I haven’t done a Trump Derangement check on my Facebook friends for a while now, and that nonsense above compelled me to return to the field. Curmie posted something almost as idiotic a few days ago, and it just made me sad; I couldn’t bear to chronicle the shocking intellectual and ethical deterioration of EA’s former esteemed columnist since President Trump was sworn into office.
The thing above was posted yesterday by long-time friend from Harvard, a sharp, indomitable woman whom I admire in many ways and have always found delightful in person. But that dishonest, ignorant, gaslighting rant is beyond redemption. It’s so stupid that I have to wonder if my friend just posted it without thinking, as a lazy virtue-signaling exercise.
Just to address two items that are easily debunked:
- The highest national average gas price during the Biden administration was $5.02 per gallon in June of 2022. The national average was $2.39 per gallon on January 20, 2021, the day Biden took office. The national average was $3.10 per gallon when Biden left office in January 2025. Gas was not “1/2” what it is now.
- Inflation always goes up. The inflation rate fluctuates. Making that error is signature significance: anyone who makes it doesn’t know what they are talking about.
We were “friends” with Canada, Mexico, and “Europe”! Who wrote this, a third grader? Not one single thing is “better”? Gee, I don’t know, I’d call not having 2.5-3 million fewer illegal immigrants in the country “better” than having the law breakers still here. Not having open borders is also “better” unless one’s perspective is, you know, legally, historically and logically insane. The whole list is, or should be, an embarrassment to anyone who would post or “like it.” Once again, I wrestled my fingers to the ground. My friend is a lifetime theater community denizen despite the Harvard degree, and I suspect her sophistication regarding current events is approximately that of Elmo’s. But why would she post such garbage, knowing that she’s asserting talking points without research or understanding? If elite college-educated voters are this addled, what are the rest like?
I was unfamiliar with the term “gaslighting” until just a few years ago. I’ve concluded Democrat talking points simply are gaslighting; nothing more, nothing less. They say all these things to drive people crazy. To reason with Democrat talking points is useless. They are, by definition, irrational.
The opinions of “elite, college-educated voters” may have no correlation with the opinions of people who have actual life experience. Theater people, with all due respect to our gracious host, are in the business of creating imaginary worlds. Some of them live there, I guess.
I do not have a degree from any university so I’m reluctant to comment here. Jack and all his commenters excel me in education, research, and intellect. Yet, her I go. I volunteer at a theatre in my area and most of the employees, volunteers, and the performers are highly educated and intelligent. Yet I find the majority are inflicted with TDS. It seems these folks accept and excuse every thing done and said by the far left while condemning anything conservative or Republican. Yet, those of us without the higher education and prestigious professions are more open minded and see both major political parties as imperfect. I’ve often wondered if that’s a bad thing? I hope not because being any other way just doesn’t sit well with me. With that being said, thanks to all the commenters and Jack for the opportunity to read, learn, and stretch my mind just a little further to see even more of all sides.
I’m not sure any level of schools teach common sense.
Reading. culture and literature teach common sense.
Are things going well? Not particularly, but not horribly so.
Would things likely be worse with Democrats leading the country (the $64,000 question of the midterms)? Yes, they would likely be worse in nearly every respect.
Issue not directly on the ballot: Would the US be better led by someone else with more statesmanlike decorum yet similar policies? Quite probably.
Let’s see what November 4 brings.
Mrs. OB says lots of people will vote against Trump in the midterms because they don’t like his behavior and persona, etc. Which I suppose is somewhat understandable, but the Dems never had a problem with Bill Clinton’s behavior and persona. Mum was the word on that. Just more Dem and AUC hypocrisy.
Trump just ended most of the NFA. The Big Beautiful Bill ended the collection of the tax on suppressors, short-barrelled rifles, and short-barrelled shotguns. With no tax, it is unconstitutional. It is amazing how anti-Constitution our judges are. If we passed a law that said you had to submit a proposal and have your statement approved along with a $10 tax to post online or make a statement in the media about a politician, every federal judge in America would approve it.
The short-barrelled rifles and short-barrelled shotguns provision was just a dead-letter provision in the NFA to keep people from converting rifles to handguns. Wait! you might say, can’t you just buy a handgun legally? Yes, but the NFA was written to ban ALL handguns for poor people. The provisions were to make sure poor people couldn’t cut down a shotgun or rifle to make a horrible pistol-like thing. In their haste to get it passed, they didn’t remove the loophole-closing provisions when they removed the handgun ban. The government treated those provisions as such for decades. When the federal government illegally sold 240,000 short-barrelled rifles to citizens without NFA paperwork, making them felons. They just changed the barrel length afterwards to 16 inches and retroactively made it legal.
Fast forward to the last few decades when these weapons were considered ‘super deadly’ and people were prosecuted or threatened with a decade of jail time for owning ones that were legal when purchased, but retroactively banned. Trump just fixed this affront to the Constitution and to justice.