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"idiocy" Definitions
  1. [uncountable] very stupid behaviour; the state of being very stupid synonym stupidity
  2. [countable] a very stupid act, remark, etc.

292 Sentences With "idiocy"

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The fallout is worth the temporary idiocy of that plot.
The front of the camera is where the idiocy lies.
"It's celebrating idiocy you might say," Guthrie said in 2005.
Losing half his staff to scandal, deceit or overt idiocy.
And he was appropriately dragged on social media for his idiocy.
But that would be taking useful idiocy to the next level.
We see him put people in danger because of teenage idiocy.
Becca, faced with idiocy, suddenly has to play mom to these guys.
More than anything, this particular scandal represents the dangers of Trump's idiocy.
Trump is counting on your callousness, your cruelty and, frankly, your idiocy.
"Promotion and relegation is the biggest idiocy in soccer," De Laurentiis says.
A bid by an ex-chief of Starbucks would be reckless idiocy.
Starting electric car company Tesla was "idiocy squared," according to Elon Musk.
How much longer will congressional Republicans tolerate this dangerous brand of idiocy?
The households sundered, the jobs lost, the brutal idiocy of it all.
This kind of idiocy has been on the rise since last year.
I truly can't believe that idiocy like this is given a platform.
But I don't even blame the politicians for this display of idiocy!
Can you get those words out without collapsing under your own idiocy?
"She&aposs causing young children sleepless nights with her idiocy," he said.
On a more mundane level, history can be a safeguard against outright idiocy.
Honestly, I don't know what to say other than that amidst this idiocy.
Let's just hope that their idiocy doesn't also trip us into nuclear holocaust.
Expressions like "just the tip" emphasize the desperate, sexual idiocy we're subjected to.
Sadly, I suspect Yellowstone will continue to suffer the consequences of human idiocy.
"The Idiocy, Fabrications and Lies of 'Ancient Aliens,'" reads one headline from Smithsonian.com.
Maybe, with age, we simply feel nostalgic for the relative idiocy of youth.
Sometimes, like you, I ponder my own idiocy in keeping this stuff around.
May's great theme is the abjectness of women and the idiocy of men.
Seeing the president and his apologists share this idiocy is infuriating and hurtful.
But there's a cruel taunt buried under all the daily anxiety and idiocy.
Starting a car company is idiotic and an electric car company is idiocy squared.
But there's a strange throwback charm to the simplicity and idiocy of these villains.
Ryan Cooper: Democratic idiocy in New Jersey may cost them control of the Senate.
You can adapt to his smooth idiocy if you put your mind to it.
Nietzsche believed that if only a Dostoyevsky had been among the apostles who followed Jesus, someone who understood the environment in which "the scum of society, nervous maladies and 'childish' idiocy keep a tryst," we might have been spared centuries of ovine idiocy.
The generous interpretation, until now, was that this was all bumbling and idiocy and coincidence.
Naz's idiocy in the moment here might seem to contrast wildly with his earlier intelligence.
It also makes you wonder: When did we resign ourselves to the influence of idiocy?
Snapchat's filter will only be available today, for the annual idiocy of April Fools' Day.
The mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi, who is Muslim, called the religious-attire ban "idiocy".
If you wanted to spew brilliance or idiocy in 140 characters, then so be it.
The Twitter rants would then produce more negative coverage, creating a vicious cycle of idiocy.
Well, he is not a man to let a little idiocy stand in his way.
Ideology and idiocy, of course, are not limited to climate policy or to any country.
Add alcohol and then add large amounts, there is the potential for idiocy to follow.
Amazon would not genuflect to the idiocy of the escalating progressive demands of the left.
While some people can be stupid in a charming way, Brady's idiocy is more dangerous.
There's already one bloviating, egomaniacal, too-powerful, sycophant-encouraging, id and idiocy-inducing jerkface on Twitter.
It's absurd, it's painfully stupid, and I hope that Gavin's forthcoming appeal overturns this risible idiocy.
Someone spliced Spicer's press conference idiocy into a closing credits sequence for the HBO show Veep.
At least they quickly pulled the filters when their obvious idiocy was pointed out to them.
Who exemplified the dimmest ideals of Dumb Football in 2015 with outright idiocy and willful stupidity?
It's Hall of Fame-caliber stuff and it was forged within a foundry of total idiocy.
Whatever idiocy they're spouting will have been totally overtaken by events by the time it's screened.
TRUMP: Well, I thought the approach of fighting Assad and ISIS simultaneously was madness, and idiocy.
The point here is not to shame people for caring about ephemeral idiocy on the internet.
His usage isn't only idiosyncratic or some act of bungling idiocy, although it is surely both.
You can watch the entire segment on YouTube if you'd like to witness the idiocy for yourself.
Living in a Canada, where that sort of idiocy passes for argument in the House of Parliament.
Based on their demographics, it's not surprising that "glossies" are considered to be symbols of feminine idiocy.
Tinder, or that godforsaken Plenty of Fish, felt like a venue for idiots to mask their idiocy.
Nothing disputes accusations of idiocy more than thoughtlessly flashing the contents of your smartphone on national television.
I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy.
" His poem "Endymion" had recently been savaged by critics, one of whom called it "imperturbable driveling idiocy.
