In this day of utter confusion and the mincing of words, it’s good that we have a person in the U.S. Congress like Jasmine Crockett. The harsh reality is that it was a terrible idea to elect a criminal thug to lead the most powerful country on the planet, and she is perfectly willing to put this in plain language.
Maybe we’re starting to understand the gravity of what we’ve done.
Points to be made here include:
1) None of these five men is an imbecile.
2) This is a place and time in which our world leaders are more demented and less interested in the welfare of others than at any point since, at least, the 1930s.
3) No one know what’s going to happen next. Sure, it could be nuclear conflagration or runaway environmental collapse. It could also be something else entirely.
If you can recognize the photo here, you’re at least 65 years old, probably 70+. It’s a small generator that converted some of the kinetic energy from your moving bicycle’s tires into the electrical energy required to power your headlight.
It was one of the least efficient devices every to see commercial deployment. I remember engaging it and instantly having to pedal far harder to make up for the ridiculously small amount of light energy it produced. But, when you’re a kid, trying to get home alive, what’s the big deal?
What makes the evil presence of Donald Trump so horrific in our lives is his amazing capacity to harness the “herd instinct” that Bertrand Russell identified.
All this is aimed at one thing: augmenting Trump’s wealth and power.
Sickening.
Re: the reader’s comment here on The Grapes of Wrath, there is no doubt that the book challenges the basic tenets of capitalism, and it does so in what is perhaps the most forceful piece ever written in the English language.
The claim here, i.e., that the MAGA folks “believe in nothing” is incorrect, if only because of the trust they place in the infallibility of Donald Trump.
It makes no difference how ludicrous what he says, these people are steadfast in their commitment to the criminal sociopath.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting a woman from Ireland who had come here for a wedding.
She commented that the type of news that Americans receive is far more disturbing than those in her home country. I offered my ideas on this; it seems to be a combination of the desire for huge profits from the media industry, coupled with the insane criminality of the U.S. president.
This theme, that education is indoctrination and is actually harmful to our personhood, is extremely popular now, but largely among our nation’s uneducated people. This could be called “sour grapes,” but some (uneducated) people won’t know what this means.
We’re so screwed.
Supporting the idea that education kills our capacity for creativity and critical thinking has great appeal to many Americans as our society dwindles down into Trumpism, but what are the consequences? A few ideas include our American kids who:
Can’t tell you where Minnesota or France is, and can barely read and write.
Will never achieve any real wealth and will certainly never take any place in our knowledge-based world.
Will be fantastic candidates to support Trump, or, perhaps, the even greater bastard who comes next.
Ten years ago, if you had surveyed Americans as to the viability of selling off public lands to for-profit corporations, people would have laughed in your face. “That’s an outrageously stupid idea, as it strikes a blow to the core of who we are as a people,” you would have heard people say.
Now, just the blink of an eye later, it’s happening right in front of us.
I guess the word “outrageous” is relative. What was outrageous 10 years ago makes perfectly good sense today.
These people claim:
