Federal Judge: Trump Lied About Voter Fraud
From this: A federal judge, Senior District Judge Reggie Walton (pictured), took aim at former President Donald Trump on Monday for lying about voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election, saying that former Vice President Al Gore had a better standing to challenge the 2000 election results but that he was “a man” and walked away.
Yes, but there are many important differences, and I don’t believe the (sexist) metaphor “to be a man” about the election results is too descriptive. In particular:
• The concentration of gullible, hateful, ignorant boobs was far lower then.
• The number of such boobs who would storm the Capitol under Gore’s incitement, get arrested, and go to prison was probably zero.
• Gore didn’t need the presidency to help him dodge at least a dozen potential criminal charges.
• Gore isn’t a pathological liar with a set of mental disorders you could drive a truck through.
• Gore didn’t have entire news channels that would happily run whatever stories the administration wanted them to.
It’s always good to hear a federal judge criticize Trump and his horrific character, but there is so much more that could have been said.
I have a wellness consultant who tries not to involve herself in the most troublesome aspects of American life these days. Her reasoning, and I understand it, is that in order to help her clients most effectively, she needs to protect herself from despair, anger, terror, and all the other deeply negative emotions that permeate our society. She wants to follow this stuff only to the level that she has a fairly decent understanding of what her patients are experiencing, but not to the level that she experiences it herself. 
Here’s an anonymous free-form poem about the pandemic and the anti-vaxxers. Poignant, to say the very least.
This cartoon is on point, but the guy in the last panel isn’t stupid; he’s evil and selfish beyond description. Stupidity does come into play, however. If he is to be successful, he’ll need to rely on the stupidity of you and me.
No one can accurately quantify the effect that sharing bull**** on Facebook has on the dumbing-down of humanity, but it must be considerable.
Here’s a discussion on the potential for the breakdown of the U.S. democracy. Various commenters’ viewpoints are in bullets/italics, with my remark at the end.
Here’s a video in which 
And he’s been dead almost 30 years.
In the words of pastor John Pavolvitz, “It turns out that “Woke” is Republican-speak for anyone who gives a damn about other human beings or the planet. It is a dog-whistle slur against expressions of humanity that seek to make a vulnerable community less vulnerable, or to spread resources, opportunity, power, and a voice to more people.”
Responding to the Rittenhouse verdict, a reader responds: YES!!!!
