So I've imposed on myself a short sabbatical from blogging. It isn't the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last, given the nature of this election and the lying liars who get their fat faces on tv all the time telling us all how to think. To say I'm disappointed in Bill Krystal, Mitt Romney and Jonah Goldberg is an understatement. Right now the most revolting person on the right to me is the former blogger Erick Erickson who made it to the big time of tee-vee with Tea Party momentum: he's emblematic of the fatheads who've been instructing us how to win when their main idea of winning is a fat tv contract for themselves to expound more winning ideas that will help fathead Hillary! win. The "leaders" of our country--both right and life AND the parrot class--seem to believe that we rubes don't know what the hell we are doing by voting OUT the current crop of fatheads and grafting new life onto the federal vine. There's a great (as in YUGELY stupid) example over at the Politico which attempts to defined why so many Americans are deluded enough to think Trump rather than Hillary is best suited to kick the world's ass. We rubes have always been attracted to supercilious condescension or maybe not since I have to resist the urge to vomit when forced to listen to academic and chattering classes. They know much more; therefore, ee stupid. You smart. According to Politico, the elite circles have justified the rubes' votes for Trump as a "psychological quirk," ignoramuses suffering from what some grandee named Dunning has termed the Dunning-Kruger Effect. This author does not recognize insufferable glibness, but has spotted others' stupidity which he breathlessly defines this way:
In studies in my research lab,
people with severe gaps in knowledge and expertise typically fail to
recognize how little they know and how badly they perform. To sum it up,
the knowledge and intelligence that are required to be good at a task
are often the same qualities needed to recognize that one is not
good at that task—and if one lacks such knowledge and intelligence, one
remains ignorant that one is not good at that task. This includes
political judgment.
Apparently one does not watch Watters' World or Kimmel's Lie Witness News where the ignorance of the average left wing college student is frequently exposed but, oh, well, Dunning has given the cocktail circuit more material. Stunningly, Dunning--who appears to be oblivious of our current president's proclivities--describes Trump this way:
Many commentators have pointed to these confident missteps as products of Trump’s alleged narcissism and egotism.
My take would be that it's the other way around. Not seeing the
mistakes for what they are allows any potential narcissism and egotism
to expand unchecked.
See, I don't think we're all going to have to become accustomed to a narcissist and egotist in the White House. At least with Trump, we won't have to worry that the First Lady is cavorting with the Energizer Bunny in the White House movie room.
Again, the key to the Dunning-Kruger Effect is not that unknowledgeable voters are uninformed; it is that they are often misinformed—their heads filled with false data, facts and theories that can lead to misguided conclusions held with tenacious confidence and extreme partisanship, perhaps some that make them nod in agreement with Trump at his rallies.
Trump himself also exemplifies this exact pattern, showing how the
Dunning-Kruger Effect can lead to what seems an indomitable sense of
certainty.
Sooooo, you dummies, once you realize that your "heads are filled with false data, facts and theories" that lead to conclusions unapproved by the presiding fascists, you will instead learn to "nod in agreement" with your betters, be they Left or Right. And, sooooo, to the fascists on the right and left, I'd like to take this small opportunity to articulate a response to my intellectual and social superiors in the most inimical yet cerebral voice I can muster. I hate to be rude but. Eff you.
Anyone who reads this column with regularity (those 2 of you out there) knows that Donald Trump isn't my candidate. However, I find the GOP elite's, the political pundits' and the other candidates' disdain for the will of the people appalling. They need to just STHU. The people have spoken, and I have a feeling when Bernie goes down a lot more of them are going to speak loudly. This time the people aren't going to tolerate the underhanded way both parties are trying to reorder the will of the people by manipulating the system and ignoring hundreds of millions of people. Watching them flailing like T -Rex dinosaurs at a banquet table is good entertainment but the red meat is watching Hillary lose repeatedly to an old geezer Communist. Hillary. Geez. That grating scratchy voice bellowing that "it's time we stop bellowing and start talking to one another" is as laughter-generating for a Trump fan as a five year old's visit to the circus. The woman's a nightmare and her admirers' accolades are falling on deaf ears as the reality of her obnoxiousness reaches new and profound heights. I figure Biden and Warren are waiting in the wings for Hillary's indictment. That could be real trouble. Anyway, if you're like me, then you've adjusted your mind to the fact that The Orange One will be entertaining us for some time. He's enjoying the limelight and so are we. As we can see by the one third of West Virginia Democrat voters' decisions to support Trump, Trump has a lot more support than CNN or MSNBC has acknowledged. They're shocked. Haha. Shocked, I tell ya.
I don't know what's wrong with Hillary followers. Now they're running an anti-Trump ad that really, er, is ineffective, shall we say. I laughed and laughed when I heard this the first time. Then I ran it again and laughed again. Why is it so refreshing to hear a politician actually saying the truth, even though he wasn't a politician at the time he said most of this stuff. It's hilarious. The comments under the video at YouTube indicate I'm not the only one who thinks so. Add the doom-de-dee-doom-doom music in the background and you gotta real cartoon. Geez. Feminists are such dopes. I mean, how can you beat this: "She came to my wedding, she ate like a pig,” Seriously, the wedding cake was like missing in action." Who he's talking about, is all I can think about. Off to do research. And play it again.
Well, happy Mother's Day to Hillary Clinton. Does anyone find this woman's voice grating? Especially when she's yelling that we need to stop yelling at one another? Because, for sure, Hillary & her Democrat harpies don't ever yell at the opposition....
I really don't know why Hillary Clinton continues to claim that the "world" is depending on her to beat Donald Trump.
“I don’t know how else to say it: The whole world is counting on us to win this thing. And we owe it to them to step up,” wrote Clinton staffer Christine Reynolds.
This "world candidate" claim doesn't help her cause. She keeps claiming that she's getting phone calls and pleas from the world to stop Trump by winning the US presidency. See, the Trumpsters think Hillary (and the GOPe) IS the world's candidate, but she's sure not America's. She's corrupt, greedy, dishonest and manipulative, not to mention selfish. Americans are tired of giving full welfare benefits and free health care to illegal aliens while dissing our veterans. Americans are tired of funding the defense of Europe with only sniping in response or "appreciation." Americans are tired of the GOP/DNC elite mocking them, even as they ask for more and more to fund their fancy properties and pension plans. Americans are tired of politicians who coast on fumes, promise lies and then just worry about their own parking spots and great "vacations" aka foreign trips. Americans are tired of the two political parties assuming we are stupid. Americans are tired of footing the bill for Europe et al and then crabbing when the "wars" don't end in a nice tidy gift box. So, yeah, Europe, World. Phone Go ahead and claim that crook Hillary Clinton is your candidate. That's one of the reasons we don't want her. She thinks more of YOU than us and certainly more of herself than anyone else. You can have her.
