It really is amazing that the wealthiest people on the planet are so indifferent to others’ well-being.
Instead of being remembered as the guy who eliminated world hunger, or stemmed global warming, you chose to make another $100 billion?
Why?
To be fair, the average Trump supporter is not proud of the fact that his hero is a convicted felon. But somebody has to lie at the bottom of the barrel, and it might as well be the guy pictured at left.
It strikes me that the typical MAGA voter believes:
Trump was railroaded on charges that wouldn’t have been brought if he were less outspoken and honest in his quest to save America.
Even if charges were to be brought, they should have been misdemeanors.
Trump’s criminal record is not a strength per se, but Christ was perfect, and even He was convicted and crucified.
Trump’s crimes are irrelevant against the backdrop of the alternatives: a bunch of radical leftwing gay, black-loving communists.
The MAGA base is on fire about Trump’s quest to ban Sharia law. It would take any of them about 15 seconds, if they wished to look into this, to learn that Sharia law has no official legal status or authority in the United States, because the U.S. Constitution and secular laws always come first. For a moment, think about an American judge’s sentencing a thief to have his hand amputated, or having an adulteress stoned to death. Then, think about how stupid you’d need to be excited about the idea of having Trump ban Sharia law.
Trump’s first term didn’t make him any friends with U.S. generals and admirals. He followed up his referring to our soldiers as “suckers” and “losers” with pardoning someone who had been convicted in military court of a war-crime.
Yet it is his second term that has really propelled him into infamy. Here we have:
Iran, Venezuela, deployments of National Guard troops in Democratic-led cities, destroying America’s confidence in democracy by repeating the lie that the 2020 election was rigged, renaming the Department of Defense and appointing an alcoholic Fox News host to run it, threatening to invade Greenland and Canada, the destruction of relations with our historic allies, his usurpation of power delegation to the Constitution to congress, appointing his personal attorney to the Department of Justice, ignoring the national security implications that accompany climate change, damaging America’s business interests with huge tariffs, and buddying up to world tyrants like Putin and Kim Jong Un.
The reason that the MAGA base supports Trump never was rooted in personal gain, whether that meant income, healthcare, or God knows, education. Yes, they got shafted by the rising cost of living, but they never suffered anything like what’s happening to the American farmer.
From AI:
Capping all this off is Trump’s allowing hundreds of millions of pounds of ground beef to be imported with zero tariffs.
Well, they were far more likely to be hospitalized and to die by drowning in their own pus and blood that built up in their lungs.
Doesn’t sound pleasant. Not sure I’d call it “nothing.”
As the U.S. midterm elections grow nearer, the two political parties are desperate to find their central narrative. Coming down to the wire, it looks like this:
The Republicans still claim that life in the U.S. is becoming more affordable, and that we’ve won the war in Iran, yet they know that there is a limit to American stupidity. They are hunkering down on the idea that Trump is the only thing separating us from the communism of China and the former USSR.
Sadly for the GOP, the vast majority are more concerned that our nation is on the brink of losing its democracy to fascism. We want the sociopath out of office.
Re: the meme here that a reader sent me, I’m not sure this is fair.
What social democrats are proposing is exactly what most of the governments of Western Europe, and many other countries around the globe offer their citizens.
I don’t read too much about genocide in Denmark. Are they killing each other with pastries?
The turbine presented here has blades that are 0.5 meters in length, and the average home requires 1.2 KW.
When we plug this into a wind power calculator, we learn that we’ll need an average wind speed of 37 mph.
Since the average wind speed in Germany is 11 mph and power is proportionate to the cube of the wind speed, the average German will need 38 of these to power his house.
The substance of the meme here is correct; Florida public schools actually do require comprehensive K-12 instruction on the history and dangers of communism, following a series of legislative moves and curriculum standards. The updated “History of Communism” curriculum is rolling out for the 2026–2027 school year, mandating that students learn about the “brutal realities” and (the catastrophic) global impact of communist regimes.
When I was a schoolboy in the 1960s and early 1970s, we came to learn that all efforts to establish a viable communist nation had failed, but our teachers were not shackled as to what they could teach and how they could teach it. As a result, we came to have access to a variety of helpful viewpoints, and these are what I offered my own kids as they were growing up, e.g.,
Now, will American schoolchildren turn out better if they’re cut off from the capacity to think critically about all this and forced to accept the mantra that “communism = evil?” The typical Florida Republican would say the answer is an obvious yes, but most intelligent people would dispute that.
An educational system that produces young people who can think for themselves is an idea quite opposed to the ongoing control of an ignorant population.
