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…)
I recently learned that a friend’s family owns a great deal of land on one of the Pacific islands owned by the U.S. that includes a huge reservoir of water high in the mountains. I asked, “Don’t you folks pay a fortune for electricity, and isn’t it dirtier than hell, probably imported bunker diesel? Wouldn’t some renewable energy solution be very valuable?” Yes, yes, and yes. (more…)
At issue is a bill that would reduce the amount that the utility, in this case, Pacific Gas and Electric, pays homeowners per kWh. The reasoning is that such deals are unfair to those who cannot install solar, for whatever reason: they don’t own their residence, they can’t afford it, they have trees in their south-facing yards, etc. That’s because the monies paid back to PV owners cause others’ rates to rise. (more…)
From this:
Appearing in Dallas at a QAnon conference, Flynn was asked during a Q&A session that was shared in a Twitter video: “I want to know why what happened in Myanmar can’t happen here?”
Myanmar’s military seized power Feb. 1 and imprisoned the country’s democratically elected leaders, on the basis of unproven allegations of voter fraud. At least 800 civilians have died, and thousands have been arrested, in protests that have wracked the Southeast Asian nation in the months that followed.
Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory have praised the Myanmar coup and called for the U.S. military to do the same, citing unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. (more…)
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