Prudence for Dummies: Seriously

Friday, August 7, 2015

Seriously

An example of irony deficiency: an ESPN host asks why we take Trump seriously.

ESPN, where you spend your whole day wrapped up in the outcomes of children's games.

You know that syndrome they talk about where people are too dumb to realize how dumb they are?

Seriously, think about this.

Al Franken is a senator. Obama is president. Biden is vice-president. Hillary Clinton ..., etc.

The bar is in the subbasement, on the floor. It can't go any lower.

Lawrence Welk's bubble machine had more gravitas than Joe Biden.

Calling Hillary Clinton a corrupt, arrogant pig of a politician is an insult to the corrupt, arrogant pig-politician community.

But Donald Trump, who is not the guy I would pick first to run the country, is not to be taken seriously.

I think I got it.

3 comments:

PioneerPreppyAugust 7, 2015 at 4:09 PM
Good points all!!!

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USS Ben USN (Ret)August 8, 2015 at 10:35 PM
That is rich, lol. Now, I don't seriously consider Trump to be a conservative, but neither do I think Bush or Graham is.
And as you point out, looking at our current crop of leadership, or lack thereof, the bar for seriousness has never been so low to nonexistent.

Regardless, all of the decisions these politicians make affect our lives, as will the candidates if any of them get elected, so we better take them seriously, and seriously consider who will be the best option.

In fact, it would be better if more people took them all seriously.
It's tempting to just throw up my hands and ignore it all, but we are in the mess we are now in because too many people have done that.
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John LienAugust 10, 2015 at 10:42 AM
"It's tempting to just throw up my hands and ignore it all, but we are in the mess we are now in because too many people have done that."

I have succumbed to that temptation.
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The PFD Recommended Viewing and Reading List --- Suggestions are welcome

The Secret of Roan Innish -- suggested by Farmlog's John Lien
The Incredibles
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Secondhand Lions
The Book of Eli Finally got around to watching it myself. "It's ca-at."
The Road -- I haven't seen the movie, but I can recommend the book
Blackhawk Down -- The modern battlefield
Last of the Mohicans (1992) -- "Find yourself a musket."
The World's Fastest Indian -- Ingenuity and determination and motorcycles
Iron Will -- "Run longer. Sleep less." And, finally, a use for fruitcake.
The Apostle -- Because redemption is real
Jeremiah Johnson -- I cannot believe I left this one off.
Walking Tall -- I prefer the original based on the short life of man who just wanted to do the right thing.
Treasure of Sierra Madre -- Gold will change a man. Fruit trees are better.

Quotables

Don't believe them, don't fear them, don't ask anything of them -- Solzhenitsyn

Tyrannos omnes oportet perire — “It is fitting that all tyrants perish”

The true Christian should not resign himself to the inevitable: he should trust in the impertinence of a repeated prayer. -- Don Colacho

Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort. -- Robert A. Heinlein

When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law -- Bastiat

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy.

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military. The hired servants of our rulers.

Only the government -- and a few outlaws.

I intend to be among the outlaws. --Edward Abbey from “The Right to Arms”