Stupid People

Stupid people annoy me. All the "stupid people" quotes you can think of -- they all apply.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Note to self: It is illegal to stab people for being stupid.

When you're surrounded by idiots, just remember that murder is illegal and sarcasm is much more satisfying.

It's not that I'm not a people person. I'm just not a stupid people person.

People are idiots and I hate them.

Sarcasm. It's easier than actually having to deal with stupid people.

Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Everyone has a right to be stupid; some people just abuse the privilege.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Oh, I sure have my moments of being stupid. We all do. But some people, as some anonymous soul pointed out, abuse the privilege. Those are the ones who annoy the crap out of me. I mean, I just don't have the time in my life to drum up the kind of energy it takes to deal with stupid people.

Like Bobby Jindal, Mark Sanford, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin and Haley Barbour -- stupid governors who get their noses all up in the air because they don't want to let unemployed people have more unemployment benefits. There was a another stupid people quote -- something about when people do stupid things they declare it their duty. Just like these stupid governors. It's their little protest against the recovery bill. They, of course, want to continue the failed policies of the last 30 years, believing they'll get us out of the mess that those very policies put us in.

Stupid. People.

Like Eric Cantor, the Republican whip in the House of Representatives. He thinks Obama's decision to overturn GW's ban on federal funding for embryionic stem cell research is a "distraction" from the economy. Well, Eric, sweetie, it's only a distraction if you make it one. So shut up about it and keep your nose on the economy.

News flash: The president is a Democrat. A Democrat -- a liberal. And yes, he damn sure is a liberal.

He is not a socialist, and that brings me to the entire Republican party and all of its followers, each and every one of whom apparently do not know what socialism is. They seem to think that Obama the socialist, which he is not, is planning to strip billions of dollars from rich people and give it to the poor. Kind of an elected Robin Hood, which personally I don't think is such a bad idea, given the atrocious behavior of most rich people of late.

But that's not going to happen, and I'm not stupid enough to push for it.

But that's not socialism anyway. Socialism does call for a more equitable compensation plan, wherein John Thain does not make billions of dollars while Lily Ledbetter loses her job and can't file suit for the gender discrimination she suffered. But that's all highly theoretical. And, like capitalism, there are varying degrees of socialism.

And the argument for or against socialism and for or against capitalism isn't what I'd like to carry on here. I don't consider myself much of a socialist, but then, I don't consider myself much of a capitalist either since I let go of my business several years ago and dove wholeheartedly into journalism. Personally, I think some new type of economy is what we're going to end up with -- the best of both worlds, and probably a few others too. Provided we survive.

Oh, and socialism and communism aren't the same thing either.

Just so you know, socialism calls for state or worker ownership of the means of production and distribution. Since the rich jackasses have exported all the production the United States once had, there's not much around here to create a true socialist system with. So, you stupid people, shut the fuck up. You don't know what you're talking about.

You have all your panties in a wad because Obama's tax plan calls for people who make more than $250,000 a year to pay a little more tax than they've been paying. Here's what you don't know -- the rest of that sentence, since you start screaming the moment you year "more tax." The plan calls for people who make more than $250,000 a year to pay a little more tax than they've been paying on the part of their income that exceeds $250,000. So all your stupid friends who are trying to figure out how not to make more than $250,000, they're not doing themselves any favors at all. They're just stupid.

Listen to what distributorcap NY says about it:

Finally, you also have to laugh when people like Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham talk about 'redistributing the wealth' and that 'people who have higher salaries are more productive and more valuable.' (Tell that to a nurse, teacher or fire fighter). Not that people shouldn’t reap the benefits (if that means having lots of money) of their hard work and great ideas, but tell me how different would Richard Fuld’s or Stan O’Neal’s or some other robber-banker’s life be if they paid a 39% marginal tax rate on the $500 million they stole earned, rather than 35%. Would it mean one less $12,000 garbage can? And if that extra 4% in marginal tax went to attaining cleaner water (which they have to drink) or retiring debt to fight the useless Iraq War or to helping kids get an decent education (who I would think they want buying products to keep corporate America busy) or by making the bridge they drive over safer – wouldn’t that be better for the Fuld family?

But that's too much thinking for stupid people. They just hear "taxes" and go all nutzoid. because for them, thinking is just regurgitating what you've been told by others, who probably heard it from some other stupid person too. Reminds me of another stupid people quote.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

Whatever, though. What's pretty darn clear is that the stupid people and their Eville lords (not sure who they are, but stupid people can't make up all this shit by themselves) are scared. There's new ideas out there. They've been out there for a while, but they're moving now, percolating up from the dismal depths of the mess the conservatives have made of things. And Mahatma Gandhi knows what happens when new ideas get started.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

I think we're at the fighting part now.

Cross-posted at Stop the Press!

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