In defense of the Unbearably Stupid ...

[NanceGreggs]

We cannot expect people who believe an election was 'stolen' without a shred of evidence, who believe that M&Ms are part of a leftist agenda, who believe that vaccines contain tracking devices meant to spy on them, who believe that Antifa stormed the Capitol on January 6th in order to stop the man they wanted to be president from being certified as such, and who believe that Biden is about to confiscate their gas stoves, to understand the difference between stealing classified documents and repeatedly lying about it and uncovering classified documents and immediately returning them to NARA.

Expecting the Unbearably Stupid to smarten-up is like expecting bears to stop shitting in the woods and start shitting in the Capitol rotunda, like patriotic Republicans do.

[Ohio Joe]

1. K&R

[EarthFirst]

2. They've spent decades crafting individuals devoid of critical thinking...

…in such a manner; that those they created to behave this way are proud of their ignorance.

[solara]

3. Brava!

Dear Nance;

Once again you totally nailed it. Thank you for sharing your vision & talent with us all

[CaptainTruth]

21. It's called "grooming"...

...& their culture war against grooming is just more psychological projection on their part.

[H2O Man]

4. Recommended.

It is never realistic to think that members of a cult will accept that reality exists outside of their sick level of understanding.

[Emile]

5. I don't expect someone to smarten-up who thinks I'm a godless

baby killer. These people are brainwashed lunatics.

[Thunderbeast]

6. This focus group story in Sunday NY Times was discouraging.

These people have given up on the fact-based world...just repeating Fox News.

Skeptical About Trump ’24? These 12 Republicans Will Set You Straight.

https://nyti.ms/3kehvzC

[Ford_Prefect]

9. The most effective propaganda produces just this effect in the target audience. Just ask Vlad, or

any televangelist millionaire. Lord Rupert discovered this decades ago and has made several tidy fortunes exploiting it.

They used to call it brainwashing. Now it's just considered good PR.

[agingdem]

28. another NYT piece insisting

we "understand" the MAGA cult..not unlike Maggie Haberman's apologia... Trump is an amoral depraved malignant narcissist because he was born into dysfunction...and then there's Olivia's Nunzi's New York Magazine profile painting Trump as exiled and alone, sad, and friendless...cue the tears...

Trump appealed to the base of the Republican Party: white, christian, disenfranchised, racist, antisemitic, xenophobic...he gave them a voice and "seats at the table", and occupying those seats are Greene, Gosar, Jordan, Gaetz, Boebert, Perry, Lee, Comer, McCarthy..and Santos

[Ligyron]

40. Sounds like a good read.

Too bad it's behind their paywall.

[markodochartaigh]

7. I'm certainly not the fastest boson

in the supercollider, maybe that is why I don't mind stupid people. But people with a lack of empathy, I can't stand even being around them.

[Probatim]

8. Keep this in mind too -

they are so brainwashed, they're led to believe Liberals are the ones without critical thinking skills.

It helps to puff up the dumbasses while pushing the US/THEM mentality. If it weren't so fucking awful, it would be genius.

[pandr32]

10. Sadly, true.

[70sEraVet]

11. Great line, NanceGreggs!

".... like expecting bears to stop shitting in the woods and start shitting in the Capitol rotunda, like patriotic Republicans do."

[calimary]

18. I love that part!

[slumcamper]

12. A most succinct and incisive observation, befitting a sage! n/t

[peppertree]

13. Most Republicans are proof of the Paul Simon maxim:

A man just hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.

No matter the consequences.

[William Seger]

14. If the difference between ignorance and stupidity is that ignorance is curable

... then willful ignorance is indistinguishable from stupidity. People don't watch Fox and Newsmax to be informed.

[Hortensis]

15. Agree, but those beliefs come from somewhere very different from just "stupid,"

as would excusing mishandling of important documents if it was our president and his staff doing it.

Frankly, I'm so far from excusing the egregious, criminal-level negligence that would have to be involved in "losing" or "misplacing" so many government documents, much less classified, that I have real trouble believing that's how these came to be where they were found. One set, or one place maybe.

[onecaliberal]

16. Especially the willfully stupid.

[FakeNoose]

17. Well said my friend, and they never will smarten-up either

"Unbearably Stupid" is the best way to think about them. It sort of updates that worn out term, "deplorables."

