Don't Argue Anymore With Anyone Willfully Ignorant & Delusional

I forgot I have a blog called Durango World. 

I had not posted on it since 2019, nearing the end of the first Trump lunacy, I mean, presidency.
 
That blog post from way back then was about Trump, with that blog post titled...

Louise Maughan James Provides Best Ever British Description Of America's Trump Nightmare

On Facebook I get a good look at a lot of the right wing nutjob nonsense, like that which you see in this blog post, two Facebook memes I combined into one, adding a drop shadow effect.

The first suggests that the four years Biden was president was a disaster, and that if you still hate Trump after experiencing Biden, then you are the problem.

Yes, that seems quite logical, well thought out and fact based. The Biden years saw the economy grow every quarter of those four years, which has not happened any previous presidency. Biden got a massive infrastructure bill passed, something Trump claimed he was going to do, but never did. Trump made America an international laughingstock during his first term. Biden restored international respect for America. In the short time Trump's second term has been underway he has managed to alienate our allies, in various ways, sided with Russia in the UN, made a fool of himself in the Oval Office with Zelensky.

How does one manage to be so obliviously ignorant that you think the Biden years were a disaster?

The other meme is a real doozy. You can't argue with anyone on the left because of their exhausting ignorance and delusion.

Actually, most of us who lean left are well-educated, which is why we prevail in any discussion in which facts, reason and actual knowledge are in play.

Now, I won't identify whose Facebook page I took these memes from. Suffice to say I see this type stuff regularly on that Facebook page. Often the person cluelessly shares something which does not mean what he thinks it mean. In that the point being made is not the point he thinks is being made. Stuff, like not getting that Trump is being made mock of, not being made non-mock of.

I find it particularly amusing that this particular person makes reference to willful ignorance and delusion.

This particular person was held back a couple grades during his school years. And was not able to graduate from high school due to insufficient credits. I do not know if this person got himself a GED, post his high school years, or if he tried to do so.

The evidence, as seen on Facebook, would suggest no GED...

Louise Maughan James Provides Best Ever British Description Of America's Trump Nightmare

The following is from the insightful thinking of someone across the pond, a citizen of the United Kingdom named Louise Maughan James.

Apparently someone on Quora asked a probing question about Donald Trump, which prompted Ms. James to provide the following British perspective...

Someone on Quora asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote this magnificent response.

A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.

I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:

'My God… what… have… I… created?

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

Trump's El Paso Miracle Stuffs 35,000 People In 6,500 Seats

If your only news source was right wing hate speech radio purveyors, such as Rush Limbaugh.

Or Fox News.

You would have heard that Trump drew a crowd of 10 to 15 thousand to his Wall Rally in El Paso, while Beto O'rourke drew only 1 or 2 hundred to his El Paso Wall Rally.

Only a couple hundred, and according to Trump's Number One propaganda supplier, Limbaugh, Beto jumped around the stage like a Jack in the Box, was totally unprofessional, spewing erratic nonsense.

You know, as opposed to that dignified address Trump gave to his cult members, leading them in chanting 'lock her up', 'build that wall', along with anti-media chants which resulted in a BBC reporter getting a beating.

Beto countered Trump's lies about El Paso and the wall in El Paso, and the wall concept in general, but actual facts apparently are not able to be processed by someone like Limbaugh, and his ignorant ilk.

Trump Sons Detained At Vancouver Airport Due To Alleged Ties With Fascist Dictator

Well, you knew it was only a matter of time before these two boys got themselves detained for some bad deed, such murdering elephants, lions and tigers, or some equally foul bad behavior.

A British Columbia, Canada newspaper, the Burrard Street Journal, is the source of the news about the Trump boys being detained.

And you know those ultra-polite Canadians would never fabricate a story.

Three paragraphs from the Trump Sons Detained At Vancouver Airport Due To Alleged Ties With Fascist Dictator article...

RICHMOND, BC—Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are in police custody at YVR airport this evening, after alleged ties to a fascist dictator surfaced during routine questioning.

The two sons of a former American billionaire, had flown to the pacific northwest for the unveiling of the new Trump tower in Downtown Vancouver.

However upon arrival the brothers were reportedly selected for random inspection by the Canadian Border Services Agency and ultimately detained under suspicion that they may be connected to an oppressive regime in a foreign nation.

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Related  news in the Burrard Street Journal...

BREAKING: Pope Suggests Donald Trump Gives Up Presidency For Lent

Is Trump Mad Cruz Refused To Endorse The Great Orange Pumpkin?

I lasted less than ten minutes of Ted Cruz's hard to watch, for me, speechifying, at last night's Republican Convention Embarrassment.

