This photoshop of Mount Rushmore depicts some of our nation’s fathers in a kind of embarrassed disbelief as to what’s happened to our country. Of course there’s no way to know exactly how they would react to this criminal insanity, but I would suggest they would be goddamned mad.
There is a distinct irony about celebrating the Fourth of July right now, insofar as the United States came into existence purely as a rejection of a king with absolute power over the people.
Energy Analyst Robert Rapier makes essentially the same observation: Independence Day commemorates our founding decision to break away from the rule of a tyrannical king. It’s worth remembering that this country was built on the rejection of unchecked power, of loyalty to a single man over the rule of law.
I had to laugh at the ad here, as it speaks to our nation’s division between those who support and oppose the president.
Yes, there is an entire range of voters who correctly regard Trump as a sociopathic criminal: doctors, artists, humanitarians, social workers, college professors, scientists, and the like. But it’s hard to imagine a class of humanity that insists more adamantly on the removal of the president than people who wear Mahler t-shirts.
The meme here speaks to many Americans’ thinking and behavior with respect to climate change mitigation. We simply tend not to embrace the needs of other human beings.
There must be a reason that our approach to this subject is so radically different than, say, that of the Scandinavians. It’s true that our culture has a kind of rugged individualism embedded in it, which could make us more susceptible to Big Oil’s propaganda.
In any case, it’s a tragedy.
These people advertise: Energy from wind, generated right where you need it – that’s our SkyWind NG. The first independently tested micro wind turbine is efficient, quiet and Made in Germany.
While there’s no clear answer here, the preponderance of scientific minds through the ages have been and continue to be pessimistic, for the precise reason that Newton asserted at left.
It’s entirely possible that humankind, with its blend of greed, cruelty, and rank insanity, will always find a way to blunt efforts to deal with things like nuclear weapons proliferation, epidemic diseases, and environmental collapse.
I’ve noticed this all my life: mean people tend to have physical issues that make them appear older that their actual ages. It’s as if their meanness exerts a contorting force on their bodies, faces, hairlines, etc.
At left are the words of Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician Antonio Francesco Gramsci.
Without doubt, there has never been a time, at least since the 1930s, that featured a more horrific set of world leaders.
Whether or not “a new world struggles to be born” is anyone’s guess.
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.
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.
