Jonny Thomson writing for BigThink makes this point, “When we know something or someone is evil, we can take steps to fight it. With stupidity, it is much more difficult. Dietrich Bonhoeffer [theologian and philosopher] argues that stupidity is worse than evil because stupidity can be manipulated and used by evil.
He also argues that stupidity tends to go hand-in-hand with acquiring power — that is, being in power means we surrender our individual critical faculties.”
“There’s an internet adage that goes, “Debating an idiot is like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.””
“…we all have people in our lives we think of as a bit dim — not necessarily about everything, but certainly about some things.” “Most of the time, we laugh this off. After all, stupidity can be pretty funny. When my friend asked a group of us recently what Hitler’s last name was, we laughed. When my brother learned only last month that reindeer are real animals — well, that’s funny. Good-natured ribbing about a person’s ignorance is an everyday part of life.”
As Bonhoeffer puts it, “One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion.”
Stupidity, though, is a different problem altogether. We cannot so easily fight stupidity for two reasons.” “First, we are collectively much more tolerant of it. We do not lambast others for ignorance. Second, the stupid person is a slippery opponent. They will not be beaten by debate or open to reason. when they’re confronted with facts that cannot be refuted — they snap and lash out. Bonhoeffer says this, “facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental.”
“Stupidity, like evil, is no threat as long as it hasn’t got power. The problem with stupidity, though, is that it often goes hand-in-hand with power. Bonhoeffer writes, “Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity (…the smart are excluded or killed).”
As we have witnessed in states ruled by authoritarian MAGAT loving governors, the people who voted these dangerous people into office must surrender their intelligence and give up their independence, their critical thinking skills, and their ability to analyze what is being told to them. Once one gives up all of it, then they fall into lockstep behind the “stupid”.
A great many politicians once in power, give up their intelligence and reasonableness and trade it all in for something far worse. They become controlled by evil puppet masters need them to do their bidding within the halls of government. Bonhoeffer points out that “we should get angry and scared when stupid takes reign.”
The Q’Anon network continues to push the narrative that RUMP is actually the real president and is actually running the country. They tell their zombies that Biden is just part of a fake narrative. A staged photo op pretending to be president. What this illustrates is more validation of Bonhoeffer’s theory that stupid is more dangerous when compared to evil. Here is a piece where a reporter interview such people at a RUMP rally. They believe that everything about Biden’s presidency is fake. They believe that RUMP is actually in charge of the real military and Biden is in charge of a different military. They believe that there are two militaries. This proves just how dangerous stupid people are validating Bonhoeffer’s theory.
One thing Bonhoeffer seemed to get so right is that stupid MAGAT [Make American Gangrenous Again Trumpsters] people are more dangerous than those who are truly evil, such as those who display sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors that rise to power. RUMP being one such person, and DeSantis being another. Without the stupid people following like good tin soldiers, they would not have the power to continue control over a segment of the masses. But when we combine stupid with evil then we have a very dangerous person. The Reichwing in Congress and several governors seem to fit this category. The example of the wide ranging dangerously stupid nitwits who believe that RUMP is the actual president governing the country from his Mar-A-Lago basement storage room is a scary group of voters.
We have Ronnie DeFascist who has come out publicly to change the U.S. Constitution to add two more amendments, which would allow the government to execute more people. He wants to include child rapists as people who should be executed. But in a U.S. Supreme Court case, the Court believed that if the State decided to execute child rapists, then there may be a strong incentive for the perpetrator to kill his victim. Apparently, DeFascist missed that part. So, the killing of the perp might end up in the death of the victim, as well, if the threat of execution hangs in the mind of the rapist. It seems that DeFascist doesn’t care about that. He is dangerously stupid and evil combined. He also wants a supermajority of a jury to impose a death sentence and not the judge. He is counting on the current court to roll back the idea of cruel and unusual punishment, which would allow for more executions. Alito and Gorsuch might side with DeFascist.
DeFascist received an education Yale and from Harvard proving that such an education doesn’t equate to having a high level of intelligence. He has refused to accept the federal government’s medicare expansion, which ultimately denies seniors and others receiving Medicare programs health care. This is an anti-pro-life position. Also, if a woman miscarries, and requires a DNC to clear out the remains of the fetus, the state has considered this an abortion procedure denying her that procedure, which could put the woman’s life at risk. Doctors and hospitals would be at-risk of legal prosecution.
Read the full article here.
