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.
As discussed in this article from Science Magazine, our food systems and climate change have profound effects on each other.
In particular, climate-driven desertification and droughts are destroying our arable land, and our abominable misuse of land and the systems by which we grow our food is fueling global warming.
I hope you’ll check out the suggestions that a few of our top scientists are making in this critically important arena.
The illustration here depicts a great many important changes that have taken place in America since 1960, among them our religious observances, formality of dress, and use of technology.
The author of the meme makes an even more important point, though: the rich have finally succeeded in exerting sufficient power on our country’s law-making processes so as to keep their tax rates extremely low, while putting extreme economic pressure on everyone else.
A reader sent me this, noting: Hey let me get off next exit, & charge my batteries for 4 hours, by then we will have another 6 inches of snow.
Indeed, it would be a very poor decision to push your EV’s range and take a chance on running out of charge in these conditions. Thus, if you want to drive nonstop from Buffalo, NY to Green Bay, WI in the middle of a snowy February, an EV isn’t a good choice.
As I’m sure you know, this scenario is not the case for 99.9% of driving in America.
At left is the topic of conversation that I have constantly with my mom, whether we’re talking about climate change, the Big Lie, the handling of COVID, or any of a dozen other “controversial” subjects.
She sees televised interviews with people (on Fox News) who say that climate change is a hoax, that the election was stolen, and that Dr. Fauci is a criminal. I reply: You are aware, I’m sure, that if you look hard enough, you can find someone who will tell you that the Earth is flat. The existence of people like this has no bearing on the shape of our planet.
This, FWIW, is how we wound up with Trump in the first place: the news media was making so much advertising money from sponsors of their shows presenting Trump as a colorful, viable character, that they refused to do what was right, i.e., explain that he is a vulgar career criminal and a pathological liar.
The president of CBS said, during the presidential campaign leading up to the 2016 election, “Oh, I understand that he (Trump) is terrible for the country; there is no doubt about that. But I can tell you that he is wonderful for CBS News.”
Good on you.
