Trump’s second term has shown us that he and his inner circle have limitless creativity when it comes to finding things to destroy and inflicting huge damage.
Hey! We can put more pressure on endangered species, driving them ever closer to extinction! Let’s get on that right away.
Here’s where you can donate to send a copy of the bible to the poorest of the poor African children.
Let the word of God explain to these children why they are dying of sickness and starvation. Certainly, their parents will be interested to learn this as well.
Always blame your opposition for the crimes you committed.
We baby boomers remember when the two dominant political parties were essentially indistinguishable. Eisenhower, a Republican, stood for strong Social Security, limited military, unemployment insurance, and a strong minimum wage.
What does today’s GOP champion? Cutting off all assistance for the poor, tax cuts of billionaires, slashing into Social Security (the money you and I earned) and starting a senseless and illegal war.
Who are the radicals here?
I just came across Sofo Archon, an incredibly interesting speaker and writer.
My only response to what he says at left is that you are, in fact, a leftist, whether you accept that or not. Anyone who says that he belongs to “Humanity and Earth” is a leftist by definition, just like anyone who wears the t-shirt below.
This is kind of like saying, “I am neither a Christian nor an atheist, but I believe in God and I accept His son Jesus Christ as my savior.” Sorry, that makes you a Christian.
The meme here raises an important point: Why are 30% of American voters still supporting a man who spends a great deal of time making ridiculous claims about an ex-president who left office 10 years ago? Doesn’t he have duties that pertain to making this a better country, one that offers its citizens a higher quality of life?
I wish I had $100 for every time I heard some uneducated Trump supporter tell me this.
A democracy is a system where governmental power is derived directly from the will of the majority. A constitutional republic is a specific type of representative democracy where the people elect officials to govern, but those officials are strictly limited by a supreme, written constitution designed to protect minority rights from majority rule.
I remember a conservative friend who lived in Hawaii who complained that the native people objected to a project directed from Washington to build something at the top of one of their volcanoes, on the basis that this was their holy land. My friend asked, “Doesn’t the majority rule?”
“Not necessarily.” Trying to make my point in the simplest way possible, I explained, “People have rights. My neighbors like me, but imagine that they didn’t, and 20 of them, a 20:1 majority, wanted to come in here and beat me to death. I have a right not to be murdered. When you think about it, we’re lucky not to live in a country where ‘the majority rules.'”
“Oh. I guess you’re right,” my friend said.
My biggest beef with Trump isn’t the many individual points of failure, but the fact that they are all the product of the mind of a criminal sociopath whose only way of thinking is self-enrichment, normally at the expense of anyone who cannot serve to make him wealthier and more powerful.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson says that our problem isn’t that our children don’t understand science, but that our adults don’t.
Three comments:
1) Wind is not a finite resource as long as the sun comes up every morning and disproportionately heats the Earth’s surface. 8th grade Earth science.
2) Wind doesn’t cool anything except the skins of certain animals that perspire. 9th grade biology.
3) Putting one’s ignorance on public display is not a strong idea, even in rural Texas.
At this point in the decay of the American democracy, anyone overtly and publicly critical of Trump who believes he’s not on a government watch list is an idiot.
Two comments:
1) If you want to a part of the environmental collapse that is coming from our civilization’s continued reliance of fossil fuels, you’re morally defective. In the parlance of the common man, you’re an asshole.
2) If you think there is profit available from investing in oil wells that the most sophisticated petroleum engineers turned down, you’re a total moron.
