I Love America!

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Speaking of the torpids among us who seem determined to destroy that which they don’t understand, in response to Dump and DOGE gutting the National Weather Service, which had a directed correlation to 57+ people (27 girls amongst them) dying we get this instead:



Xanax18 will rejoice, though. That’s 57 more people who get to meet their fates in the hereafter instead of potentially affecting his tax bill.

- Doc

[canpakes]

Speaking of the torpids among us who seem determined to destroy that which they don’t understand, in response to Dump and DOGE gutting the National Weather Service, which had a directed correlation to 57+ people (27 girls amongst them) dying we get this instead:



Xanax18 will rejoice, though. That’s 57 more people who get to meet their fates in the hereafter instead of potentially affecting his tax bill.

- Doc

So, spraying suntan lotion on yourself will now be a federal offense?

[Chap]

I suppose the purpose of the bill in question is to give MAGAs the idea that the collapse of the climate system is not caused by years of burning fossil fuels, but by those awful people who are squirting stuff into the atmosphere to do 'weather modification and geoengineering'.

It will probably work.

[canpakes]

… awful people who are squirting stuff into the atmosphere to do 'weather modification and geoengineering'.

Folks with patio misters are on notice. : D

[Some Schmo]

I suppose the purpose of the bill in question is to give MAGAs the idea that the collapse of the climate system is not caused by years of burning fossil fuels, but by those awful people who are squirting stuff into the atmosphere to do 'weather modification and geoengineering'.

It will probably work.

If it's stupid and outrageous, it will definitely work on Trump's base. It's sanity that fails to move them.

[Some Schmo]

When a Trump voter claims they love America, I conclude one of two things going on:

1. They're lying. That's the Occam's Razor answer.
2. They are talking about love in the same sense as "love at first sight." Love at first sight is love of an illusion, because they don't know the true nature of the love object when they first meet them. They love their fantasy of that person, not the real person underneath.

Trump voters clearly don't love the American system of government. They don't love immigrants (apparently never having read the message under the Statue of Liberty). They don't love Democrats. They don't love freedom of speech (or simply don't understand the concept at all). They don't love protecting citizens from ubiquitous guns (thinking they love the "freedom" to own a gun, never thinking about the freedom to feel safe walking into public events). Listening to the average Trump voter, you'd think we live in Venezuela with how terrible it all is, until they get the moronic President they want. Then they go into feel-good mode, which is easy, because they live in a fantasy world, and suddenly ignore all the government corruption they whined about 6 months ago.

Now that I've written this, it occurs to me that both things are going on. They lie to themselves and everyone else easily because they're ignorant about the true nature of their country, preferring their fantasy version instead. They're likely the type of people who use the idiotic phrase, "my truth."

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

When a Trump voter claims they love America, I conclude one of two things going on:

1. They're lying. That's the Occam's Razor answer.
2. They are talking about love in the same sense as "love at first sight." Love at first sight is love of an illusion, because they don't know the true nature of the love object when they first meet them. They love their fantasy of that person, not the real person underneath.

Trump voters clearly don't love the American system of government. They don't love immigrants (apparently never having read the message under the Statue of Liberty). They don't love Democrats. They don't love freedom of speech (or simply don't understand the concept at all). They don't love protecting citizens from ubiquitous guns (thinking they love the "freedom" to own a gun, never thinking about the freedom to feel safe walking into public events). Listening to the average Trump voter, you'd think we live in Venezuela with how terrible it all is, until they get the moronic President they want. Then they go into feel-good mode, which is easy, because they live in a fantasy world, and suddenly ignore all the government corruption they whined about 6 months ago.

Now that I've written this, it occurs to me that both things are going on. They lie to themselves and everyone else easily because they're ignorant about the true nature of their country, preferring their fantasy version instead. They're likely the type of people who use the idiotic phrase, "my truth."

My father was an old school Trilateral Commission or New World Order conspiracy theorist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World ... acy_theory

One of his biggest fears, and he was damn sure it was going to happen, was that one day the federal government would send masked men to whisk people away to concentration camps in order to do God-knows-what. The irony is not lost on me with what’s happening these days. These “F” faces don’t understand that when you start going down this road it doesn’t reverse course without a lot of pain.

- Doc