It seems that all our concern about China’s military expansion is simply needless worry.
The Chinese are on a path toward world domination, but it doesn’t involve violence; it’s being accomplished by harnessing the stupidity of the United States and using it to drive America into irrelevance on the global economic stage.
I was a fairly avid camper in my youth, but it sounds pretty unappealing at age 67.
Having said that, the author of the meme makes an excellent point.
Here’s one of those claims that seem so absurd that it needs to be confirmed. But yes, Marjorie Taylor Greene actually did say this.
As Rep. Adam Schiff of the Select Committee pointed out, “Most of these people (in Congress) are intelligent, and couldn’t possibly believe the Big Lie.” He immediately qualified his remark, naming Greene by name as a notable exception.
A fabulous yet frightening prediction.
And from almost 150 years ago.
At left we see the reason that Socrates is often regarded as Western Civilization’s greatest philosopher.
Being aware of how little one really knows requires a profound level of humility. I’m sure it was rare back in his day, and it’s almost completely absent in our public forums today, at least in the U.S.
In fact, now we have a relatively recent theory in psychology, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a type of cognitive bias in which people with little knowledge of a particular subject tend to grossly overestimate their level of understanding in that arena.
Thus, we have the MAGA crowd, featuring tens of millions of experts on constitutional law, epidemiology, and macroeconomics.
As the United States regresses back into time, opportunities for humor arise on an almost-daily basis.
Of course, this would be funnier if it didn’t represent such a grave assault on women’s rights and the quality of their lives.
In an earlier post, I referred to Trump’s ploy of arguing with “childishly poor logic,” and I suggested that he can’t get away with this forever, as he’s forced to increase the extent of each lie so as to cover up the one before it.
Apparently, the creator of the meme here sees the situation similarly.
Joe Biden’s approval rating got a bump recently, and maybe it’s because of the numerous “legislative wins” referred to in the cartoon here.
Anyone would have guessed that victories in gun safety, infrastructure, climate, gas prices/inflation, bringing jobs back from China, lowering drug prices, and making corporations pay higher taxes would have made a difference, and perhaps that’s exactly what has happened.
Also, approval for Democrats tracks inversely to approval for Republicans, and the GOP has fallen on hard times, as criminal indictments loom large in front of the former president.
FWIW, I don’t believe in the Antichrist.
I do, however, believe in the existence of evil, and in the sociopaths who embody evil, and it’s fairly clear that the former president meets every one of those characteristics.
Reader A: Why aren’t we exploring zero-point energy? Curious.
