Matthew J Farquhar

On the Topic of Incompetance, Again

Our Trump-installed FBI director Ka$h Patel, children’s book writer and podcaster.

16-1/2 minutes

12 minutes long:

Fellow Unbelievers,

Here, Armin Navabi of Atheist Republic highlights the deranged people who are celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder.

All the worst from the Woke Left and the Woke Right, Islamists, Anti-Zionists, Antisemites, and people on BlueSky compiling a list of others to go after. Like I said, the collateral damage always goes beyond the…[Read more]

Clear evidence, in only 18 seconds, that free will does not exist.
Notice the delay in the subject’s brain’s response.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Another thought on this: If they’re killed off fast enough, the bacteria aren’t around to evolve.

Yes, absolutely. Just a side-note, elsewhere in that video they were also discussing how to terminate pathogens with a “cocktail” approach, which is applying more than one treatment at once in order to kill faster, lea…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

Another thought on this: If they’re killed off fast enough, the bacteria aren’t around to evolve.

PopeBeanie,

I realized this while watching this awesome episode on bacteria phages, which are viruses that prey only on bacteria. I start the hour long episode more than halfway in, and it’s not important to watch any further than their discussion on gain of function:

Wait…Don’t watch all of a video about a medical regimen that has to be c…[Read more]

Promoting Incompetence

Wannabee authoritarians can “take over” institutions by corrupting them first, then claim it’s proof that they need to eliminate or rebuild them. It’s a wrecking ball approach.

E.g. usurping the authority of well trained and dedicated experts in the field of medicine. Obviously there are a lot more examples of this in…[Read more]

I rarely pay attention to up-to-the-minute news. But living in Trumpian times is unlike other times in US history. I heard news that Vance visited one of the Murdochs a few days ago, so the 25th amendment may become relevant? To be honest, I’ve lost sleep in some recent days.

Nine minutes long, if you don’t count the last two minutes of the video…[Read more]

Daily Beast interview with Michael Wolff, about Trump and a couple of his female staff. Eleven minutes:

Cluster B people are known for being thin-skinned: “emotionally unstable”, “impulsive”, and “intolerant of perceived slights or insults”.  If you’re a narcissist, you’re perpetually at odds with and competing with everybody; and human beings are not competition machines, we’re not built to cope with that, so it hurts personally when someone…[Read more]

I thought of this months ago but didn’t express it, but Kinzinger does it better anyway. Trump, et al, is the new cancel culture. Trump himself, is the thin skinned King Snowflake now.

4 minutes:

PopeBeanie wrote:
(Hmm, now I wonder if there were any connections to religion in McCarthyism.)

I finally answered my own stupid question. I say stupid, I should have remembered history, e.g. the term “Red Scare”. Here’s part of what I got from Gemini AI:

“Godless Communism” vs. “Christian America”: A central rhetorical strategy was to portray…

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_Robert_ wrote:
Nothing interesting about it, Pope.

I really hope that view prevails, someday after Trump/MAGAism.

In my head I’ve started trying to compare Trumpism with McCarthyism. They’re both historically dark eras for USA, with some kind of group human nature built in that I want to learn about. Comparable to cults, in fact. (Hmm, now I…[Read more]

Nothing interesting about it, Pope. We have seen this all before, every time democracy fails from within.

I wonder what ICE will do with all the money they’re about to get? We’re living in “interesting times”.
18 minutes:

Setting aside how we feel about what they want, asking the United Nations for help…really? They might as well ask the Tooth Fairy. The U.N. is about as relevant as a screen door on a submarine nowadays. Whenever the General Assembly wants to do something nowadays, it goes to the Security Council to die.

They’re just pissing into the wind.