MAGA Anonymous
There have been many items in the news recently that are causing Trump’s MAGA base to erode, and the cartoon here depicts one of them.
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Immigrants
To the reader whom sent me this:
I agree. I also like them. Hispanics are generally quite family oriented.
My wife and I operated a horse-breeding facility for many years in Central California which would have been difficult if not impossible to do in the absence of immigrants.
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What We Should Make of the New Mayor of New York City?
Have you ever wondered how many Americans have actually spent time in New York City on business? Do you find it interesting that the people in the Western Hemisphere’s most sophisticated city voted overwhelmingly for the new mayor?
These people aren’t the uneducated poor from the rural parts of any of the fifty states. It costs a fortune to live there, and its residents are arguably the most affluent brainiacs in our country.
Now, we all know that the right-wing “news” media wants to tell you that his election is the first step to sending our country to Soviet communism. But is it possible that the people of New York, the most successful people in the United States, know something you don’t?
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The Decline and Fall of Human Civilization
Predictably, the right-wing “news” media is having a seizure over the inauguration of the new mayor of New York City. A guy on Newsmax said, “He took his oath swearing on the Quran! He doesn’t even believe in the true God! He believes in a false God!”
In the world’s religions, there are approximately 4000 gods. You’re at liberty to believe that yours is the only one “true” god, and that the other 3999 are false. You have that freedom, but that means that you’re a moron.
If this is the level to which human society has risen (fallen), no wonder we are totally screwed. We richly deserve what is coming to us.
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On Stupidity
The ancient (pre-Socratic) Greek philosopher Heraclitus is most remembered for having written, “Change is the only constant,” or alternatively translated, “Nothing endures but change.” He wrote, “Into the same rivers we both do and do not step,” meaning that the river itself is ever-changing.
This forms a sort of harmony between Eastern and Western philosophy and is presented in Herman Hesse’s “Siddartha.”
His works are recognized in the modern world as “fragments,” since he never wrote long treatises, as did Aristotle and the folks who came later.
At left is a fragment I hadn’t come across, though I like it very much.
He did write, “Thought is quick,” though, given the quote here, one wonders if that was sarcasm.
Presenting Sir David Attenborough
An international hero.
I met a guy earlier today, and we were discussing why human civilization is losing the battle against environmental collapse. The answer, obviously, is that there are too few David Attenboroughs and too much greed, ignorance, indifference, and selfishness.
Corporations Need to Be Regulated
This from journalist and Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges.
Corporations are not inherently evil. It is this business structure that built the aqueducts of ancient Rome.
Yet the last couple of decades have opened Pandora’s box, including the infamous “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision, which found that they have the same rights to free speech that are enjoyed by human beings, meaning that they can spend as much as they want, controlling the outcome of our elections.
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Understanding the First Amendment
To the reader who sent me this:
America, the land of the free, doesn’t tell other people what they can and cannot wear. It’s covered in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, under feedom of expression.
It’s a shame you didn’t learn this in school.
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The United States Is in Grave Danger
Find the news “disturbing?”
From this segment on National Public Radio:
Less than five years after urging rioters to “kill” police at the Capitol, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice, which has been dramatically remade under the second Trump administration.
NPR has obtained police bodycam footage from multiple angles of the former defendant and current administration official, Jared Wise, berating officers and calling them “Nazi” and “Gestapo.” NPR located the footage, which has not previously been published, in a review of thousands of court exhibits from Jan. 6 criminal cases, obtained through legal action by a coalition of media organizations. The Department of Justice had introduced the footage as an exhibit in Wise’s trial. NPR also obtained the transcript of Wise’s testimony, in which he acknowledged that he repeatedly yelled “kill ’em” as officers were being attacked and tried to explain his actions. Wise was not convicted of any crimes related to Jan. 6, due to President Trump’s order to end all Capitol riot prosecutions.
It doesn’t take a genius to see where all this is headed.
Our nation’s president operates completely above the law, and, at this point, it appears that there is no power on Earth that can stop him.
Trump is surrounded by people whose only qualification for their jobs is their loyalty to the king of the United States.
Sam Harris on RFK, Jr.
In this short interview, neuroscientist and public intellectual Sam Harris explains how dangerous RFK, Jr. is to our nation and its people.
Pathological liars, especially talented ones, are very hard to catch–but it can be done.
