Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calls Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy a “moron” for tweeting that “the threat of bringing back masks is not a decision based on science, but a decision conjured up by liberal government officials who want to live in a perpetual pandemic state.” McCarthy jokes (?) that when he gets Pelosi’s job he’ll find it hard not to hit her with the speaker’s gavel.
Fox News troll Tucker Carlson calls Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley a “pig” and “stupid” for not banning any discussion of critical race theory in the Armed Forces.
Is body shaming okay now? Tucker Carlson doesn’t impress me as svelte. Carlson is 52, Milley 63. Give Carlson 10 years, and I would bet he’ll fit the same physical profile as Milley. As for intelligence, I would put Milley’s Princeton B.A., Columbia M.A., and Naval War College M.A. up against Carlson’s Trinity College B.A. any day. A high level of formal education is not a guarantee of high IQ, of course. But Milley is far from stupid. Resorting to name calling, on the other hand, is an indication of ignorance and emotional immaturity.
And the suggestion that government officials of any political persuasion would welcome a “perpetual pandemic state” is sheer demagoguery and not mature, reasoned discourse. Remember when we expected our political leaders to behave like mature, responsible adults? I do.
