We really do have a weird phenomenon at work here in the United States. America has entire “news” channels that operate solely to deliver misinformation to people who are desperate to confirm certain of their beliefs as true.
Author: craigshields
The U.S. System of Checks and Balances
To the reader who sent me the words at left: I appreciate your thinking of me but you’re incorrect in what you write here. There is nothing in the Constitution and its checks and balances that is even remotely based …
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A Sad Confession
I hate to sound like a buzzkill, but I have a certain resentment of American society, and that resentment renews itself every time the National Football League has its first games of the late summer, and the sports networks welcome …
Tagged with: Americans are becoming more ignorant and hateful with each passing year, irreversible climate change has turned most of the planet into a wasteland, People are starving to death due to our nation's support of genocide, The planet is rapidly losing its capacity to support an organized human civilization, The United States continues to teeter on the edge of losing its democracy and becomes just one more autocracy
Changes at the Federal Emergency Management Agency?
I just met a senior consultant to FEMA, which gave me the opportunity to gain perspective on Trump’s attempt to move the agency from the federal government and into the states. He explained that there are three reasons why this …
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High-Profile Republican Jumps Ship
From “Occupy Democrats”: Georgia’s former Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan enrages MAGA world by switching parties to become a Democrat in a stunning rebuke of Trump’s party. “There’s no date on a calendar or line in the sand that points …
Tagged with: accelerated transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, booting 13.7 million people off healthcare, environmental collapse is actually being hastened by the U.S. president and his corrupt policies, growing proof that the president is a pedophile, our planet is headed for environmental collapse, severe economic hardship brought on by Trump's tariffs/trade wars, steady erosion of support for Trump
“Even My Dog Hates Trump”
I found the meme here funny, though, FWIW, I don’t provoke disputes with Trump supporters. While I doubt I’d be injured or killed in a confrontation, it’s: A waste of time, and A reminder of the fact that I live …
Fox News’ Effect of American Civilization
Re: the meme at left that a reader sent me, I would say that the introduction of Fox News in 1996 was the result of an epiphany that the entire business world had around that time, to the effect that …
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Is This Really What Cows Want?
Memes like the one here make we wonder about the source and its underlying motivation. Here, I’m particularly suspicious of the beef industry and Big Oil. These are the only two groups trying to stop the movement to green energy …
Climate-Related Satellites
I don’t know if the claim at left is correct, but even if it is, I wouldn’t get too worried. That’s because: 1) (From AI): Several countries operate climate satellites, including the United States, China, and Japan. Other countries, such …
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The United States Is Not a “Serious” Country?
Oh, we’re deadly serious. We’re not goofing around with our cruelty, our corruption, our removal of science from policymaking, and our demolition of our educational system.
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