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.
At a minimum, it means developing an understanding of the vastness of our commonalities, coming together, and acting as one.
Those wishing to indulge themselves in a few poignant minutes along these lines should check out the video below:
Here’s a good reason to admire the former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub.
That’s one (childishly erroneous) way of looking at it.
Another is this:
The 45th President of the United States is a career criminal who, unless he is brought to justice, will have successfully toppled American democracy.
Well, here we are. Echoing what Sen. Lindsey Graham said a few days ago about “riots in the streets,” the former president is pledging to incite yet another insurrection if the U.S. criminal code is applied to him.
And this one won’t feature a few thousand supporters, but a couple of orders of magnitude more. Armed to the teeth, taking to the streets. Each one completely convinced that Trump is the victim (rather than the perpetrator) of the “most egregious assault on democracy in the history of our country.”
Will the DoJ back down, knowing that it would be authorizing all future presidents to steal classified, highly sensitive documents that endanger our intelligence community and national security more generally?
We’re about to find out.
Below we see the logos of the agencies that are investigating Trump’s criminality with an eye towards bringing charges against the former president.
As former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner says, it seem no one wants to be first (to indict Trump), but everyone wants to be second.
This seems like a reaction to the Marjorie Taylor Greene syndrome, aka, morons in Washington.
Republicans don’t like smart (read: “woke”) people, but now it appears that they don’t like idiots either.
That’s a positive development, IMO.
Here’s a pic I took of the rear bumper of a car parked in our “God-and-country” little town, where the politics is distinctly pro-Trump.
Had I been able to speak with the owner, I would have liked to ask how he would define the word “socialism.” For most of these people, it’s essentially “Stalinism” or “totalitarianism”: the removal of all personal rights and freedom, total government control of our lives, Draconian punishments for dissidents, and the abolition of private property.
In our tiny burg, there seems to be little recognition of the fact that the happiest nations on Earth, those in Northern Europe, are, every one, social democracies, where the country’s citizens look to government to provide valuable services that benefit all the people.
There is also little understanding of the fact that all Americans receive an extensive list of government services in exchange for their tax dollars. If I were to read them that list (see below), and asked them to name those that were socialistic, I’m sure I would be looking into a blank stare.
Infrastructure, police, fire fighting, criminal justice, national defense, public education, labor laws, auto and food safety standards, air traffic control, TSA, libraries, emergency medical care, environmental regulation, social security, Medicare, the National Archives, national parks, bank regulations and deposit insurance, copyright and patent laws, federal dams to provide electrical power, flood control, the Weather Service, the Federal Housing Authority, consulates and embassies, FEMA, veterans affairs, public water systems, monitoring of all international cargo, NASA, border protection, and the National Institutes of Health.
I know this feeling well.
I often physically flinch when I scroll through my Facebook feed.
As shown here, nuclear energy receives very little government assistance, which, considering the importance of decarbonizing our grid, is a horrible mistake.
Good on you.
