FYI: Judge Cannon is not stupid.

[madaboutharry]

Undergraduate degree from Duke University. University of Michigan Law School. She wrote that mishmash opinion on purpose.

[Walleye]

1. I'm sure she's a loyal trumper but I think she was also afraid for her life

[KPN]

9. I agree.

[Walleye]

17. Yep she weaseled around then gave a written ruling on a holiday

[Funtatlaguy]

2. She's a Trump cult member. She has a Zombie 🧟‍♀️ brain.

[hlthe2b]

3. Maybe, but I've known many a lauded individual completing medical school, law school, PhDs--all

at universities and Ivy League Schools considered cream of the crop and a few were clearly "passed through" or had enough skills to "fake it" at the most important times (or connections). GWB* went to Harvard, after all. At a minimum, she is sufficiently inexperienced so as to be vulnerable to manipulation. Insecure people are particularly vulnerable.

[KPN]

10. That was Yale.

[hlthe2b]

11. He also attended Harvard.

Education

Bush attended public schools in Midland, Texas until the family moved to Houston after he had completed seventh grade. He then spent two years at The Kinkaid School, a college-preparatory school.[8]

Bush attended high school at Phillips Academy, a boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts, where he played baseball and was the head cheerleader during his senior year.[9][10] He attended Yale University from 1964 to 1968, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.[11] During this time, he was a cheerleader and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon, serving as the president of the fraternity during his senior year.[12][13][14] Bush became a member of the Skull and Bones society as a senior.[15] Bush was a rugby union player and was on Yale's 1st XV.[16] He characterized himself as an average student.[17] His GPA during his first three years at Yale was 77, and he had a similar average under a nonnumerical rating system in his final year.[18]

In the fall of 1973, Bush entered Harvard Business School. He graduated in 1975 with an MBA degree. He is the only U.S. president to have earned an MBA.[19]

[KPN]

14. I didn't know that. Thanks for nailing me on that -- I

deserve it.

[Mad_Machine76]

42. Ben Carson?

[hlthe2b]

50. good example. He certainly had good 'mechanical' skills as a surgeon, but...

Not to diminish all surgeons, mind you, but the best typically are much "deeper thinkers" than Carson has shown himself to be.

[mackdaddy]

4. "Stupid is as Stupid Does"

Even if you are highly educated...

[randr]

5. That all College graduates are "smart" is a myth

She is only doing exactly what she is told to do.

[fightforfreedom]

6. Highly educated does not equal smart or wise.

Would anyone here call Alito smart or wise? He is an idiot and so is this judge.

[allegorical oracle]

8. SO true; DeSatan in Fla is a Yale/Harvard guy and I think he is a total asshat. nt

[lindysalsagal]

35. Quick cognition does not guarantee ethics or morals or emotional stability

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

7. She is corrupt, and worships the MAGAt king.

Fascists have little or no ability to be objective, and Cannon is a fascist.

[imanamerican63]

12. She was been appointed by Trump for several reasons!

One being she is a loyal right wing Republican Trumpster! This was Trump’s and his goons’ plan ever since Trump announced his run for president, possibly before Trump even came into the political landscape picture?

[inthewind21]

37. If you think

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Stacking the courts was just Tumps plan, you haven't been paying attention for the past 40 years.

[dem4decades]

13. I agree, she has obtained her desired goal, to protect Trump. She probably just increased her odds

of becoming a Supreme Court justice by her actions. She ain't stupid.

[agingdem]

15. she's not dumb but her stellar education is inconsequential wrapping..

Cannon sits on the bench because she's a Federalist Society acolyte and all Trump nominees are on the bench because of Mitch McConnell's wet dream...pack the courts with less than qualified uber-right extremist judges, decimate abortion rights, marriage equality, Obamacare..unbiased free thinkers need not apply...

Cannon's reputation, her ability to judge fairly...gone!..every decision she renders will be suspect and appealed...lawyers will run from her court...and I'm betting she doesn't give a damn...

