-Our tax dollars, hard at work, with people who don't really comprehend scaling factors. Kind of like a certain stable genius wanting to nuke the hurricanes.

Maybe this country really is doomed. I can't imagine gibbering nonsense like that, lasting for more than a few minutes, back when I was young.

The thing that has really been beating me down about trying to get caught up with world and national events, is just the stupid. Wall-to-wall, and tree-top tall. Stoooopid. I wish I had a slight Parisian accent; I worked with a fellow, years ago, a Parisian with excellent English, but since 'stupid' isn't a French word, when he said it, his slight accent made it perfect. I wish I could say the word stupid like he could. When he called something stupid, you could picture the drool puddling in the lap of whatever or whoever he was describing.

I used to like listening to Jimmy Dore, but recently, I think it has him, too. Playing really bland shit from the Bidenettes as though he's found them out, and gotcha'd them, when there is a far more mundane explanation, like that there is a FEMA account for helping migrants, which is separate and distinct from the FEMA fund for dealing with natural disasters, which was helpfully underfunded by Congress. No, they're not lying about it (this time).

I'm off work right now, but items like you shared remind me of the kind of credulous crap some of my co-workers would throw at me. "Mischelle Obama used to be a man, and those kids aren't hers!" or "They're about to pass a law in Indiana that will give you an 85,000 -dollar fine for using the wrong pronoun!"

I still maintain that what the Internet really needs, is editorial boards, at the very least for any website pretending to promote 'news'. It might not make everything right overnight, but at least it could filter out most of the stupid...

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not a big CT kinda observer, but there is proof positive
the stoopid does run rampant in some circles.

The idea of an editorial board is not what is needed IMO.
Critical thinking skills are more effective, at least on a
personal level. If one can filter fact from fiction using
available data, then the lies can be seen for what they are.

Billions of dollars are spent trying to manipulate social
perceptions. That is what props up the facade of the
'ruling' class.

Thanks for sharing your insights.