We need to ask ourselves, once again, how it’s possible that working class people don’t support Biden overwhelmingly.
Yes, they are frustrated that their wages have stagnated. And yes, frustration leads to anger, and anger is what gets demagogues elected.
Yet, one would think that what has happened under the Biden administration in terms of job growth would cut a great deal of ice politically.
The intense scrutiny that the rising temperature of the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere is receiving raises an important question, and interestingly, it doesn’t concern the current temperature, which modern science has nailed with great precision. Rather, it’s this: What were the temperatures in the late 19th Century, when readings first took place?
As it turns out, there were various ways of taking ocean water onboard sea-going vessels that led to significantly different findings. As a result, one group of today’s climate scientists has found the planet has warmed 1.34°C over the 1850-1900 average, whereas another found temperatures had risen 1.54°C.
Here’s a scholarly article in Science Magazine that addresses the challenges our civilization faces in pulling CO2 out of the Earth’s atmosphere once greenhouse gases are released. It begins by admitting that we seem to be incapable of reducing current emissions to a safe level, and that the net-zero goals set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can only be achieved with CO2 removal.
To me, this translates as: “In the 2020s, we are incapable of accomplishing what is relatively easy, so here is what we need to do in the future, which, by constrast, seems impossibly difficult.”
Below, environmentalist Zan Dubin, whom I highly respect, makes a point not too dissimilar to what I’ve often said about the failure of the media to cover Biden’s accomplishments, especially those pertaining to climate change mitigation and adaptation. She writes:
Most people around the world, including the majority of Americas, find their heads spinning at the level of corruption that is spreading through the United States like a metastasizing cancer that appears to have beaten all the patient’s treatment options.
Defeating Trump’s immunity case is the last chance this country has to remain any different, in the sense that the people are empowered to govern themselves, than Russia or China.
Leguizamo brings up a good point: How is it possible for any of the ethnic minorities that Trump and his supporters are so desperately anxious to harm want to see the former president back in the White House?
One in eight black voters will cast their ballots for Trump. That’s not huge, but it’s not nothing, either. If I were black, I’d have one hell of a tough time voting for a man who consistently refuses to condemn white nationalism when it appears in places like Charlottesville, VA and incites the insurrection shown below.
From the candidate herself:
FWIW, I agree with the author of the meme here. The reason most of us refrain from committing harmful acts isn’t that we think we’ll be rewarded by some sort of force that pervades the universe. Nor is our motive an eternity in heaven vs. hell.
Decent people do good in the world simply because it’s good. It’s the right thing to do, and most of us behave accordingly.
From this article on former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro:
(Navarro) has been ordered to report to a Miami prison on March 19 to begin serving a four month sentence for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee.
Navarro, who is urging a federal appeals court to stay the sentence while he attempts to overturn his conviction, faces the prospect of becoming the first top adviser to Donald Trump to serve jail time for an offense related to the effort to subvert the 2020 election.
It’s easy to see why a person of Navarro’s stature would thumb his nose at the criminal justice system when it comes to the prosecution of Trump and his top people after their attempts to overthrow the U.S. government. After all, what’s Steve Bannon doing just now? He’s a convicted felon whose crime was nearly identical to Navarro’s, and Bannon’s out there drinking fine wine, while planning how to re-install Trump into the presidency.
From last night’s Oscars:
Trump posts on his social media page, which Kimmel read aloud: “Here’s something I just got on my phone. Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars. His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC “talent,” George Slopanopoulos. He would make everybody on stage look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous.”
To which Kimmel, hosting the Academy Awards, for the fourth time. responds, “Ok now, see if you can guess which former president just posted that on Truth Social. Anyone? No? Well, thank you President Trump. Thank you for watching, I’m surprised you’re still – isn’t it past your jail time?” Prompting cheers and laughs from the audience.
Obviously, it’s Trump’s nature to be combative with his political enemies; in fact, I think it’s fair to say that he’s powerless to do otherwise, regardless of the consequences. This is why he’s still defaming E. Jean Carroll, even as the size of the judgement against him continues to rise.
I guess he’s thinking that this compulsive/obsessive behavior has always worked for him in the past. That’s true, and Trump has tens of millions of supports for this and his other neuroses.
