WARNING! Intelligence level in the United States is not just on the decline, but has flatlined… (The ad below was published on 12 January 2026 in the state of Maine in the local “weekly shopper”– a grocery store newspaper. Some might say this is a small town ‘gag’ in a small town rag. I say if this is the slip-on-a-banana-peel level of humor they push in Maine, it’s frightening):