Maga opposition to expertise?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that they don’t trust experts, they have a mega distrust of the establishment. That’s the pull of Trump.

It’s not about Trump. It’s about him pointing out the hypocrisy.

Global warming: “TURN YOUR THERMOSTATS DOWN” they say. Then get caught with their’s cranked to 78. “He’s from Hawaii”. Private jet? “He/she is more important than you, so needs to fly private”. Telling us how oppressed and oppressive we are in the US when the countries they support enslave other people. Sending our hard-earned FINITE tax dollars to other nations while our own go hungry and live on the streets. Tell us we don’t have a right to our guns but they do because, again, they are more important than us so need protection. And as a hard example, jailing a 70+ year old Bodega worker in Rikers on high bail for stabbing a man with a past violent criminal record, who was beating the crap out of him. All caught on video, mind you, so we know the worker was not lying. It was only due to MAGA outrage that the Bodega worker was finally treated fairly by Democrats.

But that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm not going to take up smoking because some politicians/bureaucrats/authorities are telling me not to smoke while lighting a cigarette behind closed doors. I'll think they are stupid, but I'm not going to jeopardize my own health and well being because of their stupidity.

Are MAGA people that manipulable? Do they all suffer from oppositional defiance disorder? Can we get them to change their behavior by telling them to do the opposite?

Do you always follow rules others set up for you that they exempt themselves from? You don’t question it?

That's quite a straw man you built there. Nice work.

Yeah, must be embarrassing to be bested by a stupid MAGA person I mean who believes a man telling you that the seas are rising at an alarming rate so you have to change YOUR behavior, then buys TWO expensive beach front properties? Even Obama doesn't believe his own crap.

Some of us have a conscience and follow it. No matter what others do. Again, you sound highly manipulable. You apparently base your decisions in opposition to what other people do, rather than on your own principles.

The title of this thread speaks of expertise. The people who are stating they are experts and to follow their rules, again, don't follow the same rules themselves. A true expert would not behave that way. Another example - all the parties liberals in authority threw, with them unmasked but the help, masked.

Please, list all "the people" declaring themselves experts who don't follow "their rules" -- list them all. Every single one of those "people stating they are experts and to follow their rules." All generalizations have to be premised on specifics, so get specific. One example is not good enough to jump to a generalization. We need dozens and dozens of them.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that they don’t trust experts, they have a mega distrust of the establishment. That’s the pull of Trump.

It’s not about Trump. It’s about him pointing out the hypocrisy.

Global warming: “TURN YOUR THERMOSTATS DOWN” they say. Then get caught with their’s cranked to 78. “He’s from Hawaii”. Private jet? “He/she is more important than you, so needs to fly private”. Telling us how oppressed and oppressive we are in the US when the countries they support enslave other people. Sending our hard-earned FINITE tax dollars to other nations while our own go hungry and live on the streets. Tell us we don’t have a right to our guns but they do because, again, they are more important than us so need protection. And as a hard example, jailing a 70+ year old Bodega worker in Rikers on high bail for stabbing a man with a past violent criminal record, who was beating the crap out of him. All caught on video, mind you, so we know the worker was not lying. It was only due to MAGA outrage that the Bodega worker was finally treated fairly by Democrats.

But that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm not going to take up smoking because some politicians/bureaucrats/authorities are telling me not to smoke while lighting a cigarette behind closed doors. I'll think they are stupid, but I'm not going to jeopardize my own health and well being because of their stupidity.

Are MAGA people that manipulable? Do they all suffer from oppositional defiance disorder? Can we get them to change their behavior by telling them to do the opposite?

Do you always follow rules others set up for you that they exempt themselves from? You don’t question it?

That's quite a straw man you built there. Nice work.

Yeah, must be embarrassing to be bested by a stupid MAGA person I mean who believes a man telling you that the seas are rising at an alarming rate so you have to change YOUR behavior, then buys TWO expensive beach front properties? Even Obama doesn't believe his own crap.

Anyone who thinks climate change is a hoax doesn't even have any business being on a thread about expertise.

The only person who thinks it's a hoax is you. What we don't want is for politicians to lecture us while not holding China and India accountable. Especially China.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that they don’t trust experts, they have a mega distrust of the establishment. That’s the pull of Trump.

