Stupidity
Like garbage, there is an endless supply of this stuff.
A few examples are in order.
The former Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly who spent $243,000 of taxpayer money to take a 35-hour journey to Guam just so he could tell the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt about how “stupid” and traitorous that beloved captain, Brett Crozier, had been for publicly disclosing the threat the Covid 19 virus posed to the ship’s crew. Modly was lucky to get off the ship and back to shores of the USA where he was forced to resign for being stupid.
And then there was Roseanne Barr talking to Norm MacDonald informing his listeners about what the Covid 19 virus is.
“You know what [Covid 19] is, Norm?” Roseanne explained, utterly awed by her own perception of brilliance. “I think they’re just trying to get rid of all my generation. The boomer ladies that, you know, that inherited their, you know, are widows. They inherited the money so they got to go wherever the money is and figure out a way to get it away from people.”
Yes, we know, Roseanne – take another Thorazine and get some rest, girl.
Let us not forget Bill O’Reilly, the former intellectual stalwart at Fox News, who recently told another Fox News giant, Sean Hannity, that there should be little, or no social concern for those who have died from the Covid 19 virus because they were “damaged” people who were on “their last legs” in life.
This idiot, who lends new flavor to stupidity, actually told Hannity that a “simple man tells the truth.”
And then there is the grizzled old man living in rural America who walks around the local grocery without a mask or gloves coughing through tobacco-stained lungs as he stacks cases of Coors Light into a grocery cart.
“Would you like a mask, sir?” a passing customer asks.
“What do I want a mask for,” the man in the dirty jeans (don’t even think about his underwear) contemptuously replies. “I don’t believe in that hoax-virus bullshit. You must be one them fucking MSNBC Democrats.”
The old man left the store, with half-dozen coughs and million aerosols lingering behind in the store, and got into his 15-year-old F-150 truck. He wondered aloud if he had enough beer to get him through Tucker, Ingram and Hannity later that night.
Stupidity.
It is hopelessly etched into the DNA of humankind.
But it is interesting to think about which dating app could link the grizzled old man with Roseanne.