The United States still suffers from eligible voters who are unregistered and registered voters who do not show up at the polls.
That said, these numbers are shrinking, now that there is so much at stake: an illegal and purposeless war, environmental collapse, a criminal in the White House, etc.
If the Republicans fail in their attempt to suppress the vote, they are in deep trouble in the coming midterms.
Regarding the question at left, I’m not sure. Maybe “Stupidity?”
If humankind is forced to migrate to Mars because it’s too stupid to fix the catastrophes it’s created here on Earth, and also stupid enough to believe that taking our criminal insanity to another planet will effectively address our problems, I can’t think of a better name.
An essential part of being a Republican congressperson is being able to convince your constituents of things that are obviously untrue.
It is true that the United States experiences voter fraud, though studies assess it at a miniscule percentage of 1%. But it’s virtually never committed by illegal aliens, since they don’t have the credentials to register to vote in any of our 50 states.
The defining characteristic of a successful GOP representative is his capacity to lie to morons.
What 19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said at left was, I’m sure, correct in its time, though I seriously doubt that too many people believe this today.
When it was proven scientifically in the 1960s that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, both my parents quit immediately.
When it was proven scientifically that the consumption of fossil fuels is causing lung disease, and global warming, and loss of biodiversity, and ocean acidification, this generation doubled down on supporting Big Oil while destroying the renewable energy industry.
If the corruptive influence of Big Oil can somehow, someday, be removed from the economics of energy and transportation, renewables will become the deal of the century, almost overnight.
Accepting the fact that the Trump administration is completely dedicated to the fossil fuel industry as its main source of donations, we need to hope that the majority of humankind votes with its wallet in the direction of the survival of the planet.
This stands to reason, since the rest of the world is not criminally insane, nor hellbent on keeping Trump in office so that he might stay out of prison.
If we still have an organized human civilization here in 50 years, people will still be scratching their heads, wondering how a man who attempted to overthrow the United States federal government a) escaped criminal prosecution and b) was subsequently re-elected to the U.S. presidency.
IMO, the founding fathers did everything they could have conceivably done to prevent the complete breakdown of the nation, but they never considered that the American people could be so stupid.
It wouldn’t surprise me if one of the framers of the Constitution said to another, “If this country falls apart because it elects a criminal lunatic, they will deserve exactly what they got.”
As Bernie Sanders points out here, until Trump was re-elected in 2024, we all thought we had the guiderails in place to prevent grossly illegal military invasions, like the one we see in Iran.
This has put the entire world, and everyone living on it, in grave danger.
When I read words like these, I still think there’s a chance our top military leaders will refuse to obey some outrageously illegal order from the president. Perhaps something like this:
Trump: We’re annexing Canada as the 51st state, by military force if necessary.
Full General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The f*** we are.
What Richard Gere says here seems to imply that the threat to the United States posed by Donald Trump has somehow been vanquished, but sadly, that’s not the case.
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