We need to talk about Donald – the Nightmare continues

Post by **Svartalf** » Sat Jun 17, 2017 2:44 am

fake news

Post by **pErvinalia** » Sat Jun 17, 2017 2:57 am

So appropriate that he is clapping himself. I should point out, he posted this himself on Twitter.

Post by **Brian Peacock** » Sat Jun 17, 2017 8:43 am

In March massive liar Jeff Sessions recused himself from any role in any investigations "related in any way to the campaign for president of the United States," adding, "I should not be involved in investigating a campaign I had a role in."

So why did he provide a pretext for Comey's firing and why has he appointed Comey's replacement?

Post by **pErvinalia** » Sat Jun 17, 2017 9:48 am

Comey's replacement isn't in charge of the investigation. Mueller is.

Post by **Brian Peacock** » Sat Jun 17, 2017 11:54 am

Yeah, Mueller, appointed by DoJ deputy Rod Rosenstein, is overseeing the ongoing counter-intelligence and criminal investigations being carried out by the FBI, and others.

EDIT: the deputy director of FBI is the current acting head, but Sessions and Rosenstein are interviewing for a replacement.

Post by **Brian Peacock** » Sat Jun 17, 2017 12:16 pm

Post by **tattuchu** » Sat Jun 17, 2017 1:18 pm

Post by **DRSB** » Sun Jun 18, 2017 5:52 am

The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America

There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.

Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, says in an article in the Washington Post, "Dumbness, to paraphrase the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has been steadily defined downward for several decades, by a combination of heretofore irresistible forces. These include the triumph of video culture over print culture; a disjunction between Americans' rising level of formal education and their shaky grasp of basic geography, science and history; and the fusion of anti-rationalism with anti-intellectualism."

There has been a long tradition of anti-intellectualism in America, unlike most other Western countries. Richard Hofstadter, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his book, Anti-Intellectualism In American Life, describes how the vast underlying foundations of anti-elite, anti-reason and anti-science have been infused into America's political and social fabric. Famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov once said:

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always 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."

https://www.sott.net/article/313177-The ... of-America

Post by **pErvinalia** » Sun Jun 18, 2017 6:55 am

What about Hillary, though?!

Post by **Scot Dutchy** » Sun Jun 18, 2017 6:56 am

What about her?

Post by **JimC** » Sun Jun 18, 2017 6:57 am

Such a good quote from Asimov...

Post by **pErvinalia** » Sun Jun 18, 2017 6:58 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:What about her?

Well, well, child pornography rings and John Podesta and that guy she personally killed. And her husband got a blow job!

Post by **Scot Dutchy** » Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:01 am

Never mind it is Sunday.

Post by **pErvinalia** » Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:02 am

I'm just filling in for 42 while he has Sunday off...

Post by **JimC** » Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:02 am

Which means I've got to teach tomorrow!

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