{"id":629,"date":"2025-08-26T19:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:45:53","slug":"the-new-trickle-down-theory-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"The New Trickle-Down Theory \u2013 Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the very top sits a man with the vocabulary of a 4th grader, never proven to have graduated from any college (well, maybe Trump U.). The head of this idiotoracy plants himself behind the Resolute Desk, scrawling his name on executive orders he couldn\u2019t explain if you spotted him the first three sentences. Each one has to be read aloud to him by one of his loyal sycophants, who nod approvingly like kindergarten teachers praising a child for coloring inside the lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reagan promised money would roll downhill. What we actually got was debt and inequality. But America is resourceful: today, we\u2019ve evolved into a new model \u2014 the <strong>trickle down of stupidity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And where\u2019s it most visible? In government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They screamed about \u201cunqualified DEI hires\u201d but the real hiring program in America isn\u2019t DEI \u2014 it\u2019s WEI: White, Entitled, Inept. The r\u00e9sum\u00e9s are thin, the credentials laughable, but the skin is always the right shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pete Hegseth, a man whose greatest military strategy was once not reading books, is now the Defense Secretary. His most recent move? Firing Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse \u2014 for the high crime of telling the truth about bombing Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Before that, he sacked CQ Brown, a decorated general, because nothing says \u201cstrong on defense\u201d like pushing out the people who actually know how defense works.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RFK Jr., the man who admitted he literally has a brain-eating worm in his head, is now running the CDC. You can\u2019t make this up \u2014 America put a parasite in charge of public health.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And Pam Bondi, with all the depth of a late-night infomercial host, gets a corner office because loyalty and grievance outweigh competence every time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what happens when WEI runs the show. These aren\u2019t the best and brightest \u2014 they\u2019re the worst and whitest, picked because they\u2019re guaranteed to nod, grin, and most importantly, never outshine the boss. Robert Greene warned about this in <em>The 48 Laws of Power<\/em>: <strong>Law #1 \u2014 Never outshine the master.<\/strong> And trust me, these folks are A+ students of that law. In fact, stupidity isn\u2019t a liability in this system \u2014 it\u2019s the job description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And just like trickle down economics, WEI doesn\u2019t stay at the top. The stupidity cascades downward, soaking the bottom 20% \u2014 the very folks Reagan once told us would benefit from the prosperity of the rich, and Trump now proudly calls \u201cthe poorly educated.\u201d They\u2019re in for the worst times in American history, but many are too busy cheering their own executioners to notice the rope tightening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wealth never trickled down. But stupidity? Under WEI, it flows like an open sewer. 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