It’s easy to blame Trump for his lies and criminality.
It’s harder to accept the fact that many of the people of the United States are willing to believe essentially anything, regardless of how preposterous, that comes out of the president’s mouth.
The Republicans seem to have coalesced around the anti-communism/socialism narrative, setting aside all other messaging re: the economy, affordable groceries and gasoline, jobs, allowing Iran to build a nuclear weapon, etc.
We’ll have to wait and see how this plays out.
In a nation that has, to a large degree, lost its ability to think, it’s possible that voters, especially the most unintelligent among them, can be convinced that the Democrats are leading the United States in the direction of China, North Korea, or the former Soviet Union.
The same morons will also eagerly accept the line that Democrats rig elections, so maybe Republicans will throw that in as well.
I encourage readers to check out this tongue-in-cheek ad for plant-based meat.
There is a maxim in marketing warning against “promoting the enemy line,” this is so clever, I can see where it could be quite effective.
As we all know, the GOP will stop at nothing to win the midterms, thus making it impossible to remove the sociopathic criminal from the White House.
But did any of us see this coming?
Macabre.
I just met a woman who’s been a flight attendant for Delta Airlines since the early 1990s, who laments that her company has been ruined by corporate greed, which has trashed so many other things in our lives.
As it turns out, the CEO makes more than $20 million per year, largely based on bonuses associated with cutting costs. “Now we have tray tables that don’t work and seatbacks that don’t recline, and nobody even thinks about fixing them.”
She went on, “This shift has been particularly obvious in the case of Delta, which, when I started with them, was known for its southern charm and the feeling of welcoming its passengers. Now, that gone. It’s like it never existed.”
Trump should fire Pete Hegseth?
Why? If you’re Trump, Hegseth is the perfect leader of the Pentagon. He’s loyal, lawless, stupid, cruel, misogynistic, and racist. No one could possibly match Trump’s values with any greater precision.
We won’t know how much damage Trump has done to our county, its people, the world in general, until Trump leaves office.
That’s just one more good reason to make this happen soon.
The Trump administration is telling us that progressives hate America.
This type of crap may have some level of acceptance among our least intelligent voters, but fortunately, they’re nowhere near the majority.
If any of us had been asked before Trump’s arrival on the political scene how we would feel if the United States government descended into abject corruption, became the disgrace of the civilized world, and wanted our opinion on the incarceration of an American president, we would have dismissed it with a laugh.
Now that it has actually happened, we say that removing Trump from office and sending him to prison is the very best outcome possible.
That’s why 70% of Americans and close to 100% of others in the developed world will rejoice the moment that Trump is no longer a figure in world events.
We all know that the basic unit of life is the cell, but have you ever wondered how these tiny cells arrange themselves so as to form our bodies into a particular shape? Why do we have any shape at all? Why don’t we look like a bag of jelly?
I just met the man who, working in a research lab in Finland, discovered the “extracellular matrix,” a collection of proteins and carbohydrates to which all healthy cells must bind in order to stay alive, and it is this that provides the body’s structure.
This has relevance to cancer research, because those cells do not have to adhere to the matrix in order to survive, which is why they move around inside the body, and ultimately metastasize, land somewhere and start dividing rapidly.
I asked him if he is religious, i.e., if he thought God created the extracellular matrix. He immediately replied: no.
Now, part of his response may be rooted in the fact that he’s Scandinavian, a region where virtually no one has a religious affiliation. More likely for this scientist, however, is that the idea that life on Earth, that has evolved over the last four billion years, probably didn’t do so at the direction of the divine.
