Author: craigshields

As you read the meme here, ask yourself why Trump did this. As a reader suggests, “Dead people can’t vote.” I believe that’s it exactly.  With Trump, every decision is transactional.  “What can this do for me?” he reasons.  If …

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From VoteVets: Donald Trump recently promoted fascist propaganda on his personal social media site, Truth Social. He posted a video of ideal newspaper headlines for if he won re-election. One of them reads “a unified Reich.” This is threatening fascist …

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To me, this comes under the heading: Don’t ask a question on the air to which you don’t know the answer.

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Conventional wind turbines extract about 90% of the theoretically available kinetic energy from the wind, making this statement at left a bald-faced lie. In addition, there is a reason that small wind no longer exists: it’s inherently impractical; the output …

Yet Another Small Wind Scam Read More »

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Anyone, especially Trump, should have known that the former president is reviled everywhere in New York City. Want cheers?  Sweet home Alabama.

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Senator Lindsey Graham is typical of today’s Republican party in that facts don’t matter.  Truth and lies run together like the Euphrates flowing into the Tigris. The commenter could have added: Except when a political party wants to allow the …

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“How do they not see it?” It’s the one-two punch of ignorance and hate. Alternatively put, cult members don’t understand that they’re in a cult.

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I predict that the event promoted here will cease to exist in a few years, because we’re getting very close to the point where both the scientific and the business communities realize that the entire CCS enterprise is a bust. …

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These are good questions, and they come with a few, tightly related answers: Ignorance, white nationalism and anti-wokeism.  Trump supporters don’t love everything he says and does, but their hatred is so intense that they happily accept their leader. Of …

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Memorial Day is a bad 24-hour period for Trump, as, like Veterans Day, it reminds our country how hostile the former president has been to the American military. In turns, this reminds us that, in addition to being a pathological …

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