There is no evidence that any of the tens of millions of protesters in the U.S. has been paid for doing so.
There is plenty of evidence that the people who stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th and injured and killed our law enforcement officials did, in fact, receive the financial support of the U.S. president.
In response to the meme here, a reader notes: Anika Sweetland isn’t a climate scientist. There are only about a half dozen climate scientists alive that are still publishing who question AGW (anthropogenic global warming).
Exactly. If you are honestly interested in learning about climate science, what’s the problem with asking a climate scientist?
I had a fabulous piano teacher when I was a kid, but it never occurred to me to ask her what she thought about the science I was learning at school.
Two points:
1) People have a right to express their feelings. We commonly hear people say that celebrities shouldn’t share their political beliefs with their fans. Bullcrap. Reread the First Amendment.
2) You may not be aware (because NBC edited it out of their Olympics coverage) that an entire stadium of people booed JD Vance when he led the US contingent into the arena during the opening ceremony.
The Trump administration is anathema to the rest of the world (regardless of what you may have been told).
At left is a post from a Facebook group on climate change, to which I replied:
I don’t have a “belief,” because the word is (properly) used in conjunction with opinions or issues of faith. For example, I believe that Renoir was the greatest artist of all time. I don’t believe in the gods of Norse mythology.
The people who study global warming, like medicine, astrophysics, and the rest, are scientists. They are the only reliable source of information on their respective subjects. It doesn’t matter what baseball coaches and pastry chefs believe.
I have bad news for these Trump supporters: there are nowhere near 77 million of these people, given that Trump’s approval rating is now in the mid-30s and falling.
The Vietnam era spawned the phrase: “America — Love it or Leave It,” and idiots have been saying that, in one form or another, ever since.
It’s possible, especially now, that there actually are people who hate America, and who stay because of some practical reason, e.g., their job or their medical team, but these folks are very few in number.
The people protesting against Trump, ICE, etc., are showing that they care very deeply for our nation.
The moron who created the meme here apparently believes that most of Western and Northern Europe are communist countries.
Even in these dark times of dishonesty, hate, and ignorance, there are still bright spots, as illustrated at left.
To Leah Delaney: Well, you’re thinking of Western European democracies, not authoritarian regimes, which the United States has become.
Putin has dissidents arrested, tortured, and executed. That’s where we’re clearly headed.
If I had my child-rearing days to do again, this is precisely how I would conduct myself.
Hats off.
