We’ve seen our top military people, our scientists and doctors, our journalists and public intellectuals all endorsing Biden. Trump, on the other hand, is endorsed by every single white supremacy group, and now, wait for it, the Taliban in Afghanistan. (I thought this was a joke, but no, it’s not.)
According to the American Energy Society, here’s what’s happening in Africa with respect to oil exploration and extraction:
Uganda, Kenya and Total are building a pipeline to carry Ugandan oil to the Kenya coast.
South Africa’s offshore Luiperd Block might be larger than 500 million barrels. (more…)
Even when my kids were young, I didn’t knock myself out with Halloween decorations, but I certainly admire this guy’s creativity and sense of gallows humor.
Let’s face facts: these are some pretty bad times for the world as a whole, and especially the United States–and keeping a good attitude through this is vital. The powers that are lined up to harm the world’s people so that they themselves may profit are counting on driving us into a kind of resignation and apathy.
Let’s not let it happen.
Are Democrats categorically against any future president like Donald Trump? Isn’t that a bit closed-minded? Rigid? Doctrinaire?
At least sometime down the road, shouldn’t the U.S. elect another pathologically lying, criminal, aspiring tyrant? Don’t we need an occasional four years of fast-spreading fascism (and perhaps more disease, job loss, racial violence, global embarrassment, etc.) to keep us mentally alert and focused on our game?
I guess not.
Say what you will about Fox News, but I’m afraid they’ve nailed this one.
If all the actions Trump’s taking weren’t right out of the wanna-be dictator’s playbook, we’d all be much more comfortable. But that’s not the case, as we’re seeing: playing to people’s strongest fears and points of anger, discrediting the media as “the enemy of the people,” remaking the party that brought him into power, calling for the unjust arrest of this opponents, and removing traditional institutions’ ability to rein him in.
Trump is giving this everything he’s got; we need to do the same in response.
Liberal pastor John Pavlovitz irritates far more conservatives than I ever will, but between the two of us, I’m willing to bet I’m the only one who’s been called a “cockroach” on a syndicated live radio show.
A caller wanted to share his opinion of me, after I presented a bit of climate science to the audience, resulting in this insect metaphor, on the basis that I was scaring Americans into believing a hoax.
I chuckled, and responded, “Look, my job is to interview scientists and to boil down and present their findings to large audiences of people who, generally, don’t have a great deal of scientific training. This is what I do for a living. If that makes me a cockroach, I really don’t know what to tell you.”
Everything you read at the left is true, but the bigger insult to your intelligence is that this is what the right wing has been telling Americans ever since we were settling the wild west with the original Colts and Remingtons.
It’s really a profound slap in the face to everyone with an IQ over 75.
OMG. Check this out.
If that doesn’t make tingles run down your spine, I’m not sure what will.
My dad was a WWII bomber pilot whom we lost 10 years ago. I miss him terribly, yet I’m almost glad he’s not here to see this.
Dad risked his life to beat down fascism before it took over the world. Although he was politically conservative, he’d be profoundly unhappy at what’s happening in the United States now.
This brings up an interesting point. If you’re a conservative (and in this case a liar; FB deleted this post???), you may object that Los Angeles County, with 10 million residents, has a great deal of clout. But ask yourself this: Doesn’t every voter deserve to have an equal voice, regardless of the state in which he resides? My vote in California means essentially zero, as this state will definitely vote against Trump. But if I lived in Florida or Ohio, my vote would be thousands of times more influential in the overall outcome. Does that seem fair?
To anyone, regardless of their party?
