Trump’s Degradation Knows No Limits
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.
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Here’s One from Trump’s Playbook
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.
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Science and Religion
James Randi left us in 2020 after an impressive career challenging paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
While I try to avoid judging books by their covers, I have to say from his portrait here that he definitely looks the part. If you had to create a photo of a super-high IQ scientific skeptic merging with Indiana Jones, could you have done any better?
In any case, our embrace of religion is downward trending, despite the low-brow rejection of science.
If, in the event that we still have a civilization 100 years from now, it will probably be because we favored science over religion.
Of course, not everyone agrees. Nowadays, we have the far-right-wing concept of reinserting the Bible into our schools, letting us know how we should treat our slaves, and naming the size of rocks that are suitable for stoning adulterers and gays.
The Two Main U.S. Political Parties Are Widely Divergent
Ever since I was a small boy, I’ve heard people say that the Democrats and Republicans are virtually indistinguishable from one other.
While it’s true that both parties are corrupt in the sense that they accept huge amounts of money from wealthy donors in exchange for creating laws that favor them, as suggested at left, most of the platforms of the parties are diametrically opposed.
Moreover, some of the spokespeople for the right are some pretty dim bulbs.
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Trickle-Down Economics
All true.
Yet we have neither the interest nor the capacity to turn this around. Progressives would like to see a tax schedule that looks like what we had between the end of World War II and Reagan’s inauguration, but Congress is extremely unlikely to make this happen.
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Does Anyone Care about America’s Insane Rate of Deadly Shootings?
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.
Reduce gun deaths by 70%? If it makes the NRA angry, not a chance.
How Dumb Is Marjorie Taylor Greene? It’s Hard To Know
Re: the meme here, energy analyst Robert Rapier asks, “Is she really this dumb?”
I doubt it. My guess is that she knows with great certainty that her voters are as dumb as rocks, and she’s simply giving them what they’re asking for.
Understanding Climate Denialism
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.”
This, from Isaac Asimov in 1980:
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Protecting Ourselves from Billionaires
We can most definitely have a discussion on the topic, but I’m not sure how far that’s going to take us, especially insofar as everyone is free to spend his money as he sees fit.
We do need a wealth tax, but the obstacle there is that people and corporations with billions of dollars in net worth control our law-making processes, and placing a tax on themselves isn’t an appealing concept.
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The MAGA Crowd Cares About Exactly One Thing
Nailed it.
The MAGA crowd is not motivated by anything that will improve their lives, but they revel in the knowledge that everyone in the country other than wealthy white males is being harmed by the U.S. government.
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