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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From an old friend: Today is the day we learn how many of our fellow citizens will be cool with authoritarian rule if it just lowers the price of gas 25 cents or so a gallon and bumps the Dow Jones a hundred points or so a week. I’m pretty sure Baldwin (pictured) would sell out democracy for an extra treat or two a week, but his motives are pretty easy to comprehend.

I’m not sure I would say that about Baldwin; he looks like a wise soul to me.

What I will grant, however, is that you’ve nailed the crux of the midterms.  Too many of us have been manipulated into blindness when it comes to the future of American democracy.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s one of Donald Trump’s attorneys explaining how she expects to have the election results sometime in the middle of the night, saying that if we don’t have the results by morning, it will appear that the Democrats have “extended the vote.”

In truth, all 50 states have constitutionally mandated times on election day when all voting is stopped, and no one is empowered to extend that moment by a millisecond.

What actually does happen, however, is that the votes then need to be counted, which, as we all know, takes time.  Some states’ constitutions provide for the certification process to continue, as required, until the end of November.

The point here is that this attorney knows all this goddamn well.  But she also knows that she’s speaking to a bunch of completely ignorant people from the core of the GOP base, who will happily believe that, if their candidate loses, it must have been because the Democrats rigged the election.

It’s shameful, but welcome to America in the era of Trump.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It will be fine with me when the Republican party stops nominating criminals and pathological liars to positions of political power.

In the meanwhile, it takes a truly disgusting person to vote for Dr. Oz.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
From Robert Reich:  Obviously, I can’t tell you how today’s elections will turn out. But I do want to reassure you about one thing: Over the long term, we are winning.  Why else would the election deniers, the monied interests, the bigots, and the haters be fighting so hard to defeat us?
I like his optimism, but I don’t see the logic.  Yes, they’re fighting hard to defeat us, but that doesn’t mean they’re not winning.
Today’s midterms are a watershed event for the United States.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

We need to give Trump credit, not only for his brazen willingness to tell lies that are absolutely impossible to believe, but for his extreme creativity.

Here are documents that should have been housed at the National Archives, but instead were found in a poorly secured portion of Trump’s home.  You think it’s credible that Biden was going to somehow pull them out and shred them?

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

(Roughly) “I suppose that the only time in which the majority of people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”

This is an excellent summation of life in America.  In particular, there is an entire political party whose platform is: we are completely indifferent to others’ suffering.  We know people are hungry, uneducated, dying of treatable diseases, and in many cases, homeless.  We know that our children and grandchildren will be living on a planet that has been rendered nearly uninhabitable by global warming and other forms of environmental collapse. But, read our lips, we couldn’t care less.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s another reminder of how gullible and stupid certain Americans are.

Suppose you find it irrelevant that 65+ judges at various different levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court, found no evidence of massive voter fraud. Doesn’t the logic in the meme here mean anything to you?

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Republicans are expected to do quite well in tomorrow’s midterm elections here in the U.S., though it’s not exactly clear how and why that can be achieved.

Social Security and Medicare have been fixtures in American life for close to a century, and there doesn’t seem to be too much pushback there from the common person.  Unless you’re a hardcore libertarian who thinks that government is inherently evil, you’re going to have a tough time arguing against a self-funded system that takes care of everyone who lives past a certain age.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I have to admit that Musk’s antics at Twitter are quite an entertaining side-show as we brace ourselves for the midterm election returns.

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This meme from Liz Cheney sounds compelling, but it should read, “…. who believes in democracy and understands what represents the greater threat against it.”

My mom, who tomorrow will cast her 38th ballot for the Republicans (every two years since she achieved the age of majority in 1947), believes that Democrats are deliberately opening our borders so that poor people from Central America can pour in, somehow earn citizenship, and eventually outnumber real Americans at the polls.

Why does she believe this?  Well, that’s the narrative that’s force-fed her by the ultra-conservative media she follows.  The point, however, isn’t why she believes it; it’s that she believes it with all her being.  If I had the effrontery to ask her if she believes in democracy, she would reply, “Of course.  Do you?”

 

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