Vance has certain qualifications that appeal to the MAGA crowd, e.g., his seething racist hatred, dishonesty, cruelty, anti-science, anti-woke, anti-human rights, anti-education, and anti-environmental responsibility.
Whether he’ll be as appealing as Trump to the amoral billionaires remains to be seen.
Sorry to say, Joe, but that’s exactly who we are at this point.
Now, you may want to ask if this is a permanent feature of the United States, or can all this criminality and cruelty be gotten under control at some point in the future. Remains to be seen.
Becca: I agree that there is no way anyone could have seen this coming, especially in a time when there are still survivors of World War II alive.
What Valerie Bertinelli says here makes sense at a certain level, but will it ultimately work? The MAGA folks are convinced that everyone else is lying in an effort to destroy the United States, and that Donald Trump and top sycophants are the only ones telling the truth.
It must be very difficult to find cabinet secretaries who are true scum–people with exactly zero personal integrity.
When and if Noem is impeached, Trump will be tasked with finding yet another piece of human filth.
Whether or not Trump will succeed in establishing himself as king remains to be seen. One thing’s for certain: the United States will experience an enormous amount of suffering and death along the way.
What a tragedy that our country’s integrity has evaporated like this.
Well, as we all know, what Sharon Stone said at left, sadly, is incorrect; millions of Trump voters are highly educated people who were tragically born without a conscience.
This from 20th Century American jurist Learned Hand:
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.
It’s positively scary how closely this mirrors American society today.
I must confess that, to a large degree, I have lost faith in the eventual supremacy of reason.
This sounds like fake news.
I heard one ICE guy say fairly recently, “I get paid to do this? I’d happily do it for free!”
We live among people who receive immense gratification from making the lives of the most miserable people living in our nation even more agonizing.
Are ICE agents detested by the vast majority of Americans? Of course. Does that bother them? I highly doubt it.
