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« on: January 11, 2018, 12:30:38 pm » |
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from The Washington Post....Trump has already taken the test on whether he is stupid and insaneThe result was forecast…By TOM TOLES | 12:45PM EST — Tuesday, January 09, 2018PRESIDENT TRUMP is now insisting he's sane. He has all but said that he's the only one who's sane — it's everybody else who's crazy!
Admittedly, this is a tough spot he's in, having to convince people that you are sane, especially when you're actually not. Trump is about to undergo a health exam because the citizens would like to know if their president is fit to serve. Conveniently for Trump, the exam will not include a check of his mental or emotional state.
This leaves the rest of the nation to sort through the rumors that his staff thinks he’s an idiot of the blithering variety, and to wonder whether when tying his shoes he is verbally confused as to whether the bunny “runs around the tree” or “is shot and thrown in the pot.”
But we don't need to have all the details as to whether he spends his days shouting at the presidents in the portrait gallery or repeating 12 times that he wants a Diet Coke and drinking them all when he wanted only one. We have all the evidence we need that he is stupid. And that he is crazy.
Stupid: It is fair to say that in the 21st century, a baseline measure of intelligence is the ability to understand how science works, acquire a rough understanding of relevant research and base your decision-making with the evidence in mind. Trump has so spectacularly failed in even the most rudimentary understanding of climate research that it is appalling and incomprehensible to a literally planetary degree. While there are plenty of self-interested parties who pretend that the science is unsettled, Trump genuinely appears to be confounded by what is now a straightforward case for the carbon warming connection.
Insane: Whatever the excuse for his stupidity, laziness or cynicism about the science, his actual policy of subverting efforts to slow and stop the ongoing catastrophe of climate change is nothing short of active madness, plain and simple. His alternative of relentlessly trying to reverse progress already made by trying to get even more coal burned on Planet Blast Furnace while simultaneously filling our breathing air with disease-causing particulates is nothing less than dementia of a high-crimes-and-misdemeanors magnitude.
Given the seen and forecast consequences, we don’t need one CO² molecule more of evidence than this.__________________________________________________________________________ • Tom Toles is the editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post and writes the Tom Toles blog. See all of his cartoons HERE.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/01/09/trump-has-already-taken-the-test-on-whether-he-is-stupid-and-insane
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