k.anne lookin kinna thick in that pic ]

There's no water in that woman

She pisses air and farts dust

She's got a sandpaper ****

I don't think Insert Witty SN knows what thick means

i find the idea of ****ing her repulsive.

i'd rather **** bannon.

more like Dogfart

shoutout to all my p-no connoisseurs

some potential here

Winston looking thick.

Namath did you peep that tweet from my retweets

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probably

FARK's 'shoppers need to get ahold of that

KellyAnne could become this generation's Deep Throat, and it looks like there's more than one way for her to get there.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...226-story.html

Yeah, artists using their platform for making political statements is such a new thing, too.

i also would like the host of the apprentice to go back to hosting the apprentice and leave this politics stuff alone

Pretty incredible imo, two fake news sites, same story, all from the same source playing to both sides of the /outrage

i wonder how many of the lower-middle class people who voted for and support drumpf cuz he's sooper smart and successful and excellent dealmaker could read him say these exact words after his promises for the last year to repeal and replace obamacare with the best possible universal health care for everyone that will have everything in it read this quote and finally realized they've been duped

i assume none. probably none. more people probably turned on him cuz he won't actually prosecute WOAThill than this

so ya, in case you had any doubts, states rights only exist when it comes to legalizing discrimination. otherwise, bend the **** over here comes the DoJ

This is just a passing shot, but I do not think it's possible to overstate the degree to which anti-intellectualism has triumphed in virtually all aspects of American life. From the dominance of social media, to the seeming irrelevance of non-fiction books, to the take culture (in which I am participating by posting in this thread, both in this post and most of my posts), to proposals to de-fund public education, to the erosion of credibility among experts due to paid experts being the popular culture face of expertise, to the erosion of even vague adherence to truth or fact in legal proceedings, and on and on and on, it is easy to trace a broadening condemnation of knowledge.

We really are post-factual, but we're also post-knowledgeable. The Trump phenomenon is a celebration of the same bold and aggressive ignorance that made it possible. We are not talking about differences of opinion with regard to policy, or law, or ethics. We are talking about differences of capacity to even formulate an opinion, and somehow the winning side is the side that aggressively shuns the cultivation of information and knowledge and yet harbors the strongest and most broadly consequential "opinions."

It's just the ignorance of religious dogma applied to governance, and our electoral system allowed proudly ignorant governance to prevail because it was enticing to enough voters to win.

It is hard to grapple with that. Lies don't matter because they are not tethered to anything else that matters - neither truth nor knowledge has relevance. Mistakes don't matter because they can simply be pitched as successes - and the description of a failed military raid or a failed and illegal deportation policy as a success cannot be challenged because no recipient of the challenge need respond with either truth or knowledge.

How do you win a battle detached from reality? How do you make more people read books? How do you convince people that their lives are worse today than they were under Obama when it doesn't matter to them if that is true? Do they actually have to come to tangible harm through the enactment of Trump's policies before it is possible to communicate with them?

How would you describe a human being who must experience tangible consequences before any lesson can ever be learned?

An infant, probably. If an adult, a legitimate imbecile.

How does a country survive when a dominant minority of its voting populace is best described in that manner, and when its acting government boldly embraces that specific characteristic?

i wonder if secession is in play if and when he gets re-elected

he's not even pretending to hide the fact that he's going to lead one half of the country at the direct expense of the other half and the half he is leading is too ****ing oblivious to realize they're worse off for his policies

Baahhahahhahahaha, awesome

Earlier someone actually showed the Boxing Helena pic in response to "What happened to KellyAnne?". And then she goes and recreates it.

Hoya, thats a good post.

I think to answer your last question you have to answer whether the country necessarily needs to survive as a Constitutional Democratic Republic. You can only begin to answer that question by defining what it means to "survive." Furthermore, once it is determined if it is possible to survive under those terms, we would need to decide whether it is even valuable to survive if that survival necessitates a certain set of societal norms and allows specific ideals and mindsets to thrive.

I think that for the first time in human history people are beginning to believe that they do not need intelligent people to help make their lives better. They no longer believe that knowledge has any correlation whatsoever to freedom, wealth, or power. Many people no longer believe that knowledge is a basis for progress. So long as people fail to understand that societal, and thus individual, progress is tied to the understanding of facts and natural laws and that the pursuit of knowledge and its implementation in practical fields is what ultimately leads to affluence and better living conditions for all we will not live in a society that values knowledge or truth.

Culture has shifted such that people chase fleeting moments of increased levels of dopamine. Many of us have become addicted to those rushes and seek them out at the expense of forward thinking and personal relationships. We can get all of our validation instantaneously now and that leads to a degrading number of in-person interactions and those in-person interactions that we do have are far less personal than they once were.

So long as we continue to push ourselves into physical isolation and insulate ourselves into bubbles of people who believe what we believe and reaffirm our beliefs without challenging them, we will continue to push ourselves towards ignorance. As ignorance blossoms, we will push those with different beliefs away and gravitate to intellectual and emotional isolationism which breeds a hatred for anything and anyone who might contradict our beliefs or not be reflective of our self-identity.

Saw this in Ezra Klein's piece on Trump today

In The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump writes, “You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will catch on.”



Wonder if he still believes that.