The meme here covers yet another horrible feature of life in today’s America, i.e., all of a sudden we hate our jobs.

I’ll admit that I was lucky enough to find work that was lucrative and rewarding (most of the time), but I don’t recall my employees hating coming into the office every morning. I had clients that were mainly mid-level corporate executives in Fortune 100 firms, and they didn’t strike me as unhappy either.

I’m wondering if this isn’t the product of social media, where most of what gets shared is misery.

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I just met a guy who was headed for the beach to take a swim in the ocean, which I found impressive, given that the water in Santa Barbara is 59 degrees F.

“My ocean-swimming days are over,” I told him.

“Oh, it gets worse,” he replied. “Because of climate change, the waters south of here are too hot for the sharks, so they’re moving north.”

Holy crap.

 

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Occasionally we see signs of integrity from politicians.

What a breath of fresh air.

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Yes, but this would have hurt the billionaires, and that can never happen in our society.

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Here’s Lucy Biggers, social media powerhouse, explaining how solar and wind energy actually aren’t free, because they require materials that need to be mined from the Earth.

Yes, Lucy.  I think most of us already knew that.

It’s hard for me to understand how a person with zero training in science has any relevance to what climate scientists are telling us. If I want a good recipe for carrot soup, I don’t ask a baseball coach or an auto mechanic.

They call this woman an “influencer.” What type of idiot does she influence?

 

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Yes, part of this is stupidity.  But a larger part is that people who still support Trump at this point are desperate to believe whatever comes out of his mouth, regardless of how nonsensical it may be. People generally are extremely reluctant to admit that they’ve been duped.

I wish my mother were still here so I could see where she would stand.  She was extremely well-educated, and a voracious reader, but somehow remained a Fox News viewer until the end.  I just wonder if the last 15 months may have turned her around.

 

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Those who stand in opposition to the president have dozens of different reasons for their feelings.  One, as is on display here, is that he’s an ignoramus.

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Not sure about this.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School might struggle to identify a bear. Could be.

This is representative of the intelligence level of the American electorate today.

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This guy is quite effective in talking to uneducated, conservative Americans, most of whom have never traveled to, or even read anything about the happiest countries on Earth.

If I were going to make a statement about the relationship between social justice and despotism, I would at least consider the lives of the people in places that consider social justice to be something of importance, and compare/contrast this to the list of the countries that are perennially at the top of the World Happiness Rankings.

What makes the people in New Zealand, Iceland, Costa Rica, Northern Europe, etc., so happy?  Why do these nations suffer exactly zero despotism?

I would be completely ashamed of myself if I were to forward a political theory that had precisely no basis in fact.

 

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The Chinese ownership of American farmland is less than 0.00036, or 0.036%.  To put this into perspective, if the entirety of U.S. farmland were reduced to one acre, the Chinese government and business interests would own less than 15 square feet, about half the size of a small broom closet.

Yet, true to form, this is a huge issue for the MAGA base.

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