Condemning horrific behavior is better than writing it off as acts of “boys will be boys.”
Yet the problem lies in the fact that, condemned or not, it’s what the Republican party is dealing with in the year 2025: a seething hatred of minorities and an indifference to the suffering of other people.
Suppose you were trying to pick a U.S. city that could possibly be riddled by violence due to drug cartels, street gangs, or some other sort of violent crime (even though none of these were reported by the major news agencies). Perhaps the last place you would go would be Portland, or any other place in Oregon.
That’s because (per AI), Oregonians are known for:
Many Oregonians are passionate about outdoor activities like hiking and biking, thanks to the state’s natural beauty.
The state has a strong do-it-yourself ethic, visible in hobbies like knitting and brewing, as well as a culture of foraging for items like mushrooms and fruit.
There is a sense of identity tied to being “different” and sometimes a playful aversion to anything seen as “Californian”.
Oregonians have a reputation for being environmentally conscious, with a history of pioneering environmental protections and progressive policies.
The three-bladed wind turbines we see all over the world extract about 90% of the theoretically available kinetic energy from the air that moves through them. A 60% would violate the laws of physics.
Of course, these people are not strangers to promoting pure crap; it’s what they do for a living.
As shown below, the vast majority of world news sources will not be playing ball with Pete Hegseth’s command that he has the right to approve all reporting on the Pentagon.
In a day when Americans are demanding more transparency from government, this seems like a huge step in the wrong direction.
Though there’s nothing theoretically impossible about the story at left, I doubt it’s true.
That’s because Denmark has a superabundance of renewable energy due to its phenomenal wind resources. When it has too much for its own consumption, it sells the excess to neighboring Germany.
Trade tensions continue to mount between the U.S. and China. This is sad, in that our trade relationship in agriculture with China was proceeding just fine, year after year.
Notice the use of capitalization in “Economically Hostile Act,” as if it were the name given to a crime. Not sure we need more hostility in the world than we already have.
We might also keep in mind that most of this crap began with our tariffs.
Insofar as 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is near a little Danish town in California that has considerable appeal to European tourists, I often have the opportunity to meet people from the Continent.
When the conversation turns to politics, as it often does, I have the opportunity to listen to others’ viewpoints about what’s happening in the United States, and the leadership of Donald Trump in particular.
I can’t remember a single person who voiced any support for Trump or expressed any tolerance for the idea that America should forfeit its democracy to a would-be dictator.
It is for that reason that the list of countries participating in the “No Kings” rally (see above) is quite large.
In my day, though we didn’t have electronics means of chatting, we certainly had clubs of young people with conservative values, e.g., the Young Republicans.
I never attended their meetings, so I can’t say for sure, but I would bet that the conversation stayed within certain boundaries of legality and perhaps even civility, depending on what you mean by that: libertarianism, the promotion of family values, heterosexuality, segregation, anti-globalism, and especially, anti-communism; I’m quite sure it didn’t extend to killing or raping one’s enemies, or pro-Hitler ideas like the gas chambers and the “final solution.”
Today, of course, what once was simple conservatism is now pure hate and stupidity.
Do savvy investors take advice from right-wing Trump-supporter talk-show hosts?
“This is the age of faith, of hope and of God,” he says.
And of gold too, I guess.
This guy has a terrific point.
Such a strange and sad time to be an American.
