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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I don’t see the need to do anything further than bringing criminal charges against those who provided material aid to the insurrection.

Some of these people are in very deep Bandini.  It appears, for instance, that on January 5th, some of our lawmakers gave tours of the Capitol, showing the precise location of places like Nancy Pelosi’s office so that it could be raided the following day.  Evidently, someone told his tour group, “Here’s where Mike Pence will be at 1 PM tomorrow afternoon.”

That’s some combination of treason, sedition, and possibly even attempted murder.  That guy is not going to be serving in Congress; he’s going to be serving 20 – life in federal prison.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Rational and kind folks look at this and wonder what could possibly motivate someone to take a tack in life that makes them detested by the vast majority of their countrymen (and 100% of well-educated people).

The answer is that they live in a cult, where all their friends are like-minded members.  What the rest of the world thinks about them is irrelevant.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I agree that this is a brilliant tactic.

Yet the Trump base is desperate to maintain the fiction that the charges against their hero are politically motivated, regardless of how indefensible that claim may be.

There isn’t a whole hell of a lot of reasoning going on there.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics, Uncategorized

Here’s a popular narrative: a civil war is brewing in the United States.

It’s possible to imagine that a large and heavily armed collection of Trump supporters who believe the Big Lie gets news that their hero has been charged with treason and go immediately on the attack.

Here’s what’s not credible, however: the majority of affluent Americans, people of sanity and intelligence, allow it to happen.

For a moment, try to forget about the hateful morons, and think about the real prosperity in this land of ours, the reasonably well educated  businesspeople, shoppers, Little League coaches, soccer moms, country clubbers, and the like.

Their fathers fought and won WW2, and know they’re going to lose their liberty to people who can’t spell the word “liberty?” It’s simply not going to happen.

 

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Of course, it’s not quite all.

This is going to make tens of millions of hateful morons very angry, but that’s a price that we, as a nation, must be willing to pay.

A country that supposedly loves liberty but doesn’t serve up justice to a leader who attempts to become an authoritarian ruler is not a free nation; it’s not a place where decent people want to live.

Kudos to the artist, Steve Funk.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I’m amazed he’s still in the country.  It looks certain he’ll be charged at this point, after which he’ll be unable to leave.

Sure, there will be those who claim indicting him is political vengeance, and that it sets a precedent whereby all future presidents can be similarly attacked, but attempting to overthrow the U.S. government, i.e., committing treason, is not something that can be dismissed.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

It’s been too long since I wrote a post that simply combines the imperative to plant trees and a piece of art by my favorite modern-day Italian impressionist, Maurizio Rega.

Virtually all the mass in our trees comes from atmospheric CO2.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s an accurate list of what Trump has lost vis-a-vis the 2020 presidential election.

But keep in mind that so much action has yet to take place.

With each passing day it’s looking increasingly hard to believe that Trump will not be indicted on charges that add up to treason, the crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to overthrow the government.

What will he lose as this process unfolds?  Well, first, the support of many of the tens of millions of current racist morons still behind him. Ultimately, his freedom (that is, unless he flees the country).

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If one has a soft enough heart, I suppose it’s possible to feel sorry for Trump supporters who collectively donated $250 million to a) a cause that was never the recipient of the money, and b) was fraudulent in the first place.

The best we can hope for here is that Trump is exposed as a conman, and that his erstwhile supporters figure all this out, learn from their mistakes, and move on with their lives.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Wait! What?

Well, those us of old enough to remember Watergate will recall how Nixon had the support of Republicans–until he didn’t.  It looks like we have something similar going on here.

It appears that Congressional Republicans, tragically born without spines, have suddenly realized that their allegiance to Trump has shifted from an asset to a liability, and just that quickly, we have statements like the one here.

 

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