Isn’t it time to get this back in the news?

The defamation suits against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems ($1.6 billion) and Smartmatic ($2.7 billion) may effectively remove, via bankruptcy, this cancerous tumor from the U.S. body politic, and enable us, to whatever degree possible, to re-ground our thinking in truth.

One might think that, in the meanwhile, Fox viewers would be put off that anchors like Sean Hannity go on camera, night after night, and spew bald-faced lies to them.  Unfortunately, they don’t seem to care.  They love Trump, they hate Biden and the other socialists, they despise wokeness, etc.  That Fox lies to them makes no difference whatsoever.

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The meme here serves as a reminder that most of the drama in our society is fabricated.

Unless you’re looking for a fight, who uses what bathroom is really a non-issue.

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As shown below, Fox News chose to interview fraudster Rod Blagojevich, who spent eight years in prison after being found guilty on 17 counts of wire fraud and extortion, for trying to sell a vacant senate seat to the highest bidder, and demanding a kickback from a children’s hospital.

The subject of the discussion?  The supposedly fraudulent activities on the part of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg in indicting Donald Trump.  Yes, that Donald Trump, the one who commuted Blagojevich’s sentence.

This is both horribly sad and hilariously funny.  Those fine and intelligent folks at Fox couldn’t select a non-felon to interview?

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My deeply Republican mom and I were talking about the indictment last night, and she believes that it “will just fall apart.”

It’s unclear where she got that idea.  As I pointed out, a) this is the product of some of our country’s great legal minds grinding away over a period of years, and b) we’ll be well into 2024 before the real action, e.g., jury selection, begins; it’s not just going to disintegrate.

Fox News wants to convince its viewers that this indictment in Manhattan, and those that are likely to follow in Georgia and the federal government, have no underlying validity and are purely politically motivated by the radical left.  Out of the other side of their mouths, of course, they say that criminal prosecution is actually helpful to Trump, because it energizes his base.

There is no doubt that his hardcore, heavily armed, violence-prone supporters are even more agitated than ever.  But are there enough of these morons to get Trump anywhere near the White House?  Nowhere close.

 

 

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Trump was indicted, not indicated, but why hold him accountable for poor word use rather than attempting to overthrow the U.S. government?

One has to wonder how much further Trump can push the “stolen election” narrative, as the justice system tactically dismantles his legal position and ultimately convicts him and sentences him to prison.

Speaking of prison, does anyone, regardless of the force of the criminal proceeding against Trump, expect him to wind up behind bars?  The moment he brushes up against the prospect of losing his passport, he’ll be out of U.S. airspace on his way to Russia or Saudi Arabia within a matter of a few minutes.

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I’m sure there are people all across the country whose parents watch Fox News, who are praying that their inheritances aren’t going into Trump’s pockets.

 

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I totally agree with the author of the meme here, especially given the trend toward authoritarianism we see happening in so many countries around the globe, including our own.

Demagogues need a hateful and ignorant base over which to rule, and once hate and ignorance take hold, they form a dwindling spiral, each reinforcing the other.

At a certain point, they take the culture down to the point that decent, educated people are ridiculed, in this case, as “woke.”

It’s going to take some real work to turn this around.

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Here’s a fabulous idea for the disposition of assault weapons.

Not sure we’ll have too many takers, but I like the thought.

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In my recent post, I lampooned oil and gas start-up TankHead for its appeal to investors on the basis that they’ll be able to grow their current production of 85-90 barrels of crude per day into competitive levels, and make all their investors rich.
As I pointed out, a claim that this company, now manufacturing less than one-millionth of the world’s oil supply, will ultimately become successful, is ludicrous.
I neglected to mention that General Motors, which leads the global automobile market, made 6 million cars and trucks last year, is converting to 100% electric transportation in the next few years.  How effing stupid does the prospective investor need to be?
Yes, anyone who makes investments so as to deliberately hasten the demise of our planet is a total asshole, but people who can’t follow the news and think of themselves as savvy investors are idiots.
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Many Americans remember John Kasich from the 2016 Republican primaries. He stood out from the crowd of perhaps 15 or 16 hopefuls, largely for his sane and decent nature.

Here we are, seven years later, and the Republican party has squirted even further to the right, at this point making Kasich appear to be an absolute freak.  Undeterred, the former Ohio Governor responded to the latest school shooting by suggesting, and get this, that we take legal action to keep weapons of war out of the hands of the mentally ill.

From this article:

Kasich is calling for action and saying that the American people need to demand it from their elected representatives.  He even has some suggestions on exactly how to do that. It’s time to stand up and protest, he says, taking the debate right to lawmakers.

Right on.

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