The author is a savage when it comes to hitting back at intolerance, misogyny, and general idiocy.
The dreaded "permatrip": an urban legend sourced equally in Just Say No paranoia and teenage idiocy/credulousness.
I just was like, if someone said that harsh a thing about it, it must be idiocy.
Jenner's reps have responded to the rumors and are not happy about the idiocy of Halperin's remarks.
But since it's all based on some dumb dick jokes, it's easier to laugh at the idiocy.
Finn Jones plays Rand with a sort of bland idiocy that tries to pass itself off as naiveté.
Kraus is uncompromising now, which means in a few months, he'll be a blazing pit of stubborn idiocy.
And what really irks me is that she put so many lives at risk for her own idiocy.
We will, and we should, fight this idiocy in the courts, in Washington, and at the ballot box.
Apparently, so was the idiocy of the many thousands who rallied in support of something so undeniably virulent.
That is what Mr. Turnbull referred to as "ideology and idiocy," before he fell prey to its power.
That's a plausible surmise about a White House where the line between idiocy and malice isn't always clear.
I thought that a great exception to the sometime idiocy of this episode was provided by Claire Danes.
Second, by thanking the Saudis, Trump did something that he once criticized as a sign of weakness and idiocy.
After becoming president in September 2017 João Lourenço vowed to stop such idiocy, overhaul the economy and tackle corruption.
Or, you let people laugh and taunt and troll you on Twitter with majillions of posts about your idiocy?
Add in a clearly inept team at, we assume, Edelman, and you have a perfect storm of corporate idiocy.
That this error or idiocy was not picked up in the weeks-long editing process that followed is remarkable.
His choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate elevated the jingoistic idiocy that has become a Republican hallmark.
I believe it is best racists demonstrate their feelings openly, so society can be aware and address this idiocy.
To talk of colonizing another one is blatant idiocy when we've got this one which we're totally adapted to.
The Rams could really use some idiocy by the teams ahead of them to slide Jared Goff down the board.
The account may be trying to reveal Williams's idiocy, but it's still using Kim Kardashian's robbery to promote an agenda.
This year I got to ponder the national idiocy of adopting the Social Security administrative apparatus as a secret identifier.
Then there was Devin Nunes, the rare example of a man so stupid that his idiocy wholly mitigates his evil.
The overall effect is like that of a giant Surrealistic collage, a crazy quilt of superstition, paranoia, perversity and idiocy.
For starters, the show is reality television, a dumb-by-default category that eludes criticism thanks to its apparent idiocy.
It is now painfully clear that we've overestimated intelligence as a world-changing force; it is idiocy that holds sway.
These idiots — the ones with self-knowledge, like Shinran — might be better equipped to mitigate the effects of their idiocy.
Related to this, idiocy (from the root idios, "one's own") was the state of a private or self-centered person.
"If this isn't the same Lee that led the Confederate Army, ESPN needs to reverse this idiocy," Larsen tweeted Wednesday.
Like when the guy was shouting at me saying that I'm not Martin Luther King Jr. He's exposing his own idiocy.
Quite a few people in the forum have attempted to explain the idiocy of a pro-Marvel, anti-DC conspiracy theory.
It is just another example of accustomed American idiocy where unimpassioned, immediate platitudes of the corporate logo stand in for art.
Parties revolve around a fragile, ethereal central vibe, and it can be irreparably ruined by one simple stroke of idiocy (yours).
But a generation of unwinnable Mideast wars shows us the idiocy and expense of social engineering in alien cultures and societies.
It can be quaint and even clumsy, all of which can give idiocy, incomprehensibility and untruth a false air of authenticity.
Every time Nashville passes a law to increase inclusion, or decrease idiocy, the State Legislature passes a law that overrides it.
There's no need for decent Americans to rely on conspiracy theories to illustrate his idiocy and all around danger to the world.
You can extol the intelligence or idiocy of another's tweets and your own when you quote them, with more room for analysis.
These include adultery, desertion, "natural impotency, insanity or idiocy, and a wife's pregnancy by another person at the time of the marriage."
They started to attribute my inadequacy to malice or idiocy, and I found the atmosphere while I played could get decidedly chilly.
Editorial Turn away, for a moment, from the generalized idiocy of the presidential campaign to consider a specific instance of monumental dimness.
The guy in question, David Datuna, called his act of willful idiocy inside Perrotin an "art performance," which he titled Hungry Artist.
But nor are they equal now, in the open field of modern relationships—"this idiocy of caprice and sentiment," Andersson calls it.
Now it's another period of time and we have another idiot and another reason for idiocy upon the part of the electorate.
He then piled ignominy upon idiocy by rewarding party hacks who had contrived to lose an unlosable campaign with ambassadorships and lordships galore.
The fat-shaming, such that it even exists, is brief and nowhere nearly as harmful as the middling idiocy of the entire effort.
In this case, Heartland was looking to undermine Greta Thunberg, the 17-year-old activist whose anger over environmental idiocy has inspired millions.
"They do not have a correct picture about what is awaiting them if they go to the idiocy of this war," Nasrallah said.
