Berkeley Breathed just shared an old Bloom County (Re: Trump) that's still timely

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

From the final year of the original run, in which Trump's brain was installed in Bill the Cat's body:


https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/pb.108793262484769.-2207520000.1437366232./589573027740121/?type=3&theater

[Scootaloo]

1. Happy to have Breathed as a regular visitor to my community

Grew up laughing my ass off at the Bloom County books.

[SoapBox]

2. Tell us more...

Reynelda.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Until he announced his candidacy a few weeks ago, I thought of Trump as mildly ridiculous

But I see that was deluded all this time.

Donald Trump is mad as a hatter.

[progressoid]

4. My thoughts as well.

But what is more troubling is the amount of support he has.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Ready for the stuff of nightmares?

He represents a LOT of the decision makers in this country.

So does Romney.

Pleasant dreams.

[longship]

6. Then there's Cruz, Carson, Huckabee, and (shudder) all the rest of them.

The GOP is fucking barking mad. They have some -- what is it, 15-16 presidential candidates, none of them sane. And Donald Trump is their leader?

And the GOP thought that they had problems with Sarah Palin and Mitt. It very much seems like stacking chairs on the Titanic territory now. And there does not seem to be anybody in the wings to change the dynamic.

The problem is, the GOP have control of both houses of the US Congress and a vast majority of governorships and state legislatures. Meanwhile here we are on DU, acting like the White House can do anything against such a cataclysm at all other levels of government.

I would very much prefer if folks would set aside the 2016 presidential election for a while and focus on what really matters, these local state elections.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. As Carlin said, forget the politicians, I'm talking about the owners. The real owners....

AKA: The decision makers. The people who direct where this nation and all of it's people go.

They're stupid.

I don't mean simply "uninformed". I'm saying they lack the ability to actually take in and understand facts and they are insulated from this by their wealth.

They're profoundly STUPID and don't know that they're stupid because they lack the intellect to know that they're stupid and often are surrounded by sycophants who tell them they're intelligent and they're too stupid to realize they are being lied to. Or worse, they surround themselves with people even stupider than they are so they actually ARE the brightest bulb in the room.

[longship]

10. Ah yes. The Dunning-Kruger effect.

Dunning Kruger effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks that are easy for them are also easy for others.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. I'm very much aware of that

After all, I'm the fellow who said years ago that assembly line workers at GM could design and market a better car than the Ivy League-educated MBAs in the suites. And I believe that.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. There are plenty of unappreciated secretaries out there that are the actual brains of the company.

[Scuba]

8. "Yet"