The folks who posted this to social media write, “President Donald Trump’s recent comments on U.S.-Iran relations have prompted renewed discussion about American foreign policy.”
For “American foreign policy” I would substitute “Trump’s mental health.” After all, we are at war with these people, aren’t we?
Of course, most of us will remember Orwell’s “1984” and its line “War Is Peace.”
Every time I see something like what we have at left, I have a renewed sense of wonder: how can certain human beings be such terrible people?
FWIW, I more-or-less understand the MAGA base of racist idiots. I’m not happy that I live among them, but they don’t leave me scratching my head as to how they could have become who they are.
Randy Fine is no moron. His BA and MBA are from Harvard. There is no way he actually believes that U.S. elections are rigged, or that Trump is an honest and effective servant of the American people. He’s simply a professional liar, and a traitor to his country.
I’m at a loss.
We all know we should treat others as we would like to be treated, regardless of the color of our skin, the size of our bank account, or our sexual orientation. Following the Golden Rule, in essence, is what we do by leading a life of virtue.
Here, Plato seems to be saying that civilization that mocks virtue as “woke” is headed for its demise.
As we all can see, the narrative being offered by congressional Republicans has nothing to do with affordability, healthcare, the war in Iran, or any of the dozens of other issues that concern the wellbeing of the common person. Instead, it’s the singular belief that Democrats hate America, and will do everything in their power to destroy it, by ushering in communism as our new form of government.
But doesn’t that seem a bit far-fetched? Granted, we’re not as sharp as we were when our educational system was still strong, but what type of idiot finds this credible? Let’s take Bernie Sanders, elected to congress in 1990, as an example of an extremely visible progressive, a man who thinks that countries that provide free healthcare and education provide a better quality of life to their citizens than those that don’t.
Now, in his 36 years in congress, has he turned Vermont (see below) into a hellhole? Does anyone with the IQ of a caterpillar think that he hates America?
Minnesota is home to intelligent, well-educated people whose approval of Trump is lower than that of toenail fungus.
If Lindell wants to lead a state, he needs to choose one at least 800 miles away. Oklahoma?
He may also want to consider that Trump is easily the most detested person in this nation.
I wouldn’t say that the burden of proof lies on religion. No one knows how the universe got here.
The Big Bang was an event in which there was no chaos, no “entropy,” as we say in thermodynamics. How did all this orderliness get there 13.87 billion years ago? No one knows. This is an issue in cosmology which is quite likely to outlast human civilization on this planet.
I’m an atheist for a few reasons, one of which is that saying that God created the universe doesn’t get us any closer to an understanding of the cosmos, if only because it raises the question: Who made God?
More to the point, there are hundreds of moral reasons to disbelieve in God. Each year, 9 million children will die unbaptized on this planet before their fifth birthdays. In the bible, we learn that God punishes them all with an eternity of torture in hell. To what sort of weirdo does this make sense?
At left we have another good reminder that our cognitive biases can render us incapable of thinking critically.
Some of us believe anything we want to.
This piece from Robert Reich reminds us of what a big ask it is of the American people to vote for Republicans in the midterms.
Sure, there are many hateful morons who love detention centers for people with brown skin, or believe that America is going communist, or that our elections are rigged (unless they are won by Republicans). Yet it seems unlikely that any of these positions of extreme ignorance will win the day.
Unfortunately, Trump knows this. That’s why we shouldn’t be surprised if he tries to cancel the midterms or rip up the Constitution and nationalize them.
It could be argued that RFK, Jr. is the very worst cabinet member in the current Trump administration. But we need to keep in mind one simple thing: Each one of them was appointed on the basis of one and only one thing: their capacity to enrich Trump and keep him in power.
For instance, bombing Iran was essential to distract the nation from the string of catastrophes facing Trump, i.e., the tariffs, the Epstein files, the attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, and so forth. But no sane and competent human being would do something so stupid. How to proceed? Pete Hegseth, of course.
RFK, Jr. is simply par for the course.
This concept has an enormous level of popularity in the Republican party. Exactly why?
Well, property taxes fund our schools, and so without them, the common American would be even more ignorant than he is today, if that’s believable.
Now, which party benefits from poor education and a lack of the capacity for critical thinking?
