Voting in 2022
Oh, I expect record turnout, certainly for a midterm, perhaps even topping the 2020 presidential.
There’s so much at stake, and practically everyone understands that.
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Alligator Blocks Progress
There are over 12,000 blog posts here, perhaps 1000 of which contain memes of someone else’s creation.
This is the first one of my own.
AT&T Created, Funded Ultra-Right Fake News TV Channel OAN (One America News)
AT&T has always been associated with the ultra-right, at least since I’ve been paying attention, roughly 50 years.
Of course, 50 years ago that meant William F. Buckley and Richard Nixon, not Donald Trump and QAnon.
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Satire from The Borowitz Report: “Trump to Skip 2024 Campaign and Go Straight to Claiming He Won”
PALM BEACH (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump will skip the 2024 campaign and go straight to claiming that he won, the former reality-show host has confirmed.
Speaking to reporters, Trump said that campaigning in 2024 would be “a waste of time, quite frankly, because I have already won that election.”
Asked how he could have won an election that is not scheduled to occur for another three years, he said, “People are saying that it already did happen. A lot of very smart people are calling me and saying that.”
As we all know, humor needs to be rooted in truth. And, when we think about it, Trump has already shown that the actual vote count is immaterial to how he sees the election outcome.
He was in Iowa the other day with the same old lies, rattling on and on. Video of some of his fans indicate that they’re tiring of all this, and would like to hear something new.
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Wind Turbines, A Blight?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I’ll grant that wind farms are less attractive than open areas of land or sea.
Having said that:
Wind farms are cited in areas with exceptional wind velocities, and no one wants to live with howling gales, and
Wind is now almost 9% of the total energy generated in the United States, and it’s growing every year. It is being used to supplant coal, by far the dirtiest energy resource, given its CO2, methane, heavy metals, and radioactive isotopes.
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Shocking Things Liberals Believe
(Larger version below)
There are a few things I would add.
Police who use excessive force, especially when a suspect’s death comes as a result, should be held accountable.
War should be used as a last resort, and America’s defense budget should be reduced. We should lead the world in the direction of the abolition of nuclear weapons, and we should not sell weapons to butchers, nor cozy up to the world’s dictators.
Wealthy people should not use their riches and power to escape justice.
The United States should lead the world in environmental stewardship.
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Trumpism
I get the point here, but there actually is an ideology (note spelling). It’s a blend of selfishness, denial of science, and a cult-like adoration of a sociopath.
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What Billionaires Should Do
Insofar as I am not a billionaire, it could be said that I have no capacity to say what I’d do if I actually had all that money.
That said, I can’t imagine how unsatisfying it would be to know that I could have ended world hunger or mitigate climate change, but decided to participate in a space race against my fellow billionaires. Conversely, Dolly Parton should feel very good about her ongoing quest to assuage suffering all around the world.
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Parents’ Rights and Duties
The meme here, obviously, is from an anti-vaxxer.
My response: Parents who believe they, rather than doctors, are the authority on medical matters should not have had kids in the first place, and run the risk of criminal prosecution if that authority causes their children harm.
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I sure would like to live in a civilization that conforms to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s idea here. The social democracies of Europe and Scandinavia probably come as close to it as any nations on Earth.
The United States may actually rank at the very bottom of the list. We do a very poor job at pulling people out of the river, and we couldn’t care less about what got them wet in the first place.
The fellow whose remarks are
