Misinformation labeling virus — MLV — has crept into the Trump administration

15 February 2025

American culture — more and more brainless every day?

From Reason:

President Donald Trump's exceedingly silly efforts to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" became particularly obnoxious this week, as the White House announced that it would strip the Associated Press of access to presidential press briefings and Air Force One flights. The news organization's transgression? Sticking with Gulf of Mexico in its official style guide.

Yet that's exactly what the Trump White House is doing.

In a statement on X, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich accused the A.P. of betraying its commitment to stem the spread of misinformation.

"The Associated Press continues to ignore the lawful geographic name change of the Gulf of America," he wrote.

"This decision is not just divisive, but it also exposes the Associated Press' commitment to misinformation."

This idiotically aimed emphasis falls into the same Dumbassery Bin, as the President's (previously highlighted) point-distracting focus on drinking straws.

Anything for attention.

And little for competently constructed design and building.

In a similar loss-of-brain way . . .

. . . (Democrat) Illinois Representative Jan Schakowsky seriously suggested to Congress that comparatively few women are in US-based manufacturing because that word starts with 'man'.

As you watch the above-linked clip of her presentation, you receive a full dose of the empty-skulled underpinnings of our (nevertheless) 'better-than-thou' warmongering culture.

The moral? — Everyone who labels something 'misinformation' . . .

. . . rather than lies, mistakes, misunderstandings, unfounded data, and errors in critical thinking — and/or advocates for DEI's fervently anti-meritocratic excesses — should be (arguably figuratively) mercy-killed.

We could re-assign President Trump's allegedly excess Federal workers and departments to this task.

Such a Government-sponsored employment plan would benefit the American economy. At the same time that it measurably raises America's now imbecile-level intelligence quotient.

There is (after all) such a thing as a society essentially suiciding itself, due to excessive levels of sheer stupidity.

Soft times, apparently, breed high proportions of abysmally dumb, yet power-hungry, people.

Soft times eat formerly quasi-competent cultures from within.

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Misinformation labeling virus — MLV — has crept into the Trump administration