Trump: So Petty and Cruel
There has to be a limit to our country’s appetite for Trump’s small, narrow-minded, and mean-spirited nature.
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“Universal and Supreme Happiness”
At left we see what the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz thought about the ideal society.
On this planet, we have three principal types of government:
Authoritarian dictatorships and oligarchies, e.g., most of Asia and Africa. Under Putin, the Russian people lead lives of great privation.
Capitalist democracies, e.g., Japan, most of Europe, the U.K., Australia, and what the U.S. was before Trump. In these cases, the government is indifferent to the happiness/suffering of the people. Want to be called a “woke libtard?” Just tell someone in a red state that you care about the well-being of the common person.
Social democracies, e.g., Scandinavia, Iceland, Costa Rica, and New Zealand. What makes these countries stand out from the rest is that they actually care about the happiness of the people, and believe it or not, it works. These nations are consistently rated at the very top of the World Happiness Rankings.
Why Not Sustainability?
To the reader who sent me the meme here: It depends on whom you mean by “we.”
Most of us would love to have the “sustainable version of human activity” you mention. But there is a small group of extremely powerful people on Earth, that, speaking generally, would rather get richer than implement anything remotely like this.
The saddest part of all this is that human civilization is actually fairly close to sustainability. All we really need to do is a) decarbonize our transportation and energy sectors, b) stop destroying our rainforests, and c) move to the form of government that we see in places like Iceland, Scandinavia, New Zealand, and so forth, that have been successful in all but eliminating poverty, and where everybody abides by rule of law.
I was pleased to see what Iceland did following the banking-fraud-driven economic crash of 2008. They rounded up those responsible, charged them with crimes, put them on trial, convicted them, and sent them to prison. Stuff like this doesn’t happen to rich white men here in the U.S. — especially now that Trump is in power.
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Trump and Young Girls
The man pictured here is repulsive as a human being can be, but he represents something that all Americans have to deal with: there is a limit beneath which Trump’s approval rating cannot fall.
This guy and probably a few million like him are fine with a mentally and emotionally ill criminal in the White House.
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Third or Fourth Grade Geology
I like it!
We didn’t have enough stupidity, but now the inner core is outside of the core!
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Cold Fusion
Cold fusion. As an extremely senior scientist once told me: “It’s more related to seances than sciences.”
I thought that was pretty clever.
Gifts
Are the best gifts made of bison leather? No, and I’m not talking about veganism.
I’ve had the same belt for my entire adult life. I don’t need another. Trust me, your dad or husband feels the same way.
Write him a poem and put your whole heart into it.
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Truth in Advertising
Do you ever wonder if the photos that you see in advertisements may have been altered? Astute Americans have been concerned about this for at least a century.
Did that guy really lose all that weight? Have all this lady’s crows’ feet actually disappeared with just a jar of this incredible cream, invented by a 13-year-old?
At left is an ad for the treatment of nail fungus that just may have been doctored. How can I be so sure? She (Janet) has four toes.
Like many of us, I have a bit of toenail fungus, and this stuff is extremely tenacious. Maybe I need a stronger medication, but I certainly don’t want something so strong that it removes a toe.
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Charlatan Wants to Sell You Gold
Would anyone trust this guy to walk his dog, let alone provide financial advice?
When you listen to the mega-wealthy ultra-conservative talk show hosts like Larry Elder, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or Charlie Kirk, or the even richer televangelists like Joel Osteen, you can’t help wondering if any of these people has an ounce of sincerity in his entire body.
Do any of these people actually believe a word they’re saying? I doubt it. They make their multimillions by exploiting huge audiences of morons, and they’re intensely good at it.
Mocking Trump
Trump faces far greater problems than being mocked, e.g., being impeached, convicted, and imprisoned.
