Trump never has and never will have the slightest interest in learning, which is sad, and should have long ago disqualified himself from the White House. Also, he seems to be on a cognitive decline and makes bizarre and indefensible comments.
Then we have one of these on-air statisticians who says that Trump has one of the worst poll numbers in U.S. presidential history in terms of his handling of the economy.
Really? The economy? What’s the big deal here? Inflation is at a manageable 3%. If you’re in the stock market, you’re making money hand over fist.
I’d like to see some poll numbers on things like honesty, sanity, and the prospects for the future of American democracy. These are the issues that are ultimately going to take Trump down, hopefully long before the 2028 election.
The Fed has been failing to do what the president asked of him for a century, but we have never had a sociopathic criminal in the White House once, let alone looking for an illegal third term.
Below is the AI response, but before you read it, here’s mine:
There’s no question that something has gone incredibly wrong with the United States, and, as shown at left, you don’t have to be an American to see that.
The question is what to do about it. Trump is not a state representative from South Dakota, nor is he the mayor of Houston. He’s the U.S. President, and the majority of Congress would do anything he asks as required not to incur his vengeance.
The article here describes a phenomenon that can occur to hurricanes: their wind-speed grows rapidly.
Hurricane Melissa underwent what meteorologists call “rapid intensification,” exploding from a 70-mph tropical storm Saturday morning Oct. 25 to a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds by 5 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 26. It has since reached Category 5 strength, with winds of 175 mph.
Rapid intensification is a process in which a storm undergoes accelerated growth: The phenomenon is typically defined to be a tropical cyclone (whether a tropical storm or hurricane) intensifying by at least 35 mph in a 24-hour period.
Questions (that our kids should be able to answer from their science classes):
#1 How is this intensification powered? Faster winds have more energy than slower winds, so where does this energy come from?
Answer: It’s by unusually warm sea water — in this case, in the Caribbean Sea.
#2: OK, but what provides the energy that warms the water?
Answer: The sun. What we’re experiencing right now on Earth is called “global warming,” meaning that our planet’s atmosphere is trapping more of the sun’s radiant energy, which is heating up our atmosphere, as well as our oceans.
My wife and I have a friend in Kingston, Jamaica’s largest city, which is in Melissa’s crosshairs. We’re rooting for you, Richard.
It’s comments like the one on the left that should serve as a reminder that Trump’s only power lies in the feeblemindedness of that “base” to which his late sister refers.
I only wish I had a good idea how to wake these people up.
Btw, I don’t disapprove of the way that Ms. Trump Barry used course language to make her point. That said, my mother was from this era, and in all the years we spent together, had she ever used the phrase “holy shit” in my presence, I probably would have passed out on the floor in utter shock.
Writing in my recent post called “Educating for Peace” reminded me of one of my first clients, a gentleman by the name of Dan McGee, who casually mentioned one day that he considered himself a “citizen of Earth,” as opposed to the United States.
We live in a country in which a huge number of residents will tell you with great authority (and not too much thought) that “America is the greatest country on Earth.” If I were to make such a statement, I’d first consider what this actually means, in terms of health, longevity, happiness, education, equality of justice, environmental responsibility, wealth distribution, capacity for kindness, and compassion for people who may not look or worship like we do.
I know that such thinking doesn’t hold much water among the Fox News devotees and MAGA folks, but somehow that’s OK with me.
What this really means is teaching kids that:
All human beings, rich or poor, black or white, gay or straight, have equal value.
The people who have had the privilege to see the Earth from space are uniformly shocked, usually moved to tears, to see that all the lines and boundaries that define our geopolitical world do not really exist; they are constructs of the uber-wealthy who profit from division and war.
I would love to see Maria Montessori’s dream come true. Yet, as a realist, living in the United States, I see the enormity of the challenge we face here.
If I had told you ten years ago that one man would rise to power in the United States who would have such a command over the American people that he could make up any lie he wanted to — and it would be broadly recognized as true — would you have believed me?
Anyone would have bet $100 against a dime that this was impossible. Yet here we are, in a land where Trump can literally rewrite history, just by opening his mouth.
This is theoretically possible; it transmits visible light and uses other frequencies (ultra-violet and infrared) to knock electrons out of the substrate. But it means higher costs and lower efficiencies. Of zero practical value at this point.
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