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Source: Iranian General Accuses Israel of Causing Drought by Stealing Clouds | Breitbart

Well this is a new one.  Over the past while, especially in the world of politics, no claim is too preposterous or accusation too unhinged to level  against ideological foes.  Stealing someone’s weather is actually quite novel and creative.  It hasn’t quite acquired the traction and mass hysteria concerning weather that Al Gore has wrought with his inventive and mercantile mind, but you know what they say about imitation and flattery.  But for creativity and the “way out there” factor, it’s a good one.

By now, invocation of the “N” word, that word being Nazi, to characterize anyone who happens to disagree with a preferred point of view, is as cliché as lisps and facial hair on hipsters.  That “N’ word is applied like cheap olive oil onto most every social and political issue.  Anyone resorting to that smear to silence their opponent has already lost the argument.  Closely following on the list of toothless barbs are the epithets of “racist”, “misogynist”, “sexist”, “Islamophobe”, “homophobe” all the way down the list to “anti-dentite”.

In my view, these supposed slurs expose two enormous and dangerous issues threatening  civilization.  The first is the obvious absence of originality.  It’s like calling someone a fatso. Rather than accurately portraying opponents in any articulate way, the smear industry lazily resorts to recycling tried and true monikers in their campaigns as if they were the next in the series of Rocky movies; or Star Wars; or Fast and Furious.  We know that numbers are important to successful films, you just don’t expect it to be the number in the film’s title.  It all becomes just noise, analogous to the cacophony of crying babies in a hospital birthing ward.  As we know, the entertainment industry is seemingly bereft of any new creative ideas and thus depend solely on retreads of the same tired franchises to pay the bills.  This represents an intellectual laziness that is also reflected by social justice warriors in their tired clichés and characterizations, contributing to the blunting of  intellectual thought.

Which brings us to the second fatal issue.  People willingly consume this crap. Like most Hollywood drivel and that includes the “music” industry, the wholly unoriginal social justice smear warriors can only exist if there’s an audience for their banalities.  We can postulate that there may be an almost chemical like dependency of a large swath of the population to consume the same drivel over and over again.  We expect to see this kind of behavior in adolescents, as epitomized by an entire generation hooked on video games and Facebook. But people generally grow out of this groupthink behavior as they mature.   Incredibly, large segments of the populace seem to be zombie-like  consumers of…crap.

Unfortunately, the present state of public discourse shows that lack of critical thinking, normally hallmarks of adolescents, has been pushed farther into adulthood than in previous generations.   People with wholly illogical and preposterous notions are given audience that rational people would dismiss as utter nonsense.  We are all familiar with the notion of the popularity of anti-heroes, but the embrace by much of the public of the moon bat ideas offered by many recent political demagogues is analogous to chickens embracing Colonel Sanders.  Right now, there’s a lot of willing chickens.

Source: Brzezinski says Trump complains he cant watch porn in White House

Among the many accomplishments that Donald Trump has managed to achieve during his term in office thus far, one of the most under reported, but no less significant deed, is to have shone a light on mental illness in the country.  While many people manage to live among society with varying degrees of it under control,  certain segments tend to attract more then their share of those afflicted with some kind of disorder.  With the emergence of Trump, the extent of mental illness can now be seen.

It’s now clearly obvious that the entertainment and media businesses are safe places for such afflicted people.  The further we progress into the Trump presidency, the more the flimsy veneer of sanity falls away from these people.  There is no longer even the attempt at pretense of rationality.  Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing.  Are people like Brzezinski, Reid, Kimmel, Colbert and numerous other media pundits not invoking self immolation of their careers as Michael Richards did years ago in an intemperate nightclub outburst?  These people have as much credibility as Colonel Sanders at a chicken retreat.  Their rabid sputtering is so bad, you have sit further away from the TV to avoid the spittle and foam.

The Mean Girls attacks are so pervasive that they really have to jump the shark to think of new angles of attack.  The accusations of misogyny, racism and mental instability are getting kind of threadbare and seem as old as bell bottoms and shoulder pads.  Some have tried the angle of small  hands, the ridicule of bad hair of course, the junk food diet, tweeting at all hours, multiple ice cream scoops, and now the accusation of inaccess to porn.

For the record, I happen to think witty takedowns of political figures should be appreciated, but the articulate utterances of “F..k Trump!” by Bobby DeNiro falls a bit short of the mark and if anything, shows that he would do well to stick to reading lines made up by others  and not try to formulate his own. Polysyllabic epithets are clearly not his thing.

Oddly, the more naked the bleating by Trump haters, the more obvious their tenuous grip on reality.  Instead of galvanizing support for their views, these smug utterances clearly illuminates their flawed mental state and convinces rational people to align their views with the Trump camp.  Like someone mired in quicksand, the harder the Trump haters struggle, the deeper they sink.  The author Robert A Heinlein once wrote:

“…But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously… after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth…”

Or maybe it’s just a mental disorder.