Yet despite the cringe factor and the idiocy, Wilfred occasionally pulls out those odd moments of wisdom that makes the struggle all worth it.
Until he figures out that he's not entitled to anyone else's labor, he can keep on shouting his idiocy into a soiled gym sock.
We reach the apotheosis of his idiocy when Sue (Hogan's love interest) discovers Mick has been sleeping on the floor next to his bed.
David couldn't get over his perpetual horror at encountering idiocy, while Alexis struggled to understand a world in which her looks couldn't guarantee success.
I don't know about tag specifically, but I hope that at least the idea of this kind of silly idiocy is kind of universal.
But the data has been parsed; the algorithm has spoken; and so others must suffer from the idiocy of those who built the system.
My biggest problem with Minibar wasn't my own idiocy in ordering the wrong bottle of bourbon, though I really have to own that one.
We Asked Howie Mandel Was former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler faking her idiocy for attention on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Soon enough I was drawing heavily from the joint and inhaling deeply, ready to sink back into the familiar, contented idiocy of being stoned.
And yet, if you pay attention to the characters behind the chaos, you'll likely notice that the Step Brothers narrative isn't all senseless idiocy.
" Cooperman went on to describe Warren's plans as "idiocy," and said they try to turn people's heads "by promising a lot of free stuff.
There's a chance you'll miss such moments as you look away or wince at the horror of our collective idiocy and environment-destroying greed.
In a media environment where idiocy is considered more newsworthy than cruelty, this is a smart way to avoid attention to your pernicious schemes.
She details the missteps, the idiocy of powerful men with powerful weapons, leading the world into a war that would kill 17 million people.
My awakening into adult life coincided with the incredible fragility of it and the idiocy of the people who claim to be in charge.
Even Whitlock, a high-wattage dim bulb, delivers the goods, as does Mr. Clooney, who paints the purloined actor in 50 shades of smiling idiocy.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a political foe of Weatherill, on Saturday called his pursuit of renewable energy projects "ideology and idiocy in equal measure".
It's something to think about—in addition, of course, to your supreme idiocy—the next time you want to slip a diamond ring inside one.
Let's just hope, in this climate of worsening xenophobia and short-sighted idiocy, more of the former starts to organize and mobilize against the latter.
So now YouTube appears to be trying to get ahead of any wider societal outcry over (yet more) algorithmically accelerated idiocy on its platform — i.e.
The event has culled media attention — I count six news vans posted on Park Avenue, tricked out with giant satellite dishes to broadcast this idiocy.
"Between 'Atlanta' and his music, Glover's work could have an antiseptic quality, cleansing us of Kanye's descent into anti-blackness and celebratory idiocy," Young observes.
Voting itself is a backward Western ritual; it takes a patter song modeled on Gilbert and Sullivan to explain the idiocy of the Electoral College.
My regular column for tomorrow is about health care, but I felt I needed to weigh in on this idiocy, and not just on Twitter.
The idiocy of the jailbreak community is too much to handle for me," he tweeted, before clarifying that "by 'public research' I mostly meant 'public [jailbreaks].
But for those bands, any reference to mainstream pop culture was almost always meant to be ironic or condescending—it's used as shorthand for mass idiocy.
It was a self-sustaining wealth-generation and nation-strengthening machine of gigantic proportions, and it would take colossal idiocy to want to interfere with it.
His frustration with the idiocy of Mr. Trump's proposals is palpable on the debate stage, and it's hard not to feel for him in those moments.
Obviously this is Darwin Awards' levels of idiocy — given that detergent is, y'know, not at all edible, toxic to biological life and a potent skin irritant.
As Ross Douthat noted in his latest New York Times column, the Russia scandal is notable for the sheer idiocy of its key figures thus far.
The argument that Trump potentially committed obstruction of justice out of sheer idiocy could win over people from well beyond pro-Trump and Never Trump Republicans.
It's easy for an economist to chalk up support for rent control as idiocy that depresses the home construction that might reduce housing prices for everyone.
Rachel seems to understand that all eyes are on her, to see how she handles these offenses and light racism and the idiocy of the contestants.
By the way, people who respond to this observation by talking about mistakes in Clinton campaign strategy are missing the point, and continuing their useful idiocy.
The postmodern era left us despondent and skeptical, prone to toy idly with old forms and make fun of the idiocy of some of our forebears.
As for the dispute about who's the true father of trap ... T.I. got pretty intense, calling it "idiocy" to even talk about it at this point.
This has already been appropriately eviscerated by Josephine Wolff in Slate, and, in fairness, it's a kind of idiocy that seems to be common to large organizations.
Such idiocy has never worked favorably for him in the past, instead alienating allies and making him a laughingstock, as it did with the Paris Climate Accord.
" Asked why she has decided now to talk about the hurdles she's experienced, Madden said, "It is important for the idiocy of our society to be fixed.
Sacha Baron Cohen once again molded scamming into a cinematic artform, duping conservatives into acts of pure idiocy by preying on political bias (and often outright racism).
When Massachusetts established a commission on idiocy in the mid-1840s, it appointed Dr. Samuel G. Howe, an abolitionist and early disability rights advocate, as its chairman.
Who are you, America, now half of you hates Trump, and half of you thinks his particular brand of loud warfare-leaning idiocy is the way forward?