[Joinfortmill]

19. Yup. Tick Tock.

[Uncle Joe]

20. Set to the Impossible Dream

Thanks for the thread NanceGreggs

[Warpy]

22. More like having the planet come to a halt and start rotating in the other direction

so that the sun rises in the west. It's just as improbable. The unbearably stupid are simply incapable. It's not going to happen.

All we can do is OUTVOTE them because in the short term, at least, we do outnumber them.

[The Jungle 1]

23. I stumbled on newspaper site where a couple of republicans are commenting.

I decided to play with them. My first comment was about how all Americans need to mind their own business.
It has been fun but yes the commenters are Unbearably Stupid.

Wow you are a absolute riot. Funny and easy man you are. We are right where I expected us to be at this point. This is a very predictable conversation. You fell apart like a Kia! You are in way over your head.

Did you ever hear you can disagree / debate without personal attacks and name calling. Listen ya 12 year old richard cranium (had to do it) you are the one who presents no content. You sir are the one telling me to sit in a corner. You are calling me names constantly because you have no argument and you like being a bully. You did not respond to a single point I made. You have nothing because no one ever pushes back. The radical right has one rock solid position and that is HATE. You sir have proven this point beyond all doubt!!! I held your hand and walked you in. I knew you would be easy.

I can tell you this, any American who still supports treasonous trump and his band of wacko criminals is a very scary person and you still support him. Your party is trying to destroy our Democracy.
It won't work because we always destroy the fascist in the end.

How did trump's right hand man Weisselberg make out.
trump for prison.

You done yet? Get a rag and clean up your face yer a mess!

[YoshidaYui]

24. Its up to the DOJ now to start arresting

certain individuals who stormed the Capital on Jan 6th. And those who directed them.

[louis-t]

25. These are people that lead somewhat normal lives that believe

people are dropping dead from vaccines. They all claim to know someone that dropped dead the day after they got "the jab". They are 100% convinced. Recent celebrity deaths are attributed to "the jab" on social media within minutes of the reports of their death. I guess no one died of a heart attack before the vaccine. Or meningitis as is the case with Jeff Beck. People with no medical or science degree believing people also without medical or scientific backgrounds on social media who are simply trying to be "influencers" to gain popularity. And with no one in the republican party who will even attempt to educate them, it's no wonder their worshipers are this screwed up. I guess the willfully ignorant, purposely misled, gullible, under-educated are easier to control if your goal is a fascist theocracy.

[EnergizedLib]

26. Did you come up with that yourself?

Because that was really, really good.

[Funtatlaguy]

27. America has been PURPOSELY dumbed down.

[Uncle Joe]

29. + 1

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. The number of people who have been sucked into the cult is scary.

Propaganda has been pumped into them 24/7 since about 1974.

[Evolve Dammit]

31. Agreed. Totally fucking gone.

[Septua]

32. It's more than stupidity or ignorance.

Sure, some are stupid, even more are ignorant but as has been said so many times, "they" have been around for decades. It's not what they believe, it is a choice they make because Donald Trump has shown them it's OK to be a self-serving, bigoted, anti-government narcissist. It's a sickness without a therapeutic.

And now, a lot of people who are neither stupid nor ignorant and holding powerful positions, are encouraging the people to make the choice.

[StClone]

34. In most rabid Cons' gray matter empty attics is a play area where...

...they love to make-believe, cosplay, and be entertained by scary "woke" stories. They love it because of the usual fear and paranoia, or disturbed beliefs, they have, need a rest. So playing the Patriotic Jan. 6er, saving embryos, and defending an Antivaxxer to their death...or gas stove asthma...makes them feel, what to them, seems normal.

[TexasBushwhacker]

33. And they spew their nonsense about tracking devices

on their cell phones, which, let's face, are TRACKING DEVICES!

[colorado_ufo]

35. Most excellent!

[Skittles]

36. PREACH IT SISTER NANCE

yes INDEED

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

37. Stupid has always been a primary characteristic of the RW.

The MAGAt king's cult considers stupid to be a virtue.

[BSdetect]

38. YNI YOu NAILED IT

[nightwing1240]

39. This is one of your all time greats Nance!

Great post!