It’s hard to know if Trump’s unflagging attacks on his enemies are a) part of a deliberate, personal policy, b) a neurotic compulsion, or c) a combination of the two.
In any case, the good news is that this asinine behavior is not always shared by those in his orbit.
What Anne Hathaway says here is spot-on.
How sad that the Republicans have found yet another community of people to hate.
From a reader:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
