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Botany

(76,254 posts)
Tue May 13, 2025, 08:02 AM May 2025

Why do we have such an ignorant and corrupt buffoon as POTUS?

Besides massive cheating, disinformation propaganda, and Sexism & Racism
what happened to Americans?

“As of 2024, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. were found to be illiterate, with 54 percent of adults having a literacy rate below a sixth-grade level, according to the National Literacy Institute. Low literacy costs the country up to $2.2 trillion a year, according to the NLI.”

Krasnov, “I love the poorly educated.”

Dennis Donovan posted this tid bit.

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Why do we have such an ignorant and corrupt buffoon as POTUS? (Original Post) Botany May 2025 OP
Reading is fun to mental underpants May 2025 #1
"... what happened to Americans?" J_William_Ryan May 2025 #2
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho from Idiocracy would be a big improvement. Dave Bowman May 2025 #3
It easy! imanamerican63 May 2025 #4
Tell that to my grandson gab13by13 May 2025 #5
Arrogance and fear. Biophilic May 2025 #6
Easy one Abstractartist May 2025 #7
77,301,080 failed their IQ test mikeysnot May 2025 #8
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government Ping Tung May 2025 #9
It's going to get worse. For those who visit Facebook/Reels, can see the damage in live action! chouchou May 2025 #10

gab13by13

(31,063 posts)
5. Tell that to my grandson
Tue May 13, 2025, 08:21 AM
May 2025

He finally takes his last test today in science. He has taken proficiency tests for 5 days.

Of course my daughter bought her house based on the school district it was in, more parents need to do that if they have the means.

I am not disagreeing at all with the thread, I am bolstering it, using my daughter as an example.

It isn't going to get any better with the gutting of the Department of Education and with Linda McMahon leading the charge to charter schools at the expense of public schools.

Biophilic

(6,379 posts)
6. Arrogance and fear.
Tue May 13, 2025, 08:21 AM
May 2025

We wanted to think we were better than anyone else, but deep down we feared we weren’t and we were terrified others would find out.

Abstractartist

(409 posts)
7. Easy one
Tue May 13, 2025, 08:42 AM
May 2025

Oh that’s easy…. Ask the shitstains that voted for him, ask the musk computer guys who stole PA votes, ask anyone who felt a mixed race woman who was is smarter, more involved in helping citizens, and who is not a narcissistic sociopath with dementia why she would not be the better choice…..see how easy that is.

Ping Tung

(4,121 posts)
9. Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government
Tue May 13, 2025, 09:52 AM
May 2025
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

 Thomas Jefferson


Alas, the American people would rather vote for obvious imbeciles than interrupt the Big Game .

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chouchou

(2,738 posts)
10. It's going to get worse. For those who visit Facebook/Reels, can see the damage in live action!
Tue May 13, 2025, 10:05 AM
May 2025

There's lots of "Flat Earth" people. Funny part is they show how a ship is partially hid from the camera, when the ship
is many miles offshore (!0-20 miles)...and the flat earthers proudly say"See That's proof!"
(Yeah, I don't know what their brain is thinking also...)
The world is 6000 years old Absolutely!!! ..ah..OK.
President Kennedy is still alive!
Aliens helped with the pyramids, the Roman Aqueduct and even the Empire State Building (WTF!)
We never went into space. Never went to the Moon.
NASA is just a huge Movie set!
Democrats chop off little boy's wieners, in order to make a girl. (Again>> WTF!!)
Donald Trump has Jesus' body inside of him. Trump acts stupid to fool people.
Ah..The last one>> He's doing great with that one...give the Orange Man an Academy Award.
Yes..It's just scary..

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