In an earlier post, Is a New Political Party in the U.S. a Good Idea?, I pointed out that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with the Democratic party. It may lack forceful new ideas, and it may be led by a less-than-bombastic president, but that’s just fine, in comparison with the criminal insanity that has become the GOP.
The button shown at left makes this point very nicely.
As suggested here, the QAnoners of the world have a handy defense, one that’s going to be hard to beat. They claim that the fact-checkers that expose their ideas as silly and baseless were actually put in place because their ideas are true.
This is a mess, folks.
Pastor John Pavlovitz and I see this precisely the same way.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the Democratic party. It’s platform includes environmental responsibility, quality education, human rights, equal justice, and restoring the economic policies that made this nation extremely prosperous and ensured a decent quality of life for all Americans.
There’s nothing wrong with that, and especially in comparison with the criminal insanity that has become the GOP.
Laws in the U.S. that place bans on abortion took a huge hit in a Kansas election yesterday, as voters in enormous numbers turned out to express their demands for a woman’s right to choose, in a referendum that won 65.3% to 34.7%. For those unfamiliar with U.S. politics, Kansas is among the most conservative, most heavily Christian states in the country, meaning that women (and most men) everywhere heavily favor the protection of abortion under law.
Many say that Democrats have very little force behind whatever ideas they have, which may explain their poor results in opinion polls. But at least Democrats aren’t trying to foist off some of the most oppressive and regressive policies conceivable on the American people. This really can’t be good for Republicans.
I’m going with treason on this one, Michael.
Whether the charge is actually “treason” or “seditious conspiracy,” it was an attempt to overthrow the United States government.
What makes this development so frightening is the extent to which the crimes appear to have spread through the executive branch. By the time this is over, there may be thousands of guilty people who get away with one of the most heinous crimes in U.S. history.
I’ll live with that if the top 5 – 10 go to prison.
TV and film icon Rob Reiner is quite vocal in his demand that Trump be brought to justice, and here, he expresses himself sarcastically.
At this point, I’d have to say that it appears improbable that we’ll ever recover the content of all those thousands of text messages that would have incriminated the former president and God knows who else.
Having said that, it looks equally unlikely that Trump will get off the hook, due to the enormous volume of evidence, including witness testimony, that has survived the cover up.
In today’s installment of his popular video series “Justice Matters,” former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner makes the point that Trump’s attorneys are gearing up to deal with incoming indictments, and that his principal line of defense is going to be expecting his top-level team to “take the fall” for him. This means hoping that people like Rudy Giuliani, Jeffery Clark, John Eastman, and Mark Meadows will refuse to testify, thus insulating him from evidence that he himself organized the coup attempt.
But how is all this going to play out in practice? Kirschner, who has visited many jails and prisons around the country for various purposes over this three-decade career, surmises that these old white guys “aren’t going to thrive” in that environment and, given that they all realize that Trump is a despicable person who has no loyalty to them whatsoever, will be highly motivated to cooperate with government prosecutors in exchange for reduced sentences.
We’ll see.
Great point to be made here.
It’s obvious to the scientific community that too little is being done to mitigate global warming, but policy-makers, at least in the U.S., don’t have the political will behind them to support forceful and effective action.
Moreover, the disinformation campaigns spewing forth from the fossil industry make this even tougher.
Hawaii has said goodbye to coal, and will be doing its best to phase out oil, as an increasingly rich mix of renewables comes on line.
From Governor David Ige: “This week Hawaii is receiving its final shipment of coal,” said in a statement. “This is a huge step forward in Hawaii’s transition to clean energy. In its time, coal was an important resource for Hawaii and I’d like to thank the workers who have run our last remaining coal plant.”
It seems to me that this is the proper way to think of fossil fuels in general. In their day, they made enormous contributions to all humankind. There is no reason to revile the coal industry; it’s simply time for it to step aside.
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