Hillsdale College is a rightwing Christian extremist organization that ostensibly honors the United States Constitution.

Here’s their quiz, which should be called the “Constitutional Trivia Quiz,” whose obvious purpose is to convince Americans of their ignorance, so as to send them crawling to Hillsdale.

When I teach, I’m going for understanding of the topic, and to have my students critically evaluate what I’m saying, not the memorization of useless information.

Maybe that makes me a radical woke liberal communist.

 

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This will result in lung disease, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and higher electricity prices.

It will also further alienate the rest of the world from our country, as every other nation on the planet is making gains in the direction of decarbonization, and no other nation suffers from this level of corruption with the fossil fuel industry.

If that pleases you, you’re a warped human being.

 

 

 

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It’s interesting that there is no Fox News (or equivalent) in Canada.

The Canadians have protections of free speech that are very similar to ours in the States, and, like the U.S., these rights are not absolute.  One difference is that Canada prohibits gross misrepresentation, which, in this case means that presenting opinions and calling it “news” is against the law. Lies are fine; calling them “news” is not.

A possible name for a show with the same content might be “Conservative Viewpoints” or “The Way the Right Wing Sees the World.”

Where Canada protects its people from malicious bullshit, in America we say, “Money talks.”

 

 

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Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich makes an excellent point at left.

The constant onslaught of distractions coming out of Trump’s mouth is calculated to make us give up striving for truth, honesty, and environmental responsibility.

We mustn’t quit.

 

 

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The death sentence that Trump has imposed on renewable energy in America is good for two groups: a) Big Oil and b) the MAGA crowd that rejects science and wants nothing more than to own the libs, aka the “libtards.”

The unforeseen problem for the common American is that solar and wind are by far the least expensive sources of energy, so that the ratepayers in the U.S. are soon going to be shucking out extra cash each month.

Of course, this doesn’t account for the increases in the effects of climate change that, though they are devastating our planet, won’t be affecting the MAGA too badly for the next few years while Trump profits by turning our Earth into a wasteland.

 

 

 

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4.9% per month is 78% per annum.

Here is a deal I’m sure you’ll accept.

I’ll send you $100K tomorrow morning, and you put $178K in escrow, payable to me at the end of 12 months.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

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As suggested at left, if you want us to believe that traditional country music artists singers are predominantly Trump supporters, we’ll accept thatIf I were selling — whatever — to largely uneducated white people, I myself might succumb to the temptation to pretend that Trump is OK with me.

And yes, there are a few Hollywood actors that love Trump too. But outside of Nashville and a few meanspirited crackpots out here in California, there is essentially zero support for the president in the entertainment industry.

Why?

First of all, America still dominates the world in terms of music and film, and the people outside the U.S. have a general loathing for Trump and his criminality.

On top of that, about two-thirds of U.S. voters, right here at home, despise the president, as they realized long ago that he’s essentially a conman.

Expecting people who love music, movies, dogs, science, children, and compassion for other people to accept Trump is a pipedream.

 

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I looked through a few of the many thousands of responses to the question above on social media and have concluded:

If you ask uneducated people who know essentially nothing about global warming, you’ll find that nothing can stop it, because it’s been going on since the origin of the planet. Others say that God controls the planet’s temperature.

If you ask climate scientists who work in laboratories around the globe who have been studying this subject for decades, you’ll find that there are two key answers: a) decarbonization of our transportation and energy sectors and b) halting the destruction of our rain forests.

As always, we have a choice to make: ignorance or science.

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In mathematics, a “point of inflection” is the point at which a function stops falling and starts growing or stops growing and starts falling. In the language of calculus, we say that a point of inflection is where the second derivative of the function transitions from positive to negative or vice versa.

The well-being of the common American hit an inflection point with the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan as president of the United States.  After decades in growth following WW2, instantaneously, we had huge tax breaks for billionaires on the basis of “trickle-down economics,” i.e., the idea that rich people, if they were made even richer, would hire more people.

For some reason, this idea was widely accepted, certainly not by economists, but by the working class, who couldn’t put together the notion that no one hires people except when they’re hit by market forces.

Where do you get pizza?  Do you think for a second that the owner of a pizzeria wants more employees to make and deliver your pizza than is absolutely required to keep his customers happy?  No, and guess what.  That applies to everyone, from the local mom-and-pop shop to the Fortune 500.

 

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The content of the meme here is partially true.  Trump still has about 35% support, but that’s down from 51% when he was elected.  So, more than 12 million American voters who put him in office have realized that he’s nothing more than a criminal conman.

 

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