I cannot stand dunk culture.  That is this thing where people quip at each other on social media in order to score likes and retweets.

More often than not these people come out looking less like Laconic Spartans and more like absolute fucking morons.

In one particular instance, Eric Swalwell proved though his dunk that he is perhaps one of the dumbest people in the entirety of the US government, and that’s saying something.

It started with Senator Ted Cruz criticizing rioters who were destroying statues.

American Taliban. https://t.co/rYcKpvoYhk

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 11, 2020

He’s not wrong.

The Taliban were notorious for destroying anything that wasn’t Islamic.  Perhaps most famously was the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan, but they were not alone.  The Taliban desecrated non-Islamic graves and everything else that didn’t comport to their ideology.

ISIS did this as well to ancient Greek and Roman architecture in Syria, as well a Churches and other great works that predated Islam.

This is what Cruz was referring to.

Lots of people responded with some variant of “no, the Republicans are the real terrorists” without any substantiating evidence because the baddies never think they are the baddies.

Then comes Swalwell.

*The Taliban defend their wives.

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) June 11, 2020

This is in reference to a feud between Cruz and Trump during the 2016 primary election in which Trump insulted Heidi Cruz.

This is one of the reasons that I’m not a Trump cheerleader, it was a gross attack by a politician, especially within the same party.

Democrats love to bring this up against Cruz, accusing him of lacking testicular fortitude or being a pushover.  Cruz has made it clear that for the good of the country and the stability of the party, he’s going to let bygones be bygones (at least publicly) and work with Trump because he’s a man of principle.  Since Democrat politicians don’t have principles they continue to bring this up.

In this particular jibe it is extraordinarily stupid because the Taliban don’t defend their wives.

The Taliban murder their wives in honor killings and beat them with whips or throw acid in their faces for disobedience.

The Taliban hide behind their women and children when Special Forces come to kill them.

But Swalwell couldn’t resist the dunk.  It doesn’t matter how badly he missed this dunk people on the Left loved it.

If you want to know why it feels like America is descending into chaos, it’s because some of our most influential leaders are this stupid and ignorant to reality and they have supporters that cheer them on.