35 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

  2. Just watching a movie called ‘Fatman’.
    The assassination of Santa Claus.
    Sort of foreboding our coming Christmas Season.
    Canceled forever by our politicians…

  4. Every. Single. One. Of. Those. People. Received. a Mailed-out. Ballot. in 2020
    Every. Single. One. Of. Those. People. Will. Receive. a Mailed-out.Ballot. In. 2022

  5. Granted they’re morons. But are the ones who got these questions right, if there were any, edited out?

    1. That ANY responders got their answers wrong is the issue, not how many were polled. Absolutely appalling. Though not unexpected.

    2. Rick Mercer’s “Talking to American’s” was the same. Show the bit’s that get the laugh and make American’s look stupid. Easily guess that about 90% of the answers they taped are on the cutting room floor. Yes I am applaud at the stupid people shown, but am quite certain that is not a refection of reality.

      1. I was a cameraman/editor for broadcast news for about 8 years. Worked for Global, CTV, OMNI, and Citytv.

        It’s soul-crushingly awful. I am 100% against democracy.

  7. If one of them came up with a correct answer the Teacher’s Unions would lobby for another pay increase.

  8. Don’t laugh. Canadians aren’t any better, speaking from having taught what high schools produced more than 20 years ago.

    Many of the kiddies I had in my classes at Armpit College couldn’t write a comprehensible sentence, let alone spell properly. Basic match skills? Fugeddaboudit.

    1. One thing I can’t stand is listening to Canadians yammering on and slandering Americans and America, they themselves proving with every word how bloody ignorant they are. Canada really is a country of immature idiots with the world’s worst inferiority complex.

        1. Is it any wonder, twenty years of CNN propaganda through our own media.
          No wonder they’re idiots.

          Drink our CNN Coolaid, would we lie?
          Being totally non biased and honest reporting.

  11. Over the course of human history the vast majority of people were probably pretty stupid, but it didn’t really better because they were little more than two legged robots anyway. We have never needed that many start people to keep the lights on.

    1. ” vast majority of people were probably pretty stupid”

      A long time buddy of mine figures 5% of the population are very smart, 10% are smart, and 85% are stupid……I believe he’s undercounted the third group.

    2. If you study military history, specifically the US Civil war, you will read letters home written by common soldiers that exhibit a command of the English language far beyond that shown by woolen considered “intellectuals” today.

      Of course, they had the benefit of not being taught in our current K-12 education system.

      Probably even more interesting is how many leaders and even scientists in the 18th and early 19th centuries had the intellect sufficient to get an education simply through childhood access to a large number of books rather than formal education.

      1. Phil, what you say is completely true and disheartening at the same time.

        We live in an age of basic literacy of the masses and access to all manner of information yet the Twitterati classes prove how self-indulgent and utterly ineloquent they are at every opportunity.

      2. You could probably do this with any group of young people on the planet, but I read somewhere that my generation (60+) is the first generation in history to have better language skills, math skills and literacy skills than the ones that followed it.
        All this despite billions of pounds of my tax money being thrown at the ‘education’ provided to them.

      3. … had the intellect sufficient to get an education simply through childhood access to a large number of books rather than formal education

        And yet today … the sum total knowledge of mankind is on everyone’s iPhone and iPad. Children of today have little interest in learning such things. And despite this, we have ever more elaborate libraries that provide access to volumes of information the 19th and 20th century scientists could only dream of. Those libraries have become temples of Drag Queens on display.

        Sorry to say it but the 1% truly ARE the elites compared to the average schlub today.

        1. Yes, but how many likes, can you get for an A in Algebra? Mom? Dad’s?
          Get your teenager shaking their booty on tik-tok, that’s where the likes are.
          Seriously, how do children afford these devices?
          Oh, wait, mom and dad.
          Opening a book and reading or studying what’s inside is hard work, mentally painful, and challenging, all at the same time. Give your child a device that allows them to chat with friends 24/7, watch and make videos, 24/7, view the world 24/7, and people actually expect children to learn? Sheesh! Which generation is the stupid one?

    3. It’s not exactly stupidity, it’s willful ignorance and a general lack of caring. Can’t name a continent? Who fought in the Civil War? I mean, at this point, what difference does it make? Makes you wonder if there should be a knowledge test in order to vote.

      1. Thomas, “should be a knowledge test in order to vote.”
        Don’t go there pal, they’ll call it racist or something.

        1. I remember one of my trainees, from Bulgaria, saying to me “Why does the stupid person get the same right to vote as a professor”?
          I said I was surprised by his comment, as he came from a former soviet dictatorship where a few years ago NO ONE really had a vote.

    4. Actually some if those people a number of years back were quite smart– had better verbal skills than the current generation. You should look at some or the tests they used to have to pass to graduate from high school. Vocabularies in the 30’s, 40’s were significantly more sophisticated than today — can’t remember the exact figure, but people back then– the average person– would have had a 20 – 30% larger vocabulary. Radio was based on words — rather than pictures,

  12. Even Obama, (whose “self-belief” rivals that of Junior’s), didn’t know how many states in the Union there are. 58 at last count…?

    1. And Prinz Dummkopf forgot (on purpose) that Alberta existed at a Dominion Day whoop-up 2 or 3 years ago.

      1. And don’t forget, on Canada’s 150th birthday, the Turd told everyone it was our 100th birthday. He really has the intellect of a flea. Apologies to the fleas.

  14. I’m going to go out on a limb here. They aren’t stupid …they’re ignorant. How do you expect them to know basics if they aren’t taught in the first place. And if it isn’t the teachers then maybe we need a conversation about curriculums.
    But yeah, the video made me want to weep. But hey, it’s their world now.

    Norm Macdonald’s take on teachers who always claim to be heroes.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAg9M-O9wGo

  15. “Iadies and gentIeman of AMERICA!!….we present to you….YOUR FUTURE!!”

    (America is where you Iive…by the way – it’s a country)

  16. At least some were honest, “What’s a Continent?”

    I think the poor guy that could not figure Obama’s Last Name has been so cowed by life and without any self confidence, that he cannot even think of questioning authority, He knows the answer, but he has already been told it is wrong in the original question. He cannot even thinking of contradicting him. Same thing with the foursome naming Alaska and NJ as continents. They take the positive reinforcement of the wrong answers, and try to duplicate their “right” wrong answers.

    Not Stupid. Terribly Ignorant and Unlearned. But I bet they know all the genders and can tell me about all latest pop stars. (Are pop stars still a thing?)

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation