One of our nation’s thorniest problems is the ignorance of the voter base. Small-town Kentucky voted for Trump by a huge margin, but they can’t seem to figure out that they are cold and hungry, in part, because of Trump’s policies that include cutting food assistance programs, tariffs that drive up food prices and cripple farmers, and creating enormous tax cuts for billionaires.
The cartoon below captures this nicely.
The world is sitting on the edge of its seat, wondering about this question. He’ll be gone soon, but how will history remember him?
A question in return:
Will the rest of the world ever get over the catastrophe that has happened here in the United States? There are plenty of credible thinkers who believe that the answer is no.
They say that the world’s people will never forget that, even as of today, approximately 50 million American voters avidly support this criminal madman.
Trump will soon be gone, but what about the fact that half of Americans are hateful idiots?
Almost all respondents on social media were enthusiastic about banning the garb at left.
Two points:
1) I’m thrilled to live in a country that protects its people’s freedom of expression. As an older American, I’m not crazy about massive tattoos, face-piercings, and young guys walking around with their pants worn down around their knees, but I’m a real fan of the United States Constitution.
The author of the meme might want to take a peek. It’s a good read.
2) What actually works on a societal basis, and what no one can regulate, is public acceptance or rejection. You’re free to wear extreme forms of the hijab, or claim that the Holocaust was a hoax, or believe that the Earth is flat, or tell your neighbors that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, that you, with no training in science, think climate change is a hoax, or that vaccines are often lethal.
However, you’ll pay a stiff price in terms of acceptance into refined society. Want to get a high-level job or join a country club dressed like that? Do you think that spouting off the gibberish of uneducated MAGA slobs in the workplace will advance your career?
Good luck.
Easy. It’s 36% in the United States, and somewhere around 15% in the rest of the developed world. It’s slim, and it’s disintegrating fast.
The world isn’t in great shape right now, but most human beings are good people, and they abhor the crimes and the constant barrage of crimes. It’s really no more complicated than that.
What Kurt Vonnegut said here is interesting, but I doubt it’s correct.
Yes, people talk about religious people’s “imaginary friend in the sky,” which would be, of course, a remedy for loneliness. But I believe that the primary driver for religion is fear–of all things unknown, and especially of death and the afterlife.
The world population growth is 0.85%. In the developed world (OECD countries), it’s about 0.5%.
It’s not credible to me that our civilization is threatened by this. But if I were concerned, I’d ask a scientist whose life’s work is studying this phenomenon. Why anyone could possibly care what Elon Musk thinks about Earth’s population and climate change is beyond me.
Could any C- high school kid believe that there are more top wealth management firms in Montana than there are in Florida, Texas, and California combined?
At left we have something that illustrates why small wind is a concept in renewable energy that was abandoned about 15 years ago.
Germans are respected around the world for the quality of their engineering. That’s good if you’re buying a Porsche, BWM, or Mercedes for $200K, but it’s terrible if you need something that’s really inexpensive.
And small wind needs to be dirt cheap, because your cost per KWh of electricity can’t be 50 times more than what you would pay to the local power utility.
If you want it cheap, it’s going to fall apart, and that’s particularly true if you’re talking about something that’s installed outdoors and spins every second of every day for decades.
Horrible idea, Mike. There are lots of intelligent and refined people in Minnesota who will recall that you helped Trump in his effort to overthrow the U.S. federal government following his 2020 election loss. They won’t think highly of that.
If you want to run for governor, consider picking a state that ranks at or near the bottom in terms of education, and has some of the other qualities of Trump supporters, e.g., racism.
I won’t name names, but they’re not too hard to identify.
There are more than 6200 miles of the U.S. border. If a terrorist crosses at any point and kills an American citizen, who is to blame?
If you’re a garden-variety idiot, you blame the U.S. president. Can’t the occupant of the White House be held accountable for every crime committed here by someone from any country who comes here illegally?
If you’re a lying idiot, you blame Biden, even if the terrorist entered during Trump’s presidency.
