As shown at left, American voters have to make a decision, one that is based on the credibility of various people, including the president of the United States.
This country finds itself in a terrible position, all based on its citizens’ inability to make even the most basic assessment of Trump’s character.
To the reader who sent me this, I remind him of a few things associated with Trump: an illegal and senseless war, various forms of criminality including pardons for cash, treason, and corruption, inflation derived from ludicrous economic policies, racism, educational decline, world ridicule, and environmental collapse.
Outside of all that, I’d say you’ve hit the nail on the head.
I’d also add that “the jig is up,” as they used to say. There are far too few stupid assholes left in this nation to provide any meaningful levels of support to Trump at this point to save him from removal from office and criminal prosecution.
As a human civilization, we’ve been talking about this subject for a very long time–to no avail.
Most people who consider this idea believe the problem is greed. In fact, Socrates said, “All wars are about money.”
I’m sure what Voltaire says here is true, but what’s the value in “raising oneself above the ideas of the time.”
Right now, human civilization is tottering on the brink of world fascism and environmental collapse. We need real solutions to precisely these issues.
You and I live among tens of millions of people who think that, after the U.S. Marine Corps has successfully protected our nation for 251 years, it will finally be made battle-ready by Pete Hegseth, an alcoholic Fox News personality.
That’s pathetic.
In an earlier post, I wrote: Well, of course universities are the enemy of the Trump administration, and all other things stupid.
A key characteristic of college graduates is that we are unlikely to believe that “socialism is evil,” a core platform of the current-day Republican party.
We find this so hard to swallow because we are aware of the social democracies of Europe, Central America, and Oceana; in fact, many of us have visited these nations and have come to see why their people consistently rank at the top of the World Happiness Rankings.
We also understand that the United States is far from a pure market economy, in that it offers its people a great number of free services: roads, bridges, tunnels, firefighting, national defense, embassies, air traffic control, food safety, libraries, public schools, FEMA, criminal justice and corrections, law enforcement, OSHA, auto safety, disease control, the upkeep of our local, state, and national parks and beaches, animal control, space exploration, and dozens of other items.
Stupidity (along with mean-spiritedness) is really what U.S. politics rests on at this point; without it, the entire Republican party would collapse. Sure, it would be supported by a handful of greedy billionaires who couldn’t care less about the needs of the world’s people, but it would control a tiny fraction of the electorate.
Are we headed toward oligarchy?
We wouldn’t be the first democracy to topple. I go back to what so many of my acquaintances from overseas have told me, “You have been the envy of the world since long before I was born. Now we just feel sorry for you.”
Well, of course universities are the enemy of the Trump administration, and all other things stupid.
College graduates are unlikely to believe that the traitor in the White House is an honest and effective servant of the American people, that climate change is a hoax, that Haitians are eating Ohioans’ dogs and cats, and hundreds of other things that the present-day Republican party stands for.
When we think of the U.S. population, we generally think of patriots who honor and respect our Founding Fathers, the flag, the Constitution, and rule of law.
That’s what makes it so incredibly bizarre that we re-elected this traitor in 2024, leaving the rest of the world shaking its head in pure disbelief.
Congressional Republicans are hoping that the majority of American voters are stupid enough to believe that illegal aliens are somehow being assigned Social Security numbers, making them eligible for benefits.
A stronger idea, in my view, would be to a) cut out the bald-faced lying, and b) offer the American people things they actually care about: healthcare, quality education, affordability, no asinine self-defeating wars, etc.
What happens when an authoritarian figure consolidates power around him and goes on a crime spree of epic proportion?
Well, that depends. There are plenty of examples all around the world of countries where the dictator successfully wipes out every shred of democracy and rule of law. And it’s possible that this is exactly what’s going to happen in the United States.
On the other hand, Jack Smith is not going to accept this sitting down. We’ll see what happens.
