“I don’t find this stuff amusing anymore.” Paul Simon
Welcome to the Real Idiocracy
This ain’t a movie, folks. This is real life. . .and death.
This is a political article, folks. If you can’t handle it, stop now and go to the fridge and get a beer. It’ll be over soon.
In May of 2016, a Time Magazine writer wrote a hilarious article on how our nation has become an “Idiocracy.” You should read it.
I can promise you, I cannot do a better job than this writer did, and I am not going to try. I am just gonna add a few words here, and let you decide where we are today, 4 years later.
Wordnik.com defines Idiocracy as “A government ruled by idiots.”
Idiocracy is also a movie directed and co-written by Mike Judge about two people from the present who awaken 500 years in the future to find out the world is ruled by idiots and they are the smartest people on the planet. Who knew Mike Judge was such a prophet?
But that was supposed to be fantasy, or fiction, or a comedic dystopian future. It could never happen here, could it?
Well, ladies and germs, welcome to the future, only instead of 500 years, we’re talking 14 years (10 if you count when he was elected).
April 23, 2020, the stupidest man on the planet (IMHO), your President, Donald J. Trump, asked his medical expert if we could try injecting disinfectant into the human body to kill the germs.
Yes, he did.
Click below to see the press conference.
Yesterday, your president had a news conference where he kept looking at his #1 Medical Sycophant, Dr. Birx, and made comments that sounded like questions, then looked at her like she was going to agree with him. Here is what was said during that news conference, courtesy of an article written by Ted Johnson of Deadline.com :
“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous ultra violet or just very powerful light,” he said, looking toward Bryan (Bill Bryan, is the head of the science and technology directorate at the Department of Homeland Security; he is NOT a medical scientist or a doctor), and Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force. “And I think you said that hasn’t been checked but you are going to test it.”
He added, “And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you could do either through the skin or in some other way. I think you said that you are going to test that, too. And then I saw the disinfectant, where knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way we could do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning. As you see it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
Bryan later said that using disinfectant to clean the lungs is not possible. “Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work,” Trump then said.
Honestly, it defies reality and comprehension. Is someone really this ignorant?
But it gets better. In Ted Johnson’s article about the news conference, he offers more dialogue between the President and Phil Rucker of the Washington Post. This is the exchange,
Phil Rucker of The Washington Post said to Trump, “Respectfully, sir, you’re the president, and people tuning into the briefings, they want to get information and guidance and want to know what to do. They’re not looking for rumor.”
Trump responded, “Hey Phil. I’m the president, and you’re fake news. And know what I will say to you? I will say it to you very nicely because I know you well. I know the guy, I see what he writes. He is a total faker.
No, that is not a line from the movie, Idiocracy. he REALLY said that.
Today, April 24, 2020, according to another Ted Johnson article, Trump said,
Then, just hours later, Trump had a new walk back. “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” he said to a pool gathered at a White House meeting.
No, he wasn’t. Watch the news conference. There was no sarcasm evident. And, like porn, I can’t define it, but I’ll know it when I see it. This was not it!
But in a weird sort of way, I guess it could be called “Political porn.” Political comments so stupid they should be rated “XXX.”
With all due respect, ladies and gentlemen, if you are a Trump supporter and still don’t understand how much of a failure he is, and you saw this video conference, I am truly worried about our future and US, yes, the U.S. of A.
Remember back in March, 2020, when he said,
“I like this stuff. I really get it,” Trump boasted to reporters during a tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where he met with actual doctors and scientists who are feverishly scrambling to contain and combat the deadly illness. Citing a “great, super-genius uncle” who taught at MIT, Trump professed that it must run in the family genes.
“People are really surprised I understand this stuff,” he said. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.” David Nakamura, Washington Post
No, he doesn’t “really get it.”
I thought THAT was Idiocracy at it’s finest! Oh, who could have predicted that Trump would trump that level of Idiocracy with a new level? Probably everyone. . .and, well, he did.
Remember the definition of Idiocracy above: “A government ruled by idiots.”
Is there no one in the government brave or smart enough to legally stop this fool?
Idiocracy. And we’re living it. . . and dying for it.
God help us if he is re-elected.
Chuck Roast is a humorist (“humourist” for those of you who like the “incorrect” spelling)for the publication Illumination, a Top Writer in Satire, and owner/editor/writer of his own Publication, Dad-Bods, which is currently sitting idle while he develops his social media skills and gains more exposure through manipulation of said social media. Here are the links to his accounts, LinkedIn, Twitter. Comments are always appreciated. Thanks for reading. Write On!
