Posted on 10/02/2024 4:42:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The NEA has made sure that the necessary benchmarks, formerly in place to assure that students could reach their full potential, are now removed or ignored. That's how we get wholly inarticulate and muddleheaded jerks like Joe and Kamala.
Even O'Bozo, who was supposed to be such a great speaker, fell VERY far short of the traditionally acknowledged bar for educated, well read and articulate 'statesmen'.
If you ever read speeches of JFK, Churchill or Lincoln, there is an abysmal gap between THEIR abilities to express themselves and O'Bozo's lame, trite and absolutely shallow way of speaking!! And his hectoring, sing song delivery didn't help. The bar was lowered so far for him that it's a joke! He NEVER fooled me
The most recent example of her "word salad" was her use of the word "holistic", and in hearing her do it, I realized it was one of the most egregious examples of her "dumbness" (as the author of this piece would have termed it) that really sticks out for me.
Now, in my whole life, I have never looked up the definition of the word "holistic". But I apparently inferred the definition (accurately, from just verifying it after I read this article) though it is a word I rarely use.
But I am a firm believer in the meaning of words, and sometimes when I am writing, it seems to me only a certain word will really fit. Many words can generally share the same meaning, but often, there is a particular word, used in a specific context, and I find myself at my age pausing, thinking, knowing that word is out there, pausing, squinting, trying to recall what it is.
But I am doing it not to impress someone, I am doing it because it is the right word for that context.
When I was 14, my dad got orders to a new duty station, and I made a friend pretty quickly who was a year younger than me. His father was a civilian on a military base, a severely henpecked man in his late fifties, I think, and his mother was an extremely obese, unattractive woman with a very, very unpleasant, bossy disposition. His father, having the stringy, sparse gray beard that seems somewhat reminiscent of an older Amish man, spent almost no time at home. Any spare time he had was spent operating a backhoe in the nether regions of the base aimlessly digging trenches that appeared to have no purpose.
Anyway, I was over at his house one day, and his mother was admonishing him about something, and he took exception with it and said "Mom! Don't be a dildo!"
I didn't know what a "dildo" was, and it was pretty obvious he didn't know either. (I am pretty sure he heard some other kid use it, and understood it was a derogatory term without knowing just exactly what it was)
But she knew what that word meant, and in the blink of an eye, hauled off and delivered a heavy, stinging backhand to my new friend's face while I looked on in stunned perplexity!
Point is, while "holistic" is not a bad word, she used it repeatedly the same way my 13 year old friend had used the word "dildo", likely having no idea what it meant, but grasping the context just barely enough to use it to try to impress any listeners (in that case, his new friend-me!)
Her repeated, inane use of that word "holistic" did impress many listeners, but not in the way she intended it.
I hope on November 5th, she gets a roundhouse backhand from the voters for using it.
They will vote for a yellow dog if its a dim. Why we call them yellow dog democrats! true then, true now.
Observers have so frequently described her ramblings as “word salad” that it’s trite, although still apt. Ben Shapiro prefers “word coleslaw.”
There’s more objective data. She attended a middling university (86 out of 436 USA universities) and a mediocre law school (82 out of 196). She didn’t distinguish herself. She wasn’t a valedictorian nor an editor of a legal journal.
She failed the bar exam on her first attempt. Her entry into politics was not due to out-shining her peers but rather her . . . ahem . . . relationship with a married man, Willie Brown, then the Speaker of the California State Assembly and 31 years her senior. (For those in the Kamala IQ decile, that means that Brown, then 60, was thirty-one years older than Kamala, then 29.) Do we think Brown chose her as his paramour for her scintillating conversation?
This should have come up in the debate.
The State of The Presidency (This would be a vast improvement)
Watching The View
The current penal system for Conservatives
Typical Leftist view of Industry
The coconut that fell out of the tree, which hit her in the head after she fell out of the tree, is what damaged her.
Hahahahaha...omg, just seeing things from that movie makes me grin. What a scathing, blistering masterpiece of satire!
Of course in reality, they’ll replace Chaplin with Trump.
I think that's exactly the way Obama wanted it. Dumb, but not too dumb. It's much easier to control the moron then it is the idiot. :)
The O'bummer is still running the show and the smarter they are, the more questions they ask. That would be a pain and cause a lot of communication problems between him and the white hut..
Interesting anecdote. For me, it was calling my brother a “douche-bag” in front of my mother. That didn’t go so well. But the recently-learned word sounded like the ultimate insult, so I had to use it.
The main problem is the “press” (media today) are flat out lying about their preferred candidates and their opponents.
The founding fathers believed the press would expose idiocy and corruption so voters could have a clear and accurate knowledge of their candidates for election and make an informed decision.
With the widespread immorality and godlessness of today’s America, our constitutional republic has become undermined as John Adams said would happen and make our constitution “inadequate” for such a wicked people.
Hahahaha, I can CLEARLY visualize that!
Biden never controlled policy & neither will Harris, if elected.
The Rats have figured how to rob Americans & destroy our Republic, while remaining blameless as individuals. Elect a buffoon for President & then control his/her policy from the shadows.
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It is well know that Ted Sorensen was JFK’s ghostwriter, so I don;t know if you can put him in with Lincoln and Churchill
But otherwise I agree with you.
But I would also throw in the US Department of Education for ensuring that the American people have reached their current level of ignorance.
In the founder’s time the press was at least as partisan as it is today.
But the First Amendment ensured that there was always more than one news paper with more than one opinion. Just about every town had more than one news paper.
News paper publishers could easily be bought by a politician that wanted himself spoken of in the best possible light.
And politicians were not above starting their own paper to publish their own propaganda if they could afford it.
Just about all politicians would publish pamphlets either promoting themselves or bashing their opponents (anonymously, don’t want to get in a duel).
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