An exercise in stupidity

I'm following "Grubergate" as closely as I follow any non-story that come out of The Teapublican House of Non-Issues. Evidently he was one of the guys who put together parts of the Affordable Care Act that republicans were complicit in passing but have had some remorse about, of late. A year ago it seems, the Jonathon Gruber guy called Americans "stupid". A year ago.... He should have added "slow". I have to admire the man's honesty.

If you have read the comments on ANY internet site, watched "Jay-walking" when Leno was on "The Tonight Show", been on Topix or vote republican, you know that Americans are stupid. Duh!

Ted Cruz knows people are stupid, at least his constituents are. He recently declared that "net neutrality is Obamacare for the internet". Millions of stupid people who don't understand "Obamacare" then went on the internet to not understand net neutrality. He pulled his pants down in public, got spanked for it by Sen. Al Franken and a host of others, and doubled down on his assessment. Know why? Because people are stupid, that's why. Cruz knows this and counts on it. He's an asshole, but he's not stupid.

Though some of the wisest people on earth pass through the doors of the Ferrerman blog- my most dedicated non-readers- there are also several idiots who stumble through these doors- the trolls from Topix. So, I'll explain net neutrality for their misunderstanding.

Do you want the internet to remain as free and open as it is now, or do you want what Obama wants? He wants- LOOK!!! A BENGHAZI SQUIRREL!!!!- and, in conclusion, free laptops and internet for illegal ISIS immigrants and FEMA camps for patriots.

Fuck. Who let Rick Perry in?

Net neutrality is just keeping the internet as it is at this very moment in time. Defeating it means tiered access with varying speeds, based on not only how much you pay, but how much every site you visit pays. I think it was Stewart (or Colbert?) that called it "the fast lane for assholes". The thing is, you could be a very rich asshole with all the premium speed that money can buy, but if sites you like do not pay ransom to Comcast, you get slooooooooooooooooooooooed down access whether you like it or not. That's stupid, but Ted won't tell you that because, that would be stupid.

Sometimes I wonder if I am stupid...because if I'm in the dark on an issue, I can pretty much make up my mind by checking to see if republicans are for or against it. You could put Obama's prints on anything and millions of republicans would be against it based solely on that. So, it's very tempting to just base my own views on an issue simply by going 180 degrees from the republican stance. That would be stupid though, no matter how accurate it truly is. And it is. It makes me feel like Nate Silver. Taller though. AND, not stupid.

Aside from willful, politically inspired stupidity, some people are just not smart. Making the internet rounds of late is a clip about college students on a campus in Texas who don't know much about history. These kids didn't know who won the Civil War. Not even the black students whose ancestors benefited from it or the white, Texas kids whose great great grandaddies mighta fought in it . They also didn't know the name of our current VP, Joe Biden. These kids are going into debt for the rest of their lives and they aren't as smart as a fifth grader? That's stupid.

The other day I wrote about lawyers. You buy them books and send them to school and they can be stupid too. Maybe they are in the bracket of willfully stupid- stupid for pay, like politicians. Like a Ted Cruz or a Rick Perry, Sublime in the threads is stupid with a purpose. He's led around by the nose by an imaginary person he's never met but defends with all his might. She is beautiful, he says. She is good to him, he says. She is honest, he says. Do you know how he knows this? She (or HE) told him...

Now that's stupid for free. I know it's imaginary people on the internet, but calling yourself a lawyer and blindly defending a made up person based on what some of their characters post to you is pretty fucking stupid. I hope he doesn't put that on his resume'. He's a good example of stupid is as stupid does.

When asked about the offensiveness of Jonathon Gruber's remarks about Americans, Congressman Trey Gowdy said: "I'll tell you how stupid the American people are- look at the mid-term results! Look at who the people elected!"

And he meant that in a good way! 37% of eligible voters showed up for the mid-terms. Not even republicans really cared as they showed poorly as well. Nothing to brag about. They couldn't even get a mandate from their own people. Now, that is stupid.

I won't argue because doing so would just be stupid.