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Here’s another reminder that this deal with immigrants is simply a tool to get meanspirited idiots excited about voting for Republicans. There is nothing about mass deportations that improves our lives.
Our gardener is from Mexico. He does a great job and helps me with my Spanish. Is here legally? I couldn’t care less.
An authoritarian’s using his power to suppress his political opponents is at the very top of his to-do list. This has been proven to be true not just by the fascists of the 20th Century, but for at least the last 2500 years, as Plato observed.
If this weren’t the case, i.e., if what Trump is doing were something that was at least somewhat novel and could have possibly come as a surprise, we could have more sympathy for America’s throwing its democracy into the toilet.
But we’ve seen this movie before, and we all know how it ends.
We have precious little time left to remove him.
There are many ways to illustrate the corruption that is the Trump administration, but perhaps the most hard-hitting is the use of the Justice Department as an instrument to punish the president’s enemies.
It takes a fearless and honest person like Jack Smith put a spear through this crap.
The point that Fetterman made here had a certain play in U.S. politics–that is, until the midterms that flipped states like Texas and Kansas blue.
Now he’s simply out-of-touch and completely irrelevant.
I wouldn’t say Bernie Sanders is the only politician who’s ever given a crap about people, but he is most certainly a rare breed.
There is something about the state of Vermont that makes Bernie possible, perhaps it’s a quirky independence that says, “We do what we believe to be right, and we really couldn’t care less what you think of us.”
I don’t think there exists a single word for those who refuse to vaccinate themselves and their children. That’s because, at a minimum, the person has to be both:
Ignorant, willfully blind to the relevant science, and
Selfish, unwilling to take on a minute risk so as to prevent spreading a potentially lethal disease throughout the population.
What a completely asinine thing for anyone to say–even Ted Cruz.
It was the expressed will of the people of Texas to remove criminal Republicans. Trump supported Paxton, but he lost by more than 12 points! Abbott lost by more than 7.
Malaria is more popular in Texas now than Trump.
This guy is obviously correct, but some Americans believe that anything that impedes their path towards riches is unacceptable, and that environmental regulations are tantamount to communism.
To the author of the meme here:
“Either” refers to two choices; “any” refers to three or more.
More importantly, it’s amazing how shamelessly the ultra-right wing exaggerates. The left side of the Democratic party would like to see the United States look like social democracies in places like Scandinavia. Having government programs that benefit the common person, e.g., Social Security, public schools, emergency relief, libraries, environmental responsibility, etc., does not equate to Stalinism.
Some of my old prep school chums from the Class of 1973 convene via Zoom approximately every six weeks for a 90-minute discussion of current events, science, and anything else that sounds interesting.
Our professions range from medicine, law, finance, and business management. All from highly ranked colleges. Over 50% hold doctorate degrees.
Here’s something I find fascinating about the group: it includes one right-wing conservative. I don’t mean a Reaganite; I mean a Trump supporter. This guy is incapable of any thought that doesn’t come directly from Nexsmax.
It’s almost eerie how closely he toes the line of the far-right. Yesterday he echoed the Newsmax talking point and told the group that all Muslims holding public office are “very dangerous” and should be removed.
Now, the rest of us are sitting there, dumbfounded at this idea, unwilling wasting our breath on this racist and utterly preposterous concept.
All this raises the question: How are our political viewpoints formed? How much of this is genetics? Epigenetics? Early childhood experiences? How do you take a boy from among the best environments and turn him into someone who struggles to understand the most basic principles on which our country was founded?
