Angry: That awkward moment when you get exactly what you voted for. "You are the DUMBEST smart person I have ever met"

[Dennis Donovan]

Angry
‪@angrystaffer.bsky.social‬
That awkward moment when you get exactly what you voted for.

“You are the DUMBEST smart person I have ever met”

March 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM

A PhD doesn't guarantee you can tie your shoe.

That awkward moment when you get exactly what you voted for.

“You are the DUMBEST smart person I have ever met”

— Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T15:54:54.764Z

[oasis]

1. When you finally wake up are you "woke"?

[surfered]

47. First they came for people of color, but I didn't say anything because i was white.

Then they came for the LGBTQ community, but I didn't say anything because I was straight.
Then they came for choice, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a woman.
But then they came for the scientists, so now I'm really sorry I voted for Trump.

Putting yourself in the shoes of another is called empathy, which seems to be in short supply.

[Roy Rolling]

84. "Lefty Overreach"

Pendulums swing both ways, never in the middle. Civilized societies minimize those wide swings, but there is profit for some in confusion and uncertainty..psychopaths like orange and black ruthless dictators with a drug problem and shit for brains.

[krkaufman]

53. Except they haven't woken up.

Like all Conservatives, they’re still fine with enacting policies that harm other people but woe when they’re somehow negatively affected by the choices they’ve made. An absence of empathy remains a key trait among the demographic.

[Iris]

75. No. Because rather than try to consider their "lean conservative" might racism, bias, or white supremacy, they

decided to double down and "punish"'those who dared question the way things are and if they actually serve the greater good.. Higher Ed is full of yucks like this.

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. What "lefty overreach" do these people speak of?

Seriously, what happened that caused such an apparent backlash?

I don’t remember getting many of the things on my wishlist.

[Scrivener7]

5. Probably an insistence on an ethics panel so they don't accidentally slaughter people with their research.

[iemanja]

82. And requirements to address diversity

in NIH applications. That and he’s probably pissed off he has to use the right pronouns. The entitled complain about the most minor inconveniences.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Women breaking through the academia good ole boy network.

[BadgerMom]

83. Bingo.

My daughter has a Ph.D. in a stem field. She’s well-regarded, but, holy cow, the men are so pompous.

[not fooled]

101. And no longer being a readily available "dating" pool

for older male academics.

[lostnfound]

8. I know someone who recently attended a teacher's college which crammed in constant messaging

And prohibited original thinking, felt like they taught very little about how people learn or how to effectively teach..etc.

Sometimes I wonder if they've become a parody of themselves intentionally, to create pockets of disdain.

[Mariana]

40. Which teacher's college?

[travelingthrulife]

67. So you went to this college or you just had a discussion with a perpetual whiner?

[yardwork]

26. I can answer that.

After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and partly due to a recognition that COVID was affecting minority populations even more badly than it was affecting the white majority, because of long-time unequal access to health care, there was a DEI movement. It reached into the medical research field, but in a very mild way.

Beginning about four years ago, the NIH and other federal agencies started asking for assurances that research projects would make efforts to include women and minorities, both as researchers and as study participants. Private foundations did the same. The goal was to encourage more women and minorities in scientific research, where they've been discriminated against and their health needs overlooked.

Also, it is my opinion that some of the trans activist messaging has backfired.

It's mind boggling that anyone would perceive this as "extreme wokeness" and vote for Trump, but here we are.

[Lonestarblue]

33. For decades much of medical research focused on white men.

Which is why doctors failed to diagnose such conditions as heart disease in women, whose symptoms can be different. When medical research focuses on one gender or one ethnic group and extrapolates medical treatment from that research to the entire population, problems are bound to occur. Whether Republicans want to admit it or not, we are a diverse country and being against diversity means deliberately harming a sizable portion of our population, or in the case of women half the population.

[yardwork]

69. Exactly.

Also, STEM fields were notoriously unfriendly to women and Black researchers. It's very sad that minimal efforts to change that have been met with this hysteria.

