Nobody knows or does things better than Donald Trump according to Donald Trump.

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— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) October 13, 2017

And over sixty two million people were fooled by THIS?

Unbelievable!

Stephen Fry uses the Dunning-Kruger effect to explain why some people believe Donald Trump.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

Some supporters of President Donald Trump believe just about everything he says, even when he’s wrong. And Trump himself seems to have absolute confidence in his own beliefs ― again, even when he is demonstrably wrong. 

But there is a psychology lesson that could help explain it, according to Cambridge University-educated actor Stephen Fry, who was voted the most intelligent person on TV in the United Kingdom.

This actually fits in quite well with what we heard from that linguistics professor on Thursday.

Essentially the illusion of knowledge drives people to support Donald Trump despite all evidence which demonstrates why they should not.

And changing their minds means replacing what they think they know, with what is factually accurate.

No small feat. 

Remember those blasphemy charges against Stephen Fry in Ireland? Yeah, that didn't take.

Courtesy of The Independent:  

An Irish police investigation into allegedly blasphemous comments made by Stephen Fry has been dropped after detectives decided there were not enough people who had been outraged by the remarks. 

Police launched an investigation into the presenter, author and comedian after he described God as "capricious", "mean-minded", "stupid" and an "utter maniac" during an appearance on Irish television show "The Meaning of Life" in February 2015. 

The comments were widely reported but did not become a legal matter until a man complained last year, prompting a police enquiry. 

After initial inquiries, officers decided that not enough people had been outraged by Mr Fry's remarks to warrant further investigation, according to the Irish Independent. 

A source told the paper: "This man was simply a witness and not an injured party. Gardaí (Irish police) were unable to find a substantial number of outraged people. 

"For this reason the investigation has been concluded."

So IF they police had found enough people who were sufficiently outraged by the comments, they could have charge Fry?

Well guess where I'm not going on vacation. 

Apparently Ireland still retains archaic anti-blasphemy laws. You know, like that bastion of progressiveness Pakistan. 

In my opinion there is no such thing as blasphemy.

You simply cannot insult an imaginary creature.

That would be like if I was arrested for teasing that a unicorn was nothing but a gay horse.

I mean, come on.

I think it is high time that Ireland join the rest of the Western world in the 21st century, and stop catering to the feelings of religious snowflakes. 

Actor Stephen Fry is being investigated for blasphemy in Ireland for calling God a "maniac." Okay this is still 2017, right?

Courtesy of The Independent:

Stephen Fry is being investigated by Irish police over blasphemy claims more than two years after his outspoken comments about God on RTE's The Meaning of Life went viral. 

Mr Fry described a hypothetical creator as “stupid” and an “utter maniac” for designing a world filled with undue suffering. 

Asked in 2015 by the programme's host, Gay Byrne, what he would say to God if he arrived at the pearly gates of heaven, the actor and author replied: “I’d say, bone cancer in children? What’s that about?” 

The committed atheist added: “How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery that is not our fault? It’s not right, it’s utterly, utterly evil. 

“Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain? “We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of god would do that? 

“The god who created this universe, if it was created by god, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish.” 

A Gardai spokeswoman told The Independent: “We're not commenting on an ongoing investigation.”

I have seen some version of this video over a dozen times, and I still LOVE it.

What a wonderful response to a stupid question.

Keep in mind this is not happening in Saudi Arabia or Iran, this is happening in freaking Ireland, a place that I think most of us believed to be here with us in the 21st century.

Apparently it also a place where one can be punished for daring to speak ill of a imaginary being.

Stephen Fry on confronting God at the pearly gates.

"It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?"

I love the interviewers face at the end of this response. He looks like he wants to literally crawl away.

I have so much respect for this man. I cannot begin to tell you.

Oh it looks as if Stephen Fry has responded to the news that he and Sarah Palin are on the same list of speakers to appear before the Cambridge Union.

"Your face is fouler than the unwiped inner ring of Satan's rectum."

Oh, I am SO stealing that!

Stephen Fry weighs in on the terrorist attack in France.

