Sometimes One Knows Which Side to Be On, Simply by Seeing Who’s on the Other Side
Going into the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton made a huge political mistake by referring to Trump supporters as “deplorables.” Thinking something and saying it on camera are two different things.
Yet, as the late Leonard Cohen points out here, one thing that is attractive about progressives is that they are not “the other side,” i.e., hateful, uneducated conspiracy theorists who have neither the capacity to nor the interest in distinguishing truth from the torrent of BS they are being fed by the former president.
“Pitiable” is a better word than “deplorable.”
There seems to be a recurring theme with Trump supporters: a) It is discovered that Trump did something illegal, b) the justice system reacts, c) Trump supporters are outraged that their guy is under attack by the Deep State, d) more facts emerge on the details of the crime, and finally, e) crickets.
I object to the sarcasm at the end of this meme; I do feel some level of sorrow for these gullible fools who followed the direct orders they received from the President of the United States.
The Texas fossil fuel companies have been effective in getting the state legislature to pass a law that 
Donald Trump’s pardoning a war criminal who was sentenced to prison in 2019 by the U.S. Marine Corp for stripping an Iraqi prisoner naked, interrogating him without authorization, and then shooting him twice. This angered the vast majority of active-duty and veteran military personnel, not to mention the majority of U.S. voters, because the act was rightfully seen as a slap in the face to the entire military justice apparatus, and a statement that lawlessness should prevail if that’s the way Trump wants it.
Dominion Voting Systems recently deposed Tucker Carlson at Fox News, and Sean Hannity and others are scheduled for a date in the near future. All this is prep work for the upcoming, much-ballyhooed jury trial in which the plaintiff alleges that the defendant defamed Dominion’s reputation.
No need for comment here.
Here at 2GreenEnergy, we often talk about what will be required for human civilization to muster the strength to redirect itself onto a sustainable path, and away from environmental ruin.
Here’s a good reason to admire the former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics, 
That’s one (childishly erroneous) way of looking at it.
