MAGA Is Deeply Unhappy

It’s impossible to say, but his base of hateful morons do seem to be a bit shaken.

It’s impossible to say, but his base of hateful morons do seem to be a bit shaken.

As we have seen recently, the white Christians who tried so hard to take over the school boards and ban books, prohibit any discussion of homosexuality, and whitewash U.S. history have gotten trounced at the polls.
Granted, neither Vance nor Rubio is criminally insane, and that will present an advantage compared with Trump. But again, it appears that the American people may have seen enough of extremist Republican politics.

You, as an elected official, got elected and stay in office from the corrupt donations of the fossil fuel industry.
You’re indifferent to America’s competitiveness in the global marketplace.
You’re convinced, via propaganda, that climate change is a hoax, humankind is doing no appreciable harm to our natural environment, and that any effort on our part to change that is essentially woke communism.

Nothing like this could have ever been possible earlier in U.S. history, because Americans didn’t have the stomach for it. Now we eat it up with a spoon.

We have an infinitesimal amount of voter fraud, just like the dozens of other democracies with similar procedures. That is, of course, unless Trump loses, in which case it’s totally rampant.

We had the occasional “hard-ass” who was almost definitely a conservative, some of whom might even be Trump supporters today. And we had the kindhearted guy, maybe teaching English or social studies, who was likely a liberal.
Was that a big deal then? Is it really today?
If you’re gullible enough to believe that our nation’s school system is essentially a manufacturing plant that produces woke communists, you’ll believe anything.

Why poll people on their perceptions of what groceries cost? The price of groceries in the United States either is or is not rising, quite independently of how people respond in surveys.
The truth is that inflation is running at around 3%, which is not horrible, regardless of who claims otherwise.
A smart friend of mine once told me that U.S. presidents are generally given too much blame when times are bad and too much credit when times are good. Honest and intelligent people do not blame Trump for rises in prices, especially as modest as they are. However, they are appalled about his pitiful lying, and about his deplorable lack of interest in the issues that are destroying the lives of so many Americans.
Of course, our nation’s ambivalence on prices could change very quickly depending on the effects of Trump’s extreme tariffs. If, as many economists predict, prices go through the roof and large swaths of American businesses are wiped out, this country, as dimwitted as many of us are, will figure all this out and turn on him in about 15 minutes.
As anyone could have foreseen, however, there are a couple of major issues:
1) Like every other state in the nation, Colorado has in-person polling places. Here are their FAQs.
2) As explained in this piece by PBS, there are dozens of countries that allow mail-in voting.
Do you think the Australians or the Japanese are raising hell, claiming that their elections are rigged, that they are experiencing massive voter fraud? No. That’s because they don’t have major candidates who are pathological liars, and electorates that are composed of about 50% gullible fools.

1) Starts with seawater
2) Uses electricity to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen
3) Runs the hydrogen through a fuel cell, generating electricity that not only powers the boat, but also repeats step 2).

Yet, Trump has one capability that’s rarely if ever seen: He can invent stories that have no basis in fact–and convince tens of millions of Americans that they’re true.