleaded for the lives of the most vulnerable. Sunday’s demanded the right to infect the most vulnerable by eschewing vaccines and masks in shared spaces.

    It was enough to make one wonder: Does taking ivermectin cause people to lose their sense of irony?

    [continues]

  13. Too much lead in the environment, when they were in the womb?
    Remember the crack babies, maybe we overlooked a suburban equivalent.
    Or maybe we trained them this way, too much praise in preschool for being idiots.
    “Isn’t little Johnny so cute”
    Jack

  15. I know here in my area that the unvaccinated are largely the religious right. 
    I call them the religious wrong…

  16. There is a strong Luddite trend in fundamentalism. So anti vax is a natural for them. The liberal anti vaxers come out of the Luddite left too.
    For far too many of our fellow citizens it is difficult to live in the modern world.
    Which helps explain a phenomenon that has always puzzled me. The concept of the influencer. As an adolescent, yeah sure but for a grown adult?
    Jack

  18. And the Democrats want to make voting easier for the lazy and stupid…..

    Not really, Jack, although the relaxed rules could be used by the lazy and stupid as well as the old, infirm and transportationally challenged pursuant to the laws of unintended consequences.

  19. As soon as it is humanly possible i fully expect to be both lazy and stupid, instead of just stupid.

    dumb spiro spero

  20. sturge, according to some of my relatives, i achieved those illustrious states you aspire to many years ago and seem to be successfully maintaining them at a high level.

  23. One of the internet places I get emails about with links is Quora.  Saw this there today and think it’s great:

    If hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and oleandrin all cure covid, as many right-wingers claim, then why is there still a pandemic?

    The virus hasn’t fully exterminated Homo estupidus yet.

    Sturg, I was born lazy – have nurtured that trait all my life. As to stupid, depends on who you ask.

  25. Sartre offered a clarification about his much misunderstood phrase:

    “Hell is other people” has always been misunderstood. It has been thought that what I meant by that was that our relations with other people are always poisoned, that they are invariably hellish relations. But what I really mean is something totally different. I mean that if relations with someone else are twisted, vitiated, then that other person can only be hell. Why? Because … when  we think about ourselves, when we try to know ourselves … we use the knowledge of us which other people already have. We judge ourselves with the means other people have and have given us for judging ourselves.

    As Rugnetta explains: “Hell is other people because you are, in some sense, forever trapped within them, subject to their apprehension of you. 

  26. from online:
    The quote comes at the close of the play No Exit (Huis Clos, in French) which Sartre wrote in 1943. No Exit depicts the arrival of three characters – Garcin, Estelle, and Inez – in hell – which happens to be a drawing room. As the characters struggle to understand what sin has led them to hell, and what their punishment may be, they quickly gather that there is no torturer. No executioner. No flames to burn their souls The other characters in the room are the punishment, as it were. The full version of the quote highlights this illustration of Sartre’s existentialist philosophy:
    “All those eyes intent on me. Devouring me. What? Only two of you? I thought there were more; many more. So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS  OTHER PEOPLE !

  27. Tucker Should Probably Just Give His Monologues In Russian From Now On – Wonkette

    In technical geopolitical terms, things this week are getting stressy with the Russia/Ukraine situation. Around 8,500 American troops have been put on “heightened alert,” and everybody’s as worried as ever that Russia is going to invade. So of course, Tucker Carlson, the most popular spokesmodel for Russian propaganda on the Fox News network, put on a slinky thing last night and showed us some more Russian propaganda.
    This was pretty impressive, because in order to do this, he had to take a break from the most important issue in America, which is explaining how his masculinity is threatened if he can’t separate his M&Ms by color so he doesn’t inadvertently eat a male M&M and accidentally get hard-shelled candy cock in his mouth. (What? Isn’t that what he’s been complaining about? It’s something about M&Ms and his shriveled masculinity.)
    It seems like Tucker’s beating the drums of war almost every night, but in support of an American enemy that wants to invade and steal our ally. Here’s just a smidge from last night:
    [tweet here of the tucker’s disloyal bon mot]
    “They’re both foreign countries that don’t care anything about the United States. Kind of strange,” said Tucker, trusting that his viewers are completely pig-ignorant about foreign policy in lands further away than the Ryan’s Family Steakhouse they go to when the Ryan’s Family Steakhouse they usually go to is closed for buffet renovations.
    Ukraine cares about the United States a whole lot, especially as the US and NATO have been crucial to Ukraine’s efforts not to get completely blown up by Russian enemy invaders. Donald Trump got impeached (the first time) for using military aid Ukraine desperately needs for protection from Russia as a tool of extortion to try to force Ukraine to help him steal the 2020 election.
    Ukraine cares.
    Russia cares too. Russia cares so much it attacked the 2016 election to install a physically repulsive braindead puppet strongman that would help get rid of the sanctions the previous administration imposed for attacking Ukraine. Then Russia tried it again in 2020, but their attacks were too weak to overcome the blistering hatred America feels for the loser they installed in 2016.
    They care. They both care.
    […]
    And because Tucker is right about his audience’s general lack of awareness about how to find their ass with both hands and a compass — or maybe because some of them are further down Tucker’s authoritarian white supremacist road than we like to imagine — all of this is having its intended effect. Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski said this week that he’s getting calls in his office from outraged Tucker viewers demanding to know why we’re not standing up for our beloved ally Russia against Ukraine and its tyrannical wishes not to be invaded.
    [continues]

  29. Tuck should speak in his native tongue and just bark.

    Everyone could just translate from Cur to English.

  32. I guess the first part of that TV dinner gig was designing the little aluminim tray.  I guess they just scaled down some military mess hall trays.  After that it’s just stick some kind of crap on there which can go in the oven.

    My favorite was the Salisbury Steak. Yum.

  33. i saw something once about how Jacques Pepin is the father of American garbage-cuisine, started with the marketing of his frozen Howard Johnson’s dinners
     
    His Boeuf Bourginon recipe is good, though

  34. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/25/business/russia-putin-nord-stream-2-gas-pipeline-intl-cmd/index.html

    “The United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine and several European Union member states have fiercely opposed the pipeline ever since it was first announced in 2015, warning the project would boost Moscow’s influence in Europe.“

    “Given that Russia’s aim is to split everybody, if they’re seeking to break apart unity in the European Union and in NATO, this pipeline has been a wonderful vessel.”

    “The US and Europe are preparing for the possibility that Russia could weaponize its gas exports to Europe to retaliate for any possible sanctions.”

    Maybe it’s Germany we need to deal with; take away Pooh-tin’s customer base.

    “Under pressure from the US, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock acknowledged last week the Nord Stream 2 pipeline could be included in a package of sanctions against Russia over its involvement in Ukraine.“

    Yeah, like that.

    “Putin wants to see Nord Stream 2. If somehow it’s killed before any potential invasion, he has one less reason not to invade Ukraine…”

    “Controversial remarks by the chief of German navy Vice-Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach about Putin “probably” deserving respect and suggesting Ukraine had permanently lost the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea to Russia have only added to the tensions. While Schönbach has resigned over the comments, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrij Melnyk said on Sunday the German government “has to change its course towards Kyiv” in order to “restore full trust in German politics.”

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