King Donald
Apparently the other 44% of Americans believe that Trump has absolute authority to do anything he wants, and that neither the legislative nor judicial branch has any power.
That’s a tragedy.
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Cuts to the National Weather Service Endanger Our Lives
Until the United States is somehow able to rid itself of Donald Trump, and let’s be honest–that’s a tough row to hoe, we will live with a cruel fact: anything in the U.S. government that benefits the health, safety, and general well-being of the common American will eventually be eliminated to enable more tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, most of whom are Trump mega-donors.
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From Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
Speaking for the majority of Americans, I’m sorry we elected such a terrible person, the consequences of whose actions are so deeply hurtful for the people of the world.
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Pope Francis, Humanitarian
Pope Francis will never be forgotten, in particular for the fact that he completely transformed the Catholic Church into a humanitarian institution.
Some people may not be able to appreciate this fully, as they may be unaware that, for 1600 years, the history of the Church was one of very little change, and included a long period in which heretics were routinely tortured to death.
Then along comes one man and turns all this on its head. He worked hard to deal with virtually every oppressive aspect of human culture: poverty, hunger, environmental collapse, slavery, the death penalty greed, ignorance, and the denial of healthcare.
Energy Storage Investors Should Study This One Carefully
Sodium ion batteries have been under development by the world’s best minds since the mid-1990s, meaning that they’re hardly “unknown tech.”
These people (who have no apparent technology value-add whatsoever) just might make you rich, claiming to help investors turn $5K into $620K! Could happen!
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2020 Election Wrap-Up
To the meme here from a reader, I reply:
Wow. That’s simply amazing. All 60+ courts and judges that looked into this and found no supporting evidence must have been in Biden’s pockets! Who knew? Quite an accomplishment on the part of ol’ Sleepy Joe.
Fox News must have been out of its mind to have written a $787 million check when it lost the defamation case brought by Dominion Voting Systems for Fox’s easily debunked claims that Dominion’s machines systematically changed votes for Trump to votes for Biden.
Well, you’ve brought this all to light. Well done, my psychotic friend.
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Driving in America
Most of us have noticed that driving today is marked with far more discourtesy than it ever was before. A few weeks ago, I thought I’d try to quantify this by counting those who do and do not use turning signals where required by law.
Findings: Overall, about 70% of drivers here in rural Central California use turn signals. This breaks down into about 75% of passenger cars, and about 45% of pickup trucks.
What accounts for this discrepancy? The best I can do here is to offer a guess, and that goes like this:
a) Turn signals help other people far more than they help the driver. The driver knows where he’s going, while the other drivers and pedestrians do not, and need help understanding how to act safely.
b) Pickup trucks are driven by working class Americans, who tend, for reasons I don’t understand, to be Trump supporters.
c) Trump supporters are almost all “anti-woke,” meaning that they have little if any concern for the welfare of others.
d) Disobeying a law that is put in place to help an entire society run better is characteristic of people who couldn’t give a s*** about other people in the first place.
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From the Army Times: “We Asked, You Voted: 89 Percent Said No To Trump’s Military Parade”
If you want to “join us,” in expressing our disgust at Trump’s military parade, click on this link.
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Classical Music in the United States
Re: the meme here, the truth is that very few Americans care a whit about either.
Analyzing America’s Gun Homicide Epidemic
The United States has 27 times more gun deaths per capita than the EU, and approximately 450 times more than places like the UK and South Korea. How is this possible?
The most common explanation is gun control laws. For example, Japanese citizens are permitted to own guns, but these weapons are not sold in department stores to any deranged child who wants one.
The woman at left has a different theory, i.e., that the U.S. is singular in the world for its vast indifference to the welfare of one another. If our kids grow up ignorant and mean, that’s someone else’s problem.
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