I can’t vouch for the validity of this “Turkish proverb,” but I wanted to publish it anyway, due to its relevance to the American political scene and the presence of Donald Trump within it.

 

 

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Detractors of social media make the excellent point that it fuels the spread of hate and ignorance.

I agree with my friend David Leebron, president of Rice University, who believes that social media represents a net negative for society.

Anti-vaxxers, climate deniers, and those who believe the Big Lie would be voiceless in such a world.

 

 

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Here’s a quick report on KFC’s new plant-based chicken product, “Beyond Fried Chicken,” available at nearly 4,000 U.S. locations.

As I’ve mentioned frequently, meatless meat has gone mainstream. That’s because the plant-based burgers from Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are virtually indistinguishable from beef, and represent an enormous step forward from the veggie burgers of the past. (more…)

Nothing wrong with asking people to “move faster,” but let’s get real. We either create the business conditions that provide incentive to decarbonize our energy and transportation sectors, or the planet bakes.

That mean some sort of revenue-neutral tax on carbon, the best, IMO, is the Carbon Fee and Dividend.

 

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I’m glad people like Rep. Pramila Jayapal haven’t given up on gun reform.

FWIW, I have to admit that I have.  American lawmakers are terrified of the gun lobby.  The pressure it exerts on these slimy cowards is sufficient to frustrate the will of 90+% of the American people yesterday, today, and on into perpetuity.

I had a gun control sticker on my junior-size golf bag when I was 13.  That was 1968.http://www.2greenenergy.com/2022/01/27/gun-violence-4/ (more…)

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What soon-to-be-convicted sex trafficker Matt Gaetz says here is precisely what my mom believes, i.e., that encouraging people to vote, combined with voter fraud and open borders, gives a huge and permanent advantage to Democrats.

In reality, though significant voter fraud doesn’t exist and the borders aren’t open, encouraging everyone to vote actually does offer an advantage to the Democrats, because it is they who want to fashion government such that it provides real value to the common American.

If the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 passes, it will force the Republicans to return to where they had been in the past, e.g., the Ronald Reagan days of the 1980s.

The reason that Reagan beat Jimmy Carter in a landslide (489 – 49 electoral votes, by  a popular margin of 9.7%) is that voters believed in the overall platform of personal accountability, strong military, limited government, and trickle-down economics.

Now, one can debate the merit of this platform, but what matters is that voters believed that the GOP had something to offer them.

What does it have now, other than Trump, his criminal attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, and the congressional lackeys who still support him?   Sure, we can throw in the anti-science rhetoric surrounding climate change mitigation and the response to COVID.  But what all this has in common is a massive appeal to stupidity, which is what makes Trump a toss-up to win a second term in 2024.

 

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I only wish this went without saying.

Almost half the country believes that Trump is the best presidential choice in 2024.

About one-third believes that he won the 2020 election, which was stolen from him by a conspiracy that would have had to involve any hundreds of people who had no previous record of treason against the United States.

Also, about one in three Americans believes at least the complete untrue proposition re: COVID and its treatments.

This misinformation wasn’t sent from Mars by teletype or fax; it is manufactured right here on Earth, and distributed by “news” outlets like Fox.

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A reader asks, “Does anyone believe that the facts revealed by the bipartisan J6 select committee reports, or stepped up indictments or prosecutions by DoJ or any number of states AGs will change things much by the midterm elections?”
I wonder if this is a joke.  I know many Trump supporters are “dug in,” but suppose there is a series of indictments against Team Trump for what is tantamount to treason. Suppose the NY state AG eventually prosecutes Trump and his family of career criminals on fraud charges.  In that case, Trump’s headed for prison–or Saudi Arabia.
Yes, some of these supporters are going to conclude, OK, so he committed treason.  Big deal.  At least he’s not a socialist.   But I’m not sure half the country is going to be OK on being led by someone who came within a whisker of overthrowing the United States government.
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Here’s a portable holster, enabling the user nearly instantaneous access to his loaded handgun. As shown, this comes in especially handy in the car, mounted beneath the steering wheel.

What this does principally is reduces the amount of time that the user has to think things through before killing someone.

Think gun deaths in road rage situations were quick and easy before?

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From American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher Learned Hand: I will remember that what has brought us up from savagery is a loyalty to truth, and truth cannot emerge unless it is subjected to the utmost scrutiny — will you not agree that a society which has lost sight of that, cannot survive?

Rats.  I was thinking we could simply make stuff up, like the stolen election or the lethality of COVID vaccines.  This guy seems to be saying that this isn’t cool, and damn, just when I was almost getting used to it.

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