The Big Lie Expanded
Brett Baier asked an important question to Kamala Harris that she couldn’t answer. If Donald Trump is so bad then why are so many people supporting him? Good question Brett. I think the answer can be seen in some of the political ads we have been seeing. Those that are running ads these days actively think we are idiots based on what they are feeding us. I made the mistake of flipping it on “Forensic Files” late last night and saw this brazenly mendacious bullshit on full display.
I saw three kinds of ads that made my blood boil. The first one was a local commercial asking people to vote out “all Democrat judges” because they are “soft on crime.” These commercials are not so offensive by themselves, but when you run five or six of them consecutively and offer absolutely zero context it becomes obnoxious. Of course, those ads offer nothing in the way of context. They are just bad judges. Got it.
Not to be outdone, a PAC on behalf of Ted Cruz told us that Collin Allred voted against the parents bill of rights so now he supports gender reassignment surgery at school. You have to be a real piece of Samsonite to believe a word of this ad. Where do I even begin here? I earned a degree in Political Science and now support English classes. Could you imagine me working a scalpel to turn Harry into Sally? Am I supposed to be manning the anesthesia machine?
Has anyone seen a school nurse’s office? Where in the hell would we store the surgical equipment necessary? We barely have the supplies to bandage a wound suffered on the playground much less perform complex medical procedures. Then I saw a disabled veteran in an ad saying that Allred supported sex change operations for people in the military and children. First of all, the grammarian in me is asking a ton of questions. Are children in the military?
Obviously, we had a transfer of ideas that wasn’t properly punctuated and separated for our consumption. How many people are we talking about here? How many children are getting sex change operations? How many men (I’m assuming men) in the military are getting a sex change operation? If we are to believe that Kamala really wants to fund sex change operations for undocumented migrants (as the highly edited ad that clearly skipped from phrase to phrase suggested) then how many are we talking about?
Fortunately, I can answer that question for you. According to most sources, a little over one percent (1.14 to be exact) is transsexual. As an observant American, I can vouch for those numbers just based on what I see and going through all the people I know. I also know based on my experience in the classroom that fewer children are transsexual. Those statistics are currently sitting at 0.6. percent.
The point is very simple and goes back to the question that Baier was asking. There are two important things of note in the transsexual question. First, most people don’t have the first damn clue how many people are getting gender affirming care. They think the percentage is much higher than it is. Furthermore, they don’t have the first damn clue what gender affirming care actually is.
Secondly and more importantly, most Americans have little ability to filter out obvious bullshit from actual information. Too many people have not developed an active bullshit detector. If a story sounds outrageous then it probably is. We have information at our fingertips that can actively debunk this nonsense. Too many Americans are not doing that.
So, to answer Baier’s question I can simply say that millions of people are politically ignorant. When someone is ignorant you can tell them anything and they will believe it. You have to have some knowledge before something outrageous begins to sound outrageous. Without that knowledge then it just all gets baked into a bulging bullshit cake.
Hordes of Amerikans are completely lacking in critical thinking skills, and are utterly incapable of recognizing such bullshit for what it is..
They will believe absolutely anything that their propaganda masters feed them.
Most of y’all are probably pretty well insulated from these cretins, but some of us live in places that have an overwhelming majority of them, and are constantly bombarded by the idiocy.
I’ll give you an example, an article about tRump, particularly the ‘reader comments’ section; which I found while researching something (yeah, I looked it up, but my neighborhood is saturated with the mentality).
This article, in what I suspected was a RW rag, favorably covers one of Comrade Donnei’s possible upcoming events.
But the really interesting stuff is in the readers comments, where everything about the MAGAot morons is exposed in their own words.
Since there are about 900 comments there, no need to read all of them, but just skimming through will give y’all a good idea of just how deficient the MAGAots are in critical thinking, cognitive abilities, and susceptibility to propaganda.
Eye opening to see so much ignorance on display (in the comments):
https://nypost.com/2024/10/08/us-news/trump-books-madison-square-garden-rally-to-kick-off-final-stretch-of-2024-campaign/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post
1Trump is like the Nigerian Prince scam from a few decades ago.
The email sounds crazy, a member of the royal family in Nigeria needs my personal assistance! And he’ll pay me handsomely! Sure, here’s my bank account number.
Trump can say almost any nonsense, but he needs our help to stop things that aren’t happening. He gets out of jail, and his voters get nothing. Maybe less health care and retirement benefits.
2It is a mathematical certainty that 49% of people are of below average intelligence.
3The sad part is that the average intelligence of the American voter is below room temp. to begin with.
4Why? 45+ years of bombardment by smears, sneers, distortion, outright lies, and every other form of propaganda by Republicans, combined with the conservative tendency to believe other conservatives. Or people who claim to be conservative but who are basically authoritarians who have found their chosen scapegoats.
Right-wingers have heard and repeated the 3 big lies: party of fiscal responsibility, tough on crime, and Democrats are soft on defense. It has become a mantra with them, no matter what the truth about the behavior of the GOP really is. And they won’t and can’t believe they’ve been lied to for decades.
5The thing I have to laugh about when Cruz, et al, say children are getting sex change operations at school is that here in Houston, HISD is busy firing certified teachers — do you think they would hire a doctor to do an operation? Or is the explanation that the biology non-certified teacher is doing them? It’s just too big a lie!
6Slipstream, and about 40% are without any intelligence, sort of like 3 brain cells MTG and Lora Loomer (among many). For the brainless, they’re lucky to have the electoral college which I’m getting the sick feeling could put another popular vote loser (dangerous one) in the White House again.
7Thanks Nick, good to know! And then I came across this, more lies, more propaganda.
Max Flugrath️
@MaxFlugrath
Wow this is shady. Elon Musk is funding a PAC that’s running two ads against Kamala Harris with messages that directly contradict each other.
The opposing messages are microtargeted to specific groups of voters, so each see one ad, but neither see both.”
8https://x.com/MaxFlugrath/status/1847642988576453036
A lot of Americans, maybe a majority and even some pretty smart ones, don’t give a flip about politics. So, they don’t read about it in any reasonably reliable news source, and believe every word they see/hear on TV, facebook, xitter, or whatever their preferred source.
Additionally, they don’t believe that their electoral choice will affect their personal lives, so they’ll vote for the candidate whose slogan they like the best. ‘Make America Great Again’ resonates with such voters.
I’m pretty sure VP Harris knew the correct answer to Baier’s question. She also knew that giving him the correct answer would be the political equivalent of stepping on a land mine. And that’s why he asked it.
9“How long has it been since you last beat up your Grandma??”
10I live in a swing state: Pennsylvania. Living in a swing state is absolute he** every 4 years. Starting months ago, every other commercial on television is a political advert. The Dems try to be positive, the Reps try to scale the he** out of you. I’m really afraid that immigrants are going to try and saute my puppy! It’s enough to drive one to drink, even a good Methodist.
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