This guy doesn’t seem to remember that:
Trump was the U.S. president for the first year of the COVID pandemic, and
The United States is one of 206 sovereign nations on Earth, each of which had its own response. He seems to think that the governments of countries like Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and Israel took orders from the Democrats. Does that seem reasonable?
It is true that Donald Trump said in 2012: “I find that I do better in bad markets. I buy things in bad markets.” Thus, Robert Reich’s speculation here makes sense. As someone on social media put it: I was in prison with a few arsonists. One lad’s comment, “I started fires only for profit…Trump?
But there are other possible motives, e.g., that a suffering and desperate U.S. population will be much easier to control when it comes to a third term for Trump.
Nobody knows.
At left is a reminder that:
It’s a good idea to have a federal government that is strong enough to override the states when it comes to certain matters, and
just because something’s not explicitly written into the original Constitution doesn’t mean it’s an acceptable American institution.
These people say:
A groundbreaking study from Florida Atlantic University reveals that ocean currents can generate 2.5 times more power than wind farms, offering an untapped, constant energy source. Unlike wind and solar, which depend on unpredictable weather, ocean currents flow steadily—day and night.
So, what does this really mean? Not much.
Ocean current energy, as it’s called, is not theoretically impossible. In fact, until about a decade ago, there were dozens–possibly even hundreds–of teams all around the world experimenting with different approaches of extracting some of the kinetic energy from moving water.
But then came the plummeting prices of both solar and wind, leaving this and all the other flavors of hydrokinetics far behind in the competition for cost-effective sources of energy.
A Trump supporter whom I’ve known for decades sent me this, and notes, “This is what I’m talking about.”
Though there is emotional language here like “federal “meddling” and “arrogant judges,” overall, what Ron Paul wrote here is true.
Yet the following is also true: We’d still have slavery. Wouldn’t that be terrific?
And we wouldn’t have:
infrastructure (roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, etc.), police, fire fighting, criminal justice, national defense, public education, labor laws, auto and food safety standards, air traffic control, TSA, libraries, emergency medical care, environmental regulation, social security, Medicare, the National Archives, national parks, bank regulations and deposit insurance, copyright and patent laws, federal dams to provide electrical power, flood control, the Weather Service, the Federal Housing Authority, consulates and embassies, FEMA, veterans affairs, public water systems, monitoring of all international cargo, NASA, border protection, and the National Institutes of Health.
In which world would you rather live?
From the Speak Up Boldly Group, “In a twist that wouldn’t be believed in the worst TV movie, the surviving Koch Brother and Supreme Court shadow boss Leonard Leo are moving to crush Trump and his tariffs.”
At left is a reminder that we Boomers are glad we made our money in the 20th and very early 21st Centuries, before the bulk of the corporate greed and corruption set in.
When it comes to destroying the wealth of the common American, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Re: the meme here, I’m taken by something art historian Sister Wendy Beckett said about the cave paintings that we found ~40,000 years ago:
“They show us that the people of the day worked hard, loved their spouses and children, and wondered about the unknown. In short, they were no different than people of today in all ways that are important.”
We don’t need them intelligent, honest, or compassionate.
If this doesn’t sicken you, it should.
