How stupid has the populace become that they can’t see this high school bullshit.

The primary argument against the death penalty are the sheer number of people who were executed in spite of later being found innocent.

Just because it doesn’t apply in this particular case doesn’t mean anything needs to change.

The legal system does not have 100% accuracy.

On a day when JD Vance effectively admitted to another fabrication, as well.

This not only screams BS but makes me question other similar events which seemed to have perfect timing and a nice photo op.

Spin on a spin at this point.

But then how would I get my breakfast beer? Only at an airport do you get the plausibility of being accustomed to a different time zone.

In all seriousness though, this is the classic “blame the person or the tool” argument.

I’ve seen this one. This is the one where a bunch of Republicans are like “I’m a never Trumper” and then a month later they’re all on the floor kissing his feet.

Good thing he gutted Twitter’s content moderation teams in the name of “free speech”, eh?

If I had a dollar for every time a billionaire loses more money than I could ever dream of because their hubris got in the way or they misunderstood a concept or were just plain dumb – well, I guess I’d be a billionaire too.

How in the hell have the worst among us consistently been put into positions of power? These folks are an embarrassment to the country.

The US has a problem of representation. Specifically and especially since the Citizens United decision, corporate interests can easily flow money towards politicians to make them do just about anything they want. This exacerbated an existing problem with the corporate tax rate and has now brought it into laughably low territory.

That’s all an oversimplification of course, but it’s not that Americans haven’t “figured it out”. It is far more complicated than that.

This is disturbingly accurate.

Oh, I totally agree. My comment was intended more to get away from the idea that these people are simply unintelligent, which I don’t think is the case.

100% they have a responsibility to think critically. Conditioning may make that difficult, but a lack of effort would be an entirely different thing.

Trump’s achilles’ heel is pride and ego. He surrounds himself with yes-people to constantly stroke that ego.

But he isnt dumb. He must know (maybe deep down) that she got under his skin and as a result she embarrassed him on national TV.

He cannot risk any more detriment to the ego.

“But the TV said it so it’s not my fault for saying it again!”

It’s kind of like Tucker Carlson’s approach with “I’m just asking questions.” No, you’re spewing bullshit and trying to spin it as curiosity.

Welp, we’ve already seen plenty from these folks about how they would “lead”. No thanks.

We need to start taking it for what it is: these people have been conditioned by an actual disinformation campaign. It’s not that there are more dumb people. We have an entire segment of the population which has been systematically programmed.

That comment was almost even better than the “they’re eating pets” one. How absolutely insane that someone running for Commander in Chief would think “I saw it on TV” is a good defense on a fact check.

Can you imagine how incredibly different things would be right now had Biden stayed in the race?

At one time it would have sounded like a conspiracy theory, but you don’t get here without a massive disinformation campaign.

Trump’s supporters have been so programmed to accept everything he says at face value or, in some cases, just to ignore what he actually said in favor of the party’s updated spin. In all cases, they believe it is impossible that he could do any wrong, so any semblance of incongruity or poor leadership or any negative aspect of Trump at all must be due to lies of his opponents – even if that means the entire system would have to be rigged against him to an extremely unlikely degree.

The last time the world saw these tactics used to such an extreme extent and with such success required a widespread campaign of so-called “denazification” after a very prolonged war.

I guess that depends on your age. Even for some of the most contested elections in my lifetime (e.g. Bush v Gore 2000), supporters of either side did not have the kind of rabid quality that so many have now.

I wonder how much of that has to do with semantic drift on Elohim, i.e. by the time the oldest extant manuscripts were written, the figure was already considered singular despite retaining the noun plural morphology. The implication there would be that earlier (now lost) manuscripts may have had plural verb agreement for Elohim, or maybe simpler / more plausible, there was a time in the oral tradition where Elohim was still considered a plural figure and would have naturally gotten plural verbs.

I think the fact that the plural morphology exists on the noun at all suggests at least that the figure started as a collective.

Edit: probably also worth a mention that portions of Genesis (e.g. Garden of Eden) mirror portions of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a story which is overtly polytheistic.