The answer to Liz Cheney’s question here, of course, is yes.
Principle, like honor and truth, is as irrelevant in Republican politics as shoe size or hair color.
And Kevin McCarthy in particular is our present-day standard-bearer for moral squalor.
How are they different? Glad you asked.
The only difference is that they are relatively few in number, and have no power to burn heretics at the stake.
All this is true.
But let’s never forget that he narrowly defeated one of the scummiest people imaginable. The Republicans came within a gnat’s a** of installing a pathological liar and complete moron into one of the most important positions in the U.S. government.
The meme here is from an anti-vaxxer reader, who seems concerned about the health and safety of my children, both of whom have been vaccinated against COVID-19, btw.
Of course, none of us can undo any of the decisions we’ve made that have permanent implications. The best any of us can do is to make our choices based on what makes most sense to us at the time. Speaking strictly for myself, any applicable science informs my choices in cases like these; at the very least it trumps whatever’s trending among those who belch their baseless ideas onto social media.
A good example of this is the claim that vaccinations are routinely presented as “experimental.” To date, 12.7 billion doses have been administered, about 1.5 for every man, woman, and child on Earth.
The meme here, featuring convicted conspiracy seditionist Elmer Stuart Rhodes, may be topical today.
Yet I guarantee that, when Trump is found guilty of the same crime, Rhodes will be quickly all but forgotten.
Other than the pace at which it’s happening, it’s hard to complain about the criminal proceedings against Donald Trump.
Even the guilty findings against the Trump Organization on a massive tax fraud scheme, while the former president was not indicted personally, puts him in grave legal jeopardy insofar as testimony revealed that he was aware of the criminal behavior, and thus may lay the groundwork for future charges to be brought.
From this piece in the New York Times:
The Earthshot Prize, an independent charity that was recently broken off from William and Catherine’s Royal Foundation, awards 1 million British pounds, or about $1.2 million, to each of five winners, one in each of the prize categories: nature conservation and protection, air quality, ocean revival, waste-free living and climate action.
The categories seem well-chosen to me, though any of a couple of different frameworks would have been equally valid: clean energy, clean transportation, sustainable agriculture, etc.
As suggested here, Fox News serves a cause that it almost completely political. To a lesser degree, one could make the same point about MSNBC, but the only reason you’re going to run across a story on Fox is that it’s calculated to make white people meaner and angrier.
The problem, of course, is that most of these people couldn’t care less. They don’t need an education any more than they need a second nose.
Often here at 2GreenEnergy, we muse about how thoroughly shut off Trump’s base is from reality, and how they can’t seem to ask themselves questions that would cause them to challenge their beliefs.
If I were a Trump backer, I’d ask myself why he and so many of his closest colleagues are either in prison or are under serious criminal investigation.
In the opening statement of a series of hearings that could culminate in Rudy Giuliani’s losing his license to practice law, D.C. disciplinary counsel Hamilton Fox described Giuliani’s legal challenge to the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election as “frivolous,” and said the former president’s attorney “weaponized his law license” in an effort to “undermine the Constitution to which he, like all members of the District of Columbia Bar, took an oath to support.”
Folks, be brave! Be bold! Ask yourselves: Why are there so many blatant criminals associated with the former president, and why does it appear that Trump himself is on his way to prison? Does this traitor really merit your support as an American?
