There is a local story about a restaurant that hung a banner that said on one side of an American flag “Jesus Is My Savior” and on the other side “Trump Is My President”. So it received a bunch of hate posts on Instagram. And then when word got out about that, it got a bunch of “love” posts, although the ones that have made it into the press have stuff like “hate has a home everywhere, particularly wherever leftists live”. Fun times.
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I went looking for the source of that quote / I was curious about whether that was an accurate quote.
I didn’t find the source for that particular quote, but I was introduced to a related column Asimov wrote in Newsweek in 1980 that still seems VERY relevant today.
ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf (504.4 KB)
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Great read! Thank you for posting it.
Asimov was brilliant and, as you say, still relevant.
I smiled at the reference to Adlai Stevenson in the article as my FIL was a big fan of his and campaigned for him even though he knew he didn’t have a chance because Stevenson was an intellectual.
I saw a few of these posted on Facebook. They’re effectively preparation for “See how much better things were under Biden/Harris, dumb*sses”, although they don’t explicitly say it:
Mark this day. November 7, 2024
Stock Market 43,729.93
Annual Inflation 2.4%
Unemployment 4.1%
Still, now that it I’ve got it, I think I’ll save a copy for future comparison. fwiw, I checked and the values are correct.
Should add:
Trump’s Estimated Net Worth.
Musk’s Estimated Net Worth.
A few other important stats that I’m trying to think of.
Deaths from once-commonly vaccinated diseases?
Price of milk, eggs, flour, sugar.
Why isn’t “trisyllabic” trisyllabic?
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I’d considered adding the price of gas, but that varies so much by region, by season, by refinery or pipeline upset, etc, etc, that it seems like it’s not a very good measure.
You could track a couple of the more interesting CPI sub-index values – the actual indexes, rather than the implied annual rates of changes – in lieu of “price of [whatever]” values.
(If you use the CPI sub-indices…that sets you up for relatively easy comparison against historic presidencies.)
Doesn’t matter, really. If people didn’t understand that the economy, other than inflation in 2021/22 was pretty good over the Biden/Harris years, they’ll also likely not understand any measures. That is, if they already think things are sht, they won’t notice if things really turn to sht.
Dang double * = italics.
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Poop emojis are your friend. 
Price of brent crude?
That said, that one might do well under a Trump presidency.
Is it the left that’s being depicted as an ass?
What if IFYP? 
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