From the Sierra Club:

Washington, DC – Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration announced its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen at a White House, Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin have formalized climate denialism as official government policy and moved to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.

We’ve known since the onset of Trump’s first administration that this highly corrupt president will do anything required to help the corporate polluters that support him financially.  The collapse of the environment is collateral damage, perfectly acceptable to the chief fascist.

 

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From the list at left, I wonder why most of these cities are bright blue.

I’m going to guess that life in these places requires affluence, and affluence generally derives from good education, good breeding, good manners, and tolerance for other people.

Santa Barbara is too small (population 89K) to make the list, but it’s incredibly pricey, and it’s next to impossible to find a Trump supporter there.

 

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I would say it happened when Donald Trump entered the political scene in 2015 and wasn’t immediately laughed off the stage.

I remember calling my mother in disbelief and asking her if there wasn’t an unwritten rule that a successful presidential candidate has to be a decent and honorable human being.  Sure, we elected Nixon (twice), but we didn’t know he was a criminal at the time.

 

 

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Although I completely agree with the fellow at left, I have to admit that the Republicans’ push to make ID required at the polls is going to be compelling to all Trump supporters who have been lied to, and are convinced, that America is rife with voter fraud.

So where is all this going?  Probably to the U.S. Supreme Court, since the Constitution is very clear on assigning responsibility for carrying out elections to the states.

 

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Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in Russian military leadership and personnel facing accusations of killing civilians, destroying infrastructure, and committing torture.

Then there are the atrocities in Gaza and Darfur.

All of these war crimes are punishable by life prison sentences.

OK, we all know that, even if Trump does go down, his criminal prosecution is very unlikely to follow this path.

But should we cheer that our president is a war criminal, one of the most vile people in human history?

The vast majority of Americans are sickened that the president of their country has led us to this point.

 

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What Katie Couric says here is undeniably true.

There is a palpable resentment of educated people who understand science, and push for all the tenets of the U.S. Constitution: due process, the balance of powers, the states’ rights to regulate their elections, the emoluments clause, etc.

I believe that this can’t last forever; it’s a fad not unlike the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, that vanished just as mysteriously as it arrived.

Of course, not everyone feels that way.  Check out what Isaac Asimov had to say on the matter, below.

 

 

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From what we see at left, are we to infer that voters are OK with the fact that Trump is turning this country into a lawless, authoritarian state?

FWIW, I don’t believe that.

 

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Most of the full-on Christians I know are politically conservative, though I doubt a single one takes it to the extreme shown at left.

 

 

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Considering that their only real job is protecting and defending Trump, I’d given them high marks.

If you have a broader set of criteria, e.g., protecting and defending the Constitution, they’re both abominable.

 

 

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The answer to the question becomes obvious when one considers what we’ve become as a country, which, in a couple of words, is hateful and ignorant.

How much intelligence do you expect from a population that re-elected a convicted felon who then immediately had 60+ other felony charges against himself dropped?

 

 

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