The words of David Brooks at left certainly ring true.
Keep in mind, however, that our nation’s moral turpitude didn’t start with Trump and the hateful morons who support him. Think slavery, Jim Crow, the butchering of the Native Americans, war crimes, and other atrocities through the ages.
All the while, it adds $2 – $4 trillion to the national debt.
I don’t understand how this exercise in human cruelty, greed, and stupidity appeals to anyone.
Do our law enforcement officers who suffer casualties associated with defending our safety deserve compensation when they are injured? I’m not sure.
OK, let’s look at the other side–the criminal. But what about violent criminals, like Ashli Babbitt who was shot by police when she stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6th, 2021, broke down a door, and ignored orders to stop?
The situation seems to be equivalent to a bank robber who tries to shoot a teller through a thick pane of plexiglass, whose bullet ricochets back and kills the criminal. Now, his family wants to sue the bank for the damages he’s received. Does that seem right?
If you think so, you have what it takes to be a modern-day Trump supporter.
Of course it could. In fact, that’s precisely what we’ve been hearing since the early 1970s.
The problem is that we’re further from achieving this than we were half a century ago. That’s because, in the interim:
• Battery technology has made great progress in terms of cost in both energy and power density.
• The hydrogen delivery infrastructure has gone essentially nowhere., while the transmission and distribution of electricity in general, and EV charging stations in particular continues to widen.
• The modes of hydrogen generation (electrolysis and methane reformation) remain grossly inefficient.
• Fuel cells that convert hydrogen into electrical energy are expensive and fragile.
Obviously, there are con artists (see above) who prey on those who don’t understand this.
This sounds a bit improbable, doesn’t it? Russia’s GDP is 1/13th the size of ours. It’s less than our state of Texas. Their GDP per capita ($14K) ranks #68 in the world.
The country consists of 144 million poor people led by a handful of billionaires and a war criminal butcher.
I’m not sure I understand this.
Outside of a few white nationalist nut-jobs like Kid Rock and Ted Nugent, and, I suppose, Clint Eastwood while he is still alive, Trump has almost zero support from our planet’s artists and scientists. Is he going to weaponize the justice system and try to prosecute 95+% of the world’s actors, writers, directors, other producers of entertainment and intellectual content, news journalists, schoolteachers, international diplomats, college professors, researchers, and environmental scientists who have the audacity to disapprove of him?
This childishly criminally behavior doesn’t even occur in most of the world’s banana republics. How could it have possibly happened here?
For the record, she actually did say this.
Every few days, we learn about the end of another government program that, for years, has served to protect the environment, save consumers money, preserve our health and safety.
What type of life will be available to Americans after another four full years of Trump? It’s hard to predict, but it won’t be pretty.
Just kidding.
Though this situation with Ashli Babbitt is, of course, totally outrageous, it’s really just par for the course under Trump.
I try not to lose control of my emotions, as tempting as it may be to explode.
I was speaking with some friends earlier today about the decline in demand for plant-based meat, e.g., Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat. They suggested that perhaps these companies have insufficient PR, but I countered that the intensely negatively PR funded by the ultra-wealthy beef industry is more likely to blame.
When you read the words at left, ask yourself who wrote this, and more to the point, who “they” are. The implication, obviously, is that “they” are the woke communists who dare to offer an alternative to deforestation and the factory farming of cows.