Think of Alexander Payne's satirical comedy "Citizen Ruth" in which she plays a pregnant paint-huffing pawn of the abortion wars with ugly desperation and pure idiocy.
They're doing so with a likable idiocy that works nicely, as might be expected, given the show's pedigree — its executive producers include Jason Sudeikis and Lorne Michaels.
His fellow officers Flynn (Ben O'Toole) and Demens (Jack Reynor) contribute sexual hysteria (when they see white women in the company of black men) and sheer idiocy.
As to legal idiocy, the additional 17 counts do nothing to increase the chances that the UK judiciary will extradite Assange to the United States to stand trial.
Since launching his campaign, Trump has shown a lack of understanding on a wide range of military, foreign policy and domestic issues, serving up a trifecta of idiocy.
On the show, which ended its run in November 2017, the character is Trump as a lech, but only as a product of his own weakness or idiocy.
I'm lucky, too, that all this idiocy happened more or less in secret—there is no document of it but this and the staticky memories of my friends.
Brad Pitt is no mascot, but ESPECIALLY not for the notorious upcoming Straight Pride Parade ... and he's doing what he can to put a stop to the idiocy.
Since the Brexit referendum, the public has witnessed a circus of chicanery, buffoonery and idiocy that Boris Johnson's exit will only ease in the most marginal of fashions.
Playing another quiet heavy drinker, the Waco Kid, reminiscing to Cleavon Little in "Blazing Saddles," Mr. Wilder has a serenity so at odds with that movie's antic idiocy.
But it was those first moments following the murders — the crime scene contamination, the laziness, the rivalry, the blind idiocy — that almost let Manson get away with murder.
He noted that Trump "could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history," but only because he's revealed the utter idiocy of the American political system.
It reveals a whole substructure of political ignorance and moral idiocy that was altogether common among Sanders's wing of the political left, both in the U.S. and abroad.
" Mr. Heer concedes that you don't have to be a Trump supporter to accept the argument that Mr. Trump "potentially committed obstruction of justice out of sheer idiocy.
It's a fast-moving caper about a woman who's dragged into an objectively frightening situation with unpredictable and untrustworthy companions, but it's also constantly exasperated by their idiocy.
I think it's really important in this day and age when everything seems to be 140 characters of idiocy, every four seconds — and that's just from the president.
Thus, Andy became as integral a part of Parks and Rec as any of the actual City Hall employees, infusing every storyline and drunk night with his lovable idiocy.
I should know—as a longtime Nickelback fan-stroke-apologist, I've been accused of idiocy, ignorance and, worse, irony for simply enjoying a big, beer-spilling chorus or ten.
When he busts out Goodnight Moon for a dramatic, emotional reading at a critical moment, the entire film threatens to fall down the gravity well of its own idiocy.
"Idiocy" may have been a less-PC (and frankly ill-informed and offensive) term for defining people with mental or intellectual disabilities (who were commonly put in mental institutions).
Transport Minister and 5-Star member Danilo Toninelli told Reuters a decision would come before the elections, and 5-Star bigwig Alessandro Di Battista said the project was "idiocy".
When there's a distraction as blinding as a huge age difference, it takes a lot to startle you, to wake you from the blissful idiocy you've busied yourself with.
This violation and the living proof of it infuriate Vivian, of course, and so does Jones's delusional idiocy, doting on the boy and trying to sweet-talk her, too.
IS Defense has a simple upgrade system I could use to boost my firepower, health, or call in airstrikes, but it's a simple game to the point of idiocy.
To be more accurate, the film is a big-hearted comedy-drama that contrasts the idiocy and incompetence of bigoted fanatics with the nobility and kindness of their opponents.
So, imagine yourself as a wealthy, liquid taxpayer experiencing a surge in after-tax income because your accountant has found clever ways to exploit the idiocy of new legislation.
So, too, do the agents of a phenomenon variously attributed to Russian trolls, Twitter-bots, Facebook ads, a "useful idiot" in the White House or American idiocy more generally.
Perhaps I'm just one of those "nasty" women with a nasty habit of speaking truth to idiocy, but I couldn't sit idly by and allow his lies to go unchallenged.
The most disturbing thing about Burn After Reading, though, is how it resembles every day in Trump's Washington, where the line between blundering idiocy and malevolent conspiracy is increasingly blurred.
First Time is different from its predecessors, though, in that it's not about pure idiocy, nor is it about punishing your body, though it certainly features a little of both.
What's most interesting in the film is the way in which young Jojo, and the other impressionable Hitler youth, fall under Nazism's sway despite its apparent idiocy and empty pieties.
It is a multitiered tower of political idiocy, a sublime monument to the moronic, a gaudy, gleaming, Ozymandian folly that leaves many of the president's prior efforts in its shade.
" As SlashFilm's Hoai-Tran Bui puts it, "There is a thin line between idiocy and genius, and Cats pukes a hairball on it and rubs its ass all over it.
Those tariffs on China might still be on — with this administration, inconstancy and idiocy seem to contend like wrestlers in a W.W.E. match — but that would only compound the damage.
Though the currency began as a spoof of crypto culture, it was the same greed and delusional idiocy that has plagued more serious ventures like Bitcoin that struck the final blow.
