Once again, I was torn what to use to introduce a post. This choice was especially tough. You see, AI-produced fake conjoined twins Valeria and Camila are gaining the status of web “influencers” despite the fact that they don’t exist. The only possible explanation for why anyone, never mind 280,000 (and rising) followers, would care what this imaginary creature would have to say is that two heads are better than one…but that only applies if they are real heads.
Their (wait…what are their pronouns?) Instagram page tells you they are digital creations not real people but apparently that doesn’t matter to their fans. The fans seem to like being lied to. “Our spines were dangerously fused together, so we had to undergo several surgeries and operations throughout our lives after birth, and that’s why we have these beautiful scars,” Valeria and Camila revealed in one post.
It’s too bad Doublemint gum doesn’t have TV ads these days.
Oh, I almost forgot. The losing nomination to kick-off this post? This old stand-by, from Sheriff Bart and the Waco Kid, which applies exactly to anyone who would spend more than a nanosecond paying attention to the musings of imaginary—but sexy!— freaks:
Ethics Alarms 
This kind of nonsense should surprise no one.
We’re clearly immersed in a 21st century world where…
In my opinion; this is where our failed public education system has brought us.
What’s really sad is that the departure from reality that we see in our 21st century culture, the wide spread lack of critical thinking skills, and the absurd shift towards socialist totalitarianism and/or communism were predicted in the late 1990’s. The vast majority of the public and our leaders sloughed off “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” and completely ignored the predictions as nothing but lunatic conspiracy theories.
Remember, you can’t fix stupid. Stupid is exactly what the extreme progressive left wants; stupid people that are willing to place psychological emotional garbage over logical deduction and they’ll tag along with the extremists straight over the edge of the cliff into totalitarianism.
Be proud America, be very proud.
So great that they used that take even though Cleavon Little burst COMPLETELY out of character when Gene Wilder delivered, “You know; morons.” I wonder whether Wilder improvised that or whether they hadn’t rehearsed it with Little. It clearly caught him completely off guard.
And speaking of the common clay of the new west, again, I’m going to recommend the book “Cracker Culture; Celtic Ways in the Old South,” which, I think I heard of when someone mentioned it here in the comments. It’s a great explanation of the tensions between the north (New England) and the ante bellum South, and by extension, the settlers of the west. Jim is a perfect example of the Yankee looking down at the unrepentant redneck. Frankly, in this case, a wise guy New York Jew, Mel Brooks, mouthed by Gene Wilder, mocks the rubes. “Cracker Culture” provides a great explication of why the Crackers were/are the way they are, and they won’t ever really change, all the goodness of the rest of the country notwithstanding.