At left we have a good example of sanity. What we have in the real world is lunacy.
It’s true that selfishness is unnecessary. But it’s one of few things that human beings living in capitalist societies do well.
This translates as:
There are no gods.
There are no devils.
There is no heaven.
There is no hell.
Only the marvelous universe that surrounds us.
I’m not a dietician, but I’m willing to take a stab at something here. Living on fat, sugar, salt, and low-grade meat is not a recipe for good health.
As disastrous as McDonald’s is for personal health, it’s even worse for the environment, killing somewhere between 1.2 million and 7 million cows per year.
Having decimated NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Trump administration is now targeting NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
If it has anything to do with applying science to helping the American public, it’s a goner.
We often hear meat-eaters say things like, “If beef isn’t good, why do the manufacturers of plant-based burgers try so hard to make their burgers taste like real meat?”
There is no doubt that cow and pig meat tastes and smells great; every vegan on Earth will tell you that.
The problem lies elsewhere, in a) the environmental impact of clearing the rainforests to make room for more cows, and b) the cruelty inherent in factory farming and the slaughtering of the animals.
“I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country,” Trump told reporters.
When you’ve lived your entire life ripping off other people and making a life’s work out of accusing others of your own shortcomings and the crimes you’ve committed, does this come as a surprise?
Now, the American people are being shoved even further into a corner, with their president forcing them to decide whether he or Rob Reiner is “bad for our country.”
I see a bad ending for the sociopath in the White House.
Great point made here. So many of the people we all live around are thrilled with Trump’s “leadership.”
A friend from our neighborhood has “disappointed” us (putting it mildly), writing on social media about Trump’s rounding up and deporting immigrants, “Yeah! This is why I voted for Trump!”
That’s your best thinking on life in the United States, and the best solutions to our country’s problems?
Calling it a disappointment is an understatement.
During the lives of us Boomers, science has completely or virtually eliminated smallpox, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and whooping cough.
Looks like the folks in Florida, who reject science want to invite dread diseases back into our lives.
Can it get any worse?
The black plague? Wanna brings back rats?
Stupidity prevails; it’s one of the few things we’re still good at.
From Newsweek:
The proportion of Republicans who say they are part of the MAGA movement has dropped by seven percentage points since April.
OK, these people say they are no longer part of the so-called “MAGA movement.” But what exactly does this mean?
Are they still (modern-day) Republicans? Do they want Trump to remain in office? Do they still support the end of democracy, white nationalism, the rejection of science, the demise of the American educational system?
If they have withdrawn their support for Trump, do they want someone who is arguably ideologically worse, e.g., Vance? Do they still want total crackpots in the top governmental positions, like RFK Jr, Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, and the others? Do they still take millions of dollars from Big Oil, and want to watch as our planet bakes?
If this is the case, I can’t understand why this is good news. We’re simply eliminating a name of a set of terrible people and replacing it with another.
Nice artistic effect here.
An appreciable number of Americans have become tired of having a lunatic in the White House.
