GOP Schism?
John Boehner (R-OH), the former Speaker of the House, blames Trump and his lies about election fraud for the January 6 riot at the Capitol, writing that the former President “incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons, perpetuated by the bulls*** he’d been shoveling since he lost a fair election the previous November.”
It’s hard to know where this is going. There is no doubt that there are some Republicans with a combination of integrity and intelligence, who simply represent traditional conservative values.
Does this represent a schism in the GOP? It’s conceivable that the Republican Party will split into two, at least temporarily: a) Trump supporters, QAnon followers, gun nuts, et al., and b) followers of people like Boehner, George Will, Mitt Romney, and the others who have the courage to admit that the Trump narrative about the election is a bald-faced lie and con job.
There are no good arguments for the proliferation of guns in the United States (see chart below), but some are worse than others.
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This opinion piece in the New York Times suggests that the 
At left is an excellent example of “lying with statistics.” Comparing numbers from Obama when he came into office right after the 2008 crash that occurred under Bush 43, with numbers from Trump, before the market crash due to COVID-19.
Each year we learn more about the horrific effects that human activity is having on the natural world: over-fishing, encroaching on habitats, etc.
It’s intuitively obvious that kids who spend huge amounts of time on social media become physically unfit, introverted and anti-social, and develop tendencies towards bullying. This isn’t empirically proven, at least to the best of my knowledge, but it’s hard to imagine that long-term studies are going to reveal anything else. 
They say, “The future always looks like the past, until it looks like something else altogether.”
A mentally ill reader sent me this.
