The most interesting thing about the limits on outrageous behavior from Republican congresspeople is that there are none.
Sure, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comparison of mask regulations to the Holocaust has resulted in a few more voices calling for her ouster from the House of Representatives. (more…)
Appearing on ABC News’ “This Week,” ultraconservative columnist George Will told the roundtable participants that the bipartisan commission to investigate the causes of the deadly riot was controversial among Republicans for one reason: “We have something new in American history. We have a political party defined by the terror it feels for its own voters. That’s the Republican Party right now.”
A friend sent me this piece from the Wall Street Journal on the environmental benefits of electric transportation, called Are Electric Cars Really Better for the Environment?
There are many reasons that it’s a mistake to invest in Big Oil, morality being chief among them. Another, however is practical. The only possible course for the world of transportation is the elimination of gasoline and diesel, as EV technology keeps getting better and less expensive.
The same can be said of the meat industry. Do not invest in the harvesting of beef, even if you don’t care about animal cruelty or the fate of humankind on planet Earth. If you make such investments, plant-based meat will eventually eat your lunch, pun intended. (more…)
The point being made here is solid.
Let’s all hope that this “stolen election” narrative goes down in history as the single stupidest event in U.S. history, and that it’s not superseded by something even worse.
Another way of looking at this: If Democrats rigged the election, do you think Mitch McConnell and all the other disgusting human beings would still be in the Senate?
The concept expressed at left here reminds me of an embarrassing admission I’d like to to make. When a conservative acquaintance who had actually been at the Capitol on January 6th to protest the “stolen election” told me that the riot was a false flag operation, perpetrated by BLM and/or Antifa, and designed to make Trump supporters look stupid, I believed that this could be true. After all, it wouldn’t be the first false flag event in the world, and it sure did make Trump supporters look even more stupid/insane than they appeared at the time. (more…)
As suggested here, Bernie Sanders is a wonder. How does a man with such unshakable integrity succeed in American politics? Hell, he would have been president if the DNC hadn’t cheated him out of the nomination in 2016.
Even my mother, a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, admires Bernie’s sincerity.
Of course, he is from Vermont, which is unique among the 50 states, largely for its lack of concern for what people in the rest of the country think about it.
This is Andrew Breitbart, the founder of far-right Breitbart News. And he’s correct here: even though there are right extremist news sources (like his own, and a few cable “news” channels) the left does control the narrative.
But this isn’t due to some sort of hidden mechanism of control at the hands of George Soros or some other boogie monster; it’s because the vast majority of Americans, and most of the citizens in the developed countries around the world, have liberal values: common-sense gun laws, voting rights for all, a single-tiered justice system, war as a last resort, racial harmony, colorblind policing, universal healthcare, quality education, a living wage, etc. (more…)
Good point here.
My dad brought nothing home from the war. His brother John, by contrast, got a Nazi uniform with full regalia, and a ****load of mortar shells, which I found by accident in a large box shoved in the corner of my grandmother’s garage attic when I was perhaps seven years old, in 1962. “What is this?” I asked my father, who was standing at the bottom of the ladder. I showed him something like what is pictured at right. (more…)
From the 