Through a language of hilarity, Ubu Roi tells the farcical story of Père Ubu, an officer of the King of Poland and a grotesque figure who epitomizes the idiocy of officialdom.
But I disagree on one point: "Mediocrity and idiocy" aren't the real enemies—there is virtue, too, in being a mediocre idiot, as some truths can be found following that way.
Not surprisingly, "The Meg" -- directed by Jon Turteltaub ("National Treasure"), from a script credited to a trio of scribes -- has to resort to all kinds of idiocy to prolong the tension.
Trump, who said fighting both Assad and ISIS was "idiocy" during his presidential campaign, said his attitude to Syria and Assad "has changed very much" in comments immediately after the airstrike.
After initially calling Trump a "shame pile of idiocy" in a tweet, Sheen had a change of heart a month later and tweeted that he'd be Trump's "VP in a heartbeat!"
" She wants to awaken people from their smartphone-induced social media stupor, saying, "Pop culture is not trying to copy the behavior of geniuses, they are promoting a behavior of idiocy.
Making sure the rich clientele never catch wind of this idiocy is a tumultuous charade, and each week brings a new maritime foolishness the crew has to somehow put up with.
I have been a big fan of online for a long while now, thanks in no small part to the fount of deep-seated idiocy you can encounter on any given day.
Instead, many senior officials joined that most popular of Iranian institutions—the hezb-e-baad, the "party of the winds"—and became part of the chorus that praised the wisdom of idiocy.
There are some very obvious and very ugly latent prejudices to all that, but that specific idiocy can be folded into the broader embarrassment that is the NFL's stewardship of the game.
Sure, there were occasional moments of idiocy, like when I made a mistake at work and a colleague responded by putting on a comic Irish accent and doing a bumbling-peasant impression.
In Greek society, the condition of idiocy was seen as peculiar and strange (a meaning that is retained in the English word "idiosyncratic"); thus "idiot" was a term of reproach and disdain.
Behind this maniac's plan is a global display of idiocy and sickness — yes — a wholesale ignoring of the widely-known neuroscientific basis of addiction and standards of care for successfully treating it.
But when it comes to Manziel-related idiocy, there has been a news peg—some new instance of bottle-service corniness at best and actual odious shitheadedness at worst—more often than not.
Trump does not merely "play footsie" with the new white-supremacist movement in America, as Jennifer Rubin wrote in an otherwise blistering condemnation of his "moral idiocy" at The Washington Post on Sunday.
That simple and silly partisan unreasoning, or that plus the aforementioned idiocy part, was why I hated Michael Jordan when he was the most widely and deservedly loved athlete who has ever lived.
These people may never understand how wrong they are, they're too ignorant and wedded to their idiocy for that, but they need to know that they are opposed, and their opponents are legion.
If those who dream of a federal European superstate, as Zweig did, have lost the argument, better to work with the grain of national politics than to rue the idiocy of those who won.
Hitler, here called Noble Wolf (which is what "Adolf" means), is played hilariously by Layla Khoshnoudi with a combination of stridency and idiocy that would fit a lot of world leaders, then and now.
Schnatter actually has a long history of idiocy, including a campaign against public health insurance, testy radio interviews, and the cuckoo-bananas argument that the NFL national anthem protests were hurting his stock prices.
For those who shied away from the Knicks for the last two years, it's worth taking a step back to review the laughably awful and often surrealistic idiocy that Jackson visited on this team.
The idea that Trump is playing "three-dimensional chess"—itself conventional wisdom before the president's always obvious mix of idiocy and impulsiveness became undeniable for even the swampiest pundits—lives on in this narrative.
It was clearly made with slender financial means and abundant enthusiasm, and it functions simultaneously as a critique of the self-serious idiocy of authority and a celebration of the anarchic power of imagination.
In any case ... But they veer into idiocy and real problematic, appalling content too, which YouTube has ... They have had a lot of problems of late ... but they've always had problems with content moderation.
The real watershed moment this year, beyond an impressive display of cruel and craven idiocy by the global ruling class, is that 2017 marks the inaugural year of a new phase in the sexual revolution.
George R.R. Martin shoots down 'Game of Thrones' rumor "No, THE WINDS OF WINTER and A DREAM OF SPRING are not finished," Martin wrote in an entry headlined, "Idiocy on the Internet" on his site.
Two Sri Lankan economists last week told a summit attended by President Maithripala Sirisena and his finance minister that the government's economic policies were destabilising and inconsistent, with one calling its price controls "supreme idiocy".
Driver: San Francisco is the rare example of a game boldly willing to different, to challenge the accepted standards both of its genre and the franchise that gives it its name, without degenerating into idiocy.
It's true that the police at this time had no easy way to cross-reference evidence from different cop shops, but there are multiple points in the Bundy story where sheer idiocy prevented his capture.
The accompanying interview featured Barr talking everything from Twitter (which she said at the time she had deleted because of "the idiocy of people and how ill-informed they all seem") and other controversial comics.
I know one thing: My old thermostat was immune to my own idiocy, didn't play games with me or jeopardize my plumbing and I didn't need to pore through a manual to figure it out.
