At left are the words of former Republican Party U.S. representative from Illinois and 2020 Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh, apologizing to the free world for what’s happening in the United States at this point in time.
It is indeed a tragedy.
The author of the meme here doesn’t seem to understand that the youngsters in DOGE are making policy decisions that do violence to the health, safety, and general well-being of every American, and, indirectly, most of the people in other countries around the world.
Greta, by contrast, makes no policy decisions. And even if she did, they would be informed by science, and aimed at environmental sustainability–something most people agree is a good thing.
She’s 22 years old, btw. A little honesty would be nice.
Yes, stupidity is required here, but keep in mind that the MAGA crowd will believe anything, regardless of how absurd, if it comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. That’s more than mere stupidity.
Someone asked me recently if I thought it was possible that Greenland holds a legitimate national security purpose for the United States (as Trump claims). I responded that I don’t know, because I’m not privy to our military secrets, but I’m 100% confident that Denmark will allow us to do anything we want on Greenland if it will help protect the world against foreign aggression.
My wife believes that the United States is headed towards the Orwellian dystopia “1984,” based on the systematic distortion of truth we see all around us. If a U.S. president can convince his followers that Ukraine started the war with Russia by attacking first, I suppose she has a point.
We shouldn’t expect people with hundreds of billions of dollars to become heroes, but we shouldn’t allow them to become terrorists, either.
I’m sure that millions of people have had the thought offered at left.
Personally, I would tackle the environment, making large investments in decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors, and moving to sustainable agriculture.
As at least 99% of us know, school students can read the Bible if they so choose.
School students cannot be forced to read the Bible, any more than they can be forced to read the Quran.
Like so many of his college friends in the early 1940s, my father (temporarily) dropped out to fight in WW2. Dad happened to become a B17 (bomber) pilot, running missions out of London, destroying Nazi oil refineries. Also like his friends, he was thrilled to come home when the war was over in 1945.
Dad left us in 2010, a few months before his 90th birthday, and Mom and I still have discussions as to how her late husband would have regarded Trump. He was a conservative life-long Republican, but he was a fair and honest man. It’s hard for me to imagine his supporting a clearcut enemy of democracy.
I so wish I could have a talk with Dad.
It’s good to know that there exists a handful of congressional Republicans who openly and fiercely oppose Donald Trump.
What Liz Cheney says about the president’s lackeys is 100% correct, i.e., that Trump will be gone at a certain point, but the world will never forget their spineless betrayal of their country.
Are there people who believe Elon Musk’s claims that millions of dead American are receiving Social Security checks? Of course.
There are people who think that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, and that it was the Deep State and Black Lives Matter (rather than Trump himself) who incited the insurrection on January 6, 2021.
