I side with those who say we’re experiencing the end-game of unbridled capitalism. Since the late 19th Century, we’ve seen a dwindling spiral of greed, moral decay, and poor education. Each re-enforces the other two. Countries that have free education …
Author: craigshields
Insurrectionist Demographics
I guess I can see that 14% of these morons are women, but I’d love to get a read on the 6% (of the 600 = 36) of the insurrectionists who aren’t white. Who else is storming the Capitol demanding …
Trump and McConnell Are Not “Worthless”
I try not to be pedantic, but “worthless” is very clearly the wrong word here. Both these people are extremely powerful forces that are aimed at everything people of decency and compassion abhor: • Making rich people richer, while making poor …
Tagged with: Sullying the environment
Republicans Need At Least One Insane Belief, But More Is Better
As mentioned previously, in order to survive in today’s GOP, congresspeople now need bat**** crazy stories to promulgate to their supporters. Those without a single senseless narrative to spread are susceptible to being called RINOs, and hunted down by Republican …
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Tagged with: U.S. Capitol insurrection
Total Absurdity in Arizona
In the county of Maricopa, the largest in Arizona, County Recorder Stephen Richer is one of the Republican officials tasked with maintaining files on 2.6 million registered voters, and he’s completely done with Trump’s false accusations about the 2020 presidential …
If You’re in the “Trump Wing” of the GOP, You Need Something That Proves You’re Crazy
Ever since Trump came on the political scene in 2015, we’ve been saying that we live in a “post-truth world” in which “facts no longer matter.” Now, it seems, we’ve taken all this one step further. For what could be …
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Tagged with: Insurrection at the Capitol
Biden and Climate: What’s Next?
Here’s a well thought-through piece called “Five great things Biden did for the climate in 100 days — and 4 things he should do next.” The author mentions Biden’s work in undoing the damage caused by his predecessor. Trump was …
Tagged with: Biden undoing the damage caused his predecessor, development of solutions that will help turn the planet around from its race to destruction, nature-based climate solutions, replacement of red meat with plant-based products, stop the destruction of Earth's rainforests, sustainable farming, Trump was a wrecking ball for everything pertaining to the environment
ExxonMobil Reducing Emissions?!
Here’s a piece from ExxonMobil explaining how it intends to reduce emissions. A couple of observations: Let’s begin by noticing the irony here. This is a company that spent 25 years and countless millions of dollars hiding what it knew …
Tagged with: avoid environmental collapse, combustion of the gasoline and diesel, Exxon made it impossible for the world scientific community develop technology that could have nipped global warming in the bud, Exxon spent 25 years and countless millions of dollars hiding what it knew about the effects of its emissions on the Earth's atmosphere and spreading what it knew to be lies about it, Exxon's culture of deception and treachery, Exxon's upstream (extraction) and downstream operations (refinement), ExxonMobil and the rest of Big Oil, ExxonMobil intends to reduce emissions, put ExxonMobil in its grave
GOP “Self-Destructing”
This seems true to me. Another factor at work here is the success of the Biden presidency so far, with its 63% approval rating. That’s an awful lot of people in support of what’s happening in pandemic control, the infrastructure …
Tagged with: environmental responsibility
“Trump Left Us Alone on the Battlefield” — Another Comment
I wanted to offer another observation on the moron pictured at left, one of at least 600 thus far who committed a federal crime while believing that Trump would be there for him in the end, and issue his sorry …
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