During the Revolutionary War, George Washington ordered his troops inoculated against Small Pox.
This week Pete Hegseth lifted the requirement that troops be inoculated for influenza for "religious" reasons.
The current GOP is heavily anti scientific.
Opposition to vaccinations has been in American history largely a thing of smaller Christian and non Christian sects which are fairly anti scientific, as opposed to the majority of Christians who have no objection to vaccination. However, when the far right of the country started to turn weird, listening to such medical lights as boob model Jenny McCarthy, that began to change a bit. Covid really made it worse as a significant portion of the country turned anti vax under the leadership of Donald Trump, who got the vaccine, but who recommended some really lethal approaches to the crisis as well.
Troops who don't get inoculated ought to just be given dishonorable or less than honorable discharges. That's what should have occurred to those who refused the Covid vaccine.
April 24, 2026
The war department stands ready for what comes next. Locked and loaded. May God continue to breast—bless our warriors each and every day and on each and every mission.
Hegseth.
Breast?
Okay, I get that it's a slip of the tongue, um, well, but it's an odd one.
BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
From a CNN Interview of Mehmet Oz, a prime example of the Oprah Effect.1
In fairness to Dr. Oz, who in fairness should not be a government official, he does want people to get the measles vaccine.
Also in fairness, the dissing of vaccines isn't really a Trump thing in and of itself, but he gave it some boosted unneeded assistance by taking the political step of promising Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. a job as the HHS Secretary if he'd drop out of the last Presidential race. Kennedy is a quack, and an opponent of vaccines in varying degrees (it seems to change day by day). The rise of this movement, however, started with people like Jenny McCarthy who sadly has a son with autism. McCarthy herself was a Playboy model and her only real expertise is in showing her naked visage, something that really doesn't qualify a person for anything serious, and in fact may achieve much the opposite.
Oh, and by the way, Jenny McCarthy appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show multiple times in the 2000s to discuss her erroneous theories on autism and vaccines, and to promote a book she wrote.
Much of this story has to do with the inability to understand the difference between present conditions and past ones. People tend to assume that negative developments in a population mean a negative present condition. Sometimes they do, but sometimes they also represent a positive one. I'll give a personal example.
In 1982 I had pneumonia while at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. I was extremely ill, literally on death's door.
Before the advent of antibiotics the fatality rates for bacterial pneumonia were between 60% and 70%.
Not good.
Now, the survivability rate is pretty good.
I've had a colon surgery for a developing condition that would have killed me even thirty years ago.
The point? Well, if I go on to develop Alzheimer's, which I pray I do not, it'll mostly be because I didn't die at age 19 of pneumonia.
Also, fwiw, Meet The Press this weekend had a physician on who noted that diseases we can now vaccinate for are associated with cancer, which is a developing field of medicine. I.e., you get some disease that's not big deal when young, and then you get cancer when older. You don't want cancer.
A fellow I know who suffered a heart attack, and who was otherwise very healthy, may have developed his heart condition this way as well.
The Trump Interregnum is threatening to pull broadcasting licenses of those who do not give a happy spin to the war against Iran.
March 21, 2026
Waging a war against American airports must be easier than waging a war against a real country that fights back:
cont:
Absolutely reprehensible.
At this point, support of Trump is indecent.
March 31, 2026
We were horrible in Vietnam until we did Rolling Thunder One and Rolling Thunder Two, and then we won. As soon as we do half-measures, we lose. The faster we get this over the better. If we seize Kharg Island, it's technically boots on the ground. It could be done almost flawlessly. If we have enough firepower, it would be very easy to defend.
Rep. Rich McCormick, whom apparently is unaware that the US lost the Vietnam War.
April 10, 2026
Melania Trump made a rare and awkward televised appearance to deny ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The appearance was so rare, and the rumors regarding her association with Epstein so long lasting, that there's lots of open speculation as to why, although the release of a book in the UK asserting she was an Epstein bedmate a year prior to her association with Trump may be the reason. Or it may just be that she's tired of her reputation being dragged through the mud.
Note, I'm not asserting the book is correct. I don't know, and I'm not going to read it. She's asserting that at least some of what's being said are lies, and no doubt some of them are lies. I'll note the repeated claims that she was a prostitute is a lie. Her claims that Epstein did not introduce the couple are mostly likely correct.
