Translates as: One day, when you are not, you will be that which you made.
Reminds me of the saying (roughly), The man who plants a tree knowing that he’ll never sit in its shade is beginning to understand what life is about.
We live in a world in which greed and selfishness cause great suffering.
Yet in that very same world, good, fiercely dedicated people strive on a daily basis to undo some of the damage.
This is such a story.
Adam Schiff was interviewed on Terry Gross’s long-running radio program “Fresh Air” yesterday, weighing in on the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
In the course of the discussion, he made the point that Trump’s Republican supporters in Congress are generally intelligent people who couldn’t possibly believe the Big Lie. Many of them, he says, privately tell him to “keep up the good work” in investigating the coup attempt. (more…)
There is no doubt that Liz Cheney’s star is rising, buoyed by the admiration she’s receiving for her honesty and bravery in the pursuit of justice following the coup attempt. Yet progressives need to remind themselves that her politics are quite right-wing. Not batshit crazy (Big Lie) right-wing, more “Reaganeque,” if you will.
If she’s elected in 2024, and if she’s supported by Congress, we will experience a return to the days of minimal government involvement in free markets. That means things like environmental deregulation, and no hope for the diabetics who are dropping dead because they can’t afford insulin.
It’s a blend of stupidity and rank cruelty that this country really doesn’t need.
As one who wants to see justice meted out to Donald Trump, I wish I could infer a good meaning here. It looks, however, like his former CFO, a career criminal now 74, is willing to die in prison to protect his former boss.
Yet I suppose it’s possible that his guilty plea accompanies his willingness to provide testimony against Trump and a reduced sentence.
This, of course, is what RICO was put into place to deal with: businesses that are front groups for organized crime.
This from the Sierra Club:
Two quick comments:
Sure, supporting Trump requires stupidity, but don’t forget about meanness. To like Trump means that you hate the same people as he does: people of color (especially if they’re Muslims or immigrants), as well as environmentalists, abortion-rights advocates, and other people of compassion.
Keep in mind that people like Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Greg Abbott may be the new normal in Republican politics. There is no guarantee that someone won’t come along in the future that will require even more stupidity (and meanness) than what we live among today.
The text here translates as “The next big evolutionary jump will be humankind’s discovery that cooperation is better than competition.”
This is an increasingly important concept as planetary resources become scarcer, and a business-as-usual approach means the slow but certain collapse of our life-supporting ecosystems. But does it seem even remotely possible?
In the United States, we’re hungrily removing as many features of cooperation as possible. Any attempt to fashion a government that does anything to help the common American is derided as the socialism of the radical left.
Roughly half of U.S. voters favor “America First” candidates. They’re proud to elect leaders who support the concept: “Screw the 96% of people who live in the rest of the world. We want it all.”
That’s a recipe for death.
People have been saying things like “water is the oil” for as long as I can remember, but the droughts caused by climate change are affecting large populations of people and other life forms.
The scarcity of potable water in particular in India and Africa is especially worrisome.
In the spirit of keeping up on conspiracy theories, I present the meme at left.
I’m hoping this is a fad that will vanish as mysteriously as it arrived.
Can you imagine, 20 years ago, telling people that a certain election was rigged, even though you had no evidence for it whatsoever? Someone would have thrown a net over you.
