BLOAT HARD

It turns out our president does not understand how the internet works, as well as pageranks or algorithms. Statistics are also beyond him. He should probably have someone explain it to him, but there isn't anyone in his inner circle whom he trusts that uses complicated words and long sentences.

It is all a dastardly plot! Something must be done!

Donald Trump tweeted this morning:

Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of....

....results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!

8:02 AM - Aug 28, 2018

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Personally, I think that Trump is an idiot, and so far the facts seem to bear that theory out. And I've spoken with more than enough of his supporters to recognize that he truly represents them and their simplistic view of the universe.

[*The term "idiot" in this context should not be taken to mean a bonafide drooling fool, but a person of barely average intelligence at best, whose mental rigour leaves everything to be desired. Such an individual will grasp at easy explanations and argue for what they wish to believe even if the facts don't add up. Rather than striving to understand complexity, nuance, and details, they reduce everything to mono-dimensionality. Faith in their own mental world, suspicion and distrust of everything that challenges that, and adherence to caste-affirming dogmas shared by their peers are markers of their type. This, in a nutshell, describes Fox News, anti-vaxxers, many religious types but most especially fundamentalists, flat-earthers, and racialists.]


There has always been a huge streak of dumb-ass in American discourse, but since the election two years ago it has been stronger than ever.

I thought it could not get any worse since Reagan.

But it did.




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