Are You Stupid?

The question of today's post is "Are you stupid?"

We're gonna ask some voters in New Jersey. 

Let's ask Bonnie Chandler, age 64, how she intends to vote in the upcoming midterm election in the face of increasing prices at the gas pump and the grocery store. Mrs. Chandler believes that companies are deliberately keeping prices high to make Donald Trump look bad. 

“I’m going to vote Republican. I’m not a woke person. I’m not a communist. I’m not a socialist!"

Sounds like Bonnie's been paying attention to der Führer.

Bonnie Chandler will vote against her own self interests to deter made up threats of wokeness, communism and socialism. 

Bonnie Chandler, are you stupid?

Studio audience, please help her with the answer.

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

OK, when did this blog get a studio audience? 

Lauren DeGirolamo, a 34-year-old Trump voter, says  “I feel grocery prices are pretty much at level with where they were during Biden. I know some of the key things that I look for - eggs - have gone down."

Egg prices were high in the first place due to stresses on supply due to avian bird flu which has since been brought under control. (Although recently a shit ton of eggs were recalled for salmonella so we've got that hell to look forward to.) Other than that....

Grocery prices are NOT level with where they were during Biden but are in fact much higher.  And you may recall the guy you voted for did not promise to keep grocery prices level with Biden but bring them down.  

Ms. DeGirolamo intends to vote Republican this November.

Lauren DeGirolamo, are you stupid?

What say you, studio audience?

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

Seriously, why is there a studio audience? Do I have to pay them? Or feed them?  

Margaret Derkach, age 84, can see clearly what's going on in the economy.   “The cost of living, as far as homes, apartments and food - the necessities - they have gone up. It’s shocking, shocking!"

So there's hope for Mrs. Derkach, right? Well, maybe? As for her intention to vote this November, she is  "undecided".  

She knows that Donald Trump “inherited a mess from Joe Biden."  

Damn it, Margaret! On one hand, I feel you're so close to an epiphany. You can see the Matrix, right? That things suck because stuff costs too much? 

But on the other hand, you are "undecided" how to vote because the economy is something Trump inherited from Biden who has been out of office for nearly 2 years.

OK, weird studio audience that shouldn't be part of a blog, help me out here! What is the answer for Margaret Derkach on the question, "Are you stupid?" 

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

Wow! This studio audience is mean!  And maybe a bit hungry! 

I may need to get some food brought in.

Or reconsider my medication.

To be fair, the name "Donald J. Trump" is not on any ballots this November. But the Republicans who are on the ballots do need to answer for him.  They have capitulated to his every whim and completely abdicated their responsibilities to provide any kind of oversight over his godforsaken, misbegotten reign of chaos, cruelty and goddam fucking incompetence.

The path to why shit costs so much right now does not lead to Joe Biden but to Li'l Donnie Trump. 

1) Tariffs make shit cost more! Trump slaps tariffs on everything in a mistaken belief they're some kind of magic solution to save the economy when all they do is hurt the economy and the Republicans in Congress has done fuck all about that. 

2) The war Donald Trump started makes shit cost more! The war that Trump and his snivelling syncophants have NO idea how to run and NO idea how to end makes shit cost more! And the Republicans in Congress have done fuck all about that too! 

The same Republicans in Congress who are currently running to keep their phony baloney jobs by asking you to vote for them. 

And if you think voting for them is going to make things better when they are the ones complicit in making things worse?

OK, hallucinatory studio audience, say it ONE MORE TIME!

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

While the electorate is displaying extreme levels of stupidity, let's not think those same Republicans in Congress are off the hook for lapses in intelligence.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) recently said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misled the Senator to get his confirmation vote to be secretary of Health & Human Services.

“There are guarantees that were given to me and guarantees that were supposedly going to be enforced by the White House. Among those were not to affect the (vaccination) schedule.”

So Senator Cassidy took the word of a known vaccine skeptic that the known vaccine skeptic would not fuck with vaccines?

I believe my imaginary studio audience would like a word with you.

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

Speaking of stupid and vaccines....

Li'l Donnie signed an executive order calling for  separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different shots administered in separate visits.  

While signing this order, Trump made outrageous claims of  vaccines in amounts equal to soda bottles being pumped into little babies' bodies.  He's also still trying vaccines to autism.

der Führer justified his order based on such solid evidentiary basis of "people tell me" and "I believe".  

What do we need to tell Donald Trump?

"YOU ARE STUPID!"

So much stupidity, so little time.  

I think I need to lie down a moment.

Thanks to Nathan Layne of the Reuters news service for the quotes from New Jersey voters.