At a Chick-Fil-A
I actually didn’t need another good reason to stay out of Chick-Fil-A, but it looks like I got one nonetheless.
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Project 2025 and Climate Change Denial
One of the many casualties of Project 2025 will be NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its subsidiary, the National Hurricane Center. The motive for dismantling NOAA? It’s “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.”
However, as one might suspect, all this comes at a huge cost. There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 million people who live in hurricane-prone areas of the southeastern part of the United States whose property–and very lives–are endangered by these storms each year. Project 2025 will shut them off from the information that could keep them safe.
What we’re seeing here is quite typical of Trump: a reckless disregard for Americans’ well-being and a disdain for science itself.
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Autocracy
Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen probably wrote the content of the meme here as it applies to the Russian people under Putin.
Americans need to hope that it has no real applicability to their lives here in the United States.
In truth, this could go in either direction.
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“Weird” Isn’t the Word We’re Looking For
The meme here is from a reader (who misspelled “tantrums.”)
If I were a Democratic political strategist, I wouldn’t be trying to pin the concept of “weirdness” on Donald Trump and JD Vance.
That’s because, if we’re being honest with ourselves, we’re all weird in some way. To be weird is to be nonconforming. Are men who cry weird? Are people who don’t have televisions weird?
The problem with Trump and Vance is that they are profoundly hateful and dishonest people. They have no regard for basic moral principles, and they’re aware that most of what they claim is patently untrue.
Driving an EV Won’t Make the Need for Gasoline Disappear Immediately, But Isn’t that Obvious?
The author of the meme here seems to be suggesting that driving an EV while the world is still transitioning away from gasoline is hypocritical.
That doesn’t show much insight or intelligence.
Yes, maybe his house has a gas generator for backup power (or perhaps he’s getting gas for his tractor). Is there something wrong with that?
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GOP: A Cult without Principles
The former chairman of the Maine Republican party understands the profound and tragic changes that the GOP has undergone, and its current status as a cult of dishonesty.
Fortunately, a great many other Republicans have had that precise realization.
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It Would Be Nice if the Internet Weren’t Home to Troves of False Information
If this were correct, the ship would sink if it was stationary.
The ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes discovered that the net upward force on an object immersed in water is equal to the weight of the water displaced by the object.
The ship floats because the weight of the water it displaces is equal to apparent weight loss of the ship.
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The Definitive Statement of Existentialism
Apparently, French surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel fashioned his quote here from the great Friedrich Nietzsche and his masterpiece “Beyond Good and Evil,” which contains this, IMO the definitive explanation of existentialism, and the most beautiful single sentence ever written in Western philosophy:
In man, creature and creator are united: in man there is matter, fragment, excess, clay, mud, madness, chaos; but in man there is also creator, sculptor, the hardness of the hammer, the divine spectator and the seventh day.
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Cicero’s “Good Citizen”
Right here and now, Cicero’s “good citizen” seems to have gone into hiding.
Most Republicans will be voting for Trump, a man who has consistently thumbed his nose at our laws.
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Ignorance Abounds
I know there are right-wing voters all around the developed world, e.g., the Lepin followers in France.
But consider the photo here. Can anyone imagine the equivalence of this anywhere else than the U.S.? We somehow seem to have cornered the market on the true right-wing idiot.
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