SO I REALLY BACKED DONALD, NUMBER ONE I THINK HE'S SMART AND ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE THAT CAN SHAKE UP THE ESTABLISHMENT AND STOP WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE ALMOST IDIOCY WITH THIS OVER REGULATION.
He manages to believably rant at his 30-year-old siblings about their idiocy, ineptitude, and youth, impatient with the way everyone from diner servers to shady business owners treat him because of his youthful appearance.
The older works never let you forget that they are about the war in Vietnam; the new paintings instead conjure a pervasive air of political idiocy and state violence, an abstraction of the problem of aggression.
I'd grown up watching bad basketball teams in New Jersey, and mapped my own stupid adolescence over those teams' attempts to drag themselves up and out of a similar swamp of organizational idiocy and executive incompetence.
Ten years after her death, with only her art left to bear witness, the chaos and atrocities grind on, 1000 US troops are headed to the Gulf of Oman, and the state of idiocy is complete.
With all the myopic arrogance and naval-gazing postcolonial idiocy, that seems to be characterizing 21st century Britain, I had imagined that the soldiers marching through Northern Germany had done so on a diet of potatoes.
In the wake of Paris, San Bernardino, and now Brussels, the encryption debate has become such a potent cocktail of horror, idiocy, and farce that it has become hard to tease out any rational threads of discussion.
This is like the perfect storm of Donald Trump tweets, a blast of text that so perfectly nails the relentless idiocy of this president and his ideas, it may as well have come from a parody account.
The FAA, which announced the rules today, hopes to facilitate innovative uses for the technology like bringing the Internet to remote areas while avoiding the idiocy of drones interfering with firefighting operations or delivering contraband to prisons.
The idiocy of the cultural Marxism conspiracy is demonstrated by the way the neo-nationalist, anti-globalist new right ascribes the dynamics of the idea to the left, identifying and conflating cultural Marxism with late-capitalist globalization.
INGREDIENTS: • ¼ of all eligible voters (or less, depending on how many votes you can suppress) • 1 charismatic leader with a wildly successful book, TV show, or film (and weird facial or head hair) • 1 gaggle of Russian hackers • 1 well-timed WikiLeak • 1 rogue F.B.I. director (or other high-level government official) • A dollop of racism • A spritz of anti-Semitism • A sprinkle of idiocy (for a low-fat version, substitute applesauce for idiocy) • The media PREPARATION: Preheat the planet to record temperatures to accelerate climate change, and trigger a global refugee crisis.
Sure, I'd totally get lit up and smoked and would miss more blasts than I would hit, but the feeling of shielding yourself with just your lightsaber is so awesome that it's totally worth the idiocy of admission.
That show took plenty of its jokes from Van Der Beek's career as a '90s teen icon on Dawson's Creek and the inherent idiocy of rich teen prodigies, and it appears he's reusing many of those bits here.
And while it's some good comedy when a neural network mistakes a butterfly for a washing machine, the consequences of this idiocy are pretty nightmarish when you think about rolling these flawed systems out into the real world.
But no amount of economic rejigging is a substitute for curtailing and cutting profligate federal spending and abandoning the neo-mercantilist idiocy of widespread tariff adoption and the bullying the Federal Reserve Board for reasons of political expediency.
The filmmakers have simply supplied the appropriate panty-girdles, crew-neck sweaters, frat-house initiation rites and rituals of the toga party, and let all that idiocy speak — very eloquently, and with a lot of comic fervor — for itself.
Being a 911 operator isn't easy: you're talking to people when they're more panicked than they've ever been; thinking quickly under pressure; and perhaps most challengingly, resisting the urge to fly into a rage when faced with utter idiocy.
Over a career spanning 50 years Onetti depicted Uruguay in short stories and novels as a place marked by pettiness, idiocy and squalor — a Gogolian province in the tropics — and populated by characters who are by and large unhinged.
Williams recalls that a mentor, the writer Wallace Stegner, curated a series of essays in 1955 to save a magical place in the Southwest from the idiocy of a federal government plan to flood it behind a massive dam.
If businesses fail, people lose their jobs and they can lose their homes, except of course for the talk show host rooting for this idiocy for a rich liberal like Maher egging on a bad economy, it has no downside.
But for their latest video, Swingler took the experimentation to a whole new level of idiocy when he put his head in a microwave and filled the appliance with Polyfilla, a spackling paste that's supposed to fill holes in walls.
It seems just slightly dangerous as the street fills with smoke and the fireworks are still shooting and you don't know where anyone is—but at the end of it all, the guys run away laughing at their own idiocy.
I got to gorilla a few pieces — and in that moment, I realized Jerry made movies and a lot of what was in them was the sheer idiocy, the freedom from consequences, we all secretly wished was part of our lives.
" _____ On the United States' fight against ISIS and our efforts to seek a political accord between President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and rebel forces: "Well, I thought the approach of fighting Assad and ISIS simultaneously was madness, and idiocy.
If one believes the accuracy of film's central premise—that the dumb are reproducing at a higher rate than the smart, which will lower the world's intelligence until idiocy reigns supreme—it's only natural to want to stop that from happening.
In the following years, I got more comfortable with my own relative idiocy, sometimes even using my comparatively inferior education and intellect like some kind of fucked-up flex: Look how dumb you can be and still attain relative success!
