Fire alarms… and… fake geniuses
Or, is it simply just… 'Stupid is as stupid does'?
Occasionally, as you probably know, I like to throw in commentary and tongue-in-cheek observations about Clown World! (More…)
You know, what I mean… that world where idiots are molly-coddled and morons are forgiven… because… well… bless their heart…. They truly are just simple-minded.
I don’t know if incompetency itself is a legit mental illness, or if celebrating it is. Either way, both deserve an old-fashioned stupid slap.
However, it seems we’ve refrained from that kind of “harm” these days. Instead, we’d rather just wait for big pharma to come out with a rushed-to-market “drug” to cure all our ailments.
Will there be one, soon, that can be prescribed to folks like Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY)?
Sorry, it was just an accident!
As reported by Coffee & Covid yesterday, Rep. Bowman pulled a fire alarm inside the U.S. Capitol Building, right before a critical House budget vote Saturday night.
He tweeted (err, X'd) that he activated the alarm, thinking it would open the door.
Huh?
🤚 Over to Jeff Childers for the verbal stupid slap:
Cut him some slack. Representative Bowman is no John Fetterman. A former “middle school principal,” Bowman sits on the House Education Committee as well as — ironically — the House Science Committee. Science!
And…
See?
Bowman urgently needed to get through that specific door. What else was he supposed to do? The multiplicity of all those signs are obviously confusing, and a person of limited intelligence like Representative Bowman cannot be expected to make sense of all those instructions in a hot moment like rushing to vote.
Plus, the words “fire” and “door” are very similar. Both words have four letters and one syllable. So.
Next up…
A preface to United States v. Samuel Bankman-Fried, a/k/a “SBF”, where it’s jury trial selection starts today.
Billionaire genius? Or___?
First, I would absolutely bookmark this documentary (1:04:55). James Jani has been putting out incredible vids on YouTube for a while. But the link above goes to his best yet.
🤚 Over to Bryon Gilliam, via BlockWorks Daily for the verbal stupid slap:
The other big question I hope the trial will answer is, how can someone so smart be so stupid?
How can a graduate of MIT and Jane Street Capital think that using demand deposits to invest in hundreds of start-ups is a good way to run a bank?
Or that an exchange/bank can be run without risk management, an accounting system, or financial controls?
Even worse, how could his parents have been so stupid?
Both professors of law at Stanford, his father’s academic focus has been on using the tax code to promote social justice, and his mother is considered a leading scholar of “legal ethics.”
But they somehow allowed themselves to be implicated in their son’s morass of legal and ethical transgressions.
”This, of course, is the big mystery at the heart of all this,” according to Robert Gordon of Stanford Law.
Yes, a big mystery indeed!
Then again, sociopathy hasn’t always been the brightest way of traveling throughout the world at large.
So, let’s see how the SBF trial pans out, and if the plaintiff’s side gets a forensic psychologist — say, somebody pretty like Shannon Curry — to diagnose his brain! ;)
Oh hey! Before I go…
Did you miss Sunday’s WEEKEND WHATS? If so, check it out….