In response to the reader’s question here, I would suggest joining me and the ranks of people who read and write on matters of environmental responsibility.
I got on board here after a 27-year career as a marketing consultant. During my tenure, I never supported products that were harmful, e.g., weapons, poisons, cigarettes, junk food, etc. But did I make the world a better place by helping Hewlett-Packard sell more minicomputers than IBM? I doubt it.
How does Trump maintain any viable level of approval? When you consider the words of the retired Army major at left, you have to consider:
There are 15.8 million U.S. veterans, most of whom disapprove of Trump for his horrifically dishonorable conduct. To that number, add the majority of college graduates, physicians and other healthcare professionals, cleantech workers, educators, journalists, librarians. economists, and scientists.
As time passes and the actions of the Trump administration become more outrageous one would think that the island of the president’s supporters would be shrinking by the day.
Mary Shelley’s observation at left is an interesting one, but I think it would be more accurate if it began, “No sane person…..”
It appears that Donald Trump, to take a prominent example, is perfectly happy to participate in the purest of evil. The more harm he can inflict on those who cannot or will not serve to make him richer and more powerful, the more his heart sings with joy.
At left are the words of Sarah Longwell, American political strategist and publisher of the conservative news and opinion website The Bulwark. A member of the Republican Party, she is the founder of Republican Accountability, which spent millions of dollars to defeat then-President Donald Trump in 2020.
All I can add here is: “Yes. You either get this or you don’t.”
From this story on Newsweek: FEMA employees were left bewildered during a Monday briefing after agency chief David Richardson remarked that he hadn’t known the U.S. had a hurricane season, according to Reuters, citing four sources familiar with the call.
According to recent surveys, many Americans say that “The United States is on the right track.”
That’s hard to imagine, when the average 12-year-old knows more about science than that director of the federal agency that deals with recovery from natural disasters.
As the risk of appearing too cavalier on the subject of human health, we need to realize that this mess discussed at left should come as absolutely no surprise.
We have a president who largely rejects science in general, and has little if any concern for the wellbeing of anyone but himself. He appointed a crackpot, a part of whose brain was eaten by a worm, to run Health and Human Services.
If you’re taking RFK Jr.’s advice on medical issues that is at variance with what you’re hearing from your licensed, certified doctor, you may want to rethink this before it’s too late.
We’ve all heard people make the claim that both of the American political parties are essentially the same and, as George Carlin put it, exist only to provide us with the illusion of choice. Perhaps there was some truth to that in the 1950s, when even the Republicans, led by Dwight D. Eisenhower, had some progressive ideas.
Today, however, this claim is ludicrous. How similar is life in Denmark compared to life here in the United States as the federal government is being dismantled and Project 2025 is becoming the law?
And, of course, there are regimes all around the globe far less free than any orange-colored would-be American tyrant ever dreamed of.
From EV Insider: Battery giant CATL is working with automakers on battery swapping that takes just over a minute-and-a-half. And the first cars with the capability are already on the road.
About 15 years ago, it seemed that battery swapping might be a great idea, and come to dominate the way we charged our EVs. Readers who are interested in this piece of history can look up “Project Better Place.”
For some reason, however, the concept never gained traction and now has largely been forgotten.
I know a lot of folks are wondering how far the Republicans are going to move to the right before a significant number of Trump supporters have simply seen enough and call for a return of some sort of sanity. When he was re-elected and it became clear that he and his administration were far more mentally unhinged than his first term in office, I thought that a mass epiphany might be right around the corner.
To be clear, the ideological aspects of things like Project 2025 are strongly appealing to the uneducated, white nationalist MAGA bunch: bans on abortion, mass deportations, removal of DEI, the gutting of education, food programs and public health, etc.
While this may bring great joy to hateful and ignorant people, the economic effects are not going to be as pleasing. Tourism in California is down 9% from where it was a year ago. That’s a lot of disgruntled owners of restaurants, hotels, gas stations, and retail shops, not to mention displaced workers. The average 401(k) portfolio is down, and economists are predicting a higher risk of recession, with some surveys indicating a 36% chance in the next 12 months. These predictions are influenced by factors like rising inflation, a weakening job market, and concerns about trade wars.