Political Strategist James Carville on the 2024 Election
Not to split hairs, but the 2024 election is not an opportunity to end Trumpism for good, if by the term you mean the hate and ignorance of the many tens of millions of MAGA Americans who carry this terrible infliction around with them.
I have every confidence that major right-wing political issues and the politicians who support them will lose at the polls, but all this stupidity will not simply vanish into thin air; it will go into dormancy, only to arise at some later time.
Dormancy is actually a best-case scenario, because here’s a related question: What level of violence can we expect if Trump is convicted and incarcerated on one or more of 91 felonies with which he’s charged?
It would be a better world if what Heraclitus said were true, but it certainly appears that good people can suffer terrible fates and vice versa.
December is a good time of year to remind ourselves that our consumerism as a society is a choice; it’s not a requirement.
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: This climate meeting was all about fossil fuel strategies and alliances to wipe out renewable energy.
This cartoon by “Stines” reminds us that, when they grow up, naughty kids turn into bad adults who have no compunction about destroying the planet’s capacity to support life, if that’s what’s required to make them rich.
Though we Americans tend to learn very little about the political issues that motivate voters in other countries, things elsewhere around the globe seem to make better sense than they do here.
Good job by Jimmy Kimmel here (or, more properly, one of his writers).
Thucydides’ statement here implies that war has been a permanent, 365-day-a-year feature of Western society for at least the last 2500 years.
I’m willing to bet that he’ll find incarceration even more embarrassing.
When we come across political advertising like this, we realize to our horror that many Americans are incapable of any more refined level of thinking than this, and that their votes counts just as much as yours and mine.
