Trump’s Personality Is Different from Most People’s
Imagine you constantly made embarrassing mistakes like the one at left. Wouldn’t you want to dig a hole and crawl into it?
Trump doesn’t function that way.
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Is This the End?
As much respect as I have for Supreme Court Justice Jackson, I seriously doubt that we’re watching the end of the United States as a constitutional republic. Yes, this is what Trump is trying to engineer, and it’s clearly the road we’re on. But there are too many honest patriots to allow it to happen.
MAGA “Freaks Out?”
I’m not sure “MAGA freaks out” is accurate. The MAGA folks are completely used to the “radical left” hating on Trump.
Normally, surveys like this one are composed of the opinions of hundreds of historians, and guess what? The Horror! Historians went to college, i.e., facilities that crank out libtard communists!
A side issue: notice that many of the presidents in the decades leading up to the Civil War are ranked close to the bottom of the list. I suppose it’s a function of support for slavery and the slaughtering of Native Americans.
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Why Republicans Don’t Recycle–Hint: Don’t Ask Me
I overheard a conversation the other day on recycling, in which one of the participants said, “Ha! I don’t recycle. I’m a Republican!”
When I was a little boy in the early 1960s, my parents, who were several generations deep in their conservative Republican heritage, made a big deal out of every-other Wednesday, aka “bottle-day,” when glass bottles were taken away in separate containers to be melted down and made into new ones. The ethos of the day was that doing good wasn’t a political statement; it was something that all sane and decent people subscribed to.
Just a few decades later, the idea of doing good and taking care of other people and our planet in general is now something that only woke communists could possibly be interested in.
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Let’s Not Kid Ourselves: We’re Really Not Kind, Decent People
The point made at left is a valid one: Cruelty for its own sake is a huge part of who we have become as Americans.
Maybe this isn’t new. Maybe we’ve simply been unmasked.
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Almost Every Day Brings a New Ghastly Reminder
Scarcely a day goes by that Americans aren’t slapped in the face with some sort of horrible reminder as to how stupid we have become over such a short period of time. When you read what our Secretary of Defense says at left, what do you think that even the average high school student would say about the work of FDR and Eisenhower during WW II?
Do we seriously want to claim that a bombing raid on Iran was more “complex and secretive” than the Normandy Invasion?
It’s just pathetic.
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The Canadians Visiting the United States Are not Representative of their Population as a Whole
In an earlier post, I mentioned that the Canadians I meet on a daily basis seem to accept what’s happening in the United States with fairly cool headsOf course, I’m meeting these Canadians here in the U.S., meaning that I’m not meeting the tens of millions of folks who wouldn’t think of coming here after we elected a sociopath who chose to screw them after 200 years of friendship.
FWIW, I sympathize. If I were a Canadian, I’d vacation in South Sudan or Iran before I’d set foot in the United States.
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Defending Ourselves Against Corporate Aggression
Corporate America seems to be at war against its consumer customers. Driving up profits by increasing prices, shrinkflation, and other forms of corner-cutting are everywhere in our lives.
On top of everything else, we have products that simply don’t work, as shown at left.
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Certain Canadians Have Huge Problems with the Reduction of the U.S. into a Police State
The Canadians I meet on a daily basis seem to accept what’s happening in the United States more philosophically than former Member of Parliament Charlie Angus.
Holy cats!
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Explaining Present-Day Iran
Just the other day I was asked to explain how countries like Iran become so backwards in terms of humanistic values. A big part of the answer is they never went through what the West experienced in the 18th Century, called the “Age of Reason,” or the “Enlightenment.” Their theocracy has endured for the last 1400 years (Islam was brought to Iran in 650 AD by the Arab-Islamic conquest of the Sasanian Empire) and shows no signs of going away.
At left we see what Denis Diderot, a key figure in the Enlightenment, had to say on the subject. I’m not sure we need that level of violence, but his point is not lost on us.
