From this piece in Newsweek:  Former President Donald Trump’s “Save America” political action committee (PAC) on Tuesday sent an email to subscribers that linked to an article that claims Governor Brian Kemp’s victory in last week’s Republican gubernatorial primary was the result of voter fraud.

It’s pretty clear where all this is going, that is, if it wasn’t before: Trump needs no evidence whatsoever to claim that any election result he doesn’t like is the product of fraud.  And we’re talking massive fraud; Kemp won by 50 points, a margin of 3:1.

Haven’t we seen enough of this?

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All Americans have the sense, at least in a vague way, that there is something going on here that is very, very wrong.  As we look at the meme here, we wonder: what are the main differences between Finland and us as societies?

I submit it’s money.  The United States’ GDP, #1 on Earth, is 80 times larger that Finland’s, which ranks #42.

There’s not enough money there to get anyone excited about screwing with the Finns, coming in there with Fox News, desperately trying to convince them that their president, a doddering old fool who stole the election from his predecessor, that immigrants are taking their jobs, that they need more guns to protect themselves from would-be attackers, that they must ban certain books to prevent their kids from becoming socialists or transsexuals, that environmentalists are commies, or that their government planned their exposure to COVID-19.

No one cares, because there isn’t enough money to drive all the idiocy that’s happening in front of Americans’ eyes.

Not a bad place to raise your kids, given a choice.

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The gentleman shown here, custom-making child-sized coffins for the 19 kids shot at the most recent school shooting massacre, is certainly trending in our news, perhaps if only because what he’s doing reminds us of our youth, when no one worried about getting killed.

My future daughter-in-law is a teacher’s aide.  Her salary puts her  barely above the poverty line.  Her position, like everyone in public education, means virtual impotence in dealing with unruly and defiant kids, and that is pitiable.  Among her stressors is wondering each morning if today will be her turn to take a bullet, along with her classroom full of students, which is unthinkable.

Now we’re talking about issuing her a gun and wishing her good luck.

Collectively, we wonder what’s going so wrong with American public education, and certainly there is no single answer.  But what we’re asking of our teachers is just absurd.  We are getting what we so richly deserve.

 

 

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Those looking for inspiration in a world dominated by tragedy, stupidity, hatred, and cowardice can enjoy what’s happening in Eastern Europe, where little Ukraine is standing up courageously against the barbaric Russian invasion.

Here’s a report to the effect that even the Russian Orthodox Clerics, formerly completely devoted to Putin, are breaking ranks with the tyrant.

Most Americans would give anything to see our country display even a small fraction of this bravery in defense of what is right.

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The would-be EV manufacturer Aptera, whose prototype shown here (unchanged  from 2005) says:
Join Aptera on our mission to transform the way we move. Many of our 15,000 reservation holders are also investors. Invest as we aim to build the world’s most efficient solar electric vehicle.
Craig: Is this a joke?
Reader Jim Russell: It’ll cost you $1000 to find out.
Craig: Ha!!!!!
Seriously, who invests in a company that’s been raising money for decades to build an unsafe and idiot-looking car?  Doesn’t this strike people as stupid beyond measure?
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The meme here suggests that “we’ve learned nothing.”  I don’t think that’s true at all.  Almost everyone in America has learned what people around the world already know:

a) The indiscriminant selling of war weapons to unscreened young people results in the deaths of incredible numbers of our schoolchildren.

b) Certain people are stupid enough to believe there is some other cause for the stats here, e.g., we don’t have enough guns.

c) Big money couldn’t possibly give a shit about the safety of your children.

We’ve learned a great deal, especially that the American people appear to be powerless to turn this around.

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As suggested at left, some folks believe that psychiatric drugs cause gun violence, reasoning that many shooters are, in fact, on such drugs.

Apparently it doesn’t occur to them that anyone who commits such a crime is mentally ill, and virtually all those who seek treatment for mental illness will be prescribed drugs (whether they are effective on not).

Thus there is a huge correlation between those on psychiatric drugs and those who commit acts of gun violence.

But if from that you infer that one causes the other, you’re simply are not too bright.

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A reader sent me this and notes, Investigating a pathetic bully.
One Barb Meadows notes: Let’s go!!
Seriously. Let’s replace “weighing” with “indicting.”  It’s not a crime to be a “pathetic bully,but it is to try to overturn an election and thus overthrow the federal government.
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From the “Foundation for Individual Rights in Education”: 

Free speech doesn’t just mean having everyone agree with you and living in an echo chamber. There are lots of things that I don’t agree with, but if someone else believes those things—that’s their right.  If you agree, sign the petition below to protect students’ rights to free speech on campus.

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Imagine this.

You’re a U.S. representative in Wyoming, the single reddest state in the union, where 69.8% of votes in 2020 went to Donald Trump, the only state with  greater than a 2:1 margin. (more…)

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