It’s not about Trump. It’s about him pointing out the hypocrisy.

Global warming: “TURN YOUR THERMOSTATS DOWN” they say. Then get caught with their’s cranked to 78. “He’s from Hawaii”. Private jet? “He/she is more important than you, so needs to fly private”. Telling us how oppressed and oppressive we are in the US when the countries they support enslave other people. Sending our hard-earned FINITE tax dollars to other nations while our own go hungry and live on the streets. Tell us we don’t have a right to our guns but they do because, again, they are more important than us so need protection. And as a hard example, jailing a 70+ year old Bodega worker in Rikers on high bail for stabbing a man with a past violent criminal record, who was beating the crap out of him. All caught on video, mind you, so we know the worker was not lying. It was only due to MAGA outrage that the Bodega worker was finally treated fairly by Democrats.

But that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm not going to take up smoking because some politicians/bureaucrats/authorities are telling me not to smoke while lighting a cigarette behind closed doors. I'll think they are stupid, but I'm not going to jeopardize my own health and well being because of their stupidity.

Are MAGA people that manipulable? Do they all suffer from oppositional defiance disorder? Can we get them to change their behavior by telling them to do the opposite?

Do you always follow rules others set up for you that they exempt themselves from? You don’t question it?

That's quite a straw man you built there. Nice work.

Yeah, must be embarrassing to be bested by a stupid MAGA person I mean who believes a man telling you that the seas are rising at an alarming rate so you have to change YOUR behavior, then buys TWO expensive beach front properties? Even Obama doesn't believe his own crap.

Some of us have a conscience and follow it. No matter what others do. Again, you sound highly manipulable. You apparently base your decisions in opposition to what other people do, rather than on your own principles.

The title of this thread speaks of expertise. The people who are stating they are experts and to follow their rules, again, don't follow the same rules themselves. A true expert would not behave that way. Another example - all the parties liberals in authority threw, with them unmasked but the help, masked.

So I'm sure you are very sick and tired of all the "moral majority", "family values" GOP politicians who have been caught committing adultery or, much worse, who are pedophiles. Right? Or who vote against any assistance to the poor, for children etc.? Right?

Sure, but it's also not as dire or clear cut as you make it. Perhaps a clean bill would help pass these policies? And you speak of pedophiles but who's protecting who regarding Epstein's list? You better believe if Trump or other high level Republicans were on that list, it would have been leaked.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that they don’t trust experts, they have a mega distrust of the establishment. That’s the pull of Trump.

It’s not about Trump. It’s about him pointing out the hypocrisy.

Global warming: “TURN YOUR THERMOSTATS DOWN” they say. Then get caught with their’s cranked to 78. “He’s from Hawaii”. Private jet? “He/she is more important than you, so needs to fly private”. Telling us how oppressed and oppressive we are in the US when the countries they support enslave other people. Sending our hard-earned FINITE tax dollars to other nations while our own go hungry and live on the streets. Tell us we don’t have a right to our guns but they do because, again, they are more important than us so need protection. And as a hard example, jailing a 70+ year old Bodega worker in Rikers on high bail for stabbing a man with a past violent criminal record, who was beating the crap out of him. All caught on video, mind you, so we know the worker was not lying. It was only due to MAGA outrage that the Bodega worker was finally treated fairly by Democrats.

But that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm not going to take up smoking because some politicians/bureaucrats/authorities are telling me not to smoke while lighting a cigarette behind closed doors. I'll think they are stupid, but I'm not going to jeopardize my own health and well being because of their stupidity.

Are MAGA people that manipulable? Do they all suffer from oppositional defiance disorder? Can we get them to change their behavior by telling them to do the opposite?

Do you always follow rules others set up for you that they exempt themselves from? You don’t question it?

That's quite a straw man you built there. Nice work.

Yeah, must be embarrassing to be bested by a stupid MAGA person I mean who believes a man telling you that the seas are rising at an alarming rate so you have to change YOUR behavior, then buys TWO expensive beach front properties? Even Obama doesn't believe his own crap.

Some of us have a conscience and follow it. No matter what others do. Again, you sound highly manipulable. You apparently base your decisions in opposition to what other people do, rather than on your own principles.

