Trump is a gifted human being–in one sense only, but it’s an extremely important one.

He can speak to greedy people in a compelling way.  But more importantly, he can address huge masses of unintelligent Americans in a way that is so convincing that his words seem to them to have come from Almighty God Himself.

As most of us know, the majority of Americans have liberal values: human rights, quality education, environmental responsibility, compassion for the oppressed, universal healthcare, and the use of science in informing public policy.

Now, we find ourselves at the mercy of a Republican-led congress.  Will we see our country and its people torn apart by a would-be tyrant, so that a few Trump bootlickers can remain in office?

TBD.

 

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Truly patriotic Americans base their political beliefs on the concepts that formed this nation, perhaps the most important of which was expressed by the second president of the United States.

Now, an open question remains: “What went so terribly wrong that could have wound us up in this horrific and apparently intractable position?”

The only conceivable answer is that the Founding Fathers never imagined that the American people could become so mean and stupid to elect an obvious criminal sociopath to lead them.

 

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Historians rank Barack Obama in the top 10 U.S. presidents, and Trump at or near the bottom.

To most of the world, however, that is likely less interesting than how the two compare in terms of their lawfulness, willingness to stand up to the world’s tyrants, humanity, decency, intelligence, kindness, honesty, and capacity to lead a nation–as opposed to divide it.

 

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Why would it be terrifying to learn that we are alone in the universe?

At this point in human civilization, I hope that we’re not visited by an alien species. We’re technologically advanced, but horribly backwards in terms of decency, kindness, and compassion.  I’d be embarrassed to have to explain to an extraterrestrial being how we’ve done very little to help one another along.

As an American in particular, I’d have to reveal that we round up innocent people whose skin color differs from ours and send them off to be tortured and killed.

 

 

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Americans are starting to get the impression the Trump era may be coming to an end.

Each day brings news of ever-growing lunacy.

 

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As much respect as I have for Stephen King, I would offer a correction here, or perhaps an addendum.

Yes, Trump is an idiot, but what makes him so dangerous is his limitless desire for power, and his total ruthlessness and lawlessness.

 

 

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At left is a solicitation to “stay up to date and learn more about Chevron’s support for the future.”

I don’t know what they say is their vision of the planet’s future, and I doubt it offers the truth:  to extract, refine, and sell fossil fuels the combustion as long as possible.  This is increasing the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, but it’s making us filthy rich.

 

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At left we see how a Christian celebrates the birthday of the little lord Jesus.

Look, I know his base is composed of some fairly unintelligent people, aren’t even they getting tired of this crap?

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It would be interesting to know if this is a direct reference to Donald Trump, a man who’s made a career out of ripping people off, and a wide variety of other forms of criminality.

I believe so.

It’s hard to have sympathy for those whom Trump has taken to the cleaners, given this is how Trump made his fortune.

 

 

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Considering that the world is drowning in a sea of pseudo-scientific crap, it’s good that organizations like the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, founded in 1963) are still publishing papers that provide us the truth about where technology is going.  This has increased importance today, insofar as certain technologies, e.g., nuclear energy, may well be the make/break point for life on Earth.

Those who have read my books know that I’m desperately hoping for breakthroughs in what is called “advanced nuclear,” meaning safer and more practical ways of converting mass into energy, thus enabling our civilization to decarbonize our transportation and energy sectors.  I’m a huge advocate for renewable energy, but I’m concerned that solar and wind cannot scale to remove fossil fuels from our energy portfolio.

Needless to say, the corruption associated with present-day American politics makes this struggle that much more intense, as our president, at the behest of Big Oil, is doing everything possible to put a halt to our capacity to put an end to the baking of our planet.

Here’s a paper on what I hope to be our ticket out of all this: the fission of thorium.

 

 

 

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