Whether you remember Dick Van Dyke from Mary Poppins, his sit-com of the 60s, or any of the other hundreds of things he’s done in his long, eclectic, multi-award-winning career, it’s clear that, at age 95, he’s still totally lucid.
“It bothers me that people can’t read him (Trump).”
Me too, good sir.
From Facebook:
Last month, the Oversight Board upheld Facebook’s suspension of former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts following his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6. But in doing so, the board criticized the open-ended nature of the suspension, stating that “it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension.” The board instructed us to review the decision and respond in a way that is clear and proportionate, and made a number of recommendations on how to improve our policies and processes. (more…)
There are times in life when the point being made here is 100% apt. It applies very nicely to beliefs: religion, art, philosophy, even the political positions that had existed until recently.
However, it does not apply at all to what U.S. politics of today has become. Flat Earthers, anti-vaxxers, climate deniers, voter fraudsters are simply wrong. The Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world see the figure here and say it’s 4. That’s not a perspective; it’s a delusion.
The political divide that characterizes today’s America is largely about cruelty and hate.
Those who think that somehow all this can go back to “normal”–whatever that means–need to ask themselves where is all this evil supposed to go. It can’t just evaporate.
And people like (insurrectionist) Eric Barber are having so much fun causing others to suffer that he’s not going to want to let go of all the hate he has in his crusty little heart.
From the Huffington Post:
A few days ago, a judge refused to let the insurrectionists under his charge out on bail, citing the danger to society they represent. He pointed out that Trump is still maintaining that he won the election, and these morons have already shown that a) they believe it, and b) they’re willing to commit violent crimes as a tool to have the election overturned.
Perhaps the most sickening aspect to the Trump phenomenon is that there is no going back. That at least 86 judges in lower and appellate courts, not to mention the U.S. Supreme Court, have ruled that there is no evidence of a stolen election means absolutely nothing to these people. I’m sure that when I go to that big 2GreenEnergy headquarters in the sky, Fox News will still be enraging Trump’s core base, with fables to the effect that the entire U.S. judiciary is in cahoots with the fake news media, the Deep State and God only knows what else, to bury the truth and rule in favor of the socialists.
Oh, come on. Does this look like the face of a “dumbass” with his white power symbol? (Just kidding)
From this: The lawyer for accused Capitol stormer Anthony Antonio, 27, is planning to argue that his client wasn’t interested in politics until he started watching Fox News, which played a part in influencing him to travel to D.C. on Jan. 6, Newsweek reports.
We’ve discussed the argument that any crimes associated with the January 6th insurrection may be mitigated by the fact the riot was ordered by the then-President of the United States. If the defendant was convinced by the most powerful person on Earth that the election was stolen, our democracy seized, and this was the time and place to reverse this before it became permanent, I have to admit that I understand that, and, if were handing down sentencing, I would show some leniency.
IMO, however, this argument centering around Fox News isn’t as strong. As individuals, we choose our news sources, and if we’re too stupid to know pure BS when we see it, that’s our problem, and we deserve what we get.
As Bill McKibben notes here, it really hasn’t been a good couple of days for Big Oil.
Are investors concerned about the baking of the planet at the hands of the fossil fuel industry, or are they worried about the depreciation of their assets?
Does it matter?
Echoing what McKibben said: Thanks to all who fight.
Is this an extreme view, kind of a left-wing conspiracy theory?
I’m not sure, but it’s worthy of concern.
Apparently, I’m not the only one who was outraged that a retired general could call for a military coup against the United States and not be immediately arrested. I suggested Michael Flynn’s arrest in my recent post: Michael Flynn: “A Myanmar-like Coup Should Happen in U.S.”
Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, apparently agrees, as we infer from his remarks at left. (more…)
