I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve written, “Americans may be stupid, but we’re not that stupid. There’s limit here.” Having been so clearly wrong many dozens of times, I know how dull-witted I sound when I say that I agree with Dr. Tribe here and his assertion that there are finite number of “last straws” before the United States expels Donald Trump from political life.
From a reader: Chicago had one of its biggest protests ever, with thousands hitting the streets to stand up against the regime, DHS, ICE & Trump’s war on the American people. History is being made in the streets.
During Trump’s first term, the top echelon of the U.S. military–dozens of our highest-ranking generals and admirals–saw through Trump and realized that represented a huge threat to American democracy; most of them made their thoughts completely clear to the American public.
All this set the stage for a showdown. If Trump is to remain in power, he’ll need the backing of our troops to make it happen.
Many people think that Trump’s war on Democrat-controlled cities is just a warm-up for what is to come.
Answer to the question posed here: High concentration of undocumented people. Rounding them up is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Of course, virtually none are criminals, and all are (or at least were) paying taxes and contributing to the economy.
Here’s a good example of how Trump can say anything he wants, regardless of how patently false, and his supporters accept it uncritically.
Wind accounts for about 15% of all electricity generation in the United States, which, because it largely offsets the consumption of coal, is making our country healthier while contributing to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
I just caught a TV news segment on the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate wind energy from our grid mix. It’s possible that the reason behind this is more complicated than it appears, but we all need to take the obvious into consideration: Trump is on the receiving end of uncountable fortunes in gifts from the fossil fuel industry, perhaps in exchange for his destroying the competition.
From this segment, he appears to have convinced tens of millions of his supporters that wind turbines “don’t work,” that they are a blight on our landscape, and they have no place in replacing coal. They appear not to understand that:
Wind energy runs about 15% of the overall grid-mix in the United States, and in some of the plains states, this figure is frequently north of 70%.
Wind largely offsets the burning of coal, which emits huge amounts of greenhouse gases, heavy metals like mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and selenium, as well as dozens of different highly toxic radioactive isotopes.
Of course, we’re talking to an audience that largely believes that climate change is a hoax, and God only knows what they believe about human health. Maybe mercury is kind of like a vitamin? No one knows. Let’s ask RFK Jr.
What public intellectual and science fiction giant Isaac Asimov said here has been the subject of a great deal of discussion over the years. It’s what virtually everyone who’s seen the Earth from space says, i.e., “There are no borders.”
Yet, as our planet’s capacity to support life continues to slip away from us, we seem to be no closer to realizing this aim.
We wouldn’t have had Donald Trump in the first place if McConnell hadn’t treated Democrats with gross unfairness.
Over the years, I’ve read the works of many of the top atheists in the English-speaking world: mainly Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. I’ve noticed that, to a person, they have a fairly well-sharpened wit.
The guy at left has taken this one step further, IMO.
Sam Harris makes a serious point about this, however, when he says, “We actually don’t need the word ‘atheist’ any more than we need a word for the collection of people who disbelieve that Zeus is the King of the Gods.”
Childhood disease deaths have seen a substantial global and U.S. decline over the past century, with rates falling from over 1 in 3 children dying before age five in the early 1900s to roughly 1 in 27 by 2023 globally. This is largely a result of the development and implementation of vaccines that, over this period of time, have essentially eradicated deaths from diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis, smallpox, measles, mumps, rubella, and type b meningitis.
Was installing RFK Jr. as the secretary of health and human services and the resultant attack on vaccinations just a random, ill-conceived act, or was it a deliberate act of violence against our nation’s (especially our children’s) well-being?
There is widespread speculation that Trump wants a world that is as stressed out as he can possibly make it, so as to maximize his chances of remaining in power post 2028. I have no proof, but this makes sense to me.
We’ve been discussing the problems that arise–not so much out of ignorance per se, but through ignorance when it’s empowered to make public policy.
If there is one common ingredient to American life under Trump’s second term, it’s the rejection of science. I guess we’re about to see how this works out for public health and safety.
