Big Oil’s Little Helper
It’s deeply regrettable that the fossil fuel industry owns America’s energy policy, and will make it impossible for us, for at least the foreseeable future, to make more than a small dent in decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors.
Making matters worse, they have help from the religious right-wing. At left is Mike Huckabee’s gift to our children, a free “guide,” ensuring that our kids grow up surrounded by pure bulls*** when it comes to climate science.
Oh joy.
The screen shot at left is taken from a pro-Trump ad. It certainly makes one wonder how many voters actually trust Trump at this point in any meaningful way, now that the criminal and civil justice system is taking him down at every turn.
The real issue, IMO, is that the U.S. Supreme Court was hearing cases that had significant consequences to the “mega-donor.” If that weren’t so, this misconduct may have been overlooked.
As historian Howard Zinn said, “If you’re Norway, or some other small country that does not represent a military threat, there is no harm in establishing a sense of national pride. That is not true of a military superpower that has the potential to annihilate this planet many times over.”
In my mind, this is further proof that the former President of the United States had thoroughly convinced them that they were the true patriots, and that history would remember them as heroes who saved the nation, just like we revere Lincoln today.
Whether Clarence Thomas is more afraid of liberals than bigots is immaterial. These are opinions, and having opinions, even grossly insincere ones, is not a crime.
The Equal Rights Amendment was conceived over 100 years ago, and has had some hard-won progress, as shown in the graphic here. To date, 38 states in green have ratified it, but other states have stalled.
I’m often challenged by Libertarians to define precisely what’s wrong with their political philosophy. I normally respond in terms of macroeconomic issues, we all live in a society in which it makes no sense to privatize things like national defense, the national highway system, and FAA, FEMA, etc.
The conviction of the top echelon of the white nationalist “Proud Boys” reminds us all that the largest element of their crime was that they trusted Donald Trump, the man who told them that he was the rightful president of the United States, when he commanded them into action.
The question above suggests that the suspect, at least at some point, beat his wife.