I'm surprised by how surprised people are that she speaks English poorly. Frankly, it just sounds heavily accented to me.
I'm not a Melania fan, but I don't envy her position.
Marrying Trump made her rich and we don't know why she married him, and her marriage no doubt now looks like a pretty poor choice to people who do not adore Trump. Maybe she adores Trump. It's certainly made her a target, and she can hardly defend herself due to her poor speaking abilities.
Democrats like high gas prices because of their radical climate agenda. So people understand what the president is doing and agree with him.
Sen. Dr. John Barrasso.
So, Trump causing higher prices. . . Democrats want higher prices. . . so Trump's a Democrat?
Yeah. . . Wyoming's really getting its money worth out of this public servant. . .
Frankly, I don't believe that Barrasso believes a word he's saying a lot of the time. If Trump announced tomorrow he was a member of the Socialist Party, Dr. John would appear with a copy of the Greatest Hits of Karl Marx.
April 16, 2026
Kennedy was just put in this position by Trump to get him out of the way in the election. No more proof than that is needed to establish that Trump really doesn't give a rats ass about the health of the American public. Kennedy is a complete nut.
Of course, Trump also elevated Dr. Oz to power as well, putting the sort of dimwitted pop crap from the Oprah Show into power.
While we're at it, Pete Hegseth, who has tattooed himself with the symbols of Catholic Crusaders while being a member of some Protestant sect that Crusaders would regard as being weird heretics, but who is trying to Christianize, in the far right Evangelical sense, the Department of Defense quoted to a gathering at one of his prayer functions the famous speech from Pulp Fiction, that being:
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
This is good script writing, but it's not actually what's in the Bible.
A snippet of what's actually found in Ezekiel in this area, which is supposed to be what the assassin character is quoting, is here:
Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted vengefully and exacted vengeance with intentional malice, destroying with undying hostility, therefore thus says the Lord GOD: See! I am stretching out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and wipe out the remnant on the seacoast.
Thus I will execute great acts of vengeance on them, punishing them furiously. Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I wreak my vengeance on them.
A bit different. I'd have expected Hegseth to know that. Part of what's noted in the actual text is a warning against vengeance.
The larger text states:
The word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, turn toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
Say to the Ammonites: Hear the word of the LORD! Thus says the Lord GOD: Because you jeered at my sanctuary when it was desecrated, at the land of Israel when it was destroyed, and at the house of Judah when they went into exile, therefore I am giving you to people from the east* as a possession. They shall set up their encampments among you and pitch their tents in your midst; they shall eat your produce and drink your milk. And I will turn Rabbah into a pasture for camels and all of Ammon into a grazing place for flocks. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
For thus says the Lord GOD: Because you rejoiced over the land of Israel with scorn in your heart, clapping your hands and stamping your feet, therefore, see, I am stretching out my hand against you and giving you up as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and wipe you out of the lands. I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am the LORD.c
Against Moab.
Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab said, “See! the house of Judah is like all the other nations,” therefore, I am exposing the whole flank of Moab* with its cities, the jewels of its land: Beth-jesimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim. I will hand it over, along with the Ammonites, to the people from the east that it may not be remembered among the nations. I will execute judgment upon Moab that they may know that I am the LORD.
Against Edom.
Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Edom took vengeance on the house of Judah and incurred terrible guilt by taking vengeance on them, therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it human being and beast alike. I will turn it into ruins from Teman to Dedan; they shall fall by the sword.
I will put my vengeance against Edom into the hands of my people Israel; they will deal with Edom in accord with my furious anger. Thus they shall know my vengeance!—oracle of the Lord GOD.h
Against the Philistines.
Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted vengefully and exacted vengeance with intentional malice, destroying with undying hostility, therefore thus says the Lord GOD: See! I am stretching out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and wipe out the remnant on the seacoast.
Thus I will execute great acts of vengeance on them, punishing them furiously. Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I wreak my vengeance on them.
One of the things that's slightly interesting here, as a random observation, is that generally Catholics use a lot more of the Old Testament as a rule than Protestants. Protestants are often shocked how "Jewish" Catholic services are, and well given as the Apostolic Faiths date back to the Apostles, that makes sense. Maybe Hegseth can be somewhat excused therefore for quoting Quentin Tarantino's script.