Rather, I believe that this chaos is the perpetual result of the absolute incompetence and idiocy of a preening philistine who has faked his way through life pretending that he knows more than he does and is tougher than he is.
A bunch of lunatics on the loose in Wisconsin are a bit Carmen Sandiego and a bit Harry and Marv: They're stealing precious Wisconsin cheese, but thanks to their greed and idiocy, they couldn't truly pull off their big heist.
Although it doesn't hurt my feelings, it does enrage me when racists are granted power in society to allow their idiocy to have a negative impact on other people, whether that be culturally, psychologically and spiritually, or materially and physically.
"  Newsom on Tuesday tweeted a cartoon video of President Trump saying the president "has finally worked up the nerve to come to California and visit his precious wall, a 22019,900 mile monument to idiocy that is literally IMPOSSIBLE to complete.
In a televised speech on Saturday, Mr. Saleh blamed the Houthis' "idiocy" for the war in Yemen and declared that he was ready to turn a "new page" in ties with the coalition if it stopped the attacks on his country.
The idea of a celebrity lookalike is hugely depressing in itself; the fact that we will shower a man in praise, fame and renown on account of an arbitrary genetic quirk suggests that humanity is essentially irredeemable in its wilful idiocy.
Stefan Niesiolowski of Civic Platform called the original law "idiocy" while Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, of the Modern party, asked why it took the ruling party half a year to reverse course on a move that had harmed Poland&aposs most important international relationships.
Nunes—living proof that the French accent is what makes Inspector Clouseau funny, not the idiocy and incompetence—made the surprise announcement on Thursday that he was stepping down from the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Washington (CNN)In a new book detailing the wild first year of Donald Trump's presidency, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is quoted blasting top operatives in the 2016 campaign for their naivete and idiocy in their dealings with the Russians.
"I want to show that the idiocy in our country has gotten so strong that the police will detain me now even though there are no inscriptions, no slogans, without my chanting or saying anything," he said in a video of his arrest.
The way he changed my worldviews, like whenever he had to push back at idiots in school who got at him because of his effeminate mannerisms; he really helped me forget my own idiocy on what I thought a man was supposed to look like.
Though the movie is examining a very real social ill — and pulling no punches in its critiques of ineffectual politicians and macho idiocy — Chi-Raq's style is very theatrical, with rhyming dialogue and frequent musical numbers performed by stars like Nick Cannon and Jennifer Hudson.
If media caterwauling about the corporate idiocy in Austin scared off carpet-bagging superstars, unnatural crowds, and the prospect of a Goldman Sachs Soundcloud stage where you could sign up for a Gucci Gang credit card with 27 percent APR, then so much the better.
It&aposs not the people are just making up facts out of whole cloth, but the bias and the self- aggrandizement, and the idiocy that people see in the media is frustrating them, and the media really need to take a hard look inside.
Beyond the sheer practical idiocy of rejecting Americans who are ready and willing to serve in the military, the White House's apparent motivation stands as yet another example of its casual bigotry and willingness to deepen ideological divides in order to serve political ends.
Unable to slink off to cry, Gretchen arms herself armed with alcohol and lashes out with spectacular eloquence at each person in attendance, screaming about their incompetence, their failures, their idiocy—she's screaming at herself just as much as she is at everyone else.
"We are very optimistic that when an idiot settles in the White House and boasts about his idiocy, this is the beginning of relief for the oppressed around the world," Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Sunday, the Associated Press reports.
Poor Tide, which unwittingly finds itself at the lose-lose end of a terrible public relations nightmare, in which it must defend its product against the primal idiocy of suburban teenage ennui, at a time when laundry pods may be plentiful but good sense isn't.
Its somewhat controversial tact of luring Americans into embarrassing themselves through the lens of Borat's casual idiocy and bigotry also wowed critics and audiences, allowing Cohen to break through into mass American culture beyond the reach of his HBO comedy show Da Ali G Show.
In his speech on Sunday, Nasrallah said: "We are not worried (about Trump), but rather we are very optimistic because when there is an idiot living in the White House, who boasts of his idiocy, it is the beginning of relief for the weak of the world".
"If your mindset is that Washington, D.C., is a swamp of corruption and idiocy, then it's very difficult to have a second paragraph of that discussion," Bill Galston, a centrist Democratic senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told The New Republic after he spoke at Wednesday's forum.
That is important, because while scholars were ignoring what Karl Marx dismissively called "the idiocy of rural life" (Point 1), tobacco and soft drink and oil companies facing taxation and regulation were busily disseminating mythologies about their products, to keep potential regulators at bay (Point 2).
CHINA By The New York Times "I want to show that the idiocy in our country has gotten so strong that the police will detain me now even though there are no inscriptions, no slogans, without my chanting or saying anything," Mr. Sagutdinov said in the video.
I fear that like all the other school shootings and mass killings this country has faced in the last year, this one will roil in social media for a couple of days and then disappear in a morass of political idiocy pandering to the National Rifle Association.
"Unless you have a bachelor party coming up, or your favorite squadron just won a sporting competition, you probably have no immediate cause to shotgun a beer," VinePair wrote in its guide to the "art and idiocy" of essentially waterboarding yourself with a can of shitty beer.
