Re: the meme here, two quick points:
If you believe that your kids are engulfed in messaging, especially from their school teachers, that tells them that “America is terrible,” you’re a gullible, brainwashed fool.
If you dispute the idea that your country should be presented objectively for its strengths and weaknesses, thus shutting our people off from the information they need to observe and fix its problems, you’re a good deal worse.
I would add that we can vote against them in our elections and encourage others to do the same.
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Prosecute them if they commit crimes, regardless of the support they have from other awful people.
This is one of the twits whose message is that America’s “two tiers of justice” means that rich and powerful people like Trump are treated more harshly by our legal system than common citizens. That might play in her home state, but the level of ignorance required to believe this garbage does not exist in most other places, thank God.
Here’s a news clip from the months leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
See if you notice anything strange about it vis-à-vis today’s politics in America, and ask yourself if there’s anything repulsive about her.
“In an administration defined by lawlessness, Peter Navarro was one of the most lawless,” said ethics expert Noah Bookbinder. “It is positive that he was convicted.”
All this is wonderful. But is he any closer to going to jail now than he was before the jury’s decision? I’m not sure.
I’m glad Newhart made this comment, so I don’t have to.
Here’s another variation on the theme of storing off-peak energy by pushing a mass uphill, and then releasing the mass when energy is needed. Think of it as pumped hydro without the hydro.
This has an advantage over competitive ideas in that no natural change of elevation is required; you simply dig a deep hole in the ground and seal the walls so it doesn’t cave in.
The problem, as I’ve covered extensively over the years, is that battery technology is improving steadily, where this concept is based on the discoveries of Newton (~1660) and Faraday (~1830) and cannot possibly become more efficient or energy dense over time.
The meme here reminds us of a sad fact: there will always be irreconcilable differences between the left and the right. That’s because, regardless of what the left happens to want America to become, there will always be words in the English language that Fox News and the like can use to twist progressives’ ideas into something malignant.
The leader of the Proud Boys is going to serve a minimum of 85% of his 22-year sentence, or 18.7 years, behind bars for his role as the most culpable of Trump’s foot-soldiers in the former president’s efforts to overthrow the U.S. government post the 2020 presidential election.
Are we satisfied that the leader of the largest club of hateful morons has lost most of his adult life to a hellish existence, simply because Trump commanded him to act in this capacity?
I’m not.
If the justice system can’t send Trump to prison, and if I were hearing this case, I’d be reluctant to hand down these extremely severe sentences against the idiots who followed the explicit instructions of the President of the United States.
Btw, I chose the photo above featuring Tarrio and Roger Stone in an effort to convey my disgust that Stone hasn’t yet been indicted for his part in this conspiracy.
The snarky meme here suggests that making changes in our society is useless, because we still have problems.
This logic may appeal to idiots, but those capable of reason understand that becoming more sensitive to racial minorities is a good thing in and of itself, and that it’s part of a long-term effort to promote social equity.