[Walleye]

18. Mitch who held a Supreme Court seat open for a year because an election might be coming up

Made sure that this loyal Trumper was confirmed two days after he lost the election. This is not how these things are supposed to work. They have completely lost sight of what elections are for

[GoCubsGo]

19. Yep, she's the monkey with a machine gun.

She's that chimp who was handed an AK-47 by some soldiers. It knew enough to operate the thing, but that's about it. So, it pulls the trigger and wantonly shoots up the place. That's Judge Cannon. That's Amy Coney Barratt. That's pretty much everyone Trump and the Federalist Society installed as a judge. They know just enough to be dangerous. The only difference is that it didn't occur to those soldiers that the chimp would shoot up the place. The Federalist Society INTENDS for their monkeys to destroy everything.

[agingdem]

23. but this chimp with an AK-47

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managed to "bite" ol' Mitch in the ass...Mitch wanted Trump silenced, gone...far away from the midterms..he was pretty confident espionage would do it, but being the Trump humper she is, Aileen ignored the law, made some crap "law" of her own, and gave Trump a "win"...poor Mitch, not only does that rancid asshole have to tolerate Donnie's profane personal insults, the midterms is a Trump referendum...

[GoCubsGo]

34. Yes, Mitch is the one who handed the gun to the chimp.

Just like he handed one to Coney Barratt, Kavanaugh, Gorsuck, and all others he and the Federalist Society rammed through. He was just so arrogant that he didn't think he'd eventually be dodging bullets from these idiots. He should probably expect more of bullet sprays in the near future, because he armed a lot of chimps.

[jimfields33]

24. She's one of the few who was qualified by the ABA

[agingdem]

26. So was Bork...

ABA qualified means Aileen's not wearing her TRUMP IS MY GOD t-shirt to work...

[onenote]

41. Actually most of trumps judges were rated "well qualified"

She was rated only “qualified” probably because of her lack of experience.

During his four years in office, the ABA rated 264 of Trump’s nominees; 187 were rated “well-qualified,” 67 were rated “qualified,” and 10 were rated “not qualified.”

[atreides1]

16. Okay!

But a lot of book smart people are still stupid!

[yardwork]

20. I agree that it's a mistake to assume these people are stupid.

We miss what's going on and underestimate them when we assume they're stupid or, in the case of Trump, have dementia.

They may or may not be stupid. Trump might have dementia. But that's not why they're doing these things. What they're doing is carefully planned. It's calculated. It's designed to get what they want, achieve their goals. Their goals are so inconceivable to those who believe in democracy and the rule of law, it's easy to assume that they're just stupid. They're not.

Is a defense attorney being stupid when she says absurd things to the jury, in an effort to confuse them and get her client off? That's not stupid. That's calculating.

[inthewind21]

38. Bingo!

Or when we think, "That will never happen in the US." We've been warned for decades. The republicans made it no secret what their plans were. Well, here it is. Just as promised. Yet the country is shocked.

[yardwork]

46. Yes! Their goals are actually quite straightforward.

What part of "drown government in a bathtub, privatize all services, get rid of social security, repeal health care coverage, including Medicare and certainly Medicaid, get rid of food stamps, shut down the public school systems, including public universities (or convert them to technical schools), get rid of the U.S. postal service and U.S. weather service, ban all abortions and birth control, criminalize being gay or transgender, remove all government regulations (except the ones we want to oppress women and minorities with), repeal all state and federal environmental regulations, shut down all safety regulations, repeal child labor laws, privatize prisons, outlaw voting by mail and same-day voter registration, etc etc etc" did we miss?

