A lack of interest in politics is actually worse than the way it’s described here. That’s because bad leaders damage more than just my income, myrights, etc. They damage everyone except those who donate to their campaigns.
There is not a single thing a decent person could possibly want for American society: education, healthcare, environmental responsibility, equal justice for all, etc. that is not actively destroyed by evil people in positions of power.
It’s hard to think of something more antithetical to American values than this photo of long-time Trump advisor Roger Stone, seated among the top echelon of the Proud Boys, smiling at the camera and displaying the “white power” signal.
I’m not naïve enough to think that we can rid this nation of bigotry, but we can (and we must) remove overt displays of it from the top levels of our federal government.
The two top legal experts interviewed in the video below believe so.
The civil case charging Trump and three of his kids with massive amounts of fraud is a good example. The most obvious defense is “I didn’t do it. It’s possible that one of my accountants did it, but I knew nothing about it.”
Here, however, NY Attorney General Letitia James, in her 220-page complaint, made it clear that there is evidence showing that Trump himself personally directed each one of the fraudulent acts his organization committed on lenders, insurance companies, etc.
Keep in mind also that she has referred this case to criminal prosecution at both the federal and state level.
OK, but will this be what takes Trump down? I’m sure we’d all like to see federal charges of seditious conspiracy, as that’s the charge at the core of his treasonous behavior. In the end, however, it doesn’t really matter.
Every time someone says “Trump made us energy independent, and we lost that under Biden” — I ask them to back that up.
The most important thing is to get them to define energy independence. What do they think it means? If it means we don’t import oil, then that hasn’t been true since the 1940s. If it means we export more energy than we import, then we became energy independent in 2019 (following a decade of soaring oil and gas production), but we remain energy independent today.
My stats as a political prognosticator aren’t excellent. As my mom likes to point out, “Craig, you’ve been predicting that Trump is going to be criminally prosecuted since a few months into his term.”
Having said that, I really can’t see how 80 million women voters aren’t going to remove as many GOP congressmen as they can get their hands on in the midterms. Uneducated men may be less sympathetic, but I simply can’t see how criminalizing abortion is going to play at all well with the U.S. electorate as a whole.
Most of what we know about astrophysics we learned over the past few decades, and that certainly includes the idea that everything we see around us came from stars that exploded billions of years ago.
I believe that, within the next 100 years, human civilization will either destroy itself by means of our tribalism and near-total disregard for the well-being of others, or it will somehow be saved by the further advancement of science.
In either case, it appears that religion will be a casualty. When all our questions about our existence as human beings and the universe around us are answered by science, there will be little reason to hold onto our ideas concerning the supernatural.
Bette Midler’s observation here rings true to me, FWIW.
Given the sheer volume of Trump’s criminal activities since the 2017 inauguration, it’s just a matter of time until the Department of Justice, along with various state agencies, has airtight evidence supporting charges of seditious conspiracy, election tampering, etc.
Why do Republicans vote against measures that will making life-saving drugs affordable?
Well for one, they have no real option unless they want to go along with Democrats, and that’s totally out of the question. Democrats, regardless of the issue, are the enemy.
Causing the agonizing death of countless people is a small price to pay for fully distancing the GOP from anything that might appear woke, and providing things like affordable insulin is a textbook example.
It’s not hard to see how Donald Trump came to power. He saw that we could tap into the seething hatred of a very large group of uneducated people.
Even though he has been removed from office, Trump is arguably still the most influential person in the United States. Taking him down will require every bit of strength our justice system can muster.
Our country certainly is “Flirting with Disaster,” if it lets a president attempt to overthrow its government and establish himself into the same position that is held by Vladimir Putin in Russia, Kim Jong-un in North Korea, and Xi Jinping in China.
In fact, “flirting with” should be replaced by “eagerly accepting.”