Regarding the meme here, a reader notes: Politicians have done this for 100 years. And have been completely wrong. I respond: I believe that, until fairly recently, politicians were more or less constrained by facts. Eisenhower didn’t try to tell …
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Federal Judge: Trump Called Insurrectionists to Washington, D.C.
From this piece in Politico: A federal judge on Friday squarely placed the blame for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Donald Trump, suggesting that the former president’s role in seeding lies about the 2020 election — and the effect …
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Democrats Believe That Democrats Are Fighting for Working People
The content of the meme here seems obvious, but apparently, only to Democrats, and, I suppose, rich Republicans too, who like things this way. Working class Republicans are told that Democrats are opening our borders, flooding the country with immigrants …
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Federal Judge: Trump Lied About Voter Fraud
From this: A federal judge, Senior District Judge Reggie Walton (pictured), took aim at former President Donald Trump on Monday for lying about voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election, saying that former Vice President Al Gore had a better standing …
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American Society Under Pressure
I have a wellness consultant who tries not to involve herself in the most troublesome aspects of American life these days. Her reasoning, and I understand it, is that in order to help her clients most effectively, she needs to …
Anti-Vaxxers and Our Society
Here’s an anonymous free-form poem about the pandemic and the anti-vaxxers. Poignant, to say the very least. “We wanted to help people We were smart and driven We loved science and physiology, humans and disease So we made a commitment …
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Climate Change and Stupidity
This cartoon is on point, but the guy in the last panel isn’t stupid; he’s evil and selfish beyond description. Stupidity does come into play, however. If he is to be successful, he’ll need to rely on the stupidity of …
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Don’t Make the World an Even More Idiotic Place To Live
No one can accurately quantify the effect that sharing bull**** on Facebook has on the dumbing-down of humanity, but it must be considerable. This is all a part of the massive disappointment that we call life in America. We believed …
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Preparing for the Collapse of American Democracy
Here’s a discussion on the potential for the breakdown of the U.S. democracy. Various commenters’ viewpoints are in bullets/italics, with my remark at the end. • I’m curious to know how this “collapse” will manifest. Going to watch it on …
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Why No Indictments Against Trump?
Here’s a video in which former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner argues, “No jurisdiction (Georgia, Southern District of New York, the federal government) wants to be the first to indict an ex-president but everyone wants to be the second.” Thus, when …
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