What constitutional crisis? Kim Davis had exactly zero effect, except a few people got to posture for the cameras. Gay marriage is legal in all 50 states, and it will continue to be legal in all 50 states. Kim Davis didn’t stop that, or slow it down, or even actually prevent any actual same sex marriages from taking place. Sure, it was dumb, but completely inconsequential in the final analysis.
Trump however, is extremely concerning. Not Trump himself, but the Trump phenomenon. The only difference between a buffoon and a fascist is that the buffoon doesn’t hold political power. Your crazy Uncle Bill who rants about the Jews and the Fags isn’t scary, because he hasn’t left the house ever since he got on disability. Make your crazy Uncle Bill president, and that’s scary. Not just that Uncle Bill is president, but that things have reached the point where enough people have decided to make Uncle Bill their leader.
I’d have said anti-vax, but while no smarter than ever they lost big in California this year. Dumbest thing of the decade so far, yes.
Trump is a liar and a bully, not dumb. If his supporters were listed, I’d have chosen them.
VW made a lot of money through cheating, selling miracle cars which met pollution standards while acting like cars which didn’t. Evil, not dumb.
I gotta go with Ben Carson, who really believes his shit and is a creationist also. When your advisers say you are too stupid to learn foreign policy, that is some first class dumb.
Kentucky constitution, not federal constitution, as to the validity of the Davis-modified licenses that were ultimately issued. And Davis delayed dozens of weddings. Maybe you weren’t following the story but couples trying to obtain marriage licenses in her county had to go to federal court twice.
I actually voted for anti-vaxxers, but had I thought longer, I would have chosen climate change deniers.
As it happens, yesterday’s Science Times had an article that said that children who caught whooping cough had about double the chance of developing epilepsy! (2% vs. 1%, and even the latter is larger than I realized.) My doctor calls refusal to allow your children to be vaccinated child abuse.
No way it’s Trump. I’m all-in on that guy knowing exactly what he’s doing. Anti-vaxxers are infuriating, and I hate them, but they’re just run of the mill idiots like Kim Davis and Ben Carson. Volkswagen almost got my vote, because come on, but for me the “safe rooms” beat that handily. Sadly it’s not really their fault, it’s the shitty parenting that leads to that, so I guess I vote for Other and say those kid’s parents. Ashley Madison users and Tom Brady shouldn’t even be on there. (I hate the Patriots.) Athough…maybe the subset of users who signed up with their work emails and/or that Dugga(e?)r dude.
Ooooooh…I CHANGE MY VOTE ONE FINAL TIME!!! I CHOOSE:
The fake-reverse-pregnancy-reveal-fake-we-miscarried-viral-video-ashley-madison-user-shithead-couple.
I should win something for remembering and voting for them. Goddamn.
Trump absolutely belongs in a discussion of the Stupidest Things of the Year, but he himself isn’t stupid. Carson is stupid, but he’s not the stupidest. What’s stupid is all the people who support either and/or both for President. When you’ve got candidates competing over who’s the most inexperienced, and winning voters by doing so, something is seriously wrong.
From articles I’ve read in the Times it seems that cheating on emissions is quite common in Europe, and the car companies get away with it. They got caught in the US. Not to mention that Bavaria owns a big chunk of VW, which probably made them feel that they would get a slap on the wrist at most if caught.
I had to go with Ben Carson. A neurosurgeon who believes that Earth was created 6,000 years ago? Good God! I guess that he must then also believe that dinosaurs and humans coexisted.
See, this and several similar posts are just what I and Hamilton Nolan are saying. It’s not Trump who’s necessarily so dumb; it’s the people who are stupid enough to support him.
I voted for those who got caught on Ashley Madison because they, more than any others listed, are truly dumb. The others, while I disagree with them, are motivated to do what they’re doing. But the AM users, really, you have to be dumb to use the site, not stay anonymous and not expect exactly what happened.
The VW folks are probably next because they, too, should have known they’d get caught.
You guys are right in saying that he shows certain kinds of savvy, skill, intelligence, etc. in what he does… but I have to ask what he’s using it for? I don’t see how a Trump victory could possibly be good for anyone in the long run, Trump included. It’s a special kind of dumb to be ingeniously cunning about killing the goose that lays gold eggs.