In the last couple of months, gas prices here have risen from ~$3.50/gallon to ~$5.40/gallon. That’s a 54% increase and it’s hit working class folks hard.
Liberals are not “losing their minds”; they simply have empathy for other people.
This country has real problems–ones that actually exist. Here, I mean things like poverty, child hunger, environmental collapse, lousy education, and the absence of affordable healthcare.
I tend to vote for the party that is at least attempting to deal with these.
The United States has transformed itself in a land of hatred, whether that means blacks, Muslims, immigrants, or gays.
Whether or not we should be talking about homosexuality in our schools is a controversial matter, but could it be any worse than the way we’re treating it in our homes?
If you still think that Trump is sane and an honest servant of the American people, even after all this, you have something profoundly wrong with you.
When I was a young boy, my maternal grandfather have me a great number of pieces of solid advice that I’ve carried with me through life. One that I’ll never forget, though it was clearly not an original thought on his part, was: never argue with an idiot.
There are people with advanced degrees in climate science, many of whom have been studying the subject for half a century. The moron who composed the meme here seems to think that I, an erstwhile business consultant, should engage with him, perhaps an auto mechanic, on the subject of climatology.
Sorry.
As we’re all aware, humankind carries around a cognitive bias in the form of seeking out information that confirms what we already believe, and the author of the meme at left has created a textbook example.
Each line conveys a deeply misleading concept about the political left.
Having said this, we live in a time in which disinformation surrounds us at every turn. It’s an industry, just like banking, IT, and manufacturing.
My favorite: “riots and chaos.” lol
Haven’t we all wondered about this?
Obviously, there are limits to presidential power as set forth in the U.S. Constitution, which Trump is exceeding almost every day. But can he rename the U.S. Capitol the “Donald J. Trump Capitol Building?”
He holds himself on par with Washington and Lincoln. Can he put his name on their monuments?
What his remaining supporters don’t (or refuse to) understand about Trump is that items like “250 years of democracy” don’t mean a goddamn thing to him.
He’d have sold his mother to the devil for another five minutes of power.
Without a doubt, Americans’ financial and physical security is important.
But what about our moral wellbeing? We’re a pariah nation, led by a criminal sociopath.
To answer the question posed here from a reader:
I do. I have a degree in physics. Before that, I graduated from high school.
Obviously, there are scientifically illiterate people all around the country who know less about the atmosphere than my neighbor’s dog, but I’m not sure how that impacts the matter.
