What Would We Do Without Experts?

There’s a cure for this plague of experts, and it’s called “accountability.” Accountability is the bane of experts, so our ruling caste has dispensed with it. That’s why these people can be wrong time after time after time – on COVID, on Russia, on why crime happens and on how the economy works – and yet still maintain their public sinecures even though they are batting .001. The real reason the elite hated Donald Trump was not that he was an ideological conservative (he only sort of was) or that he tweeted mean things (they like mean tweets, just not ones directed at them). It was that Trump identified the failures of “the best and the brightest” and called them out. There is nothing these experts hate more than challenges to the authority they think they deserve.

28 Replies to “What Would We Do Without Experts?”

  1. As the old ‘Expert’ joke went: “An ‘Ex’ is a has-been, and a ‘Spurt’ is a drip under pressure”.

  2. ‘Experts should be on tap, not on top.’

    It is a good practice to remind people of how wrong the media posing as experts are.
    Donald Trump didn’t start WWIII when he moved the embassy to Jerusalem.
    Texas didn’t turn into a mass grave after the ‘Neanderthals’ opened the state back up.
    The mask protest rodeo in Alberta didn’t turn into a mass spreader event.
    Etc.

  3. In Biblical times, the experts were the prophets. The penalty for false prophecy – either foretelling non-existent events or lying about the intentions of the Almighty = was punishable by death, carried out posthaste. While I am not suggesting that level of punishment for lying experts making unsubstantiated claims, surely there needs to be some recompense. That is why Paul Ehrlich still lies about overpopulation, why Rachel Carson lied in “The Silent Spring” about DDT, and the list goes on. That which is rewarded is repeated.

    1. “While I am not suggesting that level of punishment for lying experts”

      And therein lies the problem.

    2. Not just “experts”, the bastard children of Communist politicians found guilty of multiple Ethics Commission violations walk away with NO accountability concerns.

  4. “Experts” + politicians + MSM = “What is wrong with the world”?

    Trust = Zero.

  5. The reason everyone hates Trump is because he’s a pathological liar who doesn’t even know how to put his pants on the right way. They only way you could like the guy is if you get all of your information from sources that lie just as much as he does.

    His tour this summer is going to go one of two ways: He will be revealed to be a dementia-addled fool that can no longer string words into a sentence that even his most devoted followers can parse, or he’ll become an American Pablo Escobar, waging war against the government by proxy through his Christian nationalist brownshirts.

    1. Hey Asstiq! You got any more of them howlers? You could go on the road with that show. Matter of fact, you SHOULD go on the road. Maybe as a level of paving the way outta here. It’s Hunter Biden who don’t know how to out his pants on the right way, you doofus.

      1. Why do the responses on this site so often resort to death wishes? You know it *really* doesn’t help with your attempts to pretend you’re not actually a bunch of failed Nazis.

        1. ……again projection. It takes but a second to google the daily leftist death threats from their leadership to all levels of Kool-Aid drinkers.

          Leftist governments = +100 million dead people and counting.

    2. Oh – UnMe you are back. Saw the phoney pictures of Trumps trousers did you? You have got NOTHING to say about Trump thats real so you look for this stupidity!
      You must be an EXPERT on that – stupidity.

      1. Unme, AllanS, and now antiq. How many more names does he/she have? The intellectual caliber seems to be the same, dumb as a bag of rocks.

        1. LOL, I’m Allan S and Unme, eh? Observe everyone: this is how FACTS are birthed within the Trumposphere.

    3. “He will be revealed to be a dementia-addled fool that can no longer string words into a sentence…….”

      Still waiting for the loony left to recognize their collective projection, especially with the “dementia-addled fool” they identified with and voted for.

    4. Oh dear. Here I was hoping the leftist zombies who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome were back in their mom’s basement, frantically masturbating to pictures of Shillary Clinton, Barak O’Bambam, and Kamel-Toe Harris. I guess antiq didn’t get the message that it’s time for the massage

  6. “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is a story that should be read ad nauseum in schools and in homes.

    “Experts” are the boys who cry wolf, a faceless danger from which they can benefit. One day, however, there will be a REAL “wolf”, a crisis that needs managing, and no one will listen until it’s too late.

    That is why these “experts” should be punished like there is no tomorrow.

  7. Part of the problem is that an expert who actually knows what he’s talking about and tells the commissar something she does not want to hear is asking to be blacklisted from the profession.

    There’s damned little money in telling the truth. The pockets of the few people of any means willing to hear it and who haven’t yet been expropriated are only so deep, and their ranks diminish funeral by funeral.

    But surely, the experts say, don’t wise men learn from their mistakes?

    No. Fools learn from their mistakes. Nothing else gets through their skulls, and sometimes not even that.

    Wise men learn from the mistakes of generations of fools, as summarized in the folk wisdom the allegedly sophisticated call “prejudice,” “racism,” “sexism,” “homophobia,” “xenophobia,” and other insulting terms.

    The most thorough of literature reviews in the social sciences is rarely a good substitute for the intuition of a father and grandfather of British American or Jewish descent who has successfully raised a family and run a business—your own father or grandfather, preferably.

    Rest assured—he knows things you don’t and that anybody publishing in a respectable journal won’t dare tell you, except after getting roaring drunk at a conference.

  8. ” There is nothing these experts hate more than challenges to the authority they think they deserve.”

    True. And the best challenges are derision and contempt. Heap it on the *&^%$#g trash till you bury them.

  9. The left are always only judged on the intent of their policies – not the outcomes.

  10. Here are your Experts who advise Governments in Canada. The Government does not even know how many there are.
    There are 86,000 registered NGO’s and Non Profits all getting Tax Dollars, a vast wealth of experts for the Government Retards to choose from when needed.
    Example being the WE Charity. What a Brain Dead Mess. Canada Needs to just go. Be broken up and go away and leave us normal people alone.

    Over 3 Million NGO’s and Non Profits Worldwide all advising Governments.
    https://wango.org/resources.aspx?section=ngodir

    https://www.canadiancharitylaw.ca/blog/key_statistics_on_canadas_charity_and_non_profit_sector/

  11. Fact is we’ve been trying for fifty years or more to construct a consequence free society. And we’re a long way from the first ones who broke their pick trying.

  12. Famous Last Words:

    *There are the good kind of mushrooms.
    *I wonder where the mother bear is.
    *That’s odd.
    *I listened to the Medical Officer and got the jab.

  13. “Asshole Consulting”.
    The Capitan was right.

    Or as I say, delusions of adequacy.
    Trades see this all the time,self promoters,with very weak skills,spend huge advertising their services,leave hordes of unhappy customers and skip town,to do it all again elsewhere.
    Reporters always give them great press,yet never report on their “escape”.
    Over half the regulators and rulers nobbling industry have never worn a tool belt, yet they are the government experts.Naturally govt hires experts based on their ability to get the right answer..
    That seldom having anything to do with the taxpayers interests or even reality.
    Usually the “right answer” is that preconceived ,boneheaded nonsense that enriches the right families.
    This is the mark of a true government expert.

    1. Crack open the electrical code and you’ll see how many of the committees are composed of manufacturers representatives, and you have to ask how much of the proposals is for improving safety or to the benefit of the end users, versus how much is to the benefit of those manufacturers as a part of regulatory capture?

      I’m sure various other standards are the same

  14. SNL was last funny when Dan Akroyd was selling bags of broken glass as a children’s toy.

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