Good for Mark Cuban.
When it comes to Trump, you either see him for what he is, or you don’t. Most people of intelligence and compassion are in the former camp, and fortunately, that will be more than enough votes to “get it done” in November.
Btw, that Trump is a “snake oil salesperson” is actually not the lowest aspect of his character. He is a traitor to his country, and this is about to be proven in court, both in Fulton County, GA and in Washington, DC.
Most commenters on this meme here report that “it’s already in full swing.”
One might think that the appeal of this conspiracy theory would be limited to the completely uneducated, but that’s not true; an old college friend liked this post on social media.
If I were to consider accepting the idea, I’d first challenge it with what I read about the American economy: the growth in GDP, the job market, corporate earnings and thus the all-time records in the stock market. I’d consider inflation numbers, and public spending that has already provided real value for the common American. 
In short, I’d want to examine the evidence.
It doesn’t appear that there is a plan to destroy the American economy. In the olden days, we used to evaluate the legitimacy of an argument’s premises before trying to draw conclusions. Perhaps it’s our loss of our capacity to think rationally that’s been our undoing as a nation.
As suggested here, children have been disappointing their parents, and scaring the living hell out of the pundits of their times, for more than 2000 years.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that parents today have no reason not to be terrified at the conditions our kids will be facing in just a few decades from now.
I’m more concerned that they’ll be living under the yoke of terrible stupidity, and baking on a planet with runaway warming. I doubt it will have much to do with their insatiable desire to write books.
Here, ultra-right-wing Hillsdale “College” offers another online survey, largely attracting people who embrace the Big Lie, i.e., that the 2020 election was rigged, and that our democracy is in tatters.
I just got back from voting in our primary elections, and one of the poll workers almost had a seizure when I started to put my ballot in the box before one of the volunteers could ask me if this was a “standard” or “provisional” ballot. She immediately explained: “We almost made an error on this earlier in the day. We could have gotten in a lot of trouble.”
There’s an incredible level of scrutiny here. Just one man’s viewpoint, but I think we’re in pretty good hands.
Of course, no one can predict what will happen post the 2024 presidential elections in November. Maybe Fox News wants to re-raise the claim that our voting systems are rigged, and risk shelling out another payment of hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from losses in defamation lawsuits.
Around here, the world has ceased to make sense. Perhaps the best explanation came from “No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
I’ve mentioned that 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is located in a heavily MAGA part of rural California.
That said, we have occasional Trump signs on our front lawns, but we do not have anything approaching the display here.
Property values?
Trump’s level of intelligence is irrelevant to the damage he’s inflicting on American society and humankind as a whole.
OK, he’s smart enough to have pulled off, so far at least, the greatest con in world history, but his defining characteristic has nothing to do with his IQ. It lies in his singular ability to tell bald-faced lies that are eagerly accepted by large swaths of American voters.
In November, tens of millions of people will go to the polls and cast their ballots for a man who has convinced them that the 2020 election was rigged against him, that the country’s problems stem from the radical left, and that he is the only person on Earth who can fix those problems, even though he is being unfairly prosecuted by the Deep State and woke liberals.
IMO, there is no antidote for this poison, no cure for this disease. It’s something that needs to simply run its course, like a case of the flu.
Trying to have a rational discussion with people who think this way is as good a use of your time as trying to teach your dog to play the violin.
Thomas Paine put it better (see right).
I was fortunate enough to have grown up in an affluent household, in which my parents were able to join a nice country club near Philadelphia when I was 12 years old. The kids with whom I played golf and tennis all came from similar settings, but it was immediately clear that they had a wide ranges of aptitudes and intelligences.
For example, there was a kid we all knew to be seriously unintelligent. From his Facebook page, it appears that he graduated from the local public high school and went no further with his education.
There was another who graduated from a 325-year-old Quaker prep school and then on to Princeton.
One of them posted the meme here, though remarkably, it could have been either of the two.
Over the years, the Princeton grad has posted on social media about the importance of building the wall, closing the borders that the Democrats had opened to human vermin, English as the only language in the U.S., the climate “hoax,” COVID as part of a government plan to enslave the American people, etc.
Seems like a lot of wasted money, since that level of education is available at Walmart.
Rather than leave readers guessing, here is the identity of the guy who actually posted this.
From magician and actor Penn Jillette: For (millions of) years our biggest problems were too few calories, too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and I believe we will really fast. I also believe it will be wicked ugly while we’re adjusting.
Keep in mind that our capitalist society really doesn’t give a damn about what happens to the consumers who live on the garbage sold at fast-food restaurants and the interior aisles of our grocery stores.
As shown in the video below, submitted by Gary Tulie, Harvard University reports that coal dust and the exhaust from coal-fired power plants killed at least 460,000 people over the last 20 years.
Where we tend to think of coal-powered electricity as a principal cause of climate change and other forms of long-term environmental damage, we often overlook the devastation it causes to human life–and the families of those lost to lung disease. What about the impact on the children who now grow up fatherless and/or motherless?
The title of this post implies that it’s possible to ascribe a dollar-figure to this enormous catastrophe, and I suppose it is. If there were a series of class-action lawsuits, there would be gaggles of actuaries in insurance companies with huge spreadsheets running what-if calculations.
But in this case, no one’s paying. The atmosphere is simply a sewer into which the operators of coal plants discharge their waste–for free, regardless of the damage.
FWIW, this makes perfect sense to me.
If the SCOTUS could act as swiftly and honestly on all matters pertaining to Trump, e.g., his claim to immunity from criminal prosecution, I’m sure we’d all be thrilled.