It's literally in the Republican Party platform.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

51. +1. N/T

[Whiskeytide]

21. Professor Carlo M. Cipolla would disagree...

The five universal laws of human stupidity:

Law 1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

* * *

Law 2: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

Cipolla posits stupidity is a variable that remains constant across all populations. Every category one can imagine—gender, race, nationality, education level, income—possesses a fixed percentage of stupid people. There are stupid college professors. There are stupid people at Davos and at the UN General Assembly. There are stupid people in every nation on earth. How numerous are the stupid amongst us? It’s impossible to say. And any guess would almost certainly violate the first law, anyway.

https://qz.com/967554/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity/amp/

Here’s the original paper by Cipolla if anyone is interested. Entertaining and eye opening. I also understand it’s been recently published as a book as well.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

(Edited for a typo)

[lindysalsagal]

36. I love that. I've never seen it before, but I love it.

[Whiskeytide]

47. Someone posted it here about 4 years back, and ...

… I thought it explained so much about Тяцмpism and the 2016 election.

And the funniest thing is that I still can’t really tell if Cipolla wrote it, at least partly, as a joke. It certainly is both humorous and tragic.

[NQAS]

22. I always think about dear Abby at times like this

Dear Abby reminded us in a column eons ago that half of the doctors out there (and lawyers, etc.) graduated in the bottom half of their class. Just a thought.

[Johonny]

28. Yup

No one intelligent follows Trump unless they're pure evil. Likely she's a moronic cultist and self inflicted stupid as a rock.

[inthewind21]

40. I beg to differ

MAGAS have damn near taken complete control of Congress. State governments are overflowing with them as well as school boards all across the country. The Supreme Court is majority RW extreme now, and we also now have 245 Federal MAGA judges with lifetime appointments seated. This is/has been a plan in the making for decades. It was no secret. It was broadcast on a regular basis. Those who stuck to the plan made a strategic bet, that they could snooker the the voting as well as the non voting public. Get us all bickering and distracted about this and that and while all that bickering and distraction nonsense was going on they would work their plan in the background. And it worked beautifully. The American voting public bought it hook line and sinker. And here we are. Shocked and dismayed about something we've known, or should have know was coming for a very long time. I wouldn't call that moronic and stupid. I'd call that calculating and disciplined.

[inthewind21]

39. What do you call

someone who graduated last in their class at medical school? Doctor!

[burrowowl]

25. Kick

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. For this thread

Link to tweet

[skip fox]

29. Your theory: So she drafted it poorly so that DoJ would appeal

and it would take months or more to go through the courts?

[edhopper]

30. Trump went to Wharton

GW Bush went to Yale.

So fucking what.

[madaboutharry]

31. He didn't go to Wharton.

He took a couple of classes at Wharton through his major. There is a difference.

My point is that she isn’t dumb. She’s a radical and wrote a political opinion.

[edhopper]

33. True

Like so many right-wing assholes, she tried to find bullshit justification for legally dubious opinion.

Ted Cruz, Lindsay Graham and McConnell aren't dumb either, but they constantly give ridiculous justification for the fascist bullshit they try to pull.

Their arguments are either outright false or lack any logical reasoning.

And Trump went to Wharton for two years. Not just a couple of classes. He graduated from the School and has a degree. (Of course, he probably cheated and had others do his work)

[inthewind21]

43. And

They constantly get re-elected. What does that say?

[Caliman73]

48. It says quite a few things actually...

It says something about the power of incumbency.

It says that for House Seats at least, the gerrymandering of districts, is a solid way of maintaining power.

It says something about how stupid (not relating to academic intelligence) supporters of said candidates are.

It says something about how money can influence turn out and hence, elections.



The leaders of the Conservative movement are not unintelligent at all. They count on the stupidity of their constituents to motivate participation, and they count on the apathy and frustration of many on our side and/or those who align with us but who choose not to participate in politics.

[edhopper]

49. They are smarted

than the people who vote for them.

[UTUSN]

32. As Wiz/Oz told the Scarecrow about degrees&Shrub said about Constitution: It's just a piece of paper

Plus look at all the wingnut M.D.(s) who are nutcase wingnuts and whatever number of prestigious credentialed persons being outrageous nutcases.

[Deep State Witch]

44. She Knows Where Her Bread is Buttered

She was appointed in the late days of Mango Mussolini's term for just this purpose. This is the price of her being elevated to a judgeship.

[Samrob]

45. Bad reflection the school. nt