Have I told you all lately why

[conuly]

this sort of shit just isn't funny?

It wasn't funny when it started, and it sure as hell isn't funny now, years after the fact.

Find a new joke.
One that's relevant.

Hell, I'll even repeat my list.

Ways we know Bush is stupid:

His foreign policy is non-existant
He thinks people believe his lies (well....)
He thinks abstinence-only education works
Etc.

Things which DO NOT prove his stupidity:

He speaks with an accent (nuculer, al quader)
He has problems speaking (this could be a learning disability or a simple problem of poor verbal performance. We all do that)
He's clumsy (oh wow. He fell off a bike! He's an idiot! Along with everybody else who can't ride a bike! LOLOL!!!!11111)
We can find a funny picture that makes him look like a chimp (just stop insulting our friend, the chimp.)

See the difference?

Comments

[carakarena.livejournal.com]

Perhaps not, but it does betray a certain lackadaisical attitude and a feeling that he can't be bothered to behave or speak like a head of state, let alone the head of the free world. So maybe that's arrogance rather than stupidity...unless that IS him trying to behave or speak like a head of state...

[conuly]

It's gotten him a significant share of the vote. Twice. I wouldn't underestimate it.

At any rate, my complaints against him are much deeper than his speech. This is, strangely, a completely different from my normal "stop being an evil prescriptivist" argument. This is a "focus on the important issues" argument.

[conuly]

With a little bit of "stop making huge assumptions about people based on stupid things" thrown in, of course.

[carakarena.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with you there. It's really misguided, and actually fatal, for people to just make Bush an object of joke and derision. The power he has, what he chooses to do with it, and the effects of those choices are extremely serious, and to have most of the criticism of him consist of "Ha ha! He's a stupid buffoon!" is really irreponsible and dangerous. We don't take the power of our state seriously anymore -- everything is like a TV show to us. We think there's not going to be any real effects.

[conuly]

Even if he is stupid - this is not the proof. The proof is in his actions, not his speech, not his coordination.

[carakarena.livejournal.com]

I getcha ;)