That's Some World-Class Trolling

 

     Republicans are so fucking stupid, it almost hurts to look at them or to remember that they exist. This is a snowflake given to Ron DeSantis when he was making his whistle stop in Iowa just days before Trump's visit on Monday. The lady in the foreground also gave one to Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, who of course accepted it while thinking she was trolling and owning the libs.

     Uh, not exactly.

     Seriously, the nearly caustic level of Republican stupidity aside, it's having a detrimental effect on the national psyche. These right wing politicians know there are many feeble-minded Republican voters out there who don't need much prodding to set their delusions going at Warp Speed Ten. But they continue feeding their delusions, anyway, then wonder why they can't control them when they finally go full-out apeshit, like on January 6th.

     Then they spin another delusion, that the Capitol riots were really antifa and/or BLM, or the FBI while saying at the same time it was a peaceful protest in which nobody got hurt. Well, nine dead people and 140 injured cops would beg to disagree.

     But right wing narratives don't even have to make sense, any more, or make the slightest attempt at consistency. There's no way this shit would've flown under its own power five, six decades ago. What passes for right wing policy positions these days is nothing more or less than a shameless pandering to the worst fears and conspiracy theories of the people who are dumb enough to think have their interests represented by the opportunistic scumbags they keep sending to Capitol Hill.

     It's gotten to the point where Marjorie Taylor Green is trying to couch the Biden-era CBP seizing over 1300 pounds of fentanyl a year as a failure. Anyone with even rudimentary intelligence and cognitive skills would know right off that the real failure would be in not seizing all those deadly drugs.

     Then again. we're a nation that sent to Capitol Hill idiots like Green, Gosar, Boebert and a pedophile and rapist into the Oval Office. Yeah, Republicans eked out a razor-thin majority in the House but gerrymandering can only be blamed for so much. At some level, as with Georgia-14, one has to blame plain stupidity and a total lack of critical thinking skills.

     Of course, Republicans respond with school library censorship, cuts in education budgets and outright lies in history, science, etc. DeSantis and the Florida legislature has passed into law a bill that was so vague and sweeping in its wording that all it takes is one idiotic parent to make one complaint about a book, whether or not they've read it, that they can single-handedly shut down an entire school library.

     Meaning, at least in goober states such as Florida and Tennessee, books are banned in schools but guns aren't. Teachers are the real threat, not the resource officers who regularly brutalize our kids with near-complete impunity.

     Because, as Mrs. JP is so fond of repeating, long before DeSantis and these other anti "woke" Nazis, in these very same schools with bare school library shelves, starting in the 70s, administrators and right wing politicians decided that Civics and teaching Critical Thinking and Logic were electives with which we could afford to dispense.

     And successive generations of children who are taught not Civics, Logic or Critical Thinking but being taught they could do without it give us the idiots who are dying of ivermectin consumption and denying the existence of global pandemics.

     It resulted in an electorate that stuck a shambling moron like Donald Trump in the White House and a House full of functional idiots like Marjorie Taylor Greene.

     (As often, a tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader, CC.)