The Politics of Homophobia
What Anne Hathaway says here is spot-on.
How sad that the Republicans have found yet another community of people to hate.
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A Former Republican Rejects His Party
From a reader:I’m from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
I am a former Republican.
Basically, I was a Republican my whole life until about 2018 where I couldn’t accept being a Republican anymore.
The Republican party now is nothing like it used to be.
Now, to be a good Republican, you have to basically I agree with whatever Donald Trump says.
Not any specific philosophy or anything like that It’s just if you want to be a good Republican you have to agree with Donald Trump.
And that’s just not the way it should be.
Right now It’s just like a cult of personality.
And that’s just totally against the Republican party that I grew up with.
I agree, but I would add that it’s worse.
Trump will be gone soon, but the extremist right-wing views won’t.
Until there is a mass revolt within the GOP, it will remain stuck as the party that rejects science, bans books, terminates women’s rights, hates the LGBTQ community, promotes fossil fuel consumption, treats immigrants with wanton cruelty, continues to ravage public education, lowers taxes on billionaires, moves to end Social Security and Medicare, supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine, forces Christianity into our lives, and centers itself around white supremacy.
In sum, anything that helps the common American or promotes decency around the world must be destroyed.
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Is Trump Guilty? Of Course
Ultra-right-wing whack-job “news” source Newsmax is conducting a survey (see left).
If someone were asking people to weigh in on: “Should Trump have been charged with 34 country of falsifying business records?” that may have been interesting. But he’s clearly and provably guilty.
Should he run? Who cares? He’s generally detested, and his approval rating can only fall as he approaches conviction on a wide array of felonies.
Why No Aliens?
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of theories that seek to explain why there have been no verified stories of contact with extraterrestrials.
One is that they know exactly who we are, and have concluded that we offer them no value. Or, as suggested at left, that they find us repulsive.
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Detaching from Corporate Messaging and Learning to Think for Ourselves
Here’s a deeply moving video that seems to be making the rounds.
The business world around us is bombarding us with messages 24 hours per day, on a relentless quest to tell us what we should be thinking, and, course, what we should be buying.
What to do about this? Check out the video.
Two Observations on the Viability of Human Civilization
Here are two ways of saying essentially the same thing, that come from a pair of human history’s greatest minds.
As we work our way through the 21st Century, we’re running into the effects of the widening chasm between the amoral rich and the desperate poor: environmental collapse, the decay of our educational system, widespread corruption made possible by a two-tiered justice system, and authoritarianism.
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“Take Your Power Back!” – Marketing to Morons
Here’s an ad from “4Partiots” that offers a “power generator” (actually a solar panel and a battery):
The world is changing and we’ve had our wake-up call and now know that the best person to rely on in any emergency is ourselves. It’s time for you to take your power back!
The NEW Patriot Power Generator 2000X is finally in stock and ready to ship from Utah, USA. It was designed to provide you with solar backup power that can be used indoors without harmful fumes or noise.
As the grid continues to crumble, this generator will continue to protect your family from future blackouts and other natural disasters. This is not just any ordinary generator…it’s silent, safe and powered by free energy from the sun! So what are you waiting for?
Stay connected, stay powered!
Most of us have run across companies like “4Patriots,” that sell survivalist products like food supplies and power generators that are made to get us through the coming civil war (to be waged to take our country back), or perhaps natural disasters that leave the unprepared vulnerable to starvation or freezing to death.
But offerings like this make us think: If this product were of honest value, why would they be targeting it only to so-called “patriots” = Trump-supporters = hateful idiots? If it were a truly good idea, wouldn’t educated people want it as well?
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As America Descends into a Land of Broadspread Corruption
American conservatives, as represented by the Republicans, once stood for something that, while it might have been cruel, elitist, and retrogressive, was at least defensible.
Now, it’s the party of sleaze, of overt criminality.
It’s possible that Clarence Thomas lies on the top of the dung-heap, given his position on the U.S. Supreme Court (vs. Congress, where corruption is routine and less destructive).
If you or I were John Roberts, we would take immediate action to remove Thomas. Looks like that’s not happening, however.
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In Large Measure, We’ve Ceased Caring About One Another
The meme here comes from a study published in Smithsonian Magazine, demonstrating that “lower” life forms take far better care of one another than do human beings. Concern for others seems to be inherent in most life forms–just a bit less for ours.
Especially in the United States, less so in the rest of the developed world, the vast majority of those who live like kings couldn’t care less about the war-torn, hungry, and impoverished.
In fact, the idea that this planet will soon cease to support a decent quality of life for any but the wealthy is a complete snooze.
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Contrasting Views on Easter from Two Political Leaders
At left we have a statement, which, though it may not have set the world on fire, was sent by a sane and decent human being.
Contrast that with what we have below, from a man whose principal claim to fame is now roundly regarded as the “Big Lie.”
The good news is that Trump is as likely to come back into human civilization as the bubonic plague. His support is eroding, and that’s even before we have indictments for the stolen documents, January 6th, and the election tampering in Georgia.
I’m not saying that this country is finished with its bout with hateful ignorance and lunacy, but we’re very close to ridding ourselves of the orange sociopath.
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