#ignorance — Public Fediverse posts

https://theconversation.com/the-media-has-made-donald-trump-look-more-coherent-than-he-is-its-called-sanewashing-289616

> "he had almost certainly not given the important topic any serious prior thought"

Of course. He does not, & never has engaged in anything like "serious thought".

No #cognitive #ExeutiveFunctioning - grasping #concepts or #CauseEffect #reasoning which - along with #logic - might allow sane, effective planning.

And then there's the serious #personality #disorder - #MaligantNarcissism, plus #ignorance & #Grandiosity, fueled by #media #sanewashing. #Truth #TrumpVirus

An Electric Car
Manages "GREAT MPG"
Dealer shouts it out

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Summer #August #EV #BEV #MPG #Car #Automobile #SUV #AutoDealer #Dealership #Ignorance #America #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

August 3, 2026

#TRUMP WAS NEVER HIDING 💎

The first time I heard #DonaldTrump was running for president, I knew what he was.

Not because I am politically brilliant.

Not because #Tasmania has better intelligence services.

Because he was so obviously ignorant, #malicious and downright nasty.

The boasting.

The #cruelty.

The hunger for attention.

The #contempt for #truth.

The constant need to dominate the room and #punish anyone who would not admire him.

I had seen that #kind of man before, both in politics and in spiritual communities around the world.

What I could not understand was why so many #Americans could not see it.

Then he won.

And years later, they chose him again.

This video helps explain something deeper.

People inside #MAGA were not necessarily asking:

“What kind of man is he?”

They were asking:

“Is he on our side?”

“Will he hurt the #people we resent?”

“Will he restore the #country we believe we have lost?”

“Will he make us feel #powerful again?”

Once loyalty becomes identity, character stops mattering.

Cruelty becomes #strength.

#Ignorance becomes authenticity.

Shamelessness becomes #courage.

Every warning becomes proof that the leader is threatening the right people.

#America did not fail to see Trump because he concealed himself.

Trump concealed almost nothing.

Many people saw him clearly and decided his ugliness might work on their behalf.

That is the part worth understanding.

This #video is valuable because it shows how painful it can be to leave once a political movement has become your #family, your meaning, your explanation and your identity.

People rarely leave an #illusion because they have been defeated or humiliated.

They leave when the #story stops holding together, and someone gives them enough dignity to admit it.

https://youtu.be/IWkfowGKv1U?si=n0TMty-zYPPFXIIH

#pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Spirituality #life #AI #journalism #Advertising #LeavingMAGA #Politics #CultDynamics

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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

-- Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" (1995)

#America #government #economy #science #religion #CarlSagan #Sagan #prognostication #foreboding #ignorance #books

Cartoon by #deAdder

#TrumpVirus #Blasphemy #sacrilege #sin #evil #BrainSpurs #delusions #Jan6 #insurrection #sedition #treason #Pope #Epstein #psychopathology #grandiosity #truth #projection #insanity #ignorance

A quotation from Carlyle

For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading

A quotation from Carlyle

For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading

A quotation from Carlyle

For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading

A quotation from Carlyle

For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading

A quotation from Carlyle

For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani [enemy of humanity], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42625/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #clearconscience #commonman #crimesagainsthumanity #criminal #enemy #evil #Holocaust #ignorance #immorality #naivete #normalcy #normality #responsibility #warcrime #wrongdoing

A quotation from Judith Martin

I always presume, because it helps me get up in the morning, that most people are people of goodwill and would like to restrain themselves from offending people if they knew what was offensive.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (1995-03-06) by Virginia Shea, “Miss Mannners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Internet Behavior,” Computerworld, Vol. 29, No. 10

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/78176/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #behavior #character #etiquette #goodwill #humannature #ignorance #manners #offending #offense #rudeness

Sometimes it doesn't pay to be disabled and leave the house. #frustration #totallyblind #inaccessibility #ignorance

#censorship
#fear
#ignorance
Control of the masses is central in blocking #EducationForAll, eliminating #CHOICE & stopping opportunities and safeguards for the health and wellbeing of #ourPeople,#ourDemocracy & #ourPlanet

The difference is that I try to do as I say. I find so many people have a do as I say, not as I do philosophy. It's a great one to teach today's kids, especially because you're modeling for them how to treat those people of diversity in their future. #disability #totallyblind #single #parent #diversity #inclusion #accessibility #ignorance #humanity