Our country's biggest problem: Unserious people being taken seriously.

[maxrandb]

Like a Loony Toons cartoon, it was inevitable that idiotic Dipshits would play a game of "shoot it now, shoot it later, don't shoot it at all" with this Chinese Balloon bullshit. Unfortunately, those idiotic Dipshits aren't the drunk morons at the Moose Lodge in Dumbfuckistan, 'Murika, or your uncle pontificating philosophically after a half-dozen PBRs. No! These are idiotic Dipshits that have real power.

Of course, since enough of your moronic neighbors and family members gave those Dipshits power, the MSM absolutely "MUST" report breathlessly about their opinions.

One thing missing from those media reports, is the one-thing most critical to this entire outrageous clown-show.

That issue is simply this - These people are completely UNSERIOUS people. By their very actions and statements, they have shown that they don't deserve one-fucking-second of our serious thoughts.

It's not "news" to cover ignorance, but that's exactly what our news does.

Reporting on morons with rifles saying they are "going to shoot down" a fucking balloon hovering at 60,000 feet is fucking fantasy.

Treating Retrumplican cartoon characters as "serious" people, with "serious" opinions is criminal.

The media might as well get people like Marge Green, Paul Gosar, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley and the hundreds of other Dipshits that tried to violently destroy American Democracy, to share their opinions on the importance of supporting Democracy.

The media might as well treat Gym Jordan's "respect for Congressional Subpoenas" as a fucking serious thing.

But wait...THE FUCKING MEDIA "IS" DOING EXACTLY THAT

I have been forced to take a bunch of ignorant dipshits seriously, that I know with every fiber of my being, deserve not one-fucking-second of my serious thoughts.

You just know that those ignorant fucksticks are going to bring balloons to the SOTU, because these are entirely unserious people, with unserious supporters, that spew unserious policies.

It's way past the time to treat them as the cartoon-characters they are.

[Dirty Socialist]

1. Yes they are serious

They are being serious about shooting down the balloon. Just like Yosemite Sam is serious.
“Have a rootin’ tootin’ time in Murika! Bang Bang!”

[rootin tootin]

4. Everyone is a Sam now

Great point!

[livetohike]

2. If they had any other job, they would be fired. One

problem is that too many people enjoy being entertained by the childish, unprofessional behavior.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Yep.

The MSM goes by numbers. If the story gets enough clicks, it keeps going. You want this to stop? Education. The one thing the rethugs do NOT want, which is why they equate 'education' with 'indoctrination' although they usually cannot pronounce that word.

[Ponietz]

20. Cynical performative assholery is the new chic

2 examples I noticed last week:

—Cunk on Earth (Netflix)

and

—

[treestar]

35. when was the war of 1812?

like "who is buried in Grant's tomb."

[inthewind21]

26. Well

They could have all been fired. Who does that reflect worse on, the ones still holding the jobs or the electorate who let them keep it?

[EYESORE 9001]

5. The loudest voice in the room gets the most attention

If they can’t shout their message loud enough, corporate media are there to provide repetition of that message.

[maxrandb]

8. Saw some ignorant "journalist" this morning

You know, one of these "journalist-interviewing-journalist" examples of the media equivalent of mutual masturbation.

Anyway, the guys entire breathless pontification was how this "balloon completely blew up the entire SOTU".

That's NOT "news", that's trying to push the narrative that the "entire SOTU" has been "blown-up".

You could see and feel the glee...AND THE HOPE that every other serious, important and historical thing that President Biden and the Democratic Party has achieved in the past 2 years, was simply blown up by a fucking balloon.

[inthewind21]

27. You were watching

You do know they are on air based on viewers/ratings yes?

[Botany]

6. But they are serious about 1 thing and that is a Christo Fascist take over America where ....

... the minority controls the majority and all their antics along with real life violence are to
that end. The coup lives on DeSantis trying to actively spread the C-19 virus, Abbott sending
busloads of people to be dumped off in "liberal places," Gym Jordan repeating Russian talking
points about Hunter Biden's laptop, Tony DeVolder aka George Santos being a Russian backed
"Chaos Agent," and a High School drop out, Bang Bang Barbie, debating medical science with
Dr. Fauci.

[Initech]

24. The merger of church and state would be devastating.

It would sink this country into a new dark age. And it seems like every single election cycle, the GOP gets more fascist authoritarian. It's truly scary where they might take this country if they regain power.

[gab13by13]

7. The MSM's primary goal isn't numbers and clicks,

it gets funded by domestic oligarchs who use the MSM to push their agenda. Every cable news network does it.

Look at what they all lead with, look at the similarities right down to using the same code words on every network.

Only watch Nicolle Wallace if you want to know the truth, plus I like her because she asks all of the time, "what's taking so long?"

[Ray Bruns]

9. Shoot it now! Shoot it now!

You be quiet, he doesn’t have to shoot you now.

