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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From MoveOn:

Here are the five most-watched cable news shows in America:

  1. “The Five” on Fox News
  2. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News
  3. “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Fox News
  4. “Hannity” on Fox News
  5. “Special Report with Bret Baier” on Fox News1

Notice a pattern? The far right is dominating cable news in America, pushing their agenda to tens of millions of Americans for hours and hours each and every day. 

This is exactly how lies about COVID, conspiracy theories about the election, and despicable attacks on the LGBTQ+ community are spread.

Let’s add some perspective here.  “The Five” has an audience of 3.5 million viewers.  These are the same 3.5 million people who watch Tucker Carlson, etc.  Obviously, it’s not good that anyone consumes this hateful garbage, but this is approximately 2% of the U.S. voter base.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It appears that the timetable at work here may enable the United States to remove Trump from the political scene with a minimum of bloodshed. All these events are happening gradually and methodically:

• The GOP is gradually disconnecting themselves from the former president.

• The Justice Department continues its work in gathering and processing evidence of Trump’s criminal conduct.

• Various states are operating in parallel, at least as far as his attempt to overthrow the federal government is concerned.

• Trump’s base erodes and approval rating continues to fall, as his behavior becomes more unhinged.

Keep in mind that the American people are good at forgetting stuff, and ultimately pretending that it never happened. This seems to be an indication that soon, Trump could fall off a cliff and nobody would notice.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

It would be interesting to know where this meme came from.  An ultra-right-wing think tank?  Some random QAnoner?

In any case, the fossil fuel industry loves crazy s*** like this.  They may not be creating it themselves, but they certainly are profiting from it.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Number 4 here reminds me of my frequent conversations with my mom on politics.  I wish I had a dollar for every time I said, “In my view, it’s more complicated than that.”

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From this piece:

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed, with his purchase of Twitter, that he would turn it into a “digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated.” Yet here are headlines about Musk banning the accounts of journalists for daring to report on some of the shadier moves of the self-appointed champion of “free speech.” 

Anyone who expects any level of honesty and consistency from a Trump supporter, whether he be a billionaire or a factory worker, is an idiot.

And that’s especially true when it comes to free speech.  When “the old Twitter” banned Trump from the platform for inciting an insurrection, the former president’s base lost its mind, because they somehow didn’t understand that the First Amendment applies to government entities and not to private enterprises.

Now, what they’re thinking about Elon Musk banning his critics is anyone’s guess.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Will DeSantis’ war on vaccines have consequences?  Of course.  Many thousands of people will die needlessly, and countless others will become horrifically ill, and will never fully recover.

But think of the upside.  Consider how all this will inspire the voters in a state with a population of 22 million, many of whom have profound distrust, if not a seething hatred of science.

Earlier in the pandemic, DeSantis was a huge advocate of vaccinations, declaring that those who were inoculated had a far better chance of getting through the pandemic with their health fully intact, and were doing their fellow citizens a huge favor by not becoming carriers and clogging up hospitals.  That, however, was before he realized how much political mileage he could gain, simply by making make an abrupt U-turn and sending people to their graves.

If you think this country is out of the woods because Trump is going away, keep in mind that this bastard is the leading candidate to win the 2024 presidency.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As some Americans know, we live in a land whose federal government is composed of three co-equal branches. The fact that none of these has any power over the other two means that our legislative branch’s (Congress) decision to refer criminal prosecution against someone, in this case a former president, forms no imperative for the executive branch, in which the Department of Justice resides, to take action.

Having said that, the majority of Americans are happy to see our House of Representatives making the right move here.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Keep in mind that Mike Lindell claims to have “ironclad proof” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, an assertion he’s been making for almost two solid years.

Of course, he hasn’t seen fit to release any of this to the courts, and thus all 65 judges who reviewed the subject found no evidence of voter fraud.

Sadly, Lindell will receive no consequences, because it’s not a crime for some loud-mouth clown to make up total bullshit and broadcast it on television.

Fortunately, this is not the case with Rudy Giuliani, who, because he is an attorney, will be disbarred for filing lawsuits based on information he knew to be false.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The answer to the question here: The present-day Republican platform is a cobbled-together blend of hate and stupidity.  Don’t expect any consistency other than that.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Proponents of banning abortion stand on some set of nebulous religious principles, but those who have a sincere concern about human life would do well to consider what Colorado has accomplished with free birth control.

People of intelligence who honestly want fewer abortions understand that putting a legal prohibition on the practice has the opposite effect.

In other news on the subject, the world population just crossed 8 billion, on its way to 10.4 billion.  Unwanted babies only contribute to mass suffering on an already overcrowded planet.

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