Author: craigshields

It’s good to know that there exists a handful of congressional Republicans who openly and fiercely oppose Donald Trump. What Liz Cheney says about the president’s lackeys is 100% correct, i.e., that Trump will be gone at a certain point, …

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Are there people who believe Elon Musk’s claims that millions of dead American are receiving Social Security checks?  Of course. There are people who think that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, and that it was the Deep State and …

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I’m sure there are Americans, albeit a minority, who believe that Elon Musk’s activities in the U.S. federal government are selfless, and aimed at making our country a safer, healthier, and overall better place for the common person to live …

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A reader notes: Here is a 10 MB hard disk from the 70’s that I was told cost $40k. Sitting on it is the 1 terabyte hard drive from my laptop. The cost (and size) of data storage is a …

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Hate to say it, but I’m not sure that I fully believe this fellow.  If he’s a Trump supporter (and he sure does look the part), he’s going to have a tough time with me and my beliefs as a …

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Well, that didn’t happen, did it? Human society is so deeply wedded to capitalism that we seem to be 100% incapable of reversing the collapse of our environment. The top priority of rich people is to become richer.  Actually, it’s …

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There were, of course, a few other things, like the lies about grocery prices, and the end of woke/DEI education and other governmental programs. Then there are the mass deportations; his people love this.  

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Of course, it’s impossible to predict the future of climate change, but it’s improbable that this young lady will die of it.  The only way affluent white Americans will get killed  by the effects of global warming is if they …

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Re: the meme here, the precise opposite is true.  If you interview the president’s supporters and ask them if they “do research” into Trump’s actions and statements, almost all of them would say, “Of course!  That’s why I trust him …

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There are probably many ways of going about trying to answer this question.  I would head for the Freedom House, which “rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in …

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