Joining the Congressional Reichwing’s Stupid caucus is Jimbo Jordan, who along with his colleague James Comer, who is the example of a oxymoron because he sits on the House Intelligence Committee. These two nitwits believe that what Biden did in regards to moving classified documents to his homes was far worse than what RUMP did when he declared that the documents he stole were his, all his!! RUMP considered them his souvenirs from his time living in the White House. Comer told his pals on Fox that Biden was engaged in “influence peddling with our adversaries around the world….” He also accused some of Biden’s family members of engaging in shady business dealings with our adversaries. They think nothing of the RUMP little cretins who were involved in White House business from doing business with foreign adversaries.
Did this nitwit from Kentucky Comer forget that Duh’Fuhrer made all kinds of deals with foreign countries and had bank accounts in many of those countries. And, his daughter filed over 100 patent applications in China while roaming the halls of the White House. And, Jared was working on smoozing the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia to buy into his investment fund for billions of dollars. And then, while RUMP was running his Washington International Hotel he was courting foreign adversaries while cashing in on their use of the hotel for their own political and business dealings.
Both these dangerously stupid nitwits forgot that Biden volunteered access to his homes and garage so documents could be found, while the Grifter from Queens denied the FBI access for several months claiming he had no documents, while pretending that he had already turned them over. It was then only after the FBI getting a legal that stacks of boxes filled with classified and other government related documents were found.
As it has been said, “Debating an idiot is like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.””
Now we come to a horrifying story coming out of Jimbo Jordan’s home state of Ohio. A Neo-Nazi home schooling network called Dissident Homeschool Network has been exposed. This home based Nazi curriculum, apparently overlooked by the Ohio Department of Education, was indoctrinating school children into becoming good little Nazi soldiers in-training. Writing assignment taken right out of Hitler’s book titled “Mein Kampf” were used, as well as the writings of another hater George Lincoln Rockwell. The couple running this dangerously stupid garbage had over 2400 followers and called themselves Mr. and Mrs. Saxon. Their real names are Logan and Katja Lawrence living in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. It seems that this Nazi enclave right under the nose of nitwit Governor DeWine was running a child Nazi training program.
Vlad Nehorai of the Jewish publication called The Forward, argued that Libs of TikTok is “fueling a pogrom against the LGBTQ community, and their allies with their lies, misinformation, and blatant hate.” Raichik is setting up a stage for an anti-semitic “blood libel.”(“Israel Yuval proposed that the blood libel may have originated in the 12th century due to Christian views on Jewish behavior during the First Crusade. Some Jews committed suicide and killed their own children rather than exposing them to forced conversion to Christianity.”) (Found on the Wiki pages of Raichik and Blood Libel.)
Raichik is joined by other self-hating Jews, such as Ben Shapiro who defends her attacks against liberal minded people. She also made an appearance at Grift-Alota-Lago in order to have lunch with Duh’Fuhrer. What did the two talk about? A plan to spread neo-Nazism throughout the country, RUMP is once again chosen as the Reichwing’s presidential nominee?
Joan Donovan, from the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media calls what is happening from posting and reposting hate across the width of social media sites “networked incitement” creating “a snowball effect, where people are emboldened to engage and participate.” Donovan draws a through-line between Q’Anon, the Stop the Steal movement and the January 6 Capital attack all of which spreads hate, lies, misinformation and incitement encouraging followers to act upon their impulses, which eventually forces the social media providers to shut them down. As we saw during the Capital insurrection, we are now seeing a rise in insurrection driven domestic terrorists to storm hospitals that give care to children and adults who are not acceptable to their worldview.
This once again proves just how dangerous stupid people can be. And the Nazi homeschoolers, i.e. the Lawrence’ crossed the line into evil, as well.
The Reichwing Congress has been devolving into showing just how dangerously stupid they can be. There are several members of the Three Stooges House Caucus led by Taylor Greene Slime, Bimbo Boebert, and HIMBO Matt Gaetz who are now sporting assault weapons lapel pins during a dangerous time in our history when mass shootings are a regular crime scene that involve assault weapons to gun down innocent people. Their display of support for these weapons seems to give a wink and a nod to their use. Here are a few of the Three Stooges House Caucus wearing these pins: U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY), U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA).
The deranged Hobo from Grift-Alota-Lago cannot help but scam his zombie supporters. Apparently, since his failing social media platform, which should be called ‘Just Don’t Give-me Some Truth-Social’ has a diminishing revenue stream, RUMP has recruited a slew of scamming advertisers that shill their fake health and medical cure remedies. The readers of his platform are all upset that they are being scammed and bombarded by these fake sellers. These so-called readers who have followed RUMP over the years don’t seem to learn very much. They haven’t figured out that RUMP has been scamming people his entire life.
