Wyatt earp
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"Junk Science". That's another epithet Conservatives apply to knowledge. Gut instinct serves them poorly as a substitute for intellectual curiosity.Education is not merely elitist but subversive. The Right sees campuses as places of "Leftist indoctrination", not higher learning.Republicans have established illiteracy as a virtueFor one thing, it's clear that Trump is not a devotee of reading, whether it's newspapers, books or memos. Instead, he is most moved by what he sees and hears in a most fundamental sense. When Trump began receiving intelligence briefings in January, his aides asked the briefers to reduce the number of words in their daily briefing book and instead use more pictures and other graphics. Trump, the aides explained, is a "visual and auditory learner," according to the Washington Post. After Trump took office in January, his staff assessed President Barack Obama's contingency plans for Syria and trimmed them into small pieces, illustrated by photos, the Post said, so Trump could get a better grasp on what was going on in his own way and so he could best improve the situation.
Critics are hardly reassured by these tendencies, which strike them as puerile and superficial. But this visual focus should not be surprising given that Trump achieved fame as the host of a reality-television show where appearances and impressions were everything
No wonder he constantly changes his mind....he has the attention span of a goldfish
Donald Trump's Governing Styles Has Critics Up in Arms
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After the last few presidents the Republicans have put forth they have shown an increasing propensity to nominate less and less intelligent people as time goes by. They came close to absolute batshit whackjobbery with Palin and at the time you couldn't imagine anyone more ignorant or clueless than the non-reading Palin.
Enter drumpf who finds it hard to spell words correctly in a tweet. Who likely has never read and never intends to read the Constitution and now is shown to not be able to read normal intelligence briefings that all the presidents before have read. He needs 'pictures', like that ape that learned sign language. It could read but could communicate with pictures.
Republicans reached the bottom of the barrel with Shrub, but that wasn't enough. They have turned the barrel over and scraped the scum off the bottom and elected that president. Devolution in process. Going from human to brainless amoeba.
They look for leaders who are not bogged down with pesky things like facts. You are always better when you trust your gut
Even the leaders of rightwing media never finished college.....Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck
Education is elitist
Science particularly is a sticky wicket for Right Wingers. Science tells them that yes indeed, humans effect the planet and often times adversely effect it. Science tells them that the potential of genetics and stem cells could unlock the puzzles that chronic disease poses. Science tells Right Wingers that mankind was not conjured up as a cmpleted animal and put on earth like a potted geranium. Mankind, like all animals evolved over the ages. Yes sir! Science is tough on a lot of Conservative dogma.
'Smart ass', 'smarty pants', smart alec'. Smarts are not a virtue, they are a Vice to be demeaned and demonized. And now they have selected a petulant game show host as commander-in-Chief. A wholly incurious man who tends to listen to the last person talking at the table. Mara Largo's own Charles Foster Kane but without all that "genius baggage".
Yet liberals insist a baby is not a fetus, to justify murder go figure...
Only in the liberal mind do they think they have all the answers, yet propagate the media with junk science to promote their admitted social justice.
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Some of us graduated from the 2nd grade when they were talking about you know Ice ages, dinosaurs and stuff.. And know the world is a lot older then around 140 years old when they started to keep temperature records.
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