A couple of posts back I had one that was entitled “You Can’t Fix Stupid.” It was about our inability to deal with those who are actually and legitimately too ignorant to understand the realities of life or those who deliberately refuse to function within those realities for their own reasons. So I decided to call this blog “We Can’t Abide Stupid,” because that is the reality that is creating chaos in today’s world.
This is especially true when it comes to the current resurgence of the COVID virus, a plague that was the result of a pathogen, which was mishandled into a pandemic as an result of deliberate stupidity and dishonest political motivation.
Despite the fact that we now have a vaccine, COVID is again sweeping this nation where people refuse, for whatever muddled reason, to accept the fact that a medicine exists that will keep them from dying. That is just stultifying brain dead stupid. It isn’t like we don’t have the facts. We know beyond a doubt that 99.5% of those currently hospitalized with COVID have not had the vaccine, which is now readily available. We also know that less than 3% of those who have received the full vaccine have suffered harmful side effects or gotten the disease. These are facts, not conjecture. This is not Donald Trump lying over 30,000 times in four years to his gullibly ignorant constituency, although that is what led to this sorry state of affairs. Trump’s continuous lies have created a situation where too many of us are willing to believe what we know to be lies because they suit our political purposes. Having stated this, I still find it hard to believe that there are people out there that are so hardheaded, so ignorant that they refuse to accept factual, provable evidence about a tool that will save their lives.
But then one looks at Tennessee! Here is a whole state so ignorant that they will follow their leaders to a point of actually banning the COVID vaccines and not just stopping there, go on to ban all other vaccines; IN THE WHOLE STATE!
This is the existence of wholesale stupidity on a biblical scale.
In Indiana there are protests against the governor’s decree that all students, faculty and administration at all the state’s universities must now be vaccinated. The biggest outcry is that we can’t force people to take medicine against their will. Can’t we? We have actually been doing that for a very long time; specifically in education.
I find it more than ironic that the same people who are babbling about being forced to take a vaccine that will save their lives are fighting just as hard to force women to have babies that they, for whatever reason, don’t want to have. Don’t these women have the same right that the anti-vaxers are fighting for?
The reality of the pathogen is that it is spreading at an alarming rate due principally to its ability to mutate. The only way to stop it from mutating is to kill it off completely and the only way we have of doing that is to give everyone the vaccine. As long as there are those that do not take the vaccine there will be those who are spreading the virus and allowing mutation. Sooner or later that mutation will lead to a new strain that will be impervious to the vaccines and we will have a resurgence that will once again kill millions. This is not conjecture. This is what must and will happen if we continue as we are now. The question then will become do we hold those who are responsible for this continuing catastrophe responsible for the deaths of millions; and if we do, what form does that punishment take?
And if you like irony, check this out. Even as the GOP fights to take the vote from those they think will vote Democrat, the lies they have propagated about the vaccines will kill off enough of their own voters to make their anti-voting efforts in state legislatures a futile waste of time.
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George W. Bush, probably the dumbest president in the history of the United States, has decided that he has kept his mouth shut long enough and has commented negatively on Joe Biden’s removal of our troops from Afghanistan. No, this is not a bad joke and yes; he’s the same dummy who started that war over twenty years ago. It seems that Bush started the war because he was too dumb to think for himself and allowed a coven of degenerate warmongers like Don Rumsfeld, John Bolton and Dick Cheney to talk him into getting a lot of our kids killed and spending a couple of trillion bucks we could have used for a lot of more important stuff.
So Bush who managed to keep his mouth shut while Donald Trump tried his best to ruin the country has decided that this mess, which he started for no reason and then allowed to run out of control, is the right motivation for him to speak.
Why is it the dumbest ones always feel the need to prove it?
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And while we’re on dumb who could resist another example of it at its most shinning heights. Our ex-president and future inmate has hit the news again, this time in a story that comes to us from the highest foreign sources revealing that Vladimir Putin set up a special department within the Soviet security system to help get Trump elected because he was convinced that Trump was mentally unstable and if elected would create chaos within the American government.
So look what happened!
High-level sources have reported that this was all laid out at a Kremlin meeting on Jan. 22, 2016 attended by Putin, his spy chiefs and all senior ministers.
A decree was issued appearing to bear Putin’s signature ordering those attending to find practical ways to support Trump in his attempts to become president. Putin spokesman Dmitri Peskov has vehemently denied the whole thing, which makes it as close to a fact as humanly possible. Of course there were those of us here who knew and said that Trump was mentally unstable even before he was elected but no one wanted to believe us.