How Best To Succinctly Describe What Is Wrong With America's Government.

It's an anachronistic inadequacy.

I meant to go short here. But that new line of mine comes from a post I made last night, on my FB wall. Where most of my output goes. I started off with the following observation:

Our government is too bespoke for a certain time and place. The late 18th early 19th century, for the slave economy of the victorious former Brit North American colonies. And here I add. Yes. They did set up a government that in theory, was capable of reform, to avoid the kinds of repetitive civil and other domestic wars, that plagued the British Islands for centuries. And less than 80 years in, the US had a major, ugly, bloody civil war of it's own.

And back then after the war, and ever since. The nation has failed to fix the shitty government, that was designed for a specific time and place, where slave owning and anti slave states could agree to a framework for a functioning national government. Which arguably yet functions. But in lots of ways, badly. And seems to, if not makes something close to another civil war inevitable? Could lead to a dictatorship. A mean, ugly and stupid, government led by a figurehead who sees all there is as believing to them. Like a nightmarish, cartoonish version of the monarchy the colonies rebelled against. Never mind, that by the time of the Hanoverian kings, the divine rights of kings was a thing of the past, in Britain, at least.

Now I Fucking Get it! (Again!)

 I accidentally looked at the Owl's about page, for her blog.  Maybe not for the first time, but read what she says about herself:

"Please note that Althouse has an aversion to politics."

She is to politics, what an anti-vaxxer is to the sub field of immunology, which researches and develops vaccines.

In other, meaning my words, fucking useless, and you should not pay any mind at all to what they say about the topic.

I am not  not  not   making any statement on her beliefs about vaccination.  I am making an analogy, only.

I Am Not Gonna Call Her An Anti Semite, But I Will, Tucker Carlson.

 For his platforming of that fake, meaning uncredentialled historian, who has a long history of being some kind of Nazi-worshiping Holocaust denier, minimizer, apologist.  Not only that, but Carlson lavished such praise on this Nazi lover it's way past the often dishonest, just allowing alternative views to be heard, bullshit.  There was approval.  Oh.  And JD Vance isn't distancing himself from Carlson, and will go forward with some public engagement with the Nazi lover, lover.

What does the Owl have to do with this?  Nothing.  She hasn't commented on it yet.  I am not going to do an inventory.  But she really doesn't to my mind, pay all that much attention to Republican white supremacist bullshit.  Meaning, she doesn't call that shit out in a quick and predictable, disdainful way. At a minimum, not enough to meet my decent people standards.   Just saying.

But hey.  She might catch up with the rest of the politically aware blogospehere, and comment on this.  But I am not holding my breath.

Oh.  One more thing.  Unlike Vance, I do believe in guilt by association.  After all.  You can't really know what is someone's deeply held beliefs.  All we get to judge people by is what they say, what they do, and who they choose to associate with.   And all three do not always line up.  Sometimes they do.  Like with Carlson and Vance.  And Vance did not kick Carlson to the curb.  I judge him for that, and harshly.

STAR TREK Logical Thinking #69 - Special Pleading (Selective Adherence)

Brush up on your logic skills!

The Owl, Who Has Admitted She Knows Nothing About Politics, Makes a Coo Coo Coca Puffs Prediction.

 Years ago.  When she would get invited to do bloggingheads vids.  I remember seeing her this one time.  She really said she really knows nothing about politics.  And then spent the next ten or more minutes proving it, by talking politics.  It's my favorite memory of her.   Anyway this.

I don't think anyone else has this exact scenario on their bingo cards.  We shall see, but ya know?  Only one of the two debate participants has been acting as if they don't want to do it.  And schockingly not.  It's the older one.  The orange troll who seems to be in cognitive decline.  I would go so far and say it doesn't look like ordinary pre senile dementia.  If I had to guess, there is some non age related cognitive loss of function.  As well, there could be lifetime of greater than average, physical damage due to poor lifestyle, diet, and otherwise health issues related damage.  And there is the mini stroke thing.  How many tiny mini strokes has he had over the past 30 or more years?  It could be greatly some cumulative effect.  

Let me google that.  Generally.  

Yeah.  I have a very sound theory of possible organic, neurological disease, for bozo.  

I am going to pass on directly speculating about what the Owl's brain scan's would show.  But I have a friend who is a professor of neuroscience.   I would be very interested in what he would say, evaluating her film.

But It Is About Race. Racial Privilege!

White mediocrity.  Maybe the reason so many white people are perfectly happy to have low expectations for white boys is drilled into their vapid, inferior brains so relentlessly from birth, it is just too dominant.  A white person has to be exceptionally intuitive, smart, and curious, to do the thinking, and analysis, and arrive at the correct conclusion.  America isn't a meritocracy.  What it is is a society of racist privilege, and the ruling faction has such wide and great control, they can have extremely low standards for their own.

After posting that vid about stupid orange bad man's excuse for being a barely coherent idiot, and calling out that ex law professor for (as she did on her blog) in some way shape or form, communicating the idea stupid orange bad man might be some kind of genius.  I put the two ideas together.  America has for the most part and most time, had very low standards for white boys.  And oddly enough, many think they are genetically superior.  Stupid orange bad man, is the poster child/troll for that shit, those people.

I am not going to go long here.  Google the issue.  Read the book.  But I want to take one more run at the Owl.

Yo! Lady!  When you were a law professor, how would you have graded a student's paper if the format/style was like bozo speaking at one of his rallies?  If you had to slog and suffer through 20 rambling, incoherent pages before the student finally made their point, would you reward them or penalize them?

Curious minds want to know.

 

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It's one thing for the orange poster child for Dunning-Kruger to insist his incoherence is genius.  It's an entirely different matter when retired law professors say that.

Shame on you  Owl.  Particularly for being so shameless.  And an apologist for the dimwitted dictator,