Trump and the Truth
The average price of gas in the U.S. today is $3.165 per gallon. This is a fact, not an opinion.
However, as shown at left, that means precisely zero to Trump and his followers, for whom the truth has no value whatsoever.
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How Trump Became Possible
We didn’t have this garbage when we grew up, so how did it happen?
The sad truth is that many Americans have family members whose thinking is not too distant from this guy’s. Many of our parents were lost to Fox News.
One of mine was, and it hurt our family badly.
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There’s a Reason Trump Got Re-elected, But This Isn’t It
There’s an interesting concept expressed in the meme here, but I dispute the basic idea that Americans had the best lives on the planet.
Each year, we lose ground to the rest of the developed world in terms of education, health outcomes and life expectancy, happiness rankings, and freedom rankings.
Almost all the new wealth that has entered this country since 1980 has gone to the top 5%, and the working class is indignant.
As a society, we’re grossly indifferent to the suffering of others.
Since the 2010 Supreme Court decision “Citizens United,” our government has grown increasingly corrupt and our lawmakers now show no interest in passing legislation that would help the common American.
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Evaluating Trump’s New Term
It would be nice if we could think of a single thing that Trump has done since he re-assumed office that has made the United States a better, stronger country, but that doesn’t seem possible.
With the exception of the uber-wealthy, our people are less safe, less healthy, and poorer than we were last year. Until recently, our nation had strong allies, and we weren’t cozying up to the world’s most brutal dictators, as suggested in the photo at right.
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Oklahoma Becomes First State to Teach Trump’s Lies re: the 2020 Election as Fact
From this:
Oklahoma is leading the charge to rewrite history — literally. Starting this fall, high school students will be required to learn Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election as though they were proven facts. The new social studies curriculum, pushed through by far-right Superintendent Ryan Walters (R), isn’t just misinformation — it’s indoctrination, funded by taxpayers.
For those unfamiliar with the enormous variations in the 50 states that comprise the U.S., Oklahoma is among the most backwards, so this, nauseating as it may be, should come as no surprise.
I hope readers will read the entire article, liked above.
Clint Eastwood: “I Love When People Call Trump Stupid.”
The aging Trump supporter makes a good point here. Trump’s not stupid himself; in fact, his strength lies in using his warped mind to manipulate the least intelligent Americans into doing his bidding.
Do you think Trump honestly believes that the 2020 election was stolen? That tariffs won’t increase prices and bring the U.S. economy to its knees? That eviscerating the federal government’s participation in disease control, storm forecasting, and the protection of our national parks offers value to the bulk of his constituents? Of course not. But we live among people stupid enough to believe anything he says.
For now, at least, he has us precisely where he wants us.
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Is Insulting the Audience’s Intelligence a Good Marketing Tactic?
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.
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Yes, the Planet Got Destroyed, But . . . . .
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.
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Growing Your Own Food
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.
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Are We Nearing the Breaking Point for MAGA?
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:
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