Since Trump’s attacking the U.S. military has cost him the support of a great swath of the right wing, one wonders: who’s left?  With the left and center gone, the only remaining constituencies appear to be a) hardcore racists/gun nuts, and b) people whose news source has them so completely terrified and so badly misinformed that they’re missing all current events.  Given the highest-rated Fox News shows have no more than 7 million viewers, and there are 18.2 million veterans alone, how can this possibly work out?

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As a schoolboy, I once made a comment about something that was always quite clear to everyone, and a friend told me, “Craig, you have a firm grasp on the obvious.”  The photograph here brings that moment back into focus for me.

For some reason, however, Americans’ perceptions of Trump are not so cut and dried.

There are 42% who deem Trump to be honest, competent, Godly, dedicated to public service, selflessly committed to the well-being of all Americans–the victim of a predatory media.  Fortunately, most of the rest of us see him as nothing but a conman, but 42/53? That’s just amazing.

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Look at the faces of Merkel and Macron.  That’s intensity.  They know their looking into the eyes of pure evil, and each would do anything in their power to destroy it.

Trump seems to have a different feeling about Putin.

We may never learn precisely why.  Perhaps it’s just his admiration and envy of a dictator.  More probably, it’s far more sinister.

 

 

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The rather intense-looking fellow at the upper right is John C. Calhoun, U.S. vice president from 1825 to 1832 under James Monroe. That scowl was indicative of America at the time, rooted as it was in wanton cruelty.

1830 saw the beginning of the Trail of Tears, a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans, carried out by government authorities (state and local militias) following the passage of the Indian Removal Act.  These relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their new designated reserves. Several thousands died before reaching their destinations or shortly after from disease.

FWIW, I think Kamala Harris will do a fine job as veep.  She’s an honest and intelligent person with solid, humanitarian values.

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Are you an expert in solar PV installations?

Neither am I.

But I think we both know enough about the subject to understand that putting a solar panel under a bridge isn’t a strong idea.

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Of all the “word of the day” apps available, my favorite is Wordsmith.org, edited by the brilliant Anu Garg.  One of my favorite features is the “thought for the day,” and here’s today’s:  I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. -Edith Sitwell, poet (7 Sep 1887-1964)

Powerful stuff in today’s America, a country featuring millions of people who believe climate change is a hoax, the pandemic is planned, whites are the master race, the Earth is flat, liberals are communists, and Bill Gates is implementing his plan to enslave humanity.  (more…)

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I’m surprised to see this; I thought Rand Paul was smarter than that.

No one, literally no one, wants “equality” in the sense of equal ownership of all wealth.

What decent people want is equal opportunity, fairness, and equal justice for all.

He can’t see that these are two different things?  Yikes.

 

 

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To answer the question posed here, it’s because the United States has never had a climate policy.  And it’s not like we don’t have policies in general; we have policies on top of our policies.

Obama did what he could to make this nation a leader in clean energy, and, though he made a great deal of progress over all, he ran into a buzzsaw in the form of Big Oil when it came to phasing out fossil fuel.

This, btw, “We’re replacing fossil fuel with low-carbon energy sources at the maximum feasible rate, and we’re doing what we can to help the rest of the world go in this direction as well” is precisely how that policy should read.

 

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It wasn’t too long ago that we frequently came across the bumper sticker that read “Visualize World Peace.”

Shown on the left is the sad reminder that our goals today are far less lofty.  All most of us want is a return of basic sanity.

Will we get it?  We’ll find out on November 3rd.

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Here’s a video that got me a bit choked up; I’m sure it will have an effect on you too.

I would have shed tears of joy had I been in that crowd.

If we could have a bit more of this, this whole catastrophe would be behind us.

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