There is a large segment of the population, thankfully, who react to Cruz in the same way one instinctively reacts to a scary reptile.

How is it some people don't see this guy's oily snake-like reptilian-ness?

A face that somehow causes a visceral urge to punch it. The pitchy voice that sounds like somehow the voice change process got halted part way through his teen age years.

And then there is the dumb stuff that comes out of this Canadian's mouth. All spoken in a phony bad actor method of delivery.

I don't know how the ill-fated Cruz candidacy survived his ridiculous Simpson's audition. Or that even more embarrassing, long video of Cruz  and family making political ads, with the most damning segment being Cruz sitting next to his mom, telling the camera that his mom prays for him, for hours, everyday, with the look on his mom's face of utter astonishment at the lying nonsense coming out of her creepy son's mouth.

And yet there he was, last night, back on America's TV screens, causing the skin to crawl of a large segment of the world's population.

I am even more appalled by the Great Orange Pumpkin than I am by Ted Cruz, but if I was Donald Trump I would not want someone like Ted Cruz to endorse me, in fact, I would prefer he didn't.

Republican Party unity be damned....

Looking For A Trumpence Definition

48 hours ago if one Googled for the meaning of the word "trumpence", via the Internet's Urban Dictionary, one would have learned.....

A trumpence is the amount of return on investment on a con job.

Used in a sentence...

 "I knew it was too good to be true, but I thought it was worth trumpence."

And...

“You should always make sure the target of your scam isn't overly intelligent, then you can play on their fears to maximize your potential trumpence.”

And now, 48 hours later, for some reason, the Urban Dictionary's trumpence definition has been expanded....

trumpence

The return on investment of a con, bribe, theft or fraud. This could include the direct financial benefit of a scam or plot, but also can be used to represent the emotional boost a narcissist or sociopath gets from feeling superior to those they have manipulated and tricked.

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I have read Mr. Trump is having some regrets about picking Mr. Pence. We think he should get over any regrets.

The TP Ticket is going to be a lot of fun....

Weary Of Rush Limbaugh And His Low Information Listeners

Did Rush Limbaugh really say that human beings have a propensity to believing, falling for every single apocalyptic doom that they are told is happening?

Thus accurately describing the audience of dimwits who listen to him without realizing they are listening to ignorant nonsense.

I listen to Rush Limbaugh for a short duration fairly regularly. I find him entertaining, in a warped sort of way. That being the reality that a man this ignorant, so un-educated, has a legion of followers too ignorant to know how stupid Limbaugh is.

If I had to pick the most amusing thing that comes out of Limbaugh's mouth it might be his frequent reference to what he calls "Low Information Voters".

Low Information Voters.

Like much of what Limbaugh spews, this Low Information Voters thing is sort of Orwellian. The people Limbaugh refers to as being low in the information department, are actually the enlightened, progressive, educated types he fears. The actual Low Information Voters are the idiots who listen to Limbaugh who are too stupid to realize they are listening to a hate mongering moron.

Some amusing anti-Limbaugh comments gleaned from hundreds of comments made to this particular Facebook post by Americans Against the Tea Party.....

Kenneth Kuller: Just remember, Limbaugh's record on Politifact remains at zero truths.

Barbara Wolfe: Never once I have I turned on one of his broadcasts. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Gregg Davis: Why is it that it's against the law to tell lies to sell products but it's not against the law to sell the lies themselves?

Merl Miller: Remember, Limbaugh was a Democrat until he discovered that Democrats are not gullible enough to be rabid fools. He is an entertainer and he gets paid millions a year to tell stupid people what they want to hear so he can sell crap.

Lois J Buzzell: He should take Ann the demon spawn Coulter, and go to a deserted island. Two of the most disgusting and dangerous people on the planet.

Gary Werner: He's a windbag

Tim Koerber: Why does he still have an Audience? Oh I know, those with brain damage or mental or rational disabilities still have money to spend via "Sponsors" who pay for his broadcast! Sad, so sad!

Bob Holmes: Most countries would arrest such a liar set on stirring public revolt. He is lucky for the first amendment, otherwise he would be in prison.

Gordon Brooks: Much of what spews from his mouth is merely said to stir his crowd of ill educated followers. 

Alfred N. Van Kirk: He doesn't really give a damn. He started the conservative radio apocalypse. He discovered the more outrageous the claims the more he made! Not a single fact. Just lies followed by more lies! You know it as the Republican creed!

Tom Massa: Lush Slimebaugh and Donald Trump are the two most obnoxious people on the face of the earth.

Mitchell Stein Sr.: Fear sells....the salesman without morals will sell anything for cash.