California a “Failed State?”
Disgusting. It’s one thing that “news” in the United States has largely been replaced by incendiary opinions. But it’s even worse that so many of these opinions are so grossly ill-informed.
In its quest to move to the middle of the political spectrum, CNN has integrated a few hard-right commentators, like Jennings. Fine; I get that. But do they have to be morons?
In particular, can’t CNN do better than to refer to California as a “failed state?” If California were a nation it would be the fourth largest economy on the planet, having recently overtaken Japan.
The answer to Dr. Goodall seems to be that intelligence is only one of the characteristics that makes humankind unique on this planet. Into the soup, we need to add extra ingredients: especially greed and cruelty.
To the reader who sent me these memes here:
In the note at left Robert Reich reminds us that Trump’s supporters must be under great emotional stress to take this man seriously. Every day brings us new adventures in complete insanity.
A lady asked me to define existentialism the other day, and the words at left are essentially what I told her.
The reader who sent me this asked if found what Macgregor wrote here to be offensive.
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From “Occupy Democrats”: Democratic Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (pictured) crushes MAGA Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for whining about the Biden administration instead of planning for the future: “We have zip! Nada!”
If one were to rank each of the American presidents from first to last in terms of respect for our troops, I suppose that Washington, Lincoln, or Eisenhower would be at the top. Trump would most certainly be last, and that would have been true even before the latest debacle in Los Angeles.
Progressives tend to be sympathetic people. By definition, we feel others’ pain and we do what we can to alleviate it.
