Wednesday, December 04, 2019

Have our "experts" ever been right on anything?

As the article says, Iran is in flames and the "experts" can't figure out why due to their Trump hatred.

The Iranian regime faces the most serious popular challenge to its tyranny in 40 years. Sparked by a 50 percent hike in fuel prices last month, the uprising has spread to the whole country. Security forces have killed hundreds of protesters, and at one point they were even forced to shut down the Internet — a sign that the ayatollahs feared for the survival of their regime. 
So it’s worth asking: Did our ­experts see this coming? 
Nope: Most were too busy blasting President Trump. The prestige press and Twitterati spent the last few years railing against the president for trashing the nuclear deal and ratcheting up sanctions — actions that had supposedly sent the Iranian people rallying around the flag.

Read it all.  Also, see how many people use the exact phrase "rally-round-the-flag effect".  It's almost like their quoting each other, and the quote comes straight from the DNC talking points.

Back to the original question.  Have the "experts" of my generation ever been right?  Where's the defining Win for these experts?  The didn't see the fall of the Berlin Wall.  They didn't see the fall of the USSR, and in fact, the "experts" were proclaiming that the USSR would live forever, and we just have to live with that fact, and Ronny Ray-Gun was an idiot for calling them evil and telling them to tear down that wall.

Are these the same experts who, in 2010, said the Arctic would be ice free in ten years?  Oopsie.

Are these the same experts who told us that snowfalls were a thing of the past, only to see record level of snow and ice in the USA?  Oopsie.

Are these the same experts who got us involved in backing competing jihadist groups in Syria, at the same time?  Oopsie.

Are these the same experts who assured us that Trump tweeting at Kim the Fatter would immedeatly start a war?  Oopsie.

Are these the same experts who said that the stock market would never recover from Trump's election?  Oopsie.

Are these the same experts who cried about Trump slightly delaying aid to Ukraine but didn't say a single peep as Obama let Putin annex the Crimea?  Hmmmmm....

What have they been right about in my lifetime?  Name one thing.  Just one.

2 comments:

Drumwaster said...

"Inflation is when prices go up."

That's about the only truthful thing I've heard from them...

Ragin' Dave said...

And that's the depth of their economic knowledge.