The idea that Trump’s return to the White House would usher in regressive policies is true, but it’s hardly the worst element of damage that the former president represents to the United States.

Perhaps this message should come from someone other than Biden, but Trump tried (and continues to try) to overthrow the U.S. federal government, and install himself a permanent autocrat, e.g., Putin in Russia.

Most of us are far more concerned about this than we are the cost of prescription drugs.

 

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This woman makes an excellent point.

I believe the reason some people pride themselves on their lack of interest in politics is that don’t want any association whatsoever–even in their own minds–with some of the country’s scummiest people: Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, Lauren Boebert, etc.  Where that’s easy to understand, they need to realize that if they don’t like these politicians’ character and become actively involved in cleaning up the nation, things can get even worse.

In particular, the next wanna-be dictator is extremely unlikely to be as clumsy as Trump.  He’s not going to take thousands of secret documents to his house and brandish them to guests, he’s not going to have 18 co-defendants with incriminating email chains describing how they were going to seize power after getting shellacked in a lawful and fair election (some of whom flip when confronted by prosecutors), and he’s not going to be facing a slew of other felony charges stemming from four different indictments.

This is what forms part of the imperative to convict and incarcerate Trump right now; it will deter the next criminal sociopath who aspires to be King of the United States.

 

 

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The George Santos story offers a bit of comic relief against the backdrop of Trump, Putin, and the rest of the criminality in the world today.

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Most Americans simply wish their country could return to where is was only one short decade ago.  At that point, it would have been unthinkable for a U.S. representative with no training in science to address the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research within the Food and Drug Administration on the House floor and tell him that what he was presenting was “bullshit.”

Before the arrival of Trump on the political scene, this just wouldn’t have happened.

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Don Lawrence writes: These 15 Republican “Governors” turned down federal money to feed low-income children in their states when out of school during the summer (8 million children).

Readers outside the U.S. may not recognize these states (at left) as the most conservative of our total of 50.  Unfortunately, the decision to reject federal money (because of these governors’ abhorrence of government spending to help the common American), comes at a huge cost to 8 million hungry kids.

It’s unvarnished cruelty, but what did you expect?

 

 

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Obviously they owe the American people an apology.

What they also owe, I hope, is a big fat compensatory and punitive damages award when Hunter Biden takes these liars to court and a jury gets to listen to this persistent, multi-year pattern of defamation.

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As a subscriber, you probably noticed that I haven’t published this newsletter in quite a while (though the frequency of blog posts on the website hasn’t diminished; we have a total of 15,700+, growing daily).

Perhaps an explanation is in order.  When it was originally conceived, 2GreenEnergy focused largely on the business aspects of renewable energy, but over the years our mission changed considerably, becoming far broader.

While my associates and I remain poised to help our clients in any of dozens of different business disciplines, most of the new content on the site over the past few years has had little to do with commerce directly, but has concentrated on the need to phase out fossil fuels in favor of low-carbon alternatives so as to avert environmental catastrophe, and that normally means confronting the political issues that stand in the way.

Yes, there in an ongoing stream of posts on the ever-changing scene in business, technology, and economics, but today’s readers are more likely to see thoughts on:

• Putting an end to Big Oil’s stranglehold on our lawmaking processes and removing money from politics on a variety of different fronts, e.g., gun safety laws and healthcare.

• Accepting science as a core driver of policymaking in climate change mitigation, pandemic control, etc.

• Ensuring that Donald Trump never gets anywhere near the White House ever again, and, to whatever degree possible, removing “Trumpism” as an animating factor in American society.

• Understanding a variety of other related social issues, e.g., restoring quality education, and maintaining the separation of church and state.

• Looking at the subject of sustainability more generally: clean water, micro-plastics, mass transit, land use and sustainable agriculture, etc.

As we move through our 15th year, I want to thank everyone who’s contributed to furthering the cause of environmental responsibility, and that means you, regardless of the actual role you’ve played.

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The NRA and its Second Amendment fanatics have numerous maxims about the value of guns in our society, and one of them is referred to in the meme here.

 

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As suggested in this cartoon by Erkki Alanen, a consequence of the ubiquity of guns in the United States is that they tend to get in the hands of children.

Tragedy often ensues.

Of course, there isn’t a goddamn thing that any of us can do about this, but I thought I’d note it anyway.

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From physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei: In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. 

This seems to be an idea that’s gotten lost in the shuffle of the last 400 years.

As Neil deGrasse Tyson likes to say, “What I like about science is that it’s true regardless of what you believe.”

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