[Cosmocat]

42. Right it absolutely is a thing, but

1) It is well meaning in its intent.

2) Even to the extent that people got carried away on things like this, name changes for schools, etc. these are simple annoyances compared to how Rs and MAGA clearly, and in most cases openly, were looking to blow up our democracy and turn our country into a full on Russia style kleptocracy.

[tulipsandroses]

29. Codespeak for I want to be as misogynistic, bigoted and racist as I want to be. The DEI BS is a dead giveaway.

If you are opposed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion you are an effing bigot. No matter how you try to justify it. White men dominate damn near everything in this country but are crying about being treated unfairly. Asking for equality, and giving others a fair shot is a bridge too far for these folks.

[SunSeeker]

39. Exactly. nt

[Be Leave On]

38. jealousy

In the cases of the idiot pres and idiot vice, they are jealous of Ru Paul, who is so much better at applying facial make up than they are, so they blame their incompetence on "DEI".

[JMCKUSICK]

41. It's called prejudice

[calimary]

56. Sorry Mr. "lefty overreach". That's where you lost me.

The “lefty overreach” folks are the ONLY ones who can understand whatever predicament you now find yourself mired in, and save your wrong-wing soul.

And we might, repeat, MIGHT be willing to overlook how you initially used our political leanings as an insult. MAYBE. But I’m not guaranteeing it (AND I know how I feel about it).

Deal with it.

[calimary]

59. Dupe. Sorry about that.

[allegorical oracle]

62. Yeah, that pompous version of a left-handed compliment was annoying. nt

[purrmaid]

70. I remember when my brother complained that he couldn't use the 'n' word at work.

"It was only joking," he insisted. At the time I didn't have they maturity to ask him why it upset him that he couldn't call his coworker a ...

Do they even listen to themselves when they say these things? My brother's white privilege was tarnished, maybe, I guess.

That was back in the 1980's. We haven't come very far, have we?

If our behavior doesn't evolve right quick, Homo sapiens will have had a very short global history.

[lonely bird]

85. Lefty overreach is just conservative bullshit

Basically, imo, it amounts to assholes facing consequences for being assholes to other people.

They can never actually define what it means.

[Alpeduez21]

3. "I don't like DEI" just you're bigoted n/t

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. Will Smith said it best in I Robot...

[purrmaid]

71. Rec'd for your sig line.

[usonian]

6. It's not just rednecks who get the FAFO award.

Is it time to edit this graphic with a PhD research scientist instead of uneducated slob?

Racism marks you as a creep.

[Marcuse]

50. Clout chasers since 1776.

[Quiet Em]

9. He's openly admitting he and his pals voted on bigotry.

ugh.

[BComplex]

30. Exactly. Time he/she woke up!

What a STUPID scientist.

[yardwork]

89. I feel certain that this poster is a man.

[Demobrat]

10. You didn't want to have to compete with women and minorities.

Now you don’t have to. What’s your problem?

[yardwork]

27. They didn't think that Trump would take ALL the federal funding away.

They just wanted to continue to exclude women and minorities.

[Initech]

11. It's all about taking America's standing down in the world...

While at the same time allowing Vladimir Putin to advance his evil world domination plot.

[markodochartaigh]

100. If the US is unable to rid ourselves of this

authoritarian nightmare, in a few decades we will have all the relevance on the world scene that Argentina has. A once promising country which destroyed itself from within by authoritarian rule.

[Cherrycheeks]

12. I guess she is awoken??

Can you hear us now!!!Fafo!!!

[yardwork]

13. Complete assholes.

DEI wasn't affecting their research. Now their entire field is gone.

[SunSeeker]

37. Exactly. They said DEI was merely "annoying." It didn't affect their research.

It just told them to consider women and people of color.

[ECL213]

14. "frustrations with DEI and extreme wokeness"

or in other words, "because we're racist white men who think we're better than women and minorities and we've been having a sad that we have to work with so many minorities and women."

Fuck you buddy!

[Kid Berwyn]

34. F him and his electron microscope.

Probably paid for by a lot of DEI taxpayers.