[maxrandb]

11. Yep, Pronoun Trouble

[Ray Bruns]

12. Best cartoon ever. I always get a laugh out of it.

[Stuart G]

14. One of the very best ever....& I know my cartoons. I am a cartoon fan from way back when.

In the 50s, there was a local theater that had 25 cartoons for 25 cents. Most were "Warner Bros Toons"

because the theaters were owned by the Waner Bros. (No, they do not own any theaters now)

[Beastly Boy]

10. Oh they are serious allright!

They are fucking morons, or pretend to be ones, to get the votes of other morons, but they are serious. Being in power is serious business, and it is good business, whether you have a GED or a PhD. By hook or by crook, it propels you into the upper classes.

They couldn't care less whether to shoot it now, shoot it later, not shoot it at all. Their pronouncements are deliberately self-contradictory to cover all possible outcomes, so no matter the consequences, at the end of the day they are sure to have a video clip that shows them say whatever benefits them most at any particular moment, and play them again and again to their adoring fans, the real morons of any significance, glued to the screens of their TVs permanently stuck on the Fox channel. And all that the Fox watching morons want is the constant validation of their own stupidity as a supreme virtue.

And that's how Fox makes their shitloads of cash. Their business is to deliver gullible morons to their advertisers, not to be partisan or political. Fox will push what their morons demand, whether it's shoot it now, shoot it later, don't shoot it at all, or all three in rapid succession and in no particular order.

This does not necessarily prove absence of seriousness or intellect on the part of the actors who play their part in this shitshow. It's just that the two are irrelevant to how the shitshow is playing out. It's a closed feedback loop that gives something of value to every participant.

[betsuni]

32. +1

[mountain grammy]

13. Maddening the hyperbole and stupidity

That fall out of the mouths of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and the rest of these fools. Never anything positive to say Even about their own agenda which, of course is nothing for anyone but the extremely wealthy.

[maxrandb]

17. Oh how I wish that President Biden would deal with those MAGA Dipshits

[mountain grammy]

18. Great movie! Yes word for word.

Come on Joe. Give ‘em hell! Call them out for the lying sniveling cowards they are.

[blm]

15. Truth

[The Jungle 1]

16. Americans not minding their own business is our biggest problem

[Mr. Sparkle]

19. Its called clickbait. Just look at Mediaite...

Dan Abrams pretends to be a serious journalist and to rise above the pettiness of politics , yet his website is always filled with the wackos on foxnews saying something outrageous to garner attention and headlines.

[FakeNoose]

33. Yes he does, I stopped reading Mediate long ago for that very reason

Remember when Dan Abrams was on NBC? It would have to be 15 or 20 years ago, and I liked his stories. He wasn't politically biased then, or at least he stayed within NBC News' boundaries. He mostly did legal stories, trials, political protests, Supreme Court rulings, and the like. Once he went to the podcast, the barriers went down.

[Initech]

21. How do uneducated dolts like Marjorie Greene and Lauren Boebert keep getting elected?

How does someone with no legal experience become a judge, then never trying a case, and somehow gets to decide the Supreme Court? Like wtf???

[maxrandb]

22. Because, somehow, we've ended up in Bizarro World

In the Bizarro World of "Htrae", society is ruled by the Bizarro Code which states "Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!"

In one episode, for example, a salesman is doing a brisk trade selling Bizarro bonds: "Guaranteed to lose money for you". Later, the mayor appoints Bizarro #1 to investigate a crime, "Because you are stupider than the entire Bizarro police force put together". This is intended and taken as a great compliment.

[Initech]

23. I think Jerry Seinfeld explained it best:

[maxsolomon]

25. Repukes think their kneejerks are wisdom. Most humans do.

1st reaction, best reaction. Plus, if it involves shooting, then it's got to be the right call.

[Mad_Machine76]

28. Exactly

"We" give airtime to conspiracy theorists who attack vaccines, deny that the earth is round, deny climate change is real and/or harmful, claim that there's a "deep state" cabal trying to get right-wingers, big pharma is transing children, etc. Those kind of people have always existed of course, but they used to be ridiculed or at least ignored by sane and rational people. Now, they get put on TV/Media up against sane and rational people as a "counterpoint" to people providing factual information and both are seen as equally valid points of view.

[maxrandb]

29. Not just seen as "valid points of view"

But "promoted" by the media as valid points of view.

It's like watching a dog work a Trigonometry equation, while half the people watching tell you the dog is a genius.

[Mad_Machine76]

30. Well yeah

by being given attention, media is definitely creating the appearance that both sides are equally valid. And what's worse is that it's difficult for sane and rational people to deal with that sort of insanity. Conspiracy theorists won't accept any evidence that rebuts their claims.

[Justice]

31. Unserious people being taken seriously.

I would buy posters, teeshirts etc with a slogan with this meme.

Perfectly said.

[moondust]

34. David Jolly agrees.

"They're just not serious people," he just now told Nicolle Wallace regarding their stupid partisan reaction to the balloon.