Categories

We have assigned the stories of dumbassitude into several categories. More often than not stories will have multiple categories, so use the checkboxes to get exactly the stories you want. The categories are as follows:

Anti-American: This covers any actions by government that benefit non-Americans at the expense of Americans. Is it amnesty for illegals? Foreign aid to some country in a time when our own people are unemployed and homeless? Foreign policy at whose heart is the interest of another nation, not us? All of these things are anti-American.

Anti-Liberty: Liberty is the freedom to do anything that does not harm or take from the rights of others. Anti-liberty government actions are those which arbitrarily restrict our liberty for no good reason. Anti-pot, anti-prostitution, anti-gun laws are anti-liberty.

Big Mouth: This category is reserved for public figures such as politicians and CEOs of government-funded pseudo-corporations. These people very often say very, very stupid things. Even if it doesn't result in detrimental effects to Americans, we felt these verbal blunders of politicians deserved a special category.

Bureaucratic Buffoonery: Bureaucratic buffoonery often looks a lot like anti-liberty, at least in its effects. But where anti-liberty is the result of oftentimes tyrannical ambitions with the end goal of actively suppressing our freedom, bureaucratic buffoonery eats at our freedoms by the actions of pin-dick functionaries who have a love of rules and regulations as an end of their own. All in all, these stories are proof that a slimmer, trimmer government is the way to go.

Corporatism: This encompasses all actions by government that benefit large, often international, corporations at the expense of real Americans. Does the government give a bailout to a public corporation during a recession while letting the everyday man starve? Does the government create a law that restricts freedom of the individual so that the corporation can increase its profits? Does the government subsidize a huge industry keeping harmful businesses alive long after they should have vanished? This is corporatism.

Corruption: We all know this one. Any time a politician or bureaucrat violates the law or the rules of their job for personal gain or the gain of a close friend or constituent, this is corruption. Bribery, extortion, cronyism – these are the avatars of corruption.

Dumbass Lawsuit: This speaks for itself. Lawsuits may be frivolous, such as the idiot who sued McDonald's because she spilled hot coffee on her crotch, or downright evil, such as when a criminal sues their victim. The dumbasses in the government are, of course, the judge who agreed to hear the case, the jury who are effectively temporary government workers, and once again, the judge for not overturning the jury's dumbass verdict or imposing a token slap-on-the-wrist to make it go away. Due to the constantly updating nature of these cases, we will only post these when they are resolved.

Incompetence: This is generic, otherwise uncategorized stupidity. Any time someone who works for the government shows behavior completely unfit to be paid for by us taxpayers, any time someone working for the government is lazy or stupid, this is incompetence.

Orwellian: We are watching you! Orwellian actions are those which seek to manipulate the minds of the people, or to spy on them. This is a tribute to George Orwell who wrote 1984, which we hope you have read. Is the government censoring books? Placing cameras everywhere? Creating new definitions for old words? That's Orwellian.

Police Buffoonery: We expect the police to be paragons of virtue and honesty. After all, they are given a great degree of power and authority. When they kill another individual in self-defense, their word is accepted more readily than that of the average person. They have the authority to send people to jail and to wield better weapons than civilians. Therefore, it’s completely unacceptable with a law enforcement officer displays anything other than scrupulously honest behavior. When police are unnecessarily violent, corrupt, bigoted, or inept, it is police buffoonery.

Political Correctness: P.C. is Orwellian’s transvestite cousin. Political Correctness is a form of mind control and social engineering which seeks to directly oppose Darwinism. Groups that are weak and vulnerable are specifically protected at the expense of groups that are strong. In the politically correct world, a self-disciplined straight white male is the Antichrist. As such they are usually the victims of political correctness.

Pro-Criminal: Any action by government that benefits criminals at the expense of law-abiding citizens is pro-criminal. When a criminal gets let off the hook while the victim is punished, or when a criminal successfully sues the police for arresting them, this is pro-criminal.

Waste of Money: This is pretty self-explanatory. Any time the government wastes millions or billions or even trillions of your tax dollars upon frivolous, deleterious, or outright evil programs, it falls into this category. Pork barrel projects are the epitome of a waste of money. Whether you believe the government ought to be very small or fairly pervasive, everyone with a brain will agree that government should be efficient and our tax dollars should be squeezed for every last cent of their worth.