Gossip: The word comes from the old English for "baptismal sponsor" — a godparent — and Halperin positioned himself as the priest who stood between the layman and the sacred mysteries of Washington, only letting a person through in exchange for the corrupting coin of accepting your own personal idiocy.
"The Lonesome Friends of Science," for example, predicts the end of the world; "Caravan of Fools" links wealth with idiocy; the music video for "Summer's End" turns a haunting but elliptical song about randomness and failed dreams into a ballad for loved ones lost to the opioid epidemic.
The first episode's Mitch Holmes segment was a step in that deep-dive direction, but the second episode came much closer: in the final segment, Bee journeyed to Syrian refugee camps, spoke to immigration officials, and deftly illustrated the idiocy of the conservative idea that these refugees could be undercover terrorists.
But it takes a striking combination of wickedness, arrogance and idiocy for Riyadh to think it can get away with a grotesque murder of a well-known and harmless journalist on the soil of a Middle Eastern rival in a consulate the Saudis must have known was either bugged or surveilled.
That was informed partly by the idea that he was playing God and there was a lion and everybody was naked, and mine and Bill's experiences as unemployed actors down the way, and the idiocy and the vanity of actors including ourselves with big storylines and our own lives up until that point.
"The absolute idiocy of this scene is that we're, like, robbing a streaming company as if they have a vault of cash and all the girls are shoving money into their really well-coordinated, primary color, awesome Gucci outfits wearing ridiculous kitten masks," Swift says in the clip shared exclusively with PEOPLE.
Moreover, there is no better example of the technocratic spirit's moral idiocy than the idea that, with a social crisis in the hinterland and ideological calcification at the heart of educated power, what we need is a better algorithm to prevent people — young men, especially — from getting too restless or rebellious or extreme.
As supreme idiocy predominates social media (infinite snapshots of burgers and butts), entertainment (infinite "Real Housewives" and counting) and politics (enough said), flooding my head for a few minutes with the sweet voices of children who know not what they sing delivers an urgent reminder of those precious few years when ignorance really is bliss.
Her performance, generally received as hilarious, was a send-up of art-world trivialities — the pretentiousness of artists talking about their stupid work, the idiocy of gallerists and curators asking questions far wide of the point, the strange voyeurism of art world spectators trying to learn something about the artist rather than focusing on the art.
The attempt to retroactively graft something like a belief system onto the howling bottomless suckhole of Trump's idiocy and need, from both sides of the political spectrum, is a joke that stopped being funny long before Mark Levin sat in front of a fake fireplace on Fox News and did his grandiloquent best to describe the Trump Doctrine.
"Free Fire," directed by Ben Wheatley from a script he wrote with Amy Jump, applies a more-is-more ethos to the formula: The ingredients here include a best actress Academy Award winner, Brie Larson; dozens of firearms; and a slew of male characters of varying levels of smugness and idiocy to help out with the shooting.
As for the "brilliant" rollout, let's be clear: It was a solid rollout, but the bar for Trump has been set so low that merely behaving like an adult, deferring to counsel, not stepping on your own message with idiocy and building support makes a blathering half-wit look like he's had a stroke of genius.
The biggest public relations risks for brands have never been the paycheck-dependent influencers or rigorously trained celebrities who stand at the front of their ad campaigns — it's always been the tone deafness or general idiocy of the people behind the campaigns, the immoral or poorly executed business decisions made the people in charge, or the simple undesirability of whatever they're selling.
Or I hallucinate them (they have the convincing force of perceptual truth when it grabs reality and won't let go) and see: a pronoun dog along, an adverb on the space and seam and purple is for every idiocy perfection of the abstract sea in rectangles of unaffiliated violet or pink vivacity I'm not responsible for the words, they just show up in the dream.
As you create a wholly unnecessary roux in which to add the Velveeta, you may ask yourself how you ended up seven years into a career as a food writer, standing over a pot of processed cheese that you are about to dump onto a pile of meat-wrapped, slightly unripe bananas and then consume out of self-hatred and a need to entertain others through experimental idiocy.
Number one, I think he's smart and I think he's one of the few people that can really shake up the establishment and stop what I consider to be almost idiocy with this overregulation," Carl Icahn, President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's special adviser on regulations, told CNBC's "Fast Money.
Months later, they / the San Bernardino DA decided to try to use the 903-year-old All Writs Act to force Apple to hack into it, claiming — I am not making this up — The seized iPhone may contain evidence that can only be found on the seized phone that it was used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen that endangers San Bernardino's infrastructure Can we all just pause for a moment to bask, once again, in the breathtaking idiocy of that statement?
Scarborough writes that Trump's low points included his endorsement of accused sexual predator Roy MooreRoy Stewart MooreGOP Senate candidate 'pissed off' at Trump over health care for veterans Durbin says he has second thoughts about asking for Franken's resignation Alabama GOP senate candidate says 'homosexual activities' have ruined TV, country's moral core MORE for an Alabama Senate seat and his statement that there was violence "on both sides" at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. "Others would surely consider the president's malignant idiocy in foreign affairs to be the most damning legacy of his first year," Scarborough writes.

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