Admiral McRaven’s words at left focus on Trump’s effect on America and our country’s effect on the rest of the world. All this started, of course, in 2015, when our national politics first embraced Donald Trump, a conman, pathological liar, …
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The Attack on PBS and NPR
In Santa Barbara County, where 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” makes its home, PBS and NPR are hardly under threat. We at “2GE” make regular monthly contributions to the local affiliates of both, and those organizations have money coming out their ears from …
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Is Destruction the New Beginning?
Let’s imagine that the assertion at left is true–even the most extreme version. There are astrophysicists who believe that the universe in which we live that began 13.7 billion years ago is just one of an endless number of universes …
What Does YOUR State Have?
I’m a Pennsylvanian, and I believe the answer is corn. Looking at the question at a broader level, though, I’m sickened to say that it’s Trump supporters. When I was growing up, Pennsylvania was decidedly a blue state. Lots of …
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Destroying the Clean Energy Industry
The “Other 98%” reports: Trump is literally sabotaging America’s booming Clean Energy industry for his billionaire oil-tycoon donors. A couple of points: The 3.5 million American households that rely on paychecks that derive from the transformation to low-carbon energy and …
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Does “Democratic Backsliding” Only Happen to Others?
Dissenters against autocrats in Hungary, Serbia, and Turkey see the same “democratic backsliding” in the U.S. “Americans think this is something that also only happens to others,” said an opponent of Hungary’s Viktor Orban. “That mindset has to be fought.” …
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Why Are the Epstein Files the Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back?
As I mentioned in the earlier post, it appears that, miraculously, the Epstein scandal may be the undoing of Donald Trump’s second presidency. While I don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, I have to say that this seems …
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This Is So Strange
If we progressives had been asked a month ago if there were something–anything–that might come along and bust up the love affair between MAGA and Trump, we would have said no. If we were asked a month ago if it was …
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The Good Guys Do Not …
It’s true that history’s “good guys” have never built concentration camps. Nor have they banned books, degraded public education, deliberately ruined the environment, removed human rights, or allowed their leaders to commit crimes. When we say that this is a …
Not Too Much Honesty Here
We all understand that the Trump administration is working its hardest to punish the people who happen to live in states that voted against the president, but isn’t there a limit to the cruelty and dishonesty that we have shoved …
