….And one of these exceptions is people whose thinking goes like this:
A) Tucker Carlson went on camera for more than two years and claimed, even though he knew it was 100% false, that the 2020 presidential election was rigged in favor of Joe Biden.
and
B) Tucker Carlson is an honest and reliable source of investment advice.
Sorry, but it’s absurd to have sympathy for people whose intelligence is that feeble.
Re: the graphic at left, Mike Tucker writes: Looks a lot like the red\blue maps you see around election time. Almost the same distribution too. What a coincidence?
It’s certainly close.
What is certain is that more guns per capita means more gun deaths per capita. If more guns made us safer, we would be the safest country on Earth. Instead:
What former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt says here is 100% correct. What we failed to note, however, is that Rupert Murdoch’s net worth is north of $18 billion, and his team of professional liars are also extremely well paid for destroying their country.
Trump Rally (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe)
In a recent post I presented the concept that there are, for all practical purposes, three distinct political philosophies existing in the U.S. right now: progressives, traditional Republicans, and Trumpists.
This is why the GOP is facing an uphill battle in 2024:
A majority of Americans, albeit a slim one, have liberal values, and
conservatives are split between those who are selfish and cruel, but by-and-large intelligent, and those who are hateful and stupid.
This is the first flake of snow of what is about to become a full-on avalanche.
I wish people would stop calling it “hush money” and start referring to it as “falsifying business records.”
The meme here is a good representation of how stupid people sound when the “research” they have supposedly conducted runs counter to the findings of science.
It’s also a reminder that we live among people who honestly believe that American education is indistinguishable from propaganda, that our schools and colleges crank out socialists, and that our kids would have better, stronger minds if they simply skipped education altogether and entered the workforce at a young age.
It seems that there are three distinct political philosophies existing in the U.S. right now:
Progressives, who are calling for the decarbonization of our transportation and energy sectors, simply because this is what our scientists are begging us to do, so as to avert catastrophe.
Traditional Republicans, whose values include small government and personal accountability. They tend to be skeptical of climate science, even though they may understand that rising levels of CO2 are responsible for global warming. They’re likely to dismiss progressives as alarmists whose main motivation is dismantling American capitalism.
Trumpists, who take all this one step further. They reject everything that runs counter to what they’re told by the former president, including the outright rejection of the scientific disciplines that affect public policy, e.g., climate and epidemiology. They support their beliefs with the fact that there are web sites that assert that the planet is actually cooling, that the pandemic is a government-driven hoax, etc., and that there are “news” channels that broadcast this disinformation.
As suggested by the drawing above, it’s this last group that causes most of the trouble that those of us in the other two parties face. For instance, if Trumpists didn’t exist, there would be near-unanimous demand for common sense gun laws, and we would put an end to most of the mass shootings that are robbing us of our loved ones. This is especially upsetting in the case of our small children, whose bodies are blasted to bits because weapons of war are universally available, even to those who may be criminally insane.
Not unlike the dog shown here, I’m suspicious that Donald Trump doesn’t actually need the massive donations that he’s requesting (and receiving) from the millions of gullible morons who support him.
Star Trek’s Mr. Spock says it nice here.
From reader Brian Farrell: Fox hosts won’t have to apologize on air for broadcasting lies…not even once!
I was frustrated to see that Dominion Voting Systems settled out of court, but it’s a bit early to start the lamenting. Fox is still facing lawsuits from a rich variety of plaintiffs. See below:
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