Great point made here. So many of the people we all live around are thrilled with Trump’s “leadership.”
A friend from our neighborhood has “disappointed” us (putting it mildly), writing on social media about Trump’s rounding up and deporting immigrants, “Yeah! This is why I voted for Trump!”
That’s your best thinking on life in the United States, and the best solutions to our country’s problems?
Calling it a disappointment is an understatement.
During the lives of us Boomers, science has completely or virtually eliminated smallpox, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and whooping cough.
Looks like the folks in Florida, who reject science want to invite dread diseases back into our lives.
Can it get any worse?
The black plague? Wanna brings back rats?
Stupidity prevails; it’s one of the few things we’re still good at.
From Newsweek:
The proportion of Republicans who say they are part of the MAGA movement has dropped by seven percentage points since April.
OK, these people say they are no longer part of the so-called “MAGA movement.” But what exactly does this mean?
Are they still (modern-day) Republicans? Do they want Trump to remain in office? Do they still support the end of democracy, white nationalism, the rejection of science, the demise of the American educational system?
If they have withdrawn their support for Trump, do they want someone who is arguably ideologically worse, e.g., Vance? Do they still want total crackpots in the top governmental positions, like RFK Jr, Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, and the others? Do they still take millions of dollars from Big Oil, and want to watch as our planet bakes?
If this is the case, I can’t understand why this is good news. We’re simply eliminating a name of a set of terrible people and replacing it with another.
Nice artistic effect here.
An appreciable number of Americans have become tired of having a lunatic in the White House.
In his statement concerning the death of Rob Reiner and his wife, Trump revealed something to Republicans that they had been desperately trying to ignore: the president is incapable of behaving as a sane and reasonable human being. Something in his twisted brain compels him to act out his sociopathic nature.
We may be approaching the end of this national (and global) nightmare.
What a strange thing for someone to say, given that there are millions of people all around the globe who are clearly making the world a better place — every single day of their lives.
Think of all the organizations and individuals who do things like feed hungry children, protect our environment, and provide medical services to those in war-torn regions of the world.
Of course, this wasn’t the case in Moliere’s time, but today there are more than 200,000 groups whose mission is environmental and social justice.
We also need to consider that Moliere had a somewhat twisted viewpoint of life on Earth; this, in fact, was his “brand” — comedic and farcical plays.
We Boomers recall distinctly that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was an extremely credible organization when we were children growing up in the mid-20th Century. Their successes were all over our newspapers, including this item, from 20 years earlier, when they had captured the kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby and had him electrocuted.
The FBI “Most Wanted List,” posted in all our post offices, was a solicitation to all law-abiding Americans to help fight real, identifiable crime.
As I remember, it never included Bozo the Clown.
Times have changed. Now Antifa designates the entire group of those who oppose fascism, and it’s the #1 target of Trump’s FBI. According to congressional testimony, they can’t identify where it’s headquartered or who’s a part of it.
That’s because it’s not an organization at all; it’s an organization in the same sense that country clubbers, existentialists, Buddhists, and surfers are organizations.
It’s possible that life here in the United States could become more laughably pathetic, but it’s hard to imagine how.
Suppose you’re a marketing consultant and you have a client in precious metals. You want to create an ad that will cause folks to a) believe that gold is a good investment and b) trust your client as the go-to resource for investment in gold.
You could:
1) Use charts to show how gold has increased in value over time and has maintained its value in times of deep recessions.
2) Quote one or more of our world’s top economists who recommend that gold be part of everyone’s portfolio.
3) Create the ad at left, around some random lady in Texas with no credentials at all.
If you chose 3, you should seriously consider getting into another profession, perhaps joining ICE, meatpacking, or selling cars.
ExxonMobil spends tens of millions of dollars annually on PR and lobbying, which is the only reason why there are actually people out there who believe that the oil giant has any sincere interest in lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2009, when I wrote my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, the subject of biofuels was very much alive, and I wanted to include a chapter on the subject. Algal-based biofuels seemed to hold the most promise, due to their high energy density (33 times greater than any terrestrial plant). But then the hard times came, as they say.
Chevron, who had been working to develop commercial biofuels for decades, abandoned their pursuit, and no other large enterprise took the reins. Today, though hobbyists are still working in this space, the topic seems to have been relegated to history (despite what the charlatans claim at left).
