I am gaining some sense of schadenfreude from watching the wingnut residents of Catallaxy work themselves into a frenzy caused by the attempt to reconcile their fantasy belief that Donald Trump's presidency was and is a glorious success with the unavoidable reality that his performance in the face of a genuine emergency has been as terrible and utterly embarrassing as every Never Trumper always knew it would.
Steve Kates hasn't been posting much, and seem truly confused as to who to believe, seeing his Dear Leader's early denial of seriousness of the issue has now been transformed into a foreign invasion crisis with an ill-considered response that has hurt the markets more.
Currency Lad, forever stuck in 1950's era nostalgia for Mums who stayed at home and men who went out in the world to do men's things, even said yesterday, after a brief uptick in the stock market, that "Looks like Trump was right again". Hilarious.
[He operates now as a pathetically predictable, culturally anachronistic, unpaid, completely unconvincing political shill, whose speciality in all matters is "whataboutism." (He cannot write anything more that about 200 words on any Democrat without mentioning Ted Kennedy's unfortunate history.) Sometimes I suspect he doesn't really believe some of the guff he writes, but then again, he might also write so to convince himself and starts buying into the one-eyed fantasies. As I have often said: pretend something for long enough and you can start believing it.]
There are many others who are crapping on there - some are critical of Trump on this issue, but very few. And the nonsense that some are spouting is profound.
We also have the spectacle of waiting to see if the chronically insecure and needy Lizzie and her high risk husband can get to and from an American based cruise ship without catching the virus. Look, they deny climate change and think all of Australia's eucalyptus forest should be replaced with foreign trees that don't burn as well - we're not talking sensible people here, but they have money to burn and are a living example of Dunning-Kruger incompetence to judge risk wisely. They'll probably make it back, but it's clearly a high risk enterprise.
Anyway, it's - sort of - entertaining.
Update: here's a quality [sarc] contribution to the blog. Literally, a man bragging about beating up a woman (petty thief or not - it's wrong.)
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Yes you've got a special case of the Dunning-Krugers, since you think you can judge scientific matters without evidence. What an idiot you are. How does this gift of second sight work for you?
"Currency Lad, forever stuck in 1950's era nostalgia for Mums who stayed at home and men who went out in the world to do men's things, even said yesterday, after a brief uptick in the stock market, that "Looks like Trump was right again". Hilarious."
Clearly thats got to come back again. Or a new version of it. Since Mum is the force-multiplier for everyone else in the house.
CL never lets the facts get in the way of an ignorant opinion
I can't believe how much he is like a man from the 1950's who got preserved in ice and thawed out in the 21st century. "What, women work now? Even if they have kids? Men are with their wives when they give birth? That's creepy. And gays - honestly, I'm still not convinced they really exist."
A Catholic conservative man from the 1950's, I should add.
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