“Scrutiny?”  Is he kidding?  A deluge of criminal indictments, some of which have already been prepared, are going to rain down on Trump the moment he’s no longer the U.S. president.

Take your pick: the 2016 Russian election attack, the Trump Tower Moscow project, Russia-Trump Campaign contacts, obstruction of justice, campaign finance violations, Trump Organization finances, witness intimidation, inauguration funding, SuperPAC funding, foreign lobbying violations, Turkish influence, tax evasion/fraud, Trump Foundation fraud, violations of the emoluments clause, and treason.

More recently, we’ve been talking about hundreds of thousands of cases of negligent homicide.

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The Irish Daily Mirror is admittedly left of center, but holy cats do they hate Trump.

The cover here is one of dozens of extremely vitriolic pieces they’ve run over the years.

The rest of the world will be almost as relieved as we are here to have Trump’s political career at an end.

He needs to hope that his legal defense against the myriad felony charges that are coming at him is a great deal better than his tenure as U.S. president.

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A reader offers the graphic at left.

I know there are QAnons out there, and other idiots with completely baseless, unsupported claims, but this type of bullshit is really dangerous.  The problem is that there are plenty of people stupid enough to believe that the election is rigged in favor of Biden, that dead people and unregistered voters are casting ballots, that there were 3 – 5 million fraudulent votes in the 2016 election (all for Clinton), etc.–and most of those people have assault rifles.

If you want to have ridiculous beliefs, that’s your problem.  To spread them at this point, thus inciting violence, is just inexcusable.

 

 

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Shell Oil asks:  “What are you willing to change to help reduce emissions?” and offers the following choices:

💨 Offset emissions, 23.1%

✈️ Stop flying, 6.5%
🚗 Buy electric vehicle, 25.6%
⚡️ Renewable electricity, 44.3%

 

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I’ll never forget the conversation I had with my mom when Donald Trump arrived on the political scene in 2015.  “This is so weird,” I said. “Until now, a serious candidate for U.S. president needed to be a good, honest and intelligent person.  Did this somehow change when I wasn’t paying attention?”  (more…)

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Those who want to know how ExxonMobil plans to “vacuum CO2 directly out of the air” will learn practically nothing about the subject from this website, which is so entirely vague that it could have been the product of a ninth-rate marketing guy who knows no more about science, engineering, and climate change than the guy who mows my lawn. (more…)

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The other day, I was talking to my son Jake about my 30-year career as a marketing consultant for tech giants: IBM, H-P, Motorola, Fujitsi, Sony, Western Digital, Philips Electronics, and DEC, to name a few.

“DEC?” Jake asked.  “What’s that?” (more…)

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The point being made here points to the skills and capacity for evil that is Donald Trump.  His demagoguery, strengthened by a major cable news channel, effectively tapped into the bigotry, fear, and ignorance of almost exactly half of the American people, and has led us to a point where:

• The news media all around the world is regarded as fake, and that Trump and far-right-wing news sources are the only source of truth. (more…)

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A note of explanation to begin: California has 39.96 million residents and is worth 55 electoral points, meaning 726,545 residents per electoral vote.  Wyoming has 579,000 people and is worth 3 electoral points, which is 193,000 residents per electoral vote.   This means Wyoming voters have 3.76 times more voting power than Californians when it comes to presidential elections.

The fact that the electoral college is racist is true as well, but I would submit that the first of these two arguments is the stronger in favor of abolishing it.  It violates the most basic principle of a democratic republic. i.e., one person, one vote.

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This guy makes a good point.  An accurate understanding of our fellows requires that we acknowledge that about half of Americans have very poor values.

But how important is that to you and me? (more…)

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