{"id":22532,"date":"2024-08-13T17:28:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T00:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=22532"},"modified":"2024-08-16T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:19:44","slug":"theyre-losing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/13\/theyre-losing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Losing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Trump and conservatives deny everything they don&#8217;t like by blaming &#8220;they&#8221; or the &#8220;Deep State&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>And hurling words like &#8220;communist&#8221; without meaning;<\/li>\n<li>Why are we living in a future dominated by idiots?;<\/li>\n<li>Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t understand oceans;<\/li>\n<li>And the brother of pastor who claimed his pro-Trump prophecies came from God calls fake. Well of course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediaproxy.salon.com\/width\/1200\/https:\/\/media2.salon.com\/2024\/08\/kamala_harris_tim_walz_donald_trump_2165785521_2163362411.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Salon, Amanda Marcotte, 13 Aug 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/08\/13\/donald-fake-crowd-lie-about-kamala-harris-shows-how-much-hes-lost-it-since-january-6\/\">Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;fake crowd&#8221; lie about Kamala Harris shows how much he&#8217;s lost it since January 6<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;It&#8217;s the same coping mechanism MAGA used to deny the popularity of Taylor Swift and the Barbie movie&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More about Trump&#8217;s claims about Harris&#8217;s crowds. It&#8217;s sad. Everything that goes wrong for conservatives is always about the mysterious &#8220;they&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; or the equally mysterious and fantastical &#8220;Deep State.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/peterslss.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>JMG,<\/strong> from <strong>Colorado Public Radio, NYT,<\/strong> and <strong>Washington Examiner, 13 Aug 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/08\/ex-co-clerk-blames-deep-state-for-felony-convictions\/\">Ex-CO Clerk Blames Deep State For Felony Convictions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>And so they hurl names, without meaning.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/08\/13\/multimedia\/12krugman-01-pqmc\/12krugman-01-pqmc-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NY Times, Paul Krugman, 12 Aug 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/12\/opinion\/harris-trump-communist.html\">Trump Calls Harris a \u2018Communist.\u2019 That Shows How Worried He Is.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neither Trump nor his supporters at Fox News understand &#8220;communist&#8221; to the point of explaining why Harris is one. It&#8217;s just another random insult. Krugman, mentioning the swing in the polls, concludes,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Trump and MAGA seem to be responding by throwing lots of stuff at the wall and hoping some of it sticks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">However, the kind of character attacks that worked against Hillary Clinton and, in a different way, against Biden don\u2019t seem to be gaining traction. I almost felt sorry for the Fox News host Jesse Watters, who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/jesse-watters-kamala-harris-she-likes-wine-she-likes-food-she-likes-dance-shes-just-not\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tried to attack<\/a> Harris by saying: \u201cShe likes wine. She likes food. She likes to dance.\u201d This is supposed to make voters <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">dislike<\/em> her?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So since nothing else seems to be working, hey, why not call her a communist?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while, I pause, and draw a breath, and realize that here in the 21st century, we are dealing with a political class consisting of <i>idiots<\/i>. The future was supposed to be better than this.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>One more example. Idiot, or moron? The challenge for psychologists and political scientists and sociologists is to explain why so many voters support this idiot, or moron.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/C3CD7YAF2QI6RB3XFICZ6FUN2I.jpg&amp;w=916\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington Post, Philip Bump, 13 Aug 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/13\/does-donald-trump-understand-how-ocean-works\/\">Does Donald Trump understand how the ocean works?<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Once again Monday night, he claimed that rising sea levels would create &#8216;more oceanfront property.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Part of the explanation is the intelligence, or lack thereof, of the population. (The broader issue is: why now?)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/FYRXBJGI6UCNMGDOXUATN5CXJQ_size-normalized.JPG&amp;high_res=true&amp;w=1920\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington Post<\/strong>, (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/08\/brother-says-prophet-faked-his-pro-trump-visions\/\">JMG<\/a>), <strong>10 Aug 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/interactive\/2024\/trump-prophecy-josiah-jeremiah-johnson-alabama\/\">A pastor said his pro-Trump prophecies came from God. His brother called him a fake.<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Jeremiah Johnson became a sensation when he embraced politics. His brother Josiah, also a preacher, couldn\u2019t shake his concerns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, the reality-based community would say: of *course* he&#8217;s fabricating his dreams. Unless he&#8217;s truly delusional, and needs medical care. Long, fascinating personal story at WaPo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump and conservatives deny everything they don&#8217;t like by blaming &#8220;they&#8221; or the &#8220;Deep State&#8221;; And hurling words like &#8220;communist&#8221; without meaning; Why are we living in a future dominated by idiots?; Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t understand oceans; And the brother &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/13\/theyre-losing-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,18,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-lunacy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22551,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532\/revisions\/22551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}