It does make me wonder, however, if Hegseth has seen the movie. In the film Jules Winnfield, the assassin in question, has a Road to Damascus moment and decides to give up being a hit man. Vincent Vega, who continues on in that role after Winnfield has a Crisis de Coeur, is gunned down by one of his intended targets, who himself is excused as a target by the mob boss after he intervenes to save his life. Tarantino is not noted to be religiously observant at all, but he may have accidentally have written some moral lessons into the film.
If so, Hegseth missed them.
We might close out this issue of this thread here, as with Donald Trump's mental health rocketing towards the completely unhinged, the ignorance level of the Trump administration is accelerating. RFK Jr., for example, is starting a podcast. Markwayne Mullin is in the cabinet. Things are occurring back scene. The administration, the most ignorant one in American history, promises to get weirder.
Footnotes:
1. The Oprah Effect is so named here to explain the phenomenon of Oprah Winfrey putting some flaming bogosity on to her popular daytime television show and thereby having millions of people give it credence. There are a fair number of examples, including the rise of Dr. Oz.
BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
From a CNN Interview of Mehmet Oz, a prime example of the Oprah Effect.1
In fairness to Dr. Oz, who in fairness should not be a government official, he does want people to get the measles vaccine.
Also in fairness, the dissing of vaccines isn't really a Trump thing in and of itself, but he gave it some boosted unneeded assistance by taking the political step of promising Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. a job as the HHS Secretary if he'd drop out of the last Presidential race. Kennedy is a quack, and an opponent of vaccines in varying degrees (it seems to change day by day). The rise of this movement, however, started with people like Jenny McCarthy who sadly has a son with autism. McCarthy herself was a Playboy model and her only real expertise is in showing her naked visage, something that really doesn't qualify a person for anything serious, and in fact may achieve much the opposite.
Oh, and by the way, Jenny McCarthy appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show multiple times in the 2000s to discuss her erroneous theories on autism and vaccines, and to promote a book she wrote.
Much of this story has to do with the inability to understand the difference between present conditions and past ones. People tend to assume that negative developments in a population mean a negative present condition. Sometimes they do, but sometimes they also represent a positive one. I'll give a personal example.
In 1982 I had pneumonia while at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. I was extremely ill, literally on death's door.
Before the advent of antibiotics the fatality rates for bacterial pneumonia were between 60% and 70%.
Not good.
Now, the survivability rate is pretty good.
I've had a colon surgery for a developing condition that would have killed me even thirty years ago.
The point? Well, if I go on to develop Alzheimer's, which I pray I do not, it'll mostly be because I didn't die at age 19 of pneumonia.
Also, fwiw, Meet The Press this weekend had a physician on who noted that diseases we can now vaccinate for are associated with cancer, which is a developing field of medicine. I.e., you get some disease that's not big deal when young, and then you get cancer when older. You don't want cancer.
A fellow I know who suffered a heart attack, and who was otherwise very healthy, may have developed his heart condition this way as well.
The Trump Interregnum is threatening to pull broadcasting licenses of those who do not give a happy spin to the war against Iran.
March 21, 2026
Waging a war against American airports must be easier than waging a war against a real country that fights back:
March 27, 2026.
In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, President Donald J. Trump’s signature alongside @SecScottBessent's will soon appear on U.S. currency, marking a first in history, and symbolizes @POTUS ' leadership and dedication to our great nation will carry a lasting impact
U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach.
And hence, the era of defacement of U.S. currency began.
Seriously, my prediction will be for those dealing in cash, the number of "F***" next to Donny's signature, or replicas of his public Epstein birthday card's, or any number of defacements, will be epic.
The sycophantic sucking up this this demented twit is beyond all understanding. When this is all over, and it will be soon, Bessant ought to spend every day for the rest of his life apologizing.
Footnotes:
1. The Oprah Effect is so named here to explain the phenomenon of Oprah Winfrey putting some flaming bogosity on to her popular daytime television show and thereby having millions of people give it credence. There are a fair number of examples, including the rise of Dr. Oz.
WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Gen. Smedley Butler.
American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property. These pillaged assets were then used to fund terrorism and flood our streets with killers, mercenaries and drugs.
Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Advisor.
Stephen Miller, who is Jewish, has somehow managed to become the most White Racist and imperialist member of the Trump Administration, apparently forgetting that the white, Protestant, demographic he's backing, doesn't regard him as white.
Maybe Miller ought to listen to some Nick Fuentes.
Anyhow, the other day Trump said something about Venezuela stealing "our land". It made no sense, but now, with Miller's help, we know what he meant.
Geology created the Venezuelan oil industry. Imperialism created the concept that somebody else's natural resources belongs to us. Neo imperialism will get us bogged down in regional wars Miller won't be going to so that young American men can die for petroleum oil, which we have plenty of here in the US.
Trump is demented. People like Miller have his ear. This is absolutely frightening.
December 19, 2025
Trump’s handpicked buttkissers on the Kennedy Center board voted to renames it the Trump Kennedy Center
It's questionable if it can legally be renamed, and all of these "love me" type of monumental acts are going to go away as soon as Trump's illegitimate interregnum is over. The amazing things that there's such syncophantic asskissers who are willing to do things like this.
December 22, 2025
And while you are, or aren't, worrying about this:
You might want to worry that we have a seemingly unstable would be caudillo in the Oval Office and an administration that violated the deadline provisions of the law concerning release of the Epstein files.
At first the MAGAs were pointing toward the photos of Clinton, but within 24 hours they were pulling stuff back down that referenced Trump. On Sunday they sent a deputy AG around to the Sunday shows to explain that they had to do that, apparently, as women who appeared in the buff in those photos might have been complaining about it. If those women were minors, they shouldn't have released that material, but then they should have had that figured out in the first place. If they were just nude women, well, too bad. You get photographed in the house of a creep, you can't expect that not to get around.
Anyhow, he ran around sounding rather distraught. Now we know that a third oil taker in our sights in the Caribbean, and today we learn that Trump has appointed a "special envoy" to Greenland who has said something about how we should annex that territory to the US. Denmark has called in our ambassador.
Okay, how does that relate to this thread?
Trump appears to be pretty desperate right now. Nothing distracts like a war. Nicolás Maduro shows no signs whatsoever of backing down, and there are no signs whatsoever that his military is going to force him out. Trump can't back down. And what better way to change the topic at Christmas dinner from "so. . . why do you think the administration is protecting the diddler files" than by sending than by sending FA 18s over Venezuela. . . or maybe putting the Marines on the beaches?
Am I saying that is going to happen as a distraction from the embarrassing teenage girl sex story? No, I"m not, but I am saying its not impossible to imagine that.
And at this point, it's clear, Maduro is sitting there ignoring Trump. War with Venezuela, in some form, is inevitable.
cont:
Not really properly before in this category, but administration news nonetheless, the ambassadors to Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Uganda, Fiji, Laos, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Vietnam, Armenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Algeria, Egypt, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Guatemala and Suriname are being removed and replaced.
cont:
We need Greenland for national protection. They have a very small population…They say that Denmark was there 300 years ago with a boat. Well, we were there with boats too I’m sure.
Donald Trump.
The United States isn't 300 years old. . .
And that small population comment is just the sort of thing a New Yorker would say . . .
And then there's this gem. Trump wants a fleet of twenty five battleships built. Battleships have been obsolete for decades.
cont:
It appears the "battleships" will not be battleships.
Like Greene, Boebert was a fanatic MAGA. Problem for Trump was that she, like Greene, MAGA than Trump who, at the end of the day, is only about Trump.
At some point somebody pointed out to Trump that there are people in the Epstein files whose names he shouldn't want released. Maybe that's Trump or maybe that's somebody else. Probably somebody else, but Trump already looks pretty bad in regard to hanging out with Epstein. He didn't want those files released, and so far the administration hasn't fully released them. Boebert, like Green voted to release them.
Now she and her district must pay the price.
Well, it was a Trump district. If they suffer as a result, so be it. They're getting exactly what they deserve.
January 13, 2026
Oh, this is going to be interesting.
