What Tucker Carlson says here is categorically incorrect, but he speaks to people who are ignorant of the fact that there are numerous types of speech that are not protected by the First Amendment: obscenity, defamation, fraud, incitement, fighting words, true threats, speech integral to criminal conduct, and child pornography.
People have been talking about religious hypocrisy, especially among Christians I guess, for far longer than I’ve been on this planet.
Yet it seems that the right-wing religious extremists have taken all this to a new level.
America isn’t ready for a gay president.
Which is too bad, because other than his sexual orientation, Pete Buttigieg is arguably the single most qualified person for the job in this country.
According to my Fox News-loving mom: The radical left wants to loosen voter registration laws, allowing as many poor/undocumented people as possible into the country, so as to elect a president whose platform is built around government handouts. Once this process fully takes hold, there will never be another Republican president elected.
My view is that encouraging as many citizens as possible to vote, as is done in Europe and Scandinavia, is actually a good thing. Who has a problem with a government that reflects the will of the people?
We’re talking about a government that helps people escape poverty, keeps our environment clean, educates our young people, and ensures that no one dies of a treatable disease.
It’s vehemently opposed by our billionaires, but it is, to the degree that it can be effected, a boon to the common American.
Apparently, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich agrees.
The company looking for investors to build and market this new form of transportation (see left) points out a key driver of the product’s ultimate success: No Pilot’s License Needed.
I see a day when the air is filled with people flying these to work, to the grocery store, etc. These are people with no pilot’s license, no flight training, and no flight plans, simply buzzing along through the skies.
All this follows an announcement from an FAA spokesperson: “Regulation? Why? What are you going to do, regulate everything that flies? We don’t regulate bees, do we?”
Actually, wait a sec. Maybe this won’t really happen.
How does one feed 100K people daily?
Most of us have made dinner for, say 20 guests. Multiply that by 50,000 and–bingo–you have arrived at the scale at which these Sikh chefs are doing here in New Delhi, India.
An infinitesimally small part of our culture in the United States is involved in taking care of those least able to take care of themselves. And what exists of it is being beaten out of the public sector, as an entire political party is desperate to dismantle as many government programs as it can get its cruel hands on.
“Justice Thomas is compromised,” says Massachusetts junior senator and consumer activist Edward Markey.
“Compromised” puts it mildly; as we’ve come to learn, he’s a career criminal.
There is one aspect to all this that has me a bit befuddled, though, and that is the Justices of the Supreme Court are somehow not bound to a particular code of ethics. OK, but aren’t they bound to the U.S. Criminal Code? To the code of the American Bar Association?
We have laws that make bribery a crime. Let’s simply use them to remove Clarence Thomas from the SCOTUS and send him to prison.
There are so many tragedies unfolding around us that stem from the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency in 2016. Many of these derive from the revelation that a huge swath of the American public is profoundly stupid, and, as such, are ripe targets to be fleeced by clever criminals who understand that “a fool and his money are soon parted,” at least according to Aesop.
From this: On Wednesday, Judge Analisa Torres of Federal District Court in Manhattan sentenced WeBuildTheWall founder Brian Kolfage to four years and three months in prison for pocketing donations that were made by gullible, hateful morons who trusted the organization to build a 2200-mile wall across the southern border of the U.S. His co-conspirator, Andrew Badolato, will be serving three years.
The fate of Steve Bannon, who also heavily involved, remains unclear. He was sentenced to four months in jail for contempt of Congress, but he remains free.
What former Republican U.S. representative Joe Walsh says here echoes what most Democrats believe. Would we like to have a candidate who’s younger, more vibrant, and less prone to gaffes in his speaking? Of course.
What we don’t want, and will not accept, however, is a criminal conman who tried to overthrow the United States government.
I’m reminded of the talk around the 2020 election. When people said that the Democrats needed a platform that was more than “We’re Not Trump,” I replied, “I’m not too sure about that.”
We had seen Trump impeached twice, and it was clear that he was guilty of fraud, tax evasion, extortion, and witness intimidation–not to mention his more than 30,000 lies/deceptive statements issued while he was in office. This, of course, was before the incitement, seditious conspiracy, treason, and theft of classified documents came along.
If the Democrats nominate my gardener, he’d beat Trump in the general election.
Re: the meme here, sorry to say, but that doesn’t matter. It could be 90+% (like the percentage of Americans who favor universal background checks for prospective gun owners) and that wouldn’t matter either.
The only think that counts here is that our lawmakers are in the pockets of the gun industry.
