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Apparently, it’s news when working class America support a Democrat for U.S. president, even when the Republican candidate’s track record while in office featured lavish tax breaks ….. for corporations and billionaires.
The decline of quality in public schooling and the deep-seated frustration of the common American seem to have combined to draw these voters toward Trump, who is a true expert at fanning the flames of anger among the poorly educated.
It’s possible that Biden has, at least in part, turned this around. All the disinformation in the world can’t change the fact that the current president has been very good for the welfare of “the little guy.” It’s nice to see that this is being recognized.
We all know that Elon Musk is no fan of wokeism. But does what he says here make any sense?
Most people would agree that there is nothing funny about being considerate of other people’s feelings, or working to build a fair and just society.
If I wrote that no one laughs at oranges because they’re not tomatoes, would readers find that meaningful, or would they think that perhaps Craig has lost a step?
I’d like to shake the hand of the guy who went rogue with the road sign here. But, while his message is funny, it makes an important point.
Americans from the baby-boom and the earlier generations remember a time when our personal politics meant relatively little in the way we regarded one another.
As an example, 50 years ago, few parents were upset if one of their children proposed to marry someone from the other major political party. Yet that’s no longer the case. Today, more than half of Democrats interviewed said they would object if one of their kids wanted to marry a Republican (and vice versa).
What has changed fundamentally? In particular, how did the MAGA movement come to divide us so completely?
In my mind, it’s largely a function of the fact that what we now call “news” is no longer information; it’s content designed to capture our round-the-clock attention and make us loyal to one club or another. News is no longer a service; it’s an extremely lucrative business, and the only way to establish and maintain these megaprofits is to have two halves of America, each of which considers the other half “assholes.”
Every time I encounter an EV driver in a relaxed setting, suppose I spot someone walking to or from his vehicle in a parking lot, I ask, “Say, how do you like your car?” I have at least a few hundred of these one-question surveys under my belt at this point.
So far, I have three who were luke-warm, one of whom was an Avis renter who was having trouble learning the new instrument interface.
All the rest were glowing. The most common response: “It’s by far the best car I’ve ever owned.”
What to make of the meme here? To me, it’s like anything else in the world of disinformation: it’s either:
Completely fabricated by some entity with a vested interest. Hmmm. Is there an industry that stands to lose big if electric transportation gains market-share?
or
Cherry-picked. Turn on Fox “News” right now, and watch the few short minutes as required to see a person with an MD or a PhD degree tell you vaccines don’t work or that climate change is a hoax. These people do exist. They’re extremely rare, but if your job is to find one, you’ll succeed eventually. At the expense of your integrity, of course.
At left is just one more example of the absurd nature of the U.S. political scene as we move through the 2024 election season.
I have learned from my mother that Fox News is “reporting” that all U.S. politics is rigged in favor of the Democrats. That is, the indictment mentioned here has nothing to do with justice or fairness but is simply a partisan attack from the radical left that controls our government.
We have an insatiable appetite for pure BS.
Fortunately for the state of North Carolina, most of its residents share the political sensibilities of the more productive and civilized states. The author of the meme probably doesn’t know that California, if it were a country, would be the 5th largest economy on Earth. That’s something to be emulated and respected, not ridiculed.
Most of the population of North Carolina is within an easy drive to Raleigh or Charlotte, which are rife with great universities, top-tier financial service companies, and centers of technological development. And its Atlantic coast, with its Outer Banks, is a true wonder.
Now, if you want to find hillbillys, it’s not impossible. Just head west. You’ll notice quickly that the towns start to look like the one pictured at right. 
Poor education, little affluence, horrible healthcare, but plenty of political rancor and Fox News viewership.
Lauren Boebert is a darling among the Christian right in rural Colorado. And with this resumé, why shouldn’t she be?
Now is a great time in history to stretch our understanding of right and wrong. After all, we live in a period in which the vast majority of Republicans are desperate to see former president Trump re-elected, awaiting trial, as he is, for criminal trials concerning the 88 felony charges he faces.
Nothing makes any sense from an ethical perspective; we’re simply going to have get accustomed to that.
It’s true that the physicists of the later 19th Century believed that they had discovered all the major, basic principles that govern the universe. Then, of course, came Einstein, followed by the quantum physicists and all the theoretical stuff that has come along since.
Science remains thirsty for new discoveries, and we should not expect anyone of any stature in this arena to tell us that they have physics entirely “in the can.”
Apparently, Trump’s legal team has run out of ammunition in one of the former president’s election interference cases, though what they’re asserting here is correct.
Unfortunately for them, there is something wrong with committing crimes, felonies, to be more specific. One would think that this would be obvious, but evidently not.
Great quote from public intellectual Garrison Keillor here.
Yet keep in mind that those working to weaken public education couldn’t care less about some notion of “community.” Whether these people are Christian fundamentalists, or some other form of small-government zealot, they have no real interest in anything that resembles inclusion or “oneness.”
In fact, they want to see the opposite: a hatred, or at least resentment of immigrants, the poor, the Spanish-speaking, Muslims, gays, etc.
