Do I support clean and fair elections? Or would I rather live in a banana republic where the absolute ruler’s political opponents are routinely arrested, jailed, and tortured? Hmmm.
As most Americans know, there is exactly zero credible evidence of significant voter fraud.
Incredibly, there are wealthy people all around the country, perhaps even the globe, who think like the young man speaking in the cartoon here. It’s supposed to be funny, and it would be, if it didn’t describe a tragic and entirely possible outcome for humankind.
The population of Trump supporters here in the U.S. is composed mostly of the undereducated working class MAGA folks (perhaps 85%) but is complemented by the amoral rich (the other 15%). That’s not an insignificant number of people, especially considering the amount of power they wield.
You have to be paranoid beyond measure to believe that they (whoever they are) want you to be dependent on grocery stores.
That said, the only problem associated with learning how to grow your own food is that, because our school time is finite, this means taking time away from something else. What needs to go away? It’s usually algebra II.
That means no Americans can go to college, which means no more American doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, corporate executives, etc.
I don’t know who wrote the piece at left, and it may be a bit “over the top,” but it’s true by and large.
I predict a breaking point for the MAGA folks, and it may very well be associated with a recession. What happens to undereducated working class Americans when jobs are hard to come by and they become downright poor? There will be a limit to their willingness to accept insane behavior and policy-making from their leader.
See cartoon below:
Re: the message at left, I doubt it. As upsetting as it may be to decent people everywhere, it’s not reasonable to think that Trump could simply disappear from view.
Having said that, it will be interesting to see what happens upon his death. It’s possible that the Republican party will revert to something that resembles what it was like under Ronald Reagan or G.W. Bush,. i.e. conservative but not criminally insane.
The reader who sent this comments: Trump tries to explain that his tariffs needn’t be a financial burden. Just buy less stuff. You don’t need all that extravagance.
More to the point, doesn’t the strength of the economy depend on people buying stuff? Don’t recessions happen when people feel they can’t afford things?
Re: the discussion at left, it’s more than a stupid question; it’s outrageously condescending.
Are you trying to tell me that the coal miner and his family isn’t interested in the content presented on PBS? Nature, current events, history, art, science?
That’s disgraceful.
Journalism is the only profession that’s explicitly mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. It seems that the Founding Fathers believed that protecting the free press was a pretty good idea.
When the richest man on Earth says, “legacy media must die,” he’s referring to institutions like the New York Times, that have informing us since the 1850s.
Does that make sense in a democratic republic?
In a recent message to America, Donald Trump boasted how dramatically gas prices have fallen, pointing out that the national average price has now fallen under the $2.00 per gallon mark.
As anyone could have guessed, this is a lie; the average is now $3.165.
But what makes this noteworthy is that it took me less than a minute to find the website linked above to determine the truth. And there is nothing special about my computer/Internet skills; this is something anyone age 6 to 96 could have done with equal speed. So why does Trump lie about things that the average first grader can disprove as fast as they can read the title of “Run Spot Run?”
All I can suggest is that his base accepts what he says, knowing full well that almost everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. Truth has long since lost all value and relevance.
Re: the meme here, I’d say both are correct, if you delete the word “devious.”
There’s nothing devious about this at all; the Chinese have been trying to take over the world for the last 6000 years, and Trump’s arrogance and naivety has given them a huge shot in the arm.
