Senator Lindsey Graham is typical of today’s Republican party in that facts don’t matter. Truth and lies run together like the Euphrates flowing into the Tigris.
The commenter could have added: Except when a political party wants to allow the overthrowing of the U.S. federal government / American democracy.
“How do they not see it?”
It’s the one-two punch of ignorance and hate.
Alternatively put, cult members don’t understand that they’re in a cult.
I predict that the event promoted here will cease to exist in a few years, because we’re getting very close to the point where both the scientific and the business communities realize that the entire CCS enterprise is a bust.
Actually, “bust” is too kind a word. It’s a scam, a ruse perpetrated by Big Oil, to lead the general public to believe that our civilization has no problem burning fossil fuels into perpetuity.
These are good questions, and they come with a few, tightly related answers:
Ignorance, white nationalism and anti-wokeism. Trump supporters don’t love everything he says and does, but their hatred is so intense that they happily accept their leader.
Of course, all this is re-enforced with 24/7 coverage from Fox News and the other ultra-right-wing “information” sources.
Memorial Day is a bad 24-hour period for Trump, as, like Veterans Day, it reminds our country how hostile the former president has been to the American military.
In turns, this reminds us that, in addition to being a pathological liar and criminal, that in many ways, Trump’s a bumbling fool. How hard would it have been to refrain from publicly referring to our troops as “suckers” and “losers?” How tough would it have been to let the military justice system stand on its own and not pardon a convicted war criminal?
Well, technically it is.
In economics, inflation is defined as “a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy.” It so happens that the inflation we’re experiencing right now is due to the record profits that our largest corporations, most of which hold oligopolistic market positions, are pulling in.
Here’s another clever message to the effect that we’re failing miserably to take care of our only home, and that it’s our money-motivation that’s driving this catastrophe.
When I was a small boy, I read that the side effects of capitalism would eventually destroy this planet. Now, that was in the mid-1960s, long before ideas like this became mainstream. There were no bleached coral beds, sunny-day flooding, massive wildfires, and record-setting heat waves.
At this point, the truth about our environmental collapse is readily available to everyone, but we don’t seem to be any closer to implementing solutions. Why? They’re somewhat expensive.
As Kurt Vonnegut said, ““We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost effective.”
FWIW, I agree with Michael Foot, Labour Party Member of Parliament in 1980s England. I would add that this whole matter is even simpler now, 40 years later, as the rich have gotten far richer and the poor far poorer.
Taxing billionaires puts essentially zero financial strain on them, while ensuring that no one dies of a treatable disease, no one who wants an education is denied one, and no one in need of food and shelter lives starving on the streets.
It’s the way the entirety of the rest of the developed world lives.
Make it so.
Here’s a voter named Mark.
Question: How many “Marks” are there out there?
I get the feeling that there are plenty of Republicans who understand that Trump is a criminal sociopath and will refuse to vote for him, regardless of their opinion of Biden.
Re: the meme here: confusing?
