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Wednesday 21st of January 2026

2016 Presidential election To believe that Trump's presidency came out of nowhere, without warning, is the political version of creationism.  I, on the other hand, believe in devolution. The election of a serially bankrupt, functionally illiterate reality TV host was the logical consequence of the five decades preceding it, which, with apologies to Edith Wharton, I'll call the Age of Ignorance. Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
Autocrats say War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four © 2023 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In a 2010 poll, a small majority of Americans revealed that they did not realize that humans and dinosaurs never coexisted. Another showed that almost half of Americans thought the sun revolved around the earth. Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Change The non-doing of stupid things is as precious as any crusade for positive change. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, August 14, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Surely of all “rights of man”, the right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held to the true course by him, is the indisputablest. Nature herself ordains it. Thomas Carlyle, Chartism © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming Every time you have that soil or rock, whatever it is, that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise because now you've got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up. Mo Brooks © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming Is there anything that the National forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon's orbit or the Earth's orbit around the sun? Obviously, that would have a profound effect on our climate. Louie Gohmert, to a stunned Forest Service official during a live-streamed meeting of the House Committee on National Resources' Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming There is one person that changes climate in this country and that is God. Tommy Tuberville © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance [T]he Age of Ignorance  has repeatedly enacted a dark principle: in the absence of knowledge, violence fills the void. Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance I'm ready for the ‘gotcha’ questions, and they're already starting to come. And when they ask me who is the President of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan, I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. And do you know? And then I'm going to say, How's that going to create one job? Herman Cain, during 2000 Republican presidential primaries © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance I've divided it [the Age of Ignorance] into the Three Stages of Ignorance: Ridicule, Acceptance and Celebration. During the Ridicule stage, ignorance was a magnet for mockery … During the Acceptance stage, ignorance mutated into something more acceptable: a sign that a poltician was authentic, down-to-earth, and a“normal person” … During the Celebration stage … ignorance has become preferable to knowledge, dunces are exalted over experts, and a candidate can win a seat in Congress after blaming wildfires on Jewish space lasers. Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance  [2022] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was & never will be. Thomas Jefferson  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Ignorance Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. William Henry Beveridge © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse that every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. John Selden © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance Nothing in all the world  is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets' red glare, it had nothing but victory. Donald Trump on the War of 1812 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism  has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”. Isaac Asimov © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. James Clerk Maxwell © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance  Trump thought Colorado bordered Mexico. He thought Finland was part of Russia, and that Belgium is a city. He pronounced Namibia “Nambia” and called Thailand “Thighland,” as if it were a strip club. He thought Nepal and Bhutan were parts of India, and called them “Nipple” and “Button.” Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Juries Asking the ignorant to use the incomprehenible to decide the unknowable. Hiller B. Zobel, a judge, on juries © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie With fame I became more and more stupid, which of course is a common phenomenon. Albert Einstein © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Palin was nothing if not prolific,  the Charles Dickens of the Age of Ignorance. Sarah Palin portrayed by Andy Borowitz in Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot With her toxic brew of ignorance and grievance, Sarah Palin was the gateway ignoramus who led to Donald Trump. Sarah Palin portrayed by Andy Borowitz in Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His name was Ronald Reagan, and it's in no small part thanks to him that today we can say: It's Moronic in America. Ronald Reagan portrayed by Andy Borowitz in Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Here's three words no one ever has to say to Marjorie Taylor Greene: Dumb it down. Marjorie Taylor Greene portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, June 3, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot What happens when you combine ignorance with performance talent? A president who tells the country to inject bleach. Donald Trump portrayed by Andy Borowitz © 2023 Kwiple.com
State of the union Great power joined with great stupidity © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union What we've done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots. And so, I don’t look at it through the lens of, is this what I should do or what I shouldn't do. I look at it through the lens of, how do we elect serious people? And I think electing serious people can't be partisan. ex-congresswoman Liz Cheney © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpism One of the hallmarks of the Trump era is the alacrity with which intelligent people embrace stupidity. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
White privilege Fish don't know they swim in water saying © 2017 Kwiple.com