[StarryNite]

15. Research scientists?

Apparently they didn't do their damn research on this one.

[Buddyzbuddy]

16. Remember Dr. Ben Carson? Brain surgeon in the Felon's first administration.

Enough said.

[Johonny]

17. Just another saitfied Trump voter

Getting exactly what he voted for. Sadly he didn’t understand all science is woke and he was thus a DEI hire. But don't worry, plenty of jobs picking crops in a few months.

[BattleRow]

23. No doubt plenty of new DOGE contracts for future prisons,in the works.

Probably one of the stocks that will rise on the market.

[LoisB]

18. As my grandmother used to say "lots of book learning and no common sense".

[BattleRow]

19. Educated idiots.

[LoisB]

25. Exactly.

[JMCKUSICK]

20. There lies the rub

I walked into my polling station to vote early last October.
I noticed there was a sheet of paper taped onto a table describing the 11 different sexual identifiers that Illinois recognized.
I remember thinking " this isn't going to go over well even with swing voters"
Drs, scientists, lawyers, and countless other professional people to whom we grant the existence of intelligence are still bigoted, judgmental and ignorant fools.
What they didn't say in that statement is that they're prejudice blinded them to the most obvious flaws in their guy.
They're about a quarter of the way home when it comes to accountability.
Fuck them all. I'm really sorry I said that but tears are flowing at the harm that prejudice caused.

[Nasruddin]

21. Welcome to the Resistance

It's fine to gloat in private but in public you should welcome them to the Resistance.
In this case, they have told you something about what influenced them to vote the way they did, so that's useful.
You can make of the underlying motives what you will but it's clear there's a product that isn't selling well.

[travelingthrulife]

68. The product is 'don't be a bigot'. How do you make that sell better to a bigot?

[purrmaid]

72. Do you mean that treating other people as worthy of [whatever it is they want]...

is too much trouble for bigots, so we should just get over it? For the sake of science, of course.

"You can make of the underlying motives what you will but it's clear there's a product that isn't selling well."

[JT45242]

22. Oppose DEI because we couldn't keep uppity women and black folks in their place

They wanted to maintain the old white boys networks

Fuck around and find out you racist pieces of overeducated underserving pieces of shit.

[GiqueCee]

24. "DEI and extreme wokeness..."

... The "D" stands for "diversity", you simple-minded shitgibbon. And, judging by your surname, you were very likely a beneficiary of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs.

And if *"[To be] aware of, and actively attentive to, important societal facts and issues especially issues of racial and social justice" mortally offends your delicate sensibilities, then you are just another garden variety asshole.

*The Merriam Webster definition of WOKE.

[WhatTheFlux]

28. Annoyance vs Catastrophe

DEI, postmodernism, etc. are, at most, annoyances. So they opted for a Yambo catastrophe instead.

Not too fucking smart, smarty-pants.

[sop]

31. Pity the "small closeted minority" who may have, at worst, been forced to someday live in a truly equal society.

They don't have to worry about DEI and wokeness any longer. Now they can cry about Trump destroying their STEM research projects.

[Gak73]

32. ? dei ?

Was Mr Singh a dei hire? Asking for a friend

[Be Leave On]

35. idiot savant

An idiot savant is still an idiot.

[Mr. Evil]

36. The simple definition of 'conservative.'

One who is intolerant of or resistant to change. How can a scientist be intolerant of or resistant to change? New evidence = new answers. New answers lead to newer findings. Newer facts lead to revised truths. In essence... change.

Everything changes in some way, shape or form. It's inevitable. Conservatives will do damn near anything to resist change and to maintain their status quo. That mindset has absolutely no place in science.

[JoseBalow]

43. Allegedly

[Permanut]

44. Conservative leanings?

My Father had conservative leanings, voted for Tom McCall, Vic Atiyeh and Mark Hatfield (Oregon), and Dwight Eisenhower. He came out of a dirt poor Depression era family, was tossed out of that "foster family" in 1931 when he was 14.

He fought against the Nazi monsters. He died in 1988, so he didn't live to see the monsters of the Fourth Reich that we are dealing with now.

[spooky3]

45. Once again, cue the leopards. Nt

[GoodRaisin]

46. I am sure it is hard to admit to this level of stupid.

Meaningless Fox News talking points made him vote against his own interests. These people are dumb as a sack of potatoes.

[Mblaze]

48. Sorry you were "annoyed" 🥲

MAGA can't even describe "wokeness", so it must be even more difficult to describe "extreme wokeness". Is it anything like freedom of speech?

This is your Trump. This is your Musk. How annoying is when they take up residence in your neighborhood?

[80-10-10]

63. Would you even know?

[JoseBalow]

64. Yes, we know

[Marcuse]

49. Educated beyond his intelligence.

[NNadir]

51. I love your last line. As a person living in a world...

...populated almost entirely by people with Ph.D.s I am no longer surprised to encounter stupidity among the highly educated.

The degree in fact requires a rather narrow focus for a period of time.

I once sat a few hours with the great scientist Freeman Dyson at the Institute of Advanced Study and chatted about his life. He famously refused to get a Ph.D. One of the things that amazed me about the conversation was that there was no subject I could raise - and trust me I ended up trying to be obscure as a challenge to see if I could stump him - that he could not field with brilliance. The only thing he wouldn't discuss was some issues with nuclear weapons physics, obviously with good reason. I raised the point innocently, veering from a discussion of his work on the Triga reactor, but he cut me off.

If you read some of his books, you see he understood the world outside of science very well.

For him declining to get a Ph.D. (he was working under Hans Bethe as a young man) may account for his breadth of vision.

I still advised my son to get one, but not at the sacrifice of developing wisdom.

[Jspur]

52. Racism is the reason why these "smart people" are

stupid. It doesn't matter how educated you are when it comes to racism influencing your decisions. Racism can handicap even the smartest academic minds into making stupid decisions. This explains why a scientist could vote for Trump.

[ananda]

54. That is one of those non-apology apologies.

They are still attacking what they call "lefty wokeness."

Fuck them all!!!!

[Bread and Circuses]

55. This a fake person, I know by the writing style varies....Probably cut and past

[yardwork]

91. I'm thinking the same. This is fake, unfortunately.

[peggysue2]

58. It's bad enough that the lowest common denominator of the MAGA crew . . .

Bought into Trump's horseshit. But for an educated individual to vote for Trump because of 'extreme wokeness and DEI' is frankly unforgivable.

They were annoyed because they couldn't use the word pussy or the 'N" word around the water cooler. Couldn't comfortably ogle their female counterparts and/or used sexist language without complaints of harassment? And God forbid, they couldn't deny that a woman or person of color or different gender identity had the right to work in their field, at their level, be considered equal?

Just own up guys, you are bigots who were willing to throw the country away in a fit of pique. You call yourselves conservatives when you're nothing more than narrow-minded twits. You worry about science (I do too) but never mention how fellow citizens are being and will continue to be cut off at the knees.

And now you complain, cry mea culpa?

Nah!

[wordstroken]

60. Exactly!! Very well said.

“A PhD doesn't guarantee you can tie your shoe.”

I have a double PhD and completely agree with what you’re saying.

Genuine smarts are something we’re born with. Education merely gives us a certificate to hang on the wall when we learn a thing or two from others. Umm, sometimes.

Now — where are my shoes?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

61. Extreme wokeness at an institution of higher learning?

Heavens, someone must have mislead me as to what universities are supposed to do.....

[Rebl2]

65. All I can say

to this group of idiots is FAFO, FAFO.

[travelingthrulife]

66. All because of DEI and extreme wokeness, whatever that is. You deserve it Whiney Dude.

That wokeness was really, really hurting you, wasn't it?

[D23MIURG23]

73. Any scientist working for a university should know better.

This is my career as well, and it is very, VERY, obvious who is more anti-science, and who doesn't give a shit about science at their very best, and more often would destroy the whole enterprise for the in favor of religious edicts and propaganda.