The title of this thread speaks of expertise. The people who are stating they are experts and to follow their rules, again, don't follow the same rules themselves. A true expert would not behave that way. Another example - all the parties liberals in authority threw, with them unmasked but the help, masked.

Please, list all "the people" declaring themselves experts who don't follow "their rules" -- list them all. Every single one of those "people stating they are experts and to follow their rules." All generalizations have to be premised on specifics, so get specific. One example is not good enough to jump to a generalization. We need dozens and dozens of them.

I'd like that answer too. Who ARE these experts making policy we are all to follow? And why are they exempting themselves? Obama has. Fauci has. Whitmer has. Newsom has. They clearly don't trust the experts either. Dozens and dozens? You go ahead. Give me dozens and dozens of specific names of MAGA individuals who are opposed to expertise?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that they don’t trust experts, they have a mega distrust of the establishment. That’s the pull of Trump.

It’s not about Trump. It’s about him pointing out the hypocrisy.

Global warming: “TURN YOUR THERMOSTATS DOWN” they say. Then get caught with their’s cranked to 78. “He’s from Hawaii”. Private jet? “He/she is more important than you, so needs to fly private”. Telling us how oppressed and oppressive we are in the US when the countries they support enslave other people. Sending our hard-earned FINITE tax dollars to other nations while our own go hungry and live on the streets. Tell us we don’t have a right to our guns but they do because, again, they are more important than us so need protection. And as a hard example, jailing a 70+ year old Bodega worker in Rikers on high bail for stabbing a man with a past violent criminal record, who was beating the crap out of him. All caught on video, mind you, so we know the worker was not lying. It was only due to MAGA outrage that the Bodega worker was finally treated fairly by Democrats.

But that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm not going to take up smoking because some politicians/bureaucrats/authorities are telling me not to smoke while lighting a cigarette behind closed doors. I'll think they are stupid, but I'm not going to jeopardize my own health and well being because of their stupidity.

Are MAGA people that manipulable? Do they all suffer from oppositional defiance disorder? Can we get them to change their behavior by telling them to do the opposite?

Do you always follow rules others set up for you that they exempt themselves from? You don’t question it?

That's quite a straw man you built there. Nice work.

Yeah, must be embarrassing to be bested by a stupid MAGA person I mean who believes a man telling you that the seas are rising at an alarming rate so you have to change YOUR behavior, then buys TWO expensive beach front properties? Even Obama doesn't believe his own crap.

Some of us have a conscience and follow it. No matter what others do. Again, you sound highly manipulable. You apparently base your decisions in opposition to what other people do, rather than on your own principles.

The title of this thread speaks of expertise. The people who are stating they are experts and to follow their rules, again, don't follow the same rules themselves. A true expert would not behave that way. Another example - all the parties liberals in authority threw, with them unmasked but the help, masked.

Please, list all "the people" declaring themselves experts who don't follow "their rules" -- list them all. Every single one of those "people stating they are experts and to follow their rules." All generalizations have to be premised on specifics, so get specific. One example is not good enough to jump to a generalization. We need dozens and dozens of them.

I'd like that answer too. Who ARE these experts making policy we are all to follow? And why are they exempting themselves? Obama has. Fauci has. Whitmer has. Newsom has. They clearly don't trust the experts either. Dozens and dozens? You go ahead. Give me dozens and dozens of specific names of MAGA individuals who are opposed to expertise?

The Orange Little Boy

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Anonymous wrote:It has to do with giving everyone participation trophies when they were little.

This is part of it. I work in an org that has created a title for staff a year out of college. “Subject Matter Expert.” I have a PhD and 20 years experience and there are very few areas that I would call myself a subject matter expert but let’s give every kid that can Google an answer that title. It is absolutely absurd what experience and education has been devalued to.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that they don’t trust experts, they have a mega distrust of the establishment. That’s the pull of Trump.

It’s not about Trump. It’s about him pointing out the hypocrisy.