January 22, 2026
The idea of turning Greenland into America’s rare-earth factory is science fiction. It’s just completely bonkers. You might as well mine on the moon. In some respects, it’s worse than the moon.
Malte Humpert, founder and senior fellow at The Arctic Institute regarding the avaricious lusting after Greenland's mineral wealth.
January 24, 2026
There are no penguins in Greenland, or anywhere in the Arctic.
The DoD also put an item up based on this theme with the words "Be a warrior, embrace the penguin". Apparently that's a recruiting effort aimed at morons.
The 25th Amendment needs to be applied to Trump. Those supporting Trump need to be removed. Republican politicians who support this lawlessness need to go as soon as they are up for reelection.
"Chemtrails" for those who are unfamiliar with this, is a conspiracy theory. As Wikipedia summarizes it:
The chemtrail conspiracy theory /ˈkɛmtreɪl/ is the erroneous belief that long-lasting condensation trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are actually "chemtrails" consisting of chemical or biological agents, sprayed for nefarious purposes undisclosed to the general public. Believers in this conspiracy theory say that while normal contrails dissipate relatively quickly, contrails that linger must contain additional substances. Those who subscribe to the theory speculate that the purpose of the chemical release may be solar radiation management, weather modification, psychological manipulation, human population control, biological or chemical warfare, or testing of biological or chemical agents on a population, and that the trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.
Uff.
The fact that this passed committee suggest that every member of this committee needs to return to kindergarten save for Barry Crago and Karlee Provenza
So who is on it?
Bob Ide
Barry Crago (voted no).
Taft Love
Troy McKeown
Laura Pearson
John Winter
Dalton Banks
Bob Davis
John Eklund
Steve Johnson
Pepper Ottman
Karlee Provenza (voted no).
Mike Schmid
Tomi Strock
Apparently global warming coming up with some blaming that on chemtrails. How ignorant can a person be? It's amazing that they actually will acknowledge that its occuring, and man made, but has to be caused by some bat shit crazy conspiracy theory.
Don't vote for anyone on this list after this, save for Provenza and Crago. You can judge them on their merits otherwise, but they didn't fall for this whacky shit or tolerate it.
Simply amazing, and depressing.
November 7, 2025
We've dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies I'm hoping by the midterms.
Dr. "Oz".
What the crap?
Also, at this event an unidentified man collapsed beside President Donald Trump.
Dr. Oz, did go to help the man, while Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran away from the scene. The video of Kennedy's hasty departure is impressive.
November 19, 2025
Esquire, which I don't read, but whose cover I saw declares this to be "The Age of Stupid and openly wonders if the US will survive it. It further declares that the US went from anti-intellectual, to anti-intellect.
That seems pretty correct to me.
The Atlantic has an article entitled Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid, noting "Social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and made America stupid. It's actually from 2022, and compares the US to the Biblical Babel.
So on this topic, I'm not alone.
Trump is spouting stupider and stupider stuff by the day. He insults people throughout every single day.
The country literally can't keep going this way. Stupidity will bring it to ruin, if not the entire globe to ruin.
There is some evidence, albeit not overwhelming, that thinking people have had enough.
Recently I linked in an Ezra Klein episode on Nick Fuentes. It's here:
Well worth listening to, and absolutely frightening.
I'm noting that, as it wasn't until that episode that I appreciated the degree to which the current GOP, and the populist right, is being influenced by incels. Right after that, through synchronicity, it occurred to me recently how many right wing populists are basically misogynistic, racist, losers.
Not all of them by any means. There are many very right wing thinkers out there, and some of them are in the Trump camp.
Not too many of them are really MAGA anymore however.
There are, however, a group that spend all their time hating blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and women, because if all those people, they think, were "in their place", an easy life would be provided to them.
Well, bucko, the world was never like that. Get up, get out, and get a grip.
Trump feeds into these people's sense of worth. They love him, he desires love, and therefore, well . . .therefore.
This was oddly illustrated by this on Twitter, posted by one Richard Cooper, who seems to hate women, but who also, on his Twitter feed, like to demonstrate his hatred for women, by posting pictures of barely clad women.
"Just look at the degree on that chick"
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Well, I don't know what sort of background Cooper has, but in the age of stupid, there are a lot of comments like this out there.
