During the Biden presidency, Trump had four long years to prepare his attacks on the U.S. government and the people it served. How to destroy public education, healthcare, rule of law, relations with allies, and environmental regulation. How to further …
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Concern for Earth’s Environment
The answer to the question posed at left isn’t incorrect, but it’s rare, and perhaps even weird. We all “live here,” but that’s not the reason most people in the early 21st care about the Earth’s capacity to support life. …
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The Elon Musk Phenomenon
There are a ton of indicators as to how pathetic American society has become. One is that people actually care what Elon Musk thinks about what the Japanese and Italians should do.
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Another One of Those Moments for Trump Supporters
Jack Daniels’ home county in Tennessee voted overwhelming for Trump (obviously), but how happy are these people today? The whiskey-maker’s largest customer, Canada’s province of Ontario, just cleared its shelves of their product and returned it without payment. The result …
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Is Trump Incompetent?
Trump’s lack of interest in learning about the workings of the world around him does, in fact, render him incompetent. He has essentially zero knowledge of the geopolitics that are required for his job, and that’s just fine with him. …
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The Deep and Painful Ignorance that Is Modern-Day America
We didn’t have something specifically called “Civics” when I was in elementary school, but by the time we were in 5th or 6th grade, every single kid in our class understood that the United States government consisted of three co-equal …
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Trump May Be a Monster, But Not All Americans Think That’s a Bad Thing
Let’s be honest. Very few Americans dispute the assertion that “Trump is a monster.” Almost half of U.S. voters approve of Trump’s aggression in cutting spending on Ukraine, NATO, education, environmental protection, disease control, etc. I can hear his support …
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Two Views on Empathy
At left are opposing views on the subject of human empathy, including one from German-American historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt, one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century. What Elon Musk says on the subject is reminiscent …
Tagged with: 250 years of government of by and for the people, dismantling of our government's capacity to deal with corporate criminality, dismantling of our government's capacity to deal with disease, dismantling of our government's capacity to deal with environmental collapse, dismantling of our government's capacity to deal with hunger, dismantling of our government's capacity to deal with ignorance, Musk/Trump machine
Travel May Be “Fatal to Prejudice,” But . . .
In an earlier post, Destroying America, I speculated that it is the decline in U.S. educational standards that is responsible for our electing “a conman with the IQ of a jar of mayonnaise.” At left is a slightly different take …
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Corruption in the White House
Recently, we learned about Trump’s practice of charging businesspeople $5 million for an audience with him. Now, we have the news at left. Morally, America is in freefall. Is there no stopping this?
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