Op-Ed Pages #20: I give up!
[Note from Steve: I know if you’re reading this, you’re probably a member of the good, decent citizens’ choir that hates Trump. Rest assured that I find the man despicable, a worthless piece of human trash like most fascists. It’s hard to preach to the stupid hordes of Trump’s followers, though; in general, they’re mindless zombies willfully following their evil Voldemort. But you, my readers, can help. If you can hold your nose, please work on people around you who support Trump to convince them that #NeverTrump is the only sane way to vote in the 2020 election. (Maybe you can work on the rest of the Good Ole Piranhas too, the lead zombies in your neighborhood.) You will at least be able to say to your children and grandchildren that you tried to halt America’s spiral down into fascism. I’ve already voted. Have you? By the way, everything in this post is fact. If you can’t deal with facts, stop reading.]
Like a lot of physicists, Einstein was an observer, and he also observed human behavior, perhaps more complicated than the workings of the physical Universe. Here’s perhaps his most famous and pithy remark that any sane person should be able to understand: “Two things are possibly infinite: the Universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” That sums up our current situation quite well: Trump and his mindless followers validate the truth of his statement in spades. It’s not that there are an infinite number of them—they’ve only been a steady minority for a long time, but they are dangerous because they are ruining this country and the world—and each one seems to possess infinite stupidity.
Even right here in blue-state NJ, Il Duce flaunted all CID guidelines to meet his stupid donors, at his golf club in Bedminster, no less (no concern for them or the workers there, of course, because Trump is a sociopath; and the lobotomized zombies hugging and kissing on the White House lawn to celebrate the new nominee to SCOTUS, another Nazi-leaning right-wing witch—all this shows that he and they aren’t only stupid, they’re brainless swamp scum. Some idiots still claim the virus is a Dem hoax or believe that it’s basically harmless, even with 200K+ Americans dead—after all, the Supreme Idiot says they shouldn’t fear it (with all the lies spewing out of his mouth, why anyone would believe a word that “f&^% moron” says is beyond me—the quote is from SecState Tillerson, whom Trump fired, as he’s done for any reasonable person in this administration). And then there’s the mindless buffoon seen on our local news who’s working for herd immunity, never mind that that gives millions more Americans a death sentence! (Trump’s “fear” comment is basically in support of herd immunity, too.)
Everywhere I look I see stupid people, and each one’s stupidity does seem infinite! The “herd” right now is comprised of all the lemmings with herb mentality happily following their great cult leader right over the cliff. Narcissus le Grand isn’t Jim Jones, but he might as well be, because the marching morons following him are intent on drinking his poisonous Kool-Aid. You saw a good sample right in front of Walter Reed, cheering their leader on as he rode by, an infantile demonstration of political theater. Trump wanted campaign optics. He got it. People shook their heads at his stupidity and sociopathic disregard of the Secret Service agents’ health, and leaving most medical experts livid. (Forget the president’s medical team. They lie just like the president. The chump’s Sean’s commander-in-chief, after all, although I believe he was picked because he’s loyal to the idiot—“loyalty to the fuehrer uber alles” is Trump’s requirement to hire someone.)
Trump’s political theater—the ride in that SUV, exposing the Secret Service agents; the demasking on the White House balcony and reentering without the mask, exposing everyone inside—these are the actions of a demented person. They show that the ignoramus-in-chief has an incurable mental disease—he’s a pathetically stupid sociopath! And he doesn’t deserve to be the leader of the free world. Instead, he deserves to be in a straitjacket locked up in a padded cell. Yes, @realDonaldTrump is probably the dumbest and most dangerous man on the planet!
He mocks Biden for going to a state school. How stupid is that!? Perhaps, like me and many others, Biden’s family situation was such that he couldn’t afford a private and snobbish Ivy League school. He didn’t have Trump’s money, that’s for sure, or Trump’s amoral behavior that allowed the self-proclaimed billionaire to use Daddy’s money to pay someone to take his SATs so he could go to UPenn (my opinion of that Ivy League school just hit a new low). (And we now know that Trump lied about being a successful businessman too. He’s a putz who’s lost millions! You and I manage our money better than he does because we don’t have Deutsche Bank to save our asses. Or Putin?)
And telling us not to fear the virus? The 200K+ dead in America really appreciate that, Mr. Trump, and what you said is a damn insult to the people who have survived or watched relatives and friends sicken and die because of his mismanagement of the COVID pandemic. FYI, you idiot who wrote off $70K in taxes for managing your three-foldover straw-like hairdo, I don’t fear the virus. I fear you and other idiots who tell me this virus is nothing, at worst like a little flu, or claim we should kill millions to achieve herd immunity. I don’t have your access to state-of-the art COVID treatments. Most people don’t. Many people still can’t get tested. And if you and your Nazi judge Amy kill the ACA, they won’t even be able to see a nurse or doctor!
All of the above also shows that Trump isn’t just stupid. His stupidity promotes evil, as it does with most autocratic and sociopathic personalities. Those who have been economically affected by his stupid demagoguery (ant that group includes many of his own followers!) just received a slap in the face and a scurrilous bribe from the buffoon: he’ll give us a stimulus package, but only after the election. The message: If you vote for him, you’ll get the stimulus. The implication is that Biden won’t if he wins, which is yet another lie spewing forth from this evil man’s mouth. He should wear a diaper over it, and that wouldn’t be for COVID!
Yes, Einstein’s statement has been validated many times over by the large percentage of Americans (still a minority, thank God!) who everyday show how stupid they are. I give up! We can never make America or the world sane again with these morons blocking us at every turn. The human race either has to be cured of this cancer in the body politick, or it doesn’t deserve to survive. The cancer is rampant and spreading. Human stupidity does seem infinite. And COVID-19 thrives on stupidity! Trump proves that.
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Around the world and to the stars! In libris libertas!