This one, however, actually went viral, as it sparked thousands of degreed women to post their own photos of their graduations with "look at the degree on that chick", including the extremely conservative The Catholic Engineer, whom I follow. I'm a very conservative Catholic, but The Catholic Engineer makes me look like a liberal in comparison. But she's very interesting, very willing to engage in debates, and she also is coincidentally a pretty woman.
Adding this pic to the trend too cause it's cool
They shot Inception over here
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She is some sort of aerospace engineer, which is pretty darned high test.
Anyhow, the entire concept that men don't like intelligent women is complete bs. It's long been established that generally people marry somebody of like IQ, save for the super wealthy who have lost their morals and marry bimbos. I'll note here that it would appear that our nation's (illegitimate) leader, who very clearly isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, doesn't appear to have selected all of his "wives" based on intelligence, which doesn't necessarily mean that they're not intelligent. Only Marla Maples seemed to be an exception, but of course I don't know much about any of the lineup. The current occupant of the lineup might be smart, who knows, but given his wealth and her (then fully on display) looks, it seems to be the classic trophy situation.
That's been one of the things that's been so baffling. Trump's not smart, and he behaves like a wealthy playboy, and that's stupid. There's nothing admirable about that at all, and in no prior era would anyone have thought so.
Anyhow, since the introduction of Trump into politics there's been the rise of basement dwelling incels. No, they don't control everything. There's really mad right wing conservatives who were and are upset with moral decay. There's the illiberal democrats of the National Conservative movement, many of whom are real intellectuals (and probably mostly married to really sharp women). There's the Neo Traditionalist who are trying to grope their way back to an imagined Hilaire Belloc golden age that never really existed, but which they wish did and hope might, again. There's the really scary Evangelicals of the New Apostolic Reformation who seek to make the nation a Calvinist republic. All of these are tied up together in a coalition, now seemingly starting to fray, that has been MAGA.
But an undoubted part of that is the Nick Fuentes group of populists. They're angry, they're nasty, they are anti semitic, anti women, and pretty much opposed to anyone who isn't a basement dweller. They believe the women, Indians, Jews, Blacks and, ironically in the case of Fuentes, Hispanics stole from them simply by being here. Educated women, blacks, Jews, and others have taken their jobs and maybe the girls they would have had, they believe, leaving them with no future. They found a voice in people like Fuentes and Tucker Carlson, and even people like true, but radical, intellectuals from the other camps, like Helen Anderson, who imagines that radical feminizatist still exist and are wiping out society, as she's written about here:
It's a short article. It's also incredibly wrong. I've lived through the era in which law went from mostly male to increasingly female, in terms of lawyer demographics, and it really hasn't made one darned bit of difference in the law.
As noted, things seem to be changing a bit. I'm hearing more and more people who ere MAGA adherents suddenly question it. People as MAGA as Marjorie Taylor Green are now openly at war with a mentally failing Donald Trump. A war is going on inside of MAGA about Tucker Carlson's bromance with Fuentes.
And now this. People reacted heavily to the "look at the degrees on that chick" comment, a comment which suggested, basically, that women had value only for their physical and secual attributes.
I actually went in and liked Turner's Twitter feed, as she's an evolutionary biologist, one of my favorite topics. I'm not exactly threatened by a woman having an advanced degree in that topic.
Indeed, looking back, and I now have a lot of back to look at, in my dating days, there was never one single girl I dated that wasn't really sharp. One went on to be a school teacher. Another I lost track of but she was the valedictorian of her high school class. One was working on a masters degree in geophysics and obtained it. Two were law students. And finally there's my wife, who is pretty darned smart.
Indeed, look at the degrees on those chicks.
But consider the stupidity of the nation right now. It's appalling.
We'll close out this edition of this sad trailing thread here.
December 13, 2025
First it was the screwball chemtrail stupidity, now this:
*I'm using the word Ignoramus in its original English connotation, as derived from the Latin. I.e., an ignorant person.
Not a stupid person.
To willfully believe something stupid is ignorant, particularly when done by intelligent people. Some of these people are undoubtedly highly intelligent, and I don't know that any of them are stupid, but they're willfully voting for something that is just a weird silly conspiracy theory.