Global warming: “TURN YOUR THERMOSTATS DOWN” they say. Then get caught with their’s cranked to 78. “He’s from Hawaii”. Private jet? “He/she is more important than you, so needs to fly private”. Telling us how oppressed and oppressive we are in the US when the countries they support enslave other people. Sending our hard-earned FINITE tax dollars to other nations while our own go hungry and live on the streets. Tell us we don’t have a right to our guns but they do because, again, they are more important than us so need protection. And as a hard example, jailing a 70+ year old Bodega worker in Rikers on high bail for stabbing a man with a past violent criminal record, who was beating the crap out of him. All caught on video, mind you, so we know the worker was not lying. It was only due to MAGA outrage that the Bodega worker was finally treated fairly by Democrats.

But that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm not going to take up smoking because some politicians/bureaucrats/authorities are telling me not to smoke while lighting a cigarette behind closed doors. I'll think they are stupid, but I'm not going to jeopardize my own health and well being because of their stupidity.

Are MAGA people that manipulable? Do they all suffer from oppositional defiance disorder? Can we get them to change their behavior by telling them to do the opposite?

Do you always follow rules others set up for you that they exempt themselves from? You don’t question it?

That's quite a straw man you built there. Nice work.

Yeah, must be embarrassing to be bested by a stupid MAGA person I mean who believes a man telling you that the seas are rising at an alarming rate so you have to change YOUR behavior, then buys TWO expensive beach front properties? Even Obama doesn't believe his own crap.

Some of us have a conscience and follow it. No matter what others do. Again, you sound highly manipulable. You apparently base your decisions in opposition to what other people do, rather than on your own principles.

The title of this thread speaks of expertise. The people who are stating they are experts and to follow their rules, again, don't follow the same rules themselves. A true expert would not behave that way. Another example - all the parties liberals in authority threw, with them unmasked but the help, masked.

Please, list all "the people" declaring themselves experts who don't follow "their rules" -- list them all. Every single one of those "people stating they are experts and to follow their rules." All generalizations have to be premised on specifics, so get specific. One example is not good enough to jump to a generalization. We need dozens and dozens of them.

I'd like that answer too. Who ARE these experts making policy we are all to follow? And why are they exempting themselves? Obama has. Fauci has. Whitmer has. Newsom has. They clearly don't trust the experts either. Dozens and dozens? You go ahead. Give me dozens and dozens of specific names of MAGA individuals who are opposed to expertise?

The Orange Little Boy

So nothing of note to say. Amusing.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that they don’t trust experts, they have a mega distrust of the establishment. That’s the pull of Trump.

It’s not about Trump. It’s about him pointing out the hypocrisy.

Global warming: “TURN YOUR THERMOSTATS DOWN” they say. Then get caught with their’s cranked to 78. “He’s from Hawaii”. Private jet? “He/she is more important than you, so needs to fly private”. Telling us how oppressed and oppressive we are in the US when the countries they support enslave other people. Sending our hard-earned FINITE tax dollars to other nations while our own go hungry and live on the streets. Tell us we don’t have a right to our guns but they do because, again, they are more important than us so need protection. And as a hard example, jailing a 70+ year old Bodega worker in Rikers on high bail for stabbing a man with a past violent criminal record, who was beating the crap out of him. All caught on video, mind you, so we know the worker was not lying. It was only due to MAGA outrage that the Bodega worker was finally treated fairly by Democrats.

But that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm not going to take up smoking because some politicians/bureaucrats/authorities are telling me not to smoke while lighting a cigarette behind closed doors. I'll think they are stupid, but I'm not going to jeopardize my own health and well being because of their stupidity.

Are MAGA people that manipulable? Do they all suffer from oppositional defiance disorder? Can we get them to change their behavior by telling them to do the opposite?

Do you always follow rules others set up for you that they exempt themselves from? You don’t question it?

That's quite a straw man you built there. Nice work.

Yeah, must be embarrassing to be bested by a stupid MAGA person I mean who believes a man telling you that the seas are rising at an alarming rate so you have to change YOUR behavior, then buys TWO expensive beach front properties? Even Obama doesn't believe his own crap.

Some of us have a conscience and follow it. No matter what others do. Again, you sound highly manipulable. You apparently base your decisions in opposition to what other people do, rather than on your own principles.