Do science deniers exist on the left? Sadly, yeah. Has there been overreach in academia? Yeah, I think so.

But seriously... who's allies pushed "creation science"? Who's allies banned stem cell research because they mistook (single celled) fertilized eggs for neonates? Who damaged science by pushing us into budget sequestration in 2013, because "starving the beast" was what they wanted? Who has spent the last 30 years denying climate science because they don't like the conclusion?

As a scientist if you pay attention AT ALL, you ought to know who your friends are, and more importantly who they AREN'T.

So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to accumulation of knowledge ... and the advance of knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. - Stanislav Andreski

[LudwigPastorius]

74. They should researched the preferred feeding habits of Panthera pardus in relation to the viscerocranium.

[boonecreek]

76. Fuck them.

They're anti DEI they're bigots. No more no less.

[Enter stage left]

77. Face, meet leopard...

And you claim to be smart enough to be a scientist?

Wow, the US is in real trouble, right dumbfuck?

[Figarosmom]

78. He still doesnt seem to get

That science and STEM is considered "woke".

[AllyCat]

79. That's a lot of words to say

We’re bigots!

[Buns_of_Fire]

80. Dear Nikhil: I hope you enjoy your new career

as the most well-educated nut-plucker at "Sam's House of Nuts" on way-south Elm Street, just across the tracks.

[Cne99999]

81. A link?

Where's the link. Tired of these screen shots. Garbage. Give us a freaking link!

[Emile]

86. . .

That awkward moment when you get exactly what you voted for.

“You are the DUMBEST smart person I have ever met”

— Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T15:54:54.764Z

[NewLarry]

87. Can't say you weren't warned, repeatedly.

[Playingmantis]

88. My favorite saying..

I know I posted this before but it's worth repeating..especially for this post.


"When the gods are most angry at men, they give them exactly what they pray for!"

[Blue_Roses]

90. The stupidity is real.

We need to keep saying that over and over.

Stupid decisions cause stupid consequences.

[Joinfortmill]

92. Thank you for your apology. Glad you now see the light.

Now, sit down, shut up, and going forward vote for Democrats.

[minstrel76]

93. Sorry you had to learn the hard way, but I don't know what to tell you.

If you are experiencing hardship due to Musk/Trump policies, and you voted for Trump, then I truly don’t know what else to tell you. Many people like us had been trying to warn you until we were blue in the mouth about what would happen if Trump got in, but you dismissed us as woke leftists out of touch with reality and real American voters, so now we‘re supposed to feel sorry for you and act like we’re shocked about what happened to you? Why should we listen to you? You didn’t listen to us and I suspect that nothing we would have said would have made any difference. We could even try to explain to you how we’re all suffering, too, while Trump/Musk put all of the progress that we have made as a country over the last 80 years to the torch, but you don’t care, because you don’t care about others, just yourself. So, now we’re going to regroup and try to salvage what we can, but in the meantime, it’s probably best that you know as little as possible about our activities. Good luck and God help us all.

[Gimpyknee]

94. FAFO

Worried that those NIH funding cuts are going to cost you your job?

[Klarkashton]

95. Mr Stupid couldn't figure trump out even after having

To endure him for four years.

[W T F]

96. My question to him: You said you voted for Trump because you were frustrated with DEI and extreme wokeness how did that

Directly and negatively affect you to the point that you were willing to accept his incoherent rants, his lies, and his hatred?

[AllaN01Bear]

97. you get what you pay for.

[Progressive dog]

98. Pretty amazing

Don't claim to believe in science when you think that it is okay to treat groups of other members of our species as if they were somehow inferior.
DEI has nothing to do with giving people jobs that they can't do, it is about giving jobs to the best qualified without regard to disability, gender, color etc.

[markodochartaigh]

99. Wait!

Who could have predicted that the party which based most of their power on feeding people poorly crafted lies which bolstered their previously held convictions, but which ran counter to reality; who could have predicted that this party would not value science?

Make it make sense.