Thought For The Day – America As The Titanic

Cloudy With A Chance Of Revenge Killings

November 9, 2024

Never has our motto here at Paying Attention™ been more applicable: Panic first, ask questions later. This country has now elected an objectively shitty, clearly mentally failing, authoritarian, toxic narcissist, hell-bent on revenge, retribution and intellectual degradation for the entire nation.

I have long thought that one must be purposefully ignorant in today’s world. All the information you could ever want is right there…on your fucking phone. And therein lies one of the problems – the word ‘want.’ One must want to gather information, to examine conflicting views, which are always out there, and now – for not even a nominal fee – readily available.

One of my other long-held beliefs, one that is backed up by science (yeah I know, science is so pre-Trump), is that the conservative mind tends to fixate on one thing, cannot entertain conflicting ideas, and is likely to choose blind faith. The liberal mind investigates options, can weigh various viewpoints without causing brain damage, and tends to question everything…including itself. What you end up with is someone bringing a thesaurus to a gunfight.

Which brings me to a quote by the late, great Hannibal Lecter…I mean George Carlin

“Ignorant citizens elect ignorant leaders. It’s as simple as that.”

Which reminds me of a few quotes by H.L. Mencken

“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”

And so, here we are. Instead of electing the first woman president, we elected the first convicted felon/mental patient/insurrectionist and adjudicated sexual assaulter. Someone who attempted to end the peaceful transfer of power. Oh yeah, and he also stole classified documents after being voted out of office. The ass ceiling has finally been shattered. Next stop democracy in America.

America just elected a lame fuck president. There will be hell to pay, not least of all for most of his supporters – the non-billionaire ones. Though his detractors will have no easy row to hoe.

Perhaps most interesting of all, Trump and his delusional, deplorable cultists would have burned the house down had he lost, now he will now own the House, slap his fucking name on it and do what he always does – run the place into an unrecognizable dung heap on the ground.

That’s just how he rolls.

And he already used up and spit out all the best people. Bring on the C-Team. His new chief-of-staff acted as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry. And ketamine enthusiast Elon Musk is Trump’s new co-owner along with Vladimir Putin. Trump wants Musk – who bought Twitter and made it much more Nazi-friendly while trashing its monetary value – to redesign the government to make it more efficient. Trump wants RFK, Jr. and his pet brain worm to handle the rest – except for finishing off the planet with fossil fuels.

Hide your daughters and the good silver.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought For The Day. Have a nice day.