Sometimes you have to be really smart to do something unbelievably stupid. History provides many examples of that. Thomas Edison was a brilliant inventor, but he was flat out wrong about alternating current. But fortunately for Edison, the man who figured this out, Nikola Tesla had very little money, so after being proved wrong, Edison just bought out Tesla, pretended he was in favor of alternating current all along and stole the credit.
John D. Rockefeller was making a fortune selling kerosine. When Edison invented the lightbulb, Rockefeller went on a crusade to prove that electricity was too dangerous to install in homes. He lost that fight big time. He was also frustrated by this awful smelling by-product unfortunately generated by the production of kerosine. It was highly flammable, and it literally vaporized at low temperatures. It was considered so worthless it was discarded in disgust. Today we know that byproduct as gasoline and suddenly John D. Rockefeller realized that he could make a lot more money selling gas than he could selling kerosine. Hence, Standard Oil.
A more recent example is the insane movement to respond to violence by BLM and Antifa by defunding the police responsible for defending us from these folks. Supposedly smart mayors did defund police with the inevitable result of an enormous surge in crime. It turns out that if you insult the people hired to protect you, at some point they won’t bother. Police are retiring in droves, and no one is applying to replace them.
Democrats are all in on requiring everyone to get vaccinated and carrying a vaccine card. They ignore the fact that the only reason we even have vaccines is because of Trump. But they also ignore something equally important. You can’t argue that people need a vaccine card to go anywhere and then argue that you can vote without having ID.
Jeff Bezos paid millions if not billions to fly into space in the ugliest rocket ever designed. The entire flight lasted 10 minutes and 10 seconds. The “crew” was “weightless” for about 4 minutes. They did incredible scientific studies like tossing skittles in each other’s mouth. Then Bezo landed and went into a victory dance. He thanked all Amazon employees for working so hard to make this possible. It make him look like an idiot. About two seconds after he landed, NASA changed the definition of astronaut to be sure he was not included.
Then there was former President Obama’s insane decision to throw a huge 3 day birthday bash to celebrate his 60th birthday. At a time when vaccinated people are harassed into wearing masks, indoors, to protect people who are not vaccinated, Obama invited his celebrate friends to wine and dine mask free. Then he pretended to limit this to close friends and family, while all these celebrities showed up on their private jets. Suddenly the greatest President who ever lived looks more like a grinning clown act. That may have single handedly destroyed the Democratic narrative on masks and vaccines.
Governor Cuomo, the Love Gov, has per the New York Post, “reached the end of his grope.” He is literally being laughed out of office. His brother is likely to be laughed off the air at CNN. Now there are more and more signs that Governor Newsom may be destined for the political scrap heap. He recently got pressed during an interview by the Sacramento Bee. Now I live in Folsom, which is in Sacramento County. I stopped my subscription to the Sacramento Bee years ago because it is so liberal it is literally unreadable. Newsom obviously expected puff treatment from his favorite newspaper and was shocked when he was asked a tough question by Colleen McCain Nelson. Here is a link to the YouTube video of this:
Gavin Newsom Discusses Recall Election Issues With California Opinion Editors – YouTube
If you live in California, you have been inundated by commercials for Newsom starring Elizabeth Warren. She literally calls the recall another attempt by Trump supporters at voter suppression and an attempt to steal an election. Ever since that ad has been running, Newsom has been tanking in the polls. I recently chatted about this with a friend, who despises Newsom. He said he laughed out loud when he first saw this commercial and wondered if it was secretly written, tongue-in-cheek by Republican supporters of the recall. I have to admit that this is the same reaction I had the first time I saw this. I quickly noticed that she didn’t pretend that Newsom was doing a great job.
The recall election, again, will be totally by mail and they recently added a provision so you can print your own ballot. This is clearly designed to help Newsom win without regard to the legitimate vote count. But the polls are so bad that Democrats may not be able to steal enough votes to save him. Incredible.
Democrats are not the only ones who are brilliantly stupid. RINO Republicans compromised with Schumer to pass this massive infrastructure bill. Incredibly, this still may not pass, because the left wing Democrats in the House won’t settle for spending a mere $ trillion when they want so much more for woke politics and the green new deal. The only thing dumber than dancing with the devil is to forget that the devil is ultimately a loser.
Brilliantly stupid.
TDM