On scamming, the bullshit duo of BillyBob Barr and special conman counsel John Bullshit Durham were not looking out for the nation but were looking out solely for Duh’Fuhrer. True example of Bonhoeffer’s principles at work!! These two did all they could to hide the facts that their crime boss RUMP had engaged in “suspicious financial dealings” as reported by the New York Times in a recent investigative piece. These two were given information provided by Italian officials of such potential crimes. It was Bullshit Durham’s assignment to file charges if evidence was found for these alleged crimes committed by RUMP but he decided not to proceed. What needs to be investigated is whether Durham actually filed charges with Barr and the paperwork was buried.
Lawrence Tribe, a Harvard constitutional law professor wrote, “When Durham unexpectedly found evidence of crimes committed BY rather than AGAINST Trump, he and Barr deliberately deceived the nation into thinking the opposite! This deep dive by the NYT is as jaw-dropping as anything I’ve read in the past decade.” Law professor Sherrilyn Ifill wrote this, “Horrifying breaches of professional ethics, misuse of DOJ investigative resources, and deliberate lies to, and gaslighting of the public. A grotesque perversion of the appropriate role of Attorney General.”
BillyBobBarr is being called out by various law professionals as a corrupt political figure, as well as corrupting the DOJ. Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks was very troubled by the report detailing just how inappropriately close BillyBob was to his special counsel Bullshit Durham when, in fact, all special counsels are supposed to have autonomy from any Attorney General interference. Wine-Banks wrote on Twitter that she wants to know the status of the Italian intelligence that was provided to Barr and Durham in regards to Durham’s investigation into alleged crimes committed by RUMP.
This collusion clearly illustrates the RUMP administration’s weaponization of the federal government into a maneuver called circling the wagons around Duh’Fuhrer. We will not be holding our breath that the current Reichwing House majority will investigate RUMP’s weaponization of the federal government during his time sitting on his Oval Office Golden Potty Chair throne.
Jill Wine-Banks points out “Barr’s relationship with Durham, his pressure on him to reach a certain result and their failure to follow up on Trump’s crime revealed during the investigation is what weaponization of the DOJ looks like — not what Republicans want to investigate now.”
Durham has been reporting to A.G. Merrick Garland for 22 months now. What has Garland done to demand the facts from Bullshit Durham?
Another dangerously stupid Reichwing House member is Mikey Turner from Ohio who continues to spread propaganda filled lies that he appears to know stuff that is not backed by any actual evidence. His current claim is that Biden smuggled classified documents out of the White House while taking the Amtrak “train back home” to Delaware and keeping them in boxes in his garage when he was in the Senate and serving as Vice President to Obama. When pressured by the press to show any evidence of what he calls smuggling, he could not do so because he had none. Dangerously Stupid Turner believes that conjecture is fact. More proof of Bonhoeffer’s theory about how stupid people are a greater threat than evil people.
The Dumpster RUMPster wore his signature Putin fashion statement, the blue suit with his Commie Red tie, during last summer’s New York A.G. criminal deposition in regards to the civil fraud investigation. The newly released video of that deposition shows the wannabe crime boss taking the Fifth Amendment for four hours over and over again because he knows he is guilty of the crimes against him. The NY A.G has filed a $250M lawsuit against him and three of little cretins, as well as the Trump Organization.
Here is just some of what Dumb-Dumb Donnie said,
"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, and that can include a civil enforcement proceeding or a criminal action. Do you understand that?" James asked.
"I think," Trump replied.
"Is that yes?" James asked.
"I don't know what I did wrong, but the answer is yes, I do understand," Trump said.
"You have the right to refuse to answer any question if a truthful answer to the question would tend to incriminate you. Do you understand that?" James continued.
"Yes," Trump replied.
"And any willful misstatement by you may constitute perjury. Do you understand that, sir?"
"Yes."
He began with a familiar refrain: "This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country." He called James "a renegade and out of control prosecutor" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices.
"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment [over 400 times] would be a fool, an absolute fool," Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, "I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.
"This will be my answer to any further questions."
DaRUMP once inferred that anyone taking the 5th amendment is guilt of the crimes they are being accused of. And here is a guy who basically was running a two-bit criminal organization has no idea what he did wrong even after his CFO was sent to prison?