The title of this thread speaks of expertise. The people who are stating they are experts and to follow their rules, again, don't follow the same rules themselves. A true expert would not behave that way. Another example - all the parties liberals in authority threw, with them unmasked but the help, masked.

Please, list all "the people" declaring themselves experts who don't follow "their rules" -- list them all. Every single one of those "people stating they are experts and to follow their rules." All generalizations have to be premised on specifics, so get specific. One example is not good enough to jump to a generalization. We need dozens and dozens of them.

I did but the comment was deleted.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that they don’t trust experts, they have a mega distrust of the establishment. That’s the pull of Trump.

It’s not about Trump. It’s about him pointing out the hypocrisy.

Global warming: “TURN YOUR THERMOSTATS DOWN” they say. Then get caught with their’s cranked to 78. “He’s from Hawaii”. Private jet? “He/she is more important than you, so needs to fly private”. Telling us how oppressed and oppressive we are in the US when the countries they support enslave other people. Sending our hard-earned FINITE tax dollars to other nations while our own go hungry and live on the streets. Tell us we don’t have a right to our guns but they do because, again, they are more important than us so need protection. And as a hard example, jailing a 70+ year old Bodega worker in Rikers on high bail for stabbing a man with a past violent criminal record, who was beating the crap out of him. All caught on video, mind you, so we know the worker was not lying. It was only due to MAGA outrage that the Bodega worker was finally treated fairly by Democrats.

But that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm not going to take up smoking because some politicians/bureaucrats/authorities are telling me not to smoke while lighting a cigarette behind closed doors. I'll think they are stupid, but I'm not going to jeopardize my own health and well being because of their stupidity.

Are MAGA people that manipulable? Do they all suffer from oppositional defiance disorder? Can we get them to change their behavior by telling them to do the opposite?

Do you always follow rules others set up for you that they exempt themselves from? You don’t question it?

That's quite a straw man you built there. Nice work.

Yeah, must be embarrassing to be bested by a stupid MAGA person I mean who believes a man telling you that the seas are rising at an alarming rate so you have to change YOUR behavior, then buys TWO expensive beach front properties? Even Obama doesn't believe his own crap.

Some of us have a conscience and follow it. No matter what others do. Again, you sound highly manipulable. You apparently base your decisions in opposition to what other people do, rather than on your own principles.

The title of this thread speaks of expertise. The people who are stating they are experts and to follow their rules, again, don't follow the same rules themselves. A true expert would not behave that way. Another example - all the parties liberals in authority threw, with them unmasked but the help, masked.

Please, list all "the people" declaring themselves experts who don't follow "their rules" -- list them all. Every single one of those "people stating they are experts and to follow their rules." All generalizations have to be premised on specifics, so get specific. One example is not good enough to jump to a generalization. We need dozens and dozens of them.

I did but the comment was deleted.

My bad...not deleted. Simply buried in nonsense

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that they don’t trust experts, they have a mega distrust of the establishment. That’s the pull of Trump.

It’s not about Trump. It’s about him pointing out the hypocrisy.

Global warming: “TURN YOUR THERMOSTATS DOWN” they say. Then get caught with their’s cranked to 78. “He’s from Hawaii”. Private jet? “He/she is more important than you, so needs to fly private”. Telling us how oppressed and oppressive we are in the US when the countries they support enslave other people. Sending our hard-earned FINITE tax dollars to other nations while our own go hungry and live on the streets. Tell us we don’t have a right to our guns but they do because, again, they are more important than us so need protection. And as a hard example, jailing a 70+ year old Bodega worker in Rikers on high bail for stabbing a man with a past violent criminal record, who was beating the crap out of him. All caught on video, mind you, so we know the worker was not lying. It was only due to MAGA outrage that the Bodega worker was finally treated fairly by Democrats.

But that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm not going to take up smoking because some politicians/bureaucrats/authorities are telling me not to smoke while lighting a cigarette behind closed doors. I'll think they are stupid, but I'm not going to jeopardize my own health and well being because of their stupidity.

Are MAGA people that manipulable? Do they all suffer from oppositional defiance disorder? Can we get them to change their behavior by telling them to do the opposite?

Do you always follow rules others set up for you that they exempt themselves from? You don’t question it?

That's quite a straw man you built there. Nice work.

