Herschel Walker is a pathological liar, but that’s only one reason that he’s no more qualified to be a U.S. senator than he is to be a board-certified cardiac surgeon.
On the other hand, none of this matters.
What counts is that he’s a Republican, running against a Democrat. He’s a God-fearing Trump supporter, not a bleeding heart socialist.
From this:
Newsmax made history Friday night, beating competitor CNN in key prime-time ratings.
According to Nielsen – and first reported by Mediaite – Newsmax’s live coverage of former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally pushed the network ahead of CNN in audience viewership. (more…)
What would it be like to know that you could eliminate world hunger, or tackle climate change, but decide to develop a hobby that requires tens of billions of dollars?
It’s hard for most of us to imagine.
Here’s a response to a question that has the same relevance as “Hey! How ’bout those Dodgers?”
From his Wikipedia page:
A staunch ally of President Donald Trump, Johnson voted for Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, supported Trump’s decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), launched investigations into his political opponents and promoted false claims of fraud in relation to Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election. He has rejected the scientific consensus on climate change. (Pushed) fringe theories about COVID-19, and spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccinations.
In other words, his supporters really don’t expect any coherent thinking from the guy.
My wife approves of the word I coined above (politibabble) and thinks it might catch on. I’m not so sure.
Modern Science
I hope the author of the meme here doesn’t judge the value of his life by his success or failure on any of this.
I don’t want to sound cynical, but there is no reason to believe humankind evolved here on Earth with the capacity to grasp these concepts.
If, as string theorists suggest, the building blocks of the universe are perceptible only in 11 dimensions, we have no advantage over dogs and cats in being able to make sense of this.
Having said that, physics has wrapped its wits around a heck of a lot of stuff in the 120 years since it went past Newtonian mechanics and got into things that we can’t directly perceive. And, though I know less about it, I’m told the neuroscience may be getting us closer to figuring out human consciousness.
In any case, here’s my advice: be prepared to live–and die–with unanswered questions.
Gun Message
Thank you, Jane of the North.
Frankly, however, we already know this. We’re not too bright down here, but we’re not that stupid.
Unfortunately, money controls every aspect of our cheesy little culture, and the gun lobby has us up against a wall.
There is no limit to the number of our schoolchildren we’re willing to have blown to little bits.
Fox News won’t air a single January 6th hearing? Well, of course not.
If you’re a Fox News viewer, you know that Hillary Clinton was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Five (different) House Committees, the State Department Accountability Review Board, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the House Select Committee, none of which turned up any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the then-Secretary of State. But that doesn’t satisfy you.
In fact, you would place no limit to the expenditure of the government’s time and money in pursuing this satanic beast of a woman, because there are no conceivable findings that would convince you that she is innocent. Remember, you were chanting, “Lock her up!” years after the Department of Justice and Congress had put the matter to bed. Justice and fairness aren’t what you’re looking for here.
Conversely, you believe that the U.S. Congress has no authority to investigate an attempt to overthrow the United States government, at least, insofar as Donald Trump, God’s gift to the United States, was involved. Any attempt to suggest that he had some level of responsibility for the insurrection must be partisan politics, driven by the same Deep State that rigged the 2020 election in favor of Biden.
If we want to gauge the intensity of the corruption that has such a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress, the best place to look is laws that would restrict the use of war weapons.
Yes, Big Oil owns the lawmakers who might otherwise favor phasing out fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy resources. But one can at least imagine that at least some of these folks honestly believe that gasoline enables our energy independence, or some such.
Yes, Big Pharma and Insurance owns the lawmakers who might favor lowering drug prices, universal healthcare, etc. But one can at least imagine that these folks honestly believe that expensive drugs provide incentive for R&D that otherwise would not happen. (more…)
Here’s just another data point to the effect that what the Fox News people broadcast about Trump has no connection to the truth.
The Republican Party and the National Rifle Association are in lockstep, doing their damnedest to ensure nothing will stand between psychotic young men and the assault weapons they need to carry out the mass murder of our schoolchildren.
