There are a whole lot of dumbasses out there would rather have a complete idiot in power rather than someone that makes them feel stupid, or, in other words, is clearly smarter, more educated, and more capable than they are.

It’s an infuriating trait and I don’t understand it at all.

I could do a better job than this idiot, and I am self-aware and smart enough to realize I have no business being anywhere near that kind of job. I happen to want people far smarter, more experienced, more education, and more wisdom than myself in there. I don’t feel smaller by having someone better than me in there.

This is about the only job I can think of where there are certain types of idiots that cast about for non-experts for that role. You don’t people agitating to have “outsiders” in their sportsball team. You don’t see them calling for things like “term limits” on sports, either. Same for a whole host of occupations. People don’t put out ads for positions at companies seeking someone with zero experience, but who makes them feel good about their own capabilities in comparison.

But, for a role that We, The People hire for, we have this incredibly bizarre and stupid selection criteria - dumb things that include “wanting to have a beer with them”, or “running the country like a business”. Things like intelligence, capability, education, wisdom, and experience don’t seem to really matter for this hiring process.

This asshole seems incapable of humiliation.

He should be ashamed to even show up in public given what he’s done and what a dumbass he is, but I see him in front of cameras nearly daily, mugging and gesturing and holding forth, often for very long periods of time.

link doesn’t work. But I swear, these punks are some of the most loathsome pieces of shit I can think of.

I sure hope that some consequences are coming their way.

I can remember when the unhinged racist right wing would constantly jump up and down about Obama playing golf or taking the occasional trip to Hawaii.

PEDOnald can wing on down to Florida constantly and all these miserly penny-pinchers now say nothing.

This is so very well said. The Republicans are all nutless wonders. It’s in their emotional propensity for Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) to line up behind someone like PEDOnald.

I think he’ll be framed as the “sensible” version of “maga” (conservatism) after PEDOnald is out of the picture, and being selectively pro-peace will be part of that framing.

Even though James Bowman is worse given his associations with people like Thiel and books like The Unhumans.

Donnie Dumbass is surely bad enough and is pretty much Faux News come to life, but due to being very stupid and off-the-chart narcissistic, he’s not very ideological or very effective at bringing about the really, truly crazy shit that these demons want to do to this country.

James Bowman might be a whole other ball of wax. Thankfully his charisma level is about negative eleventy thousand.

The people that watch Faux News are the ones that are the very most supportive of this kind of thing.

If he wasn’t born rich, we’d never have heard of him.

So much this.

This guy would have been just another loudmouth jackass that you steer clear of and disinvite to any social event.

Is this anything new? The guy keeps claiming he has “good genes”.

A lot of blacks and Hispanics and LGBTQ voted for “maga” too, not realizing (or forgetting, or engaging in a lot of self-delusion) they are also on The List.

Also, we seem to burying the lede here a bit.

For one thing this asshole thinks that married women should not be able to vote. Also, he’s talking about a “xtian nation”:

Wilson’s comments add fuel to that fire. As Right Wing Watch reported, the pastor said recently that in his ideal Christian nation, “public displays of idolatry” would be banned, including Catholic parades.

GTFO with that shit.

If he wants a xtian nation, he can fuck off to somewhere else that actually is. That’s not here. Xtians have been dwindling for some time and now are around 62%, and, more importantly, even if they were at 99%, this country was founded as a secular nation based on Enlightenment principles.

It’s too bad our schools are failing to drill that into their thick skulls. No one in this country is required to be part of their little book club or its rules.

That’s because “maga” is a baby-word that is a stand-in for the conservatives as they have always been. None of this shit is really new - the KKK has been staunchly anti-Catholic since forever.

They just aren’t wearing hoods now. They seized power and a lot of them now have the permission structure to not only say this kind of thing behind closed doors (as they always have, by the way, I assure you).

Yeah, agreed on the state part - ideally they all use similar names (like states do for “DOT” - maybe something like ColoWPA or CaliWPA, etc.) so people that have a memory of seeing something tied to those names from the past make the connection, or if they ran across the modern version in one state and move, they can find the other department.

And when it comes to ideas, there are probably tons of things that people could think up as you have. I’d much rather have a direct engagement with government, the kind of contracting seems to be riddled with graft and people working for those outlets can (and do - I’ve seen people that work for huge defense contractors do this) tell themselves stories about how government never does anything.

Having government directly cutting checks to people for valuable work that benefits their community in ways that people can see would do a lot, beyond the direct and immediate benefit of the people getting paid - it would more than likely raise the level of civic engagement. This is, of course, why conservatives hated the New Deal (even though that was the compromise between some much more radical moves) and even still whine about it.

CCC was the other one I forgot about, yeah. For some reason, WPA came to mind first.

They are not even pretending at this point.

Yeah, I don’t think they started this shit. We have a special relationship with scumbags in Israel along with dumbasses like Spanky to blame for that.

LOL, this ruling was hilarious to read about.

LOL, you think?

Fine. Go fuck yourselves.

Stop trying to rig the vote and steal elections, you assholes.

Without blowing another big hole in our budget, people might get the idea that we should start taxing the Epstein class to fund things like childcare, healthcare, education, scientific research, feeding, clothing and housing all our people, and updating/fixing our infrastructure here at home.

There is always going to be money to pay for bullshit like this in “defense” of 'merica, but anything done for actual people IN America will have to be means tested and always up for getting cut by the likes of idiots that thought “doge” was a good idea.