I’m delighted to note that Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States is taught at the local high school where I tutor.
I would love to see “a new kind of society,” as he put it so well. Seems unlikely at this point in history, but it doesn’t cost anything to dream.
I have a few conservative friends who like to make points like the one here, i.e., that the news about violence and hate is blown out of proportion, as compared with what actually exists out there.
I’m unconvinced.
Whether the news covers it or not, Donald Trump is trying to overthrow the U.S. government. Depending on how things progress here, Ron DeSantis may replace him as the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, a man who’s ideologically even more backwards than Trump himself. Women’s right are being eroded. Important books are being banned from our schools. Our planet is baking, and our schoolchildren are being mowed down by lunatics with assault weapons.
As Aldous Huxley told us, facts don’t disappear simply because they are being ignored.
The content of the graphic here is all over our news. And it certainly rings true, doesn’t it? It’s very clear that Trump led a team that attempted, and is still attempting, to overthrow the U.S. government.
A moderate cost of living isn’t going to be a huge benefit if your nation now resembles Russia or Venezuela.
It easy to feel sorry for professional comedians like The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz, because it’s hard to be funny when the real world is behaving with such comical ineptitude.
There is actually nothing funny in Borowitz’s piece; Republicans actually are worried that removing women’s rights that have been in place for 50 years is a move for which they may pay a heavy price in the November midterms.
Why any woman with the IQ of a turnip would vote for a party that is so hostile to her autonomy and basic dignity is a complete mystery.
On top of that, you’re talking about blatant misogyny; many males in the GOP are known to be p****-grabbing sex abusers, which, one would think, just might amplify women’s disgust.
Strange days indeed.
A reader notes: Finally ending the insanity of 20th Century petrochemical industries, fully 35 years into our 21st.
There are so many weird aspects of American politics that sometimes it’s hard to know what stands out as truly noteworthy. That said, the issues of “lack of candidate quality” that are beleaguering the Republican party should be getting a lot of attention, especially insofar as it’s hilarious, if only for its outrageous stupidity.
The GOP pushed pathological liar and card-carrying moron Herschel Walker into the Georgia race, and career swindler and Alex Jones knockoff Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania. Really? Two big, purplish states, and that’s the best you could manage?
If you believe that voters want to hear ultraconservative rhetoric, that’s one thing. But these people are simply clowns. It’s far, far worse than the normal bats*** crazy Big Lie stuff.
The idea that a civil war could lie in front of us has been bandied about ever since it became clear that Trump was a career criminal who, when elected U.S. president in 2016, had the potential to destroy the country and needed to be removed.
Roger Stone, one of our country’s most profound ass****s, once said that any attempt to impeach Trump would cause a violent insurrection, but let’s give that a thought or two.
There are several insurmountable problems associated with such an uprising. The main one is that the “combatants” don’t wear uniforms, nor do we live hundreds of miles away from one another, e.g., the distance from Pennsylvania to Tennessee. The town I live in, the clothes I wear, and the (lack of) bumper stickers on my car all make me indistinguishable from the MAGA couple who lives next door.
OK, we live among hateful idiots, but are any of us, regardless of our mental shortcomings, going to simply start shooting at our neighbors on the suspicion that they may have voted for Biden?
Looked at differently, will people indiscriminately start trying to kill FBI agents because they raided Mar-a-Lago? Will they attempt to knock off the representatives and governors of blue states? High level assassinations aren’t easy for the average fat moron with an AK-15 to pull off.
Seems far-fetched.
When I was a small boy, my mother would take me food shopping with her, and I recall very well my first encounters with tabloids like the one shown here. I couldn’t understand for the life of me how anyone could be entertained by this type of pure stupidity.
Sixty years later things have changed, but not for the better. Now we have people who actually believe things as improbable as “bat children” or Elvis sightings. And worse, their beliefs are no longer benign; they have powerfully harmful effects on everyone else on the planet. (more…)
I thought I’d share this, since it made me smile.
We’d all like to see some rapid progress here.
Millions of progressive Americans were saddened to see that, overnight, CNN became essentially another Fox News, sniping at Biden at every opportunity, and casting doubt as to the integrity of the Justice Department in its dealings with the former president.
The most disappointing aspect of all this is the realization that CNN and some of its on-camera personalities had no honor in the first place. They found a way to sell their souls to generate more profit, and they snatched it up.
Of course, there are other news programs that are incorruptible. Can you imagine sitting down Amy Goodman (of “Democracy Now!” – pictured) and explaining that, to keep her job, she now needs to explain the virtues in today’s Republican party and acknowledge that Trump is an honest person who is persecuted by radical socialist media? She’d laugh you right out of the room.
