From this:

West and (far-right, Christian nationalist, white nationalist and white supremacist political commentator) Nick Fuentes are the latest figures with known histories of extremism and explicit antisemitic remarks to meet with Trump since he announced his 2024 presidential candidacy earlier this month.

My observation is that most Americans have lost their appetite for an overtly racist president.  Trump came within three million popular votes of Clinton, while winning the electoral vote in 2016, but he got shellacked in 2020, and the U.S. electorate seems to have gotten over its love affair with hate and stupidity.

 

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It’s not a matter of “guts” or “nerve.” It’s a matter of understanding the justification of foreign aid.

This comes from a reader who doesn’t seem to get that the United States derives a great amount of benefit from foreign aid in terms of world stability and national security.

Having said this, the presence of homeless vets is both disgusting and completely indefensible.  We spend $800 billion annually on our military; we need to take care of those who took care of us.

 

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A reader notes:  George Carlin does a bit about how we are told we are ruining our planet. It’s on Youtube if you can find it, I think it’s hysterical along with making a lot of sense.

Yes. See below.  It’s true that we’re not ruining the planet itself, but we are making it increasingly uninhabitable. The planet is an inanimate object; it, as a hunk of rock, couldn’t care less.

Environmentalists understand this.  We’re concerned that the scientific proof is clear that there are dozens of different ways in which human behavior is making the Earth less capable of supporting life.

Carlin seems to be avoiding this issue.

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From “A Word a Day”

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. -Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (b. 24 Nov 1961)

In America, we have a long-running debate about patriotism, in that both the right and the left claim to love their country.  Conservatives say they embrace this country just as it is, or rather as it was before the left turned it into socialism.  Progressives claim to care enough about our nation and its people to seek to improve it and make it a more just and equitable place to live.

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Here’s another good one that gets at our monumental disregard for the long-term environmental destruction that accompanies climate change.

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Understandably, politicians don’t want to be forced into difficult positions, like having to pass common sense gun laws, simply because Americans are being mowed down with assault rifles at an ever-increasing rate.

Yet, we need to make sure we bring pressure upon them to act responsibly, in an effort to save our lives.

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From Wikipedia:  A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be “attacking a straw man.”

A reader, Tom, sent me this for comment.  We humans are being told that we’re to blame for the temperature of the galaxy?

I’m happy to report that I don’t know anyone other than Tom who lacks the intellect to see this for what it is, or would have the level of dishonesty required to deliberately misrepresent the climate challenge on such a grand scale.

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No.

True, my net worth is closer to zero than a billion dollars, but, like virtually all 2GreenEnergy enthusiasts, I live a comfortable life of good nutrition, healthcare, access to information, and safety from the elements.

Perhaps the author’s point is that we should all be concerned about becoming homeless, and that this is a more likely disposition than billionaire status, which I suppose is true for many of us.

 

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Maybe you’re wondering why “no one wants to work anymore,” or how it’s possible that 60% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck.

I hope this helps.

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The circus that is the United States is built partially on the fact that half the country really has no interest in getting to the truth about January 6th.  They don’t have a huge problem with the prosecution of the foot soldiers who stormed the Capitol, but they clearly oppose the investigation into how this whole thing came about, as part of an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, thus overthrowing the U.S. government.

Incidentally, if Hunter Biden is guilty of a crime, I think most Democrats would join me in asserting that he shouldn’t receive special treatment simply because he’s the president’s son.

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