"There are lots of people who lack education but who have great natural intelligence and a desire to learn, including most of the people I grew up with. Stupid is different. To win a degree in stupid, you have to willfully reject facts in favor of superstitions, myths, fears and conspiracy theories. And then get all your news from fake or biased news sites targeted at the stupid."

Alan Caron

"Eighty international scientific societies have endorsed the concept of a primarily human-caused climate crisis that is already starting to threaten the health and well-being of millions, and soon to be billions, of people in the next few decades. The total number of scientific organizations that dispute this is zero. If you were watching a basketball game where the score was 80 to 0, with one minute left in the fourth quarter, and you decided to bet your entire nest egg on that losing team, no one would argue that you were not severely delusional. ... Inability to discern reality is the hallmark of schizophrenia.

Dr Brian Moench

When they get COVID, they race to overfull hospitals and demand the vaccine or monoclonal antibodies.
#14 | Posted by _Gunslinger

And they demand ivermectin.

They should decline treating anyone from either state who has chosen not to be vaccinated. Problem solved.

"Donald Trump did not hijack American conservatism; in him it reached its logical culmination. The defining characteristics of post-1980 conservatism"its authoritarianism; denigration of reason and education; obsession with power at all costs; Manichean, black and white thinking; apocalyptic, religious fundamentalist mentality; paranoia and sense of being besieged even when in power; and gangsterish deceit, bad faith, and lack of principle, whether practiced by a transparent swindler like Trump or a supposed intellectual like Newt Gingrich"must lead to nihilism and mindless destruction."

Mike Lofgren

Why shouldn't Russian money be spent on American elections?
#5 |

Maybe because it's illegal?

The people who can't/won't adapt are culling themselves.
#7 | Posted by Zed

Not fast enough or thoroughly enough. And they're costing us a lot of money on their way out.

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' "

Isaac Asimov

"he saw "three teenagers die from illegal abortions." But Rs don't care about them.

If the pandemic has taught us one thing it's that as a society we can't respond to real threats. With people dead all around them a near majority will not do anything about the pandemic. How can we expect these people to care about climate change?

"Donald Trump did not hijack American conservatism; in him it reached its logical culmination. The defining characteristics of post-1980 conservatism"its authoritarianism; denigration of reason and education; obsession with power at all costs; Manichean, black and white thinking; apocalyptic, religious fundamentalist mentality; paranoia and sense of being besieged even when in power; and gangsterish deceit, bad faith, and lack of principle, whether practiced by a transparent swindler like Trump or a supposed intellectual like Newt Gingrich"must lead to nihilism and mindless destruction."

Mike Lofgren

But Rs owned the libs. That's all that matters to them.

This is what happens when you let Rs run things.

"There is a virus here, it kills people," he said. "The only way we prevent it is get vaccinated, get masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about, 'Well my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.' No, screw your freedom. Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities, you cannot just say, 'I have the right to do X, Y and Z,' when you affect other people, that is when it gets serious. It's no different from a traffic light, you put a traffic light at an intersection so someone doesn't kill someone else."

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"There is a virus here, it kills people," he said. "The only way we prevent it is get vaccinated, get masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about, 'Well my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.' No, screw your freedom. Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities, you cannot just say, 'I have the right to do X, Y and Z,' when you affect other people, that is when it gets serious. It's no different from a traffic light, you put a traffic light at an intersection so someone doesn't kill someone else."

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"There is a virus here, it kills people," he said. "The only way we prevent it is get vaccinated, get masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about, 'Well my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.' No, screw your freedom. Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities, you cannot just say, 'I have the right to do X, Y and Z,' when you affect other people, that is when it gets serious. It's no different from a traffic light, you put a traffic light at an intersection so someone doesn't kill someone else

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If your religion compels you not to get vaccinated, then religion should be your protection if you catch the disease, not hospitals and insurance companies.
#4 | Posted by tonyroma

I would agree, except that they spread their disease to others and we all get to pay for their care through our health insurance bills.

"Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money."

George Carlin

"Here in the 21st Century the Republicans have become the new Know Nothing Party. Just as the original Know Nothings employed fear, bigotry, ignorance and hate to motivate its base, so too does the Republican Party."

John Atcheson

"Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers."

George Carlin

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."

Friedrich von Schiller

If these people want to die from a preventable disease they're too stupid to be working in a hospital.

"Screw health care. How bout some legislation making smug truculent ignorance a crime? I know. We'd need prisons the size of Montana."

Will Durst

The charge should be more like $2,000 per month to cover their costs.

"War is like crack for presidents. It confers instant gravitas, catapulting them to respectability, bypassing all station stops. They get to make macho pronouncements on a topic where every utterance is seen as august."

Ann Coulter

"It's easy to finger-point and assign blame, and getting lathered up with opinions can be kind of fun. But digging out the truth would be better for all of us."

Allen Best

There should be no IRS
#17 | Posted by boaz a

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

James Madison