If you are looking for data to support the proposition made at left, here’s something for you. During COVID, European airlines are flying near-empty planes all over the Continent, rather than keeping them on the ground, so they can retain the highly valuable gates at the airports. The idea of taking a financial hit and stop spewing poison into the atmosphere apparently never occurred to them.
From today’s Wordsmith:
Covid deniers tell me it’s all made up. A reader in France often emails me random YouTube videos and other conspiracy links suggesting that Covid is a hoax. (more…)
It seems fairly clear that there is practically zero election fraud in this country, and that the only way Republicans can win elections is by putting pressure on voters so as to reduce their numbers.
I would have been more impressed if the GOP were able to offer real value to voters. That worked for them in the past. Law and order. Personal accountability. A strong military.
How hard would it be to pretend Trump and the Big Lie never happened and go back there?
A reader notes: What confuses me is why right wing media so hates electric vehicles.
Young people may not know that there was a time not too long ago when terrorist violence, especially when committed against Americans, was uniformly considered to be a bad thing.
Of course, along came social media, the great dumbing down of our nation, Donald Trump, the hateful morons who support him, and, of course, the Big Lie.
Next thing you know, we have the President of the United States calling on his supporters to go down to the Capitol and fight like hell to prevent the 2020 election from being certified.
What Adam Schiff says here had been the case until just a few days ago. At that point, it became clear that the justice department, as assisted by the congressional investigation into January 6th, is in the process of turning this around and dismantling Trump.
We need to be patient, confident that rule of law will not be removed as the core principle guiding the United States.
They say that Trump can’t handle being humiliated. His former attorney, Michael Cohen, says that Trump won’t run in 2024 because he couldn’t stand the humiliation of another loss.
Given this, I have bad news for the ex-president: he’s not going to like video footage of him in handcuffs spread all around the globe.
A reader notes: I think you are wrong when you suggest that no one with adequate credentials in science disputes the current Covid policies.
Well, I have no access to the discussions that happen at the top of the “food chain” at the CDC, and the many other bodies that create public health policy all around the world. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were disagreements. (more…)
From this:
A Missouri woman charged with the infamous theft of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s name plate during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Complex is facing an altogether more serious legal issue in her home state as of this week. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, Emily Hernandez, 22, was driving drunk on the wrong side of the highway during a fatal crash that killed another motorist on Wednesday evening in Franklin County.
At the risk of stating the obvious:
1) Insurrectionists aren’t people of fine character, and
2) If she had been in prison where she belongs, this couldn’t have happened.
When?!
