Tweet observation of America from Tom Nichols.

[Grasswire2]

We are an advanced and educated nation with millions of morons wrapped around our ankles trying to get us to come back inside the cave and look at chicken bones to explain rainfall.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Exactly these whackjobs are prehistoric regressive...

the christofascist ideal of society has more in common with a baboon troop than modern industrialized society.

[peggysue2]

2. I read this earlier today

It made me laugh out loud, even though it's a chilling reminder of how out-to-lunch these Trumpers/QAnons really are. That being said, I found the description apt, on the mark and funny as hell.

From everything I'm reading (I think Nichols' tweet was in response to a Vanity Fair article), these Born Again Delusionals buy into the whole Savior Come to Save Us schtick. There are plenty of hangers on--the grifters, the Neo-Nazis, the general malcontents--but the larger percentage are the True Believers of every hoax, crackpot conspiracy and knucklehead theory. They're devoted to Trump and if the man were to say, 'throw those chicken bones," that's exactly what they'd do.

Trump's Army of Zombies.

Remind me, again. What century is this????

[paleotn]

7. Funny. I lost my religion...

the moment I discovered I really had nothing to be "saved" from. Other than the do no harm stuff echoed in every religious and cultural tradition all over the world and across time, the rest is just bullshit meant to control us.

[Enterstageleft]

3. The only way to combat this

Is to do away with faux news & limburger & his ilk.

Don't start with 1st amendment rights. Just bring back the "Fairness Doctrine"

[warmfeet]

4. I wish he was wrong.

He is not.

[handmade34]

5. Plato may approve

"puppet showmen"

[paleotn]

6. Ha! That's it!

In a nut shell. He has us perfectly!

[JHB]

8. Tom leaves out the part where belief in cicken-bone prophecy...

...helps pass tax cuts.


Now, what group could be responsible for making that a priority?

[Poiuyt]

9. I've been telling anyone who'll listen that America has become a backwards country

It's embarrassing to admit this, but we as a nation are regressing back to a less enlightened time. I remember how I felt when Kennedy inspired us to go to the moon. A lot of people (me included) went into the sciences. Now people brag about their ignorance. The anti-intellectual trend here just appalls me.