It’d be a real shame if these people were treated like the terrorists they actually are.

Still? This nutless wonder is butthurt over Rosie? What a POS.

It bears repeating, even places like this one. I’ve run into shocking amounts of innumeracy and utter lack of critical thinking - in addition to illiteracy. In the United States, as least.

I remember kids in school dunking on “book learning” and that they valued “street smarts”. These are exactly the types that are now “doing their own research” on things, but completely without any of the fundamental building blocks to separate the wheat from the chaff, other than by vibes.

If our education systems was beyond the reach of conservative/Republican monsters, children would be well-served by teachers that hand out something like this as an essay-type question to explain why the claim is suspect - and have them show their work. You’d get to cover critical thinking, media literacy as well as some basic math all in one fell swoop. I’m sure lots more instances could be found over the years, plucked straight from news articles…

In our current education landscape, all it would take is one snowflake to tell mommy and/or daddy that are infected with fauxbrain, and that teacher would be fired for “indoctrinating” their children with intelligence, I guess…

I live in a small town of about 4k people and the day after Obama was elected you would have thought that a 2nd 9/11 happened or a nuke was dropped.

I remember I worked with a guy and another co-worker was sometimes still finishing up listening to NPR at a low volume, and around that time (Obama years), they’d be playing a soundbite from Obama. Almost every time Obama was talking, even though we could just barely hear it, the other co-worker would turn to me and mutter how much he hated Obama’s voice. Like clockwork. Not what he was saying (if we could even make it out). Just his voice. This same co-worker thought NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, etc…were all extreme left outlets, too, lol. And he spent some period of time where he was super-upset about…checks notes…seeing two government workers in a trucks. He mentioned this multiple times, so I can only guess it was some thing on hate radio around that time. When asked follow-up questions on why he’s upset, nothing coherent could be discerned. Same dude was riled up about people that couldn’t afford their house getting bailed out by government, or something, too.

I lost contact with him before Taco was elected, but I can only imagine he thinks that Taco is “fixing” everything. I don’t know what he was like before Obama, but he was nearly inconsolable about Obama. It’s why I think they uncreatively talk about “TDS” when Taco does completely outrageous things - Obama did completely normal things, or even if he did nothing at all, and they lost their heads over it.

Of all the people for the dipshits to rally around, they picked this failed game show host. It’s so very much stupider than I could have possibly imagined. I sort of get how they lionized Ronnie Raygun, despite how awful he was for this country and so on…the veneer at least seems halfway decent and he at least pretended to love this country and those that live in it.

Taco has just a complete disregard for everything good about this country and hates everyone. What is there to like about that?

That’s just science! And math!

Thank you.

The other thing to point out is that there are plenty of Taco supporters in younger generations which most likely had a lot less lead exposure.

Depends on the boomers. My parents and all their friends are/were just fine when it came to their mental faculties. I’m not sure boomers are really much different than prior generations or the ones that followed…

I doubt most of the teabaggers would listen to anything that counters their emotional beliefs. And yeah, Maher comes across as smug - but he’s not at all wrong…I mean, it’s probably even more true these days since California is the 4th largest economy now.

The people always bitching about Cali (but most likely have never been) have real “I hate the prom queen and prom king, they are so stuck up!” energy.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6739677/Bill-Maher-makes-fun-Americans-living-red-states-saying-affluent-educated.html

They are extremely cult-like about Taco. I saw one of them put one of those stupid “never give up” shirts [1] on their kids and went out in public with it last summer. I mean, what the actual hell. Who knows if the spell will every break with the true believers. Even if Taco were to stroke out on live tv and shit his diaper, they’d probably blame that on Hillary or Biden or Hunter’s hard drive, oops, I mean, “laptop”. These people are fucking crazy.

[1] The pose where he was thinking “photo-op” right after the shattered glass hit his ear.

LOL, he must be talking about himself, since he never gives a rat’s ass if someone else’s life is destroyed - see for example, the outcomes of DOGE, ICE…

Well, he’s famous for his foot-wedge.

More illegal market manipulation.

This dickhead should be rotting in prison for so many reasons, including this.

current timestamp + “2 weeks” is always going to be infrastructure week. And any other future news that Taco cares to announce. Whatever your current time is, plus 2 weeks out.

Think anyone in media sets up a 2 week reminder for any of them to then ask one of his spokescreatures some follow-up questions?

I seem to recall reading one of the divisive things the cipherpunks on their mailing list discussion was about untraceable digital money (before Bitcoin) and the thought experiment about just this very kind of thing (minus the siren server like GoFundMe, because why would you want that in the mix if you were doing this kind of thing).

Not that anyone set it up, and the many proposals around digital cash did not really gain traction until 2009 or so…but this was from the 90s.

Yeah, I cannot decide who I’d want least out of those two. They are both so goddamned weird. That porn pact thing that little johnson has with his son - really weird. And he always comes off as just so creepy and awful.

And “JD” - that asshole sitting there and asking Zelenskyy if he said thank you? “JD” can go fuck himself.

I’m picturing Taco dressing up as “Buck Dancer” and arguing over hotel staff about the proper handling of baked goods and whether they are “freshly baked” by the in-house chef, or just Pepperidge Farm products.

🤣

I wonder how many VPNs are compromised, TBH.

I think Maher is right when it come to how people in shithole states are taught to hate California, when the reality is that they are jealous of Cali.

Ugh, does anyone want to see “JD” “Vance” take that role while the qons make a martyr of this shithead?

Or possibly worse, that little dweeby troll magamike johnson if they were to target “JD”, too?

The people behind 2025 will use anyone else as their tool and if Taco were to fatwa’ed, it wouldn’t make anything better and would most likely make things much worse.