The screen cap here is from a video in which Ted Nugent explains how EMP Shield provides electromagnetic pulse (EMP) protection for your home.
Somewhere, there are people who trust Ted Nugent to give them advice on technology.
I want to stay as far away from there as possible.
Legendary quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger said: “Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
Quite a statement, but is it true? Certainly, humankind has made little if any progress with respect to understanding what makes up consciousness. In Western philosophy, the phenomenologists say that “to be conscious is to be conscious of an object”–as if that gets us anywhere.
But are we saying it can’t be explained at all? Or maybe Schrödinger’s using the word “physical” to introduce the idea that consciousness has a spiritual element.
Who knows? I’m not predicting some sort of breakthrough before I leave this planet in the next couple of decades. But I hesitate to claim that a certain thing — anything — is immune to our comprehension.
At left we see the decisions that Allstate and State Farm have made re: climate change.
If you live in a trailer park and get your “news” from Fox, Newsmax, and QAnon, you’re probably a climate denier, an anti-vaxxer, a Trump supporter, and so on down the line. This is a free country, and thus you’re at liberty to hold those views, and, if you’ve achieved middle-age, there is very little additional cost to you. You’re not wealthy, you never will be, and your ignorance can’t cost you any more going forward than it already has.
However, think for a moment of the people who made it to the top of their respective fields. If that field happens to be insurance, imagine that you manage the strategic investment decisions of Allstate or State Farm. You’re one of very few who are held to account for the intelligent direction of hundreds of billions of dollars. You must have been extremely intelligent, advancing far beyond your peers. Above all, you didn’t achieve this station in life by absorbing right-wing disinformation.
Can you be at the top of the insurance industry with profoundly conservative values? Sure, but not if those ideas led you to “news” sources that caused you to reject science, or you would have been cut off at the knees if you wanted to advance beyond selling auto or term- or whole-life to the now-grown kids you knew in high school. You’d be no closer to the upper echelon of the insurance industry than you’d be to flying to the moon on a skate board.
In the final analysis, no one cares what utter crap you believe. Just don’t think that pure bulls*** is going to take you anywhere in a world that has anything whatsoever to do with big money. Nature abhors a vacuum. Big money abhors stupidity.
I used to co-coach my kids’ soccer with a devout Christian who couldn’t get his wits wrapped around my passion for the environment. Since the world is soon coming to an end, as laid out in the Book of Revelation, why would anyone waste his energies on things like pollution and climate change mitigation?
I submit that there is nothing alarming about soccer coaches’ believing garbage like this (as long as they don’t contaminate the kids with it).
We need to draw the line, however, when it comes to electing a president of the United States.
Mike Pence is running for U.S. president in 2024, but doesn’t that mean he has backers who think he could possibly win? What level of stupidity does that require?
Does someone with money honestly think that Americans want to be governed by a religious zealot who stood by and watched Trump commit crimes for four years?
Worse, doesn’t charisma matter? Pence is no more dynamic and passionate than a pool of stagnant water.
This from Trump a few hours after his lawyers left the Department of Justice offices.
I’m going out on a limb and suggesting that the attorneys didn’t succeed on pressuring the DoJ to lay off.
Earlier, I wrote a post on how Trump never quits, never apologizes, and never backs down.
In response to the meme here, reader Luke Renna offers this: Shut up, you f***ing fraud. You’re not going to get your way this time, Mr. Privilege, because if you do all hell will break loose and I think you know what I’m talking about.
I have bad news, Luke. The fact that “all hell will break loose” when the former president is arrested is something that Trump knows very well, and is, in fact, what he’s counting on to extort the U.S. government into sweeping his numerous crimes under the rug.
Much has been said about Trump’s fabulous capacity for self-incrimination.
A great example is the theft of the classified government documents, where Trump has claimed a) they’re classified, b) they’re declassified, and c) in either case, he’s allowed to have them by virtue of the “Presidential Records Act.”
Good luck with that.
I urge readers not to be outraged by the meme here, for two reasons:
a) This guy’s in Idaho, which has joined the race to the bottom, and may already have a lead on Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and the rest.
b) Not that the United States doesn’t have issues with its Supreme Court, but at long as Idaho is part of the country, it will be unable to enforce laws that violate all notions of sanity and decency.
Relax. Don’t let vermin like this ruin your day.
Among Trump’s “special gifts” is his tenacity. He never quits, never apologizes, never backs down.
We can expect attacks like the one here straight through to the time he goes to prison, or flees the country in an effort to stay free.
The problem he’ll be facing is that the majority of his supporters, both in Congress and the electorate, don’t share his dogged persistence. As the indictments continue to rain down, most of these folks will eventually conclude that Trump really is no more than a criminal conman, and move on.