Courtesy of Stephen Fry's blog:  

We strive to find words strong enough to convey our outrage at the obscene atrocity committed in Paris last Wednesday morning. But it is easy to overlook the most apt word: stupid. Incredibly, imponderably, staggeringly, bowel-shatteringly dumb. ‘Clear flaws in intelligence’ indeed. 

I cannot be sure exactly how many people since the murders have seen one or more of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons that ‘insult’ Islam or mock its prophet but I should imagine the number is now in the tens of millions. Had the brothers stayed their bloody hands it would have been 60,000 at the very most. Mohammed must be very cross indeed that his two cretinous representatives have spread the ‘insults’ so unimaginably far and wide. If Said and Cherif Kouachi had had a grain of sense in their terminally moronic heads they could have foreseen that their actions would create secular martyrs, propagate those images they so disliked and increase yet again reasonable people’s dislike of the faith they claimed (rightly or wrongly) to represent.

 Brilliant, yet obvious, point.

Fry has much more to say on the subject so I suggest you click the link to read it.

So the Cambridge Union Society chose Sarah Palin the same year they chose this guy? Damn talk about overdoing the whole diversity thing.

Celebrating their 200th anniversary, famed debating society in England invites Sarah Palin, among other notables, to speak. Wait, that can't be right.

"Debate? Oh yeah I debate awesome! Debate is where I speak and nobody challenges me right?"

Courtesy of The Cambridge Student:  

Celebrating its 200th anniversary, the Cambridge Union Society has released a sneak preview of the Lent Term 2015 termcard, with highlights including Stephen Fry and Sarah Palin. 

Reflecting on the varied fields of the revealed speakers, Amy Gregg, President of the Union for Lent 2015, commented: “I’m extremely pleased that we have begun our Bicentenary year with such a diverse range of prominent speakers. As ever, the Union strives to offer members the opportunity to engage with some of the world’s most significant and influential public figures.”

So let me get this straight.

This renowned  debating society is inviting the amazing Stephen Fry, an incredibly intelligent and humorous gentleman, AND Sarah Palin, a vapid, infamously unintelligent conservative nitwit?

Seriously?

I have to admit that at first I thought this must be yet another article from a humor magazine, but nope. It is legit.

Here is their description of Palin:

Controversial American politician Sarah Palin will then speak on the 2nd of March. The first female Republican to be nominated for the Vice Presidency, during the 2008 Presidential election, Palin has more recently spent time as a political commentator for Fox News, and has starred in ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’, her own reality show. Her book, ‘Going Rogue’, has sold over two million copies.

They are also inviting to speak, along with Fry and Palin,  FEMEN "sextremist" Innan Shevchenko. Who you all may remember as the Ukrainian activist who likes to protest topless.

 
Yep, Palin is going to fit in great.

This is what I found on their home page about the organization:

Founded in 1815, the Cambridge Union is the oldest continuously running debating society in the world, and the largest and most famous society at the University of Cambridge. In 2015, the Union will celebrate 200 years of free speech and the art of debating.

So they are a debating society that likes to invite controversial and eclectic guests to discuss their points of view in front of the students. The appearances also feature provocative questions from the audience which the speaker is assumed to possess the ability to respond to without preparation or relying on notes written on their palms.

In other words they are going to eat Sarah Palin alive.

Here take a look at some video of Russell Brand's appearance in front of the Cambridge Union.

Now Brand possesses quite a nimble mind and has little difficulty responding to questions off the cuff. Those are NOT the qualities that come to mind when one thinks of Sarah Palin.

Oh yeah, they are going to eat her alive.

"How do we know what is true?" Excellent question, with an excellent video to answer that question.

I am almost embarrassed to admit that I was virtually unaware of the many talents of the great Stephen Fry before seeing him in "V for Vendetta."

I loved that film and loved his character in it.

Since then I have learned a great deal about his vast body of work, and even follow him on Twitter.

This video is exceedingly well done and explains exactly why testing theories against evidence is the only true pathway to truth.