Yeah, must be embarrassing to be bested by a stupid MAGA person I mean who believes a man telling you that the seas are rising at an alarming rate so you have to change YOUR behavior, then buys TWO expensive beach front properties? Even Obama doesn't believe his own crap.

Anyone who thinks climate change is a hoax doesn't even have any business being on a thread about expertise.

The only person who thinks it's a hoax is you. What we don't want is for politicians to lecture us while not holding China and India accountable. Especially China.

"Especially China" - who your guy Trump completely let off the hook when he withdrew the US from the Paris agreement.
Biden returned the US to the Paris agreement but not only did that, he also brought China back to the table and got them to make commitments to reducing their emissions.

Meanwhile here you are justifying your own climate idiocy by deflecting to China which is not at all acceptable.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that they don’t trust experts, they have a mega distrust of the establishment. That’s the pull of Trump.

It’s not about Trump. It’s about him pointing out the hypocrisy.

Global warming: “TURN YOUR THERMOSTATS DOWN” they say. Then get caught with their’s cranked to 78. “He’s from Hawaii”. Private jet? “He/she is more important than you, so needs to fly private”. Telling us how oppressed and oppressive we are in the US when the countries they support enslave other people. Sending our hard-earned FINITE tax dollars to other nations while our own go hungry and live on the streets. Tell us we don’t have a right to our guns but they do because, again, they are more important than us so need protection. And as a hard example, jailing a 70+ year old Bodega worker in Rikers on high bail for stabbing a man with a past violent criminal record, who was beating the crap out of him. All caught on video, mind you, so we know the worker was not lying. It was only due to MAGA outrage that the Bodega worker was finally treated fairly by Democrats.

But that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm not going to take up smoking because some politicians/bureaucrats/authorities are telling me not to smoke while lighting a cigarette behind closed doors. I'll think they are stupid, but I'm not going to jeopardize my own health and well being because of their stupidity.

Are MAGA people that manipulable? Do they all suffer from oppositional defiance disorder? Can we get them to change their behavior by telling them to do the opposite?

Do you always follow rules others set up for you that they exempt themselves from? You don’t question it?

That's quite a straw man you built there. Nice work.

Yeah, must be embarrassing to be bested by a stupid MAGA person I mean who believes a man telling you that the seas are rising at an alarming rate so you have to change YOUR behavior, then buys TWO expensive beach front properties? Even Obama doesn't believe his own crap.

Some of us have a conscience and follow it. No matter what others do. Again, you sound highly manipulable. You apparently base your decisions in opposition to what other people do, rather than on your own principles.

The title of this thread speaks of expertise. The people who are stating they are experts and to follow their rules, again, don't follow the same rules themselves. A true expert would not behave that way. Another example - all the parties liberals in authority threw, with them unmasked but the help, masked.

Please, list all "the people" declaring themselves experts who don't follow "their rules" -- list them all. Every single one of those "people stating they are experts and to follow their rules." All generalizations have to be premised on specifics, so get specific. One example is not good enough to jump to a generalization. We need dozens and dozens of them.

I'd like that answer too. Who ARE these experts making policy we are all to follow? And why are they exempting themselves? Obama has. Fauci has. Whitmer has. Newsom has. They clearly don't trust the experts either. Dozens and dozens? You go ahead. Give me dozens and dozens of specific names of MAGA individuals who are opposed to expertise?

Just about all of you are rejecting the expert opinions. A shorter list would be those who concur with expert opinions but I struggle to even come up with names for that list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It has to do with giving everyone participation trophies when they were little.

Bullshit. The people railing against participation trophies are the ones most likely to sneer at "book learning" as elitist.

[Anonymous]

“Experts” said with a straight face that there’s no way C19 was from a lab

Can’t tell boys from girls

And swore the jab would end the pandemic.

It’s a good idea to give people with credentials a fair hearing but they aren’t gods.

[Anonymous]

Railing against experts is just another culture issue that the 1% is using to redirect the attention of the idiot conservatives. And, as expected, the idiot conservatives are lapping it up and begging for more.

[Anonymous]

Liberalls, we do not need your books learning and "Knowledge." The Lord will shine a Light on the pathway of freedom. MAGA