Trump Fights Fine
From this: Donald Trump, a billionaire, is fighting NY Attorney General Letitia James over a measly $110K check (msn.com)Anything to stay in the news, especially if it avoids humiliation.
Fortunately, U.S. voters have completely lost their appetitive for this vile pettiness.
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Gross Misrepresentations of Democratic Socialism
These folks write:What is democratic socialism exactly? Are countries like Denmark and Sweden positive models of this type of economy? How would the COVID-19 pandemic have looked under such an economic system?
I love things like this, written for people too stupid to understand that Denmark, Sweden, and the other 20-or-so of the world’s most advanced countries that offer their citizens universal healthcare and free college education actually did have to deal with COVID-19.
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Repelling Russia from Ukraine
Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder discusses the news announced by President Biden that the U.S. and allies are sending tanks to Ukraine to aid its fight against Vladimir Putin’s armyI’ve been anti-war since I was a small boy. So strange to find myself wanting to arm the Ukrainians so as to boot the Russian aggressors out of their country.
I suppose my feeling are rooted in damage minimization. Letting Putin slaughter countless innocent people is not an option here.
Ben Carson Wants Your Thoughts on Education
I wouldn’t let Ben Carson’s thoughts on education anywhere near my kids.
If your kids go to public schools, I’m sure you feel the same. Check this out.
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It’s the Guns
It’s always interesting to see how the gun lobby tries to avert the obvious conclusion that the proliferation of guns causes school shootings.
This meme comparing Canada to the U.S. is a good one.
Then there is the specious argument that gun violence is the result of our failure to teach Christianity in schools. Japan: no Christianity, virtually no gun deaths.
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The Rejection of Science: How Did It Happen?
Of all the absurdities in modern-day America, none is sadder than our rejection of science, in particular, our broadspread and tightly held beliefs that our scientists are liars and crooks.
This is just one of the tragic outcomes of what happened in the news media business a few decades ago, when some corporate wunderkind woke up one morning with the idea to fashion an industry out of news. He asked: why are we spending these massive fortunes on journalism, television cameras, and objective TV anchors like Walter Cronkite, when it would be so easy to turn all this into a huge “us-versus-them” drama? Instead of news at 6 PM and 11 PM, it can be a 24-hour-per-day bonanza, with “breaking news” every few minutes.
Of course, it will come at a cost to the American people, in that it will enable sociopaths to inject a steady diet of bald-faced lies into the news mixture, but, like so many other things, that’s a just a cost of doing business.
Fast forward a few years, and Alex Jones is worth hundreds of million dollars. More importantly, Donald Trump is the most powerful person on Earth. When it comes to dealing with a disease like COVID-19, he’s suggesting that we ingest bleach and shine lights into our lungs, all the while saying that Dr. Fauci is a criminal. No big deal. A few hundred thousand unnecessary deaths.
The United States came within a gnat’s ass of becoming an authoritarian regime. Yes, but again, just an acceptable cost.
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Trump’s Position in the Republican Party
I love this, from British writer Nate White.
My mom dismisses my continuing interest in Trump as “silly,” claiming that he no longer represents the Republican party.
True, the degree to which he represents the GOP is debatable. Tens of millions of American voters who call themselves Republicans are still completely devoted to him, having swallowed the Big Lie.
Congress has a similar story to tell, as many candidates in red states are terrified of the consequences of vocally withdrawing their support.
Moreover, his pulling out the stupidity and nastiness of so many Americans will never be forgotten, and will take decades to repair, if it can be done at all.
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American Voters Are Electrified
One good thing can be said about Americans’ involvement in politics: it’s on the rise.
You either believe that the Republicans are the only thing preventing the United States from becoming a communist country, or you think they’re criminally insane.
There is virtually no middle ground, and the stakes are huge.
It is for this reason that I say that the 2024 election could possibly be a turning point for the U.S., marking a sharp turnaround, back in the direction of honesty and civility.
On the ballot are the regulation of war weapons, abortion rights, the criminal prosecution of traitors, and preventing war criminals in authoritarian regimes to invade neighboring democracies.
Voters, young and old, are highly energized.
How Bad Do Things Have to Get?
As a native Philadelphian, I join the rest of those who grew up there in rooting for the Eagles, the home professional football team that’s doing such an admirable job in getting through the post-season playoffs.
That said, I have the same thought whenever I see any pro sporting event: the realization that most of the many millions of people watching are completely tuned out of current events.
How bad do things have to be before a significant number of Americans say, ya know, I can’t see getting too absorbed by bad pass interference calls, beer, and car commercials when our traitors illegally overturn our valid elections, Russia’s invading Ukraine, and half the planet’s former land mass is under water?
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Will U.S. Politics Return to Where It Once Was?
I met a fellow the other day who told me that the insanity that is present-day U.S. politics is about to swing, as a pendulum, back to a position in which once again makes sense.
I told him that I agree that it’s hard to imagine things getting more out of control (e.g., Trump running around free, and George Santos in the House of Representatives), and, for that reason, that I liked the pendulum metaphor.
That said, in nature, the normal consequence of decay and disease is death, and ultimately extinction.
We really don’t have an indefinite period of time to turn our nation around, let alone to begin to reverse the environmental collapse we’re inflicting on the planet as a whole.
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