Watch the news report here.
The RUMP is desperately trying to get back on the campaign trail but he is spending all his cash on lawyers. During a campaign speech he said that windmills are destroying aircraft and making airplanes crash Here is part of what he said, Windmills “kill all the birds, destroy all the planes, and our beautiful oceans and seas and everything else.” The wind turbines are apparently escalating their murderous behavior.” He is falling deeper and deeper into conspiracy theories fed to him by crazy White Nationalists and Q’Anon loving nitwits.
One so-called fake political figure is Kari Lake who decided to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. This dangerously stupid White Nationalist is trying to make herself look like a deeply relevant Christian. She is looking more and more like a criminal when she decided to illegally tweet out confidential information regarding the elections fraud case which she is involved in.
We are witnessing a rise of what is now being called out as a Far-Reich Christian Jihad in this country currently led by Ron DeFascist. He is imposing authoritarian policies throughout his state, especially in education, which focuses on White Nationalism instead of teaching an honest view of our history and world history. For all he proclaims against liberalism, he has embraced socialism. After insurance companies left the state following numerous hurricane disasters, the state of Florida created a department to underwrite property insurance at taxpayers expense. That is socialism, yet he has denied seniors and working people the opportunity to benefit from the federal government’s Medicare expansion programs. As a result, large numbers of seniors and others will not be able to receive expanded Medicare benefits causing them great hardship. DeFascist is following in the footsteps of the KKK, which was all about a White Nationalist Christian Jihad against people of color. DeFascist is laying out a blueprint for his big government national plan that would be put on full display if he becomes a fanatically fringe presidential candidate in order to appeal to the dangerously stupid voter.
His jihad includes his anti-vaccination mantra, based solely on conspiracy theories, which are not based in facts nor science. It included the human trafficking of immigrants across the country and landing them without any resource in D.C. and Martha’s Vineyard.
This jihad has extended into Florida’s public liberal arts school called New College of Florida when he decided to remove the existing member board of trustees and replace them with his hand picked White Nationalist conservative lieutenants that will do Ronnie’s fascist bidding regarding an overhaul of the school’s curriculum. This new board ousted the existing college president. This college located in Sarasota has been in existence for 60 years. Any curriculum that teaches about Black history and Gay topics will be forbidden. These White Nationalists want to remake New College into a clone of Hillsdale College. It appears The fascist regime of DeSantis is to do away with separation between Church and State.
And finally, the Reichwing is protecting the country’s plutocrats who are not paying their fair share of taxes, as well as the multi-nationals they work for. The $31 trillion dollar national debt is getting bigger because of their lack of taxes paid into the treasury. Instead, they end up being lenders to the federal government. Because they don’t pay taxes they take that money and use it to make more money for themselves. One investment vehicle they use is to purchase treasury bonds through hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, banks, personal trusts, mutual funds, and estates. They earn interest on the billions of dollars they invest in these bonds, which ultimately becomes a lending vehicle to the treasury. Instead of paying taxes to the government, the plutocrats become the lenders to the government and profit from not paying taxes.
Read the entire story here.
Here are a few interesting factoids:
Whales, which are become killed off need to be protected. One whale soaks up at least 33 tons of carbon dioxide everyday. Whales are saving the planet from the harmful effects of climate change. Whales feed on krill and krill feed on ocean plankton. What this illustrates is why we need healthy oceans. Whales are hunted and that needs to end. Whales painfully die from eating the trash being dumped into the oceans. Trash being dumped into the oceans should become illegal.
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If you have bird feeders, sprinkle chili powder into the feed because squirrels are repelled by this hot stuff.
To keep critters from digging in your garden, soak cotton balls with clove and peppermint essential oils and spread them around. This smell repels squirrels, mice, moles. These oils will keep them from entering your home or shed, as well.
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Valley fever is spreading across the country and Canada. This is a fungal infection that lives in the soil and can be contracted by digging in the soil. The rates of infection are most common with people 60 years old and older. It can be deadly!!!
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How about adding polyphenols, to your coffee to help reduce inflammation.
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Here is natural weed killer method. Be careful not replant where you spray this mixture because nothing will grow in that spot.
To create the recipe pour one gallon of white vinegar into a bucket. "Five percent household white vinegar is fine."
Then add one cup of table salt and stir in one tablespoon of washing up liquid. Once that is done the gardener said it'll be "ready to kill weeds".
You can use a pump sprayer or a spray bottle.
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Are you getting enough magnesium?
