Bizarre Times in America
The guilty findings against the top people at the Oath Keepers and the long prison sentences that will be meted out may stand as something of a deterrent against future insurrections. The idiot with the swastika shirt and the Nazi salute may think twice before she breaks laws that carry 20-years imprisonment.
In any case, and at the risk of repeating myself, if I were hearing a case like this, I would be somewhat compelled by the fact that these people honestly believed that the election had been stolen and that there were acting as patriots by forcing the overturn of the results. Why? Purely because they were ordered to by the President of the United States.
This was not something that came from the deputy police chief of some cow-town in rural Alabama; it came from the White House, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States armed forces.
It is for this reason that justice actions that do not include charging the former president are really no justice whatsoever.
I’m always interested in speaking with my mom about politics, as it gives me a summary of what the Fox News talking points have been over the intervening days since our last conversation.
The presence of Mitt Romney in U.S. politics serves as a reminder that there still exists a percentage of Republicans, albeit a small one, that have retained some measure of class and sanity.
It appears that Donald Trump isn’t the only brazen criminal who bilks his supporters out of their hard-earned money to pay for illegitimate lawsuits.
James Randi left us in 2020 after an impressive career challenging paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
Ever since I was a small boy, I’ve heard people say that the Democrats and Republicans are virtually indistinguishable from one other.
All true.
Further proof, as if it were needed, that our lawmakers really are far more concerned about their position in Congress than they are about our well-being.
Re: the meme here, energy analyst Robert Rapier asks, “Is she really this dumb?”
There is a great deal of truth here, but the disinformation campaigns would have been dismissed with a round jeer if we didn’t have so many “ignorant yokels.”
