Though promoting racial hatred is not a laughing matter, I have to admit that this did make me smile.
Maybe there are people who fit Trump’s claim out in the suburbs of Buzzard’s Breath, Arkansas, but Ms. McLaughlin’s response speaks to a greater truth: most Americans hate his guts.
The polls say there are undecided voters, but I sure don’t know any.
My father piloted 29 successful bombing missions over Germany, knocking out Nazi oil refineries from 1942 until his plane was shot down in late 1944, and he and his men spent the last six months of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp. He died in 2010, long before anyone thought it could be remotely possibly that the president of the United States would openly promote the supremacy of the “master race.”
In conversations with my mother, we often ponder how Dad would regard Trump and today’s national zeitgeist. She points out that he was a conservative, which is true, but we both acknowledge that he was a man of honor and fairness. I think he would join our nation’s top military in pointing out that there is not a single true American value that Trump reflects.
Sadly, we’ll never know.
ExxonMobil wants you on board, campaigning to reduce the regulations that keep them from boosting earnings by torching the environment.
As if that weren’t a sufficient insult to your intelligence on its own, they think you’re so stupid that you don’t know that driving up Exxon’s profits doesn’t do a goddamn thing for you financially.
It seems to me that IR = k(PD) / E, or, in English, a state’s COVID-19 infection rate is positively correlated to its population density, and inversely correlated to its population’s education level.
Mississippi’s problem with COVID-19 is that, although it’s 31st in population density, it’s also 49th in education.
It’s also among the most racist states in the union, making it an exceptionally good place to avoid.
What’s ExxonMobil’s motive for offering you to “test your knowledge about the oil and gas industry?” Is it:
a) Providing Americans the opportunity to educate themselves on the breadth of the industry. This includes the value it provides to society, weighed fairly and objectively against its negatives: its subsidies; dependence on protection from the U.S. military; oil spills; contribution to climate change, ocean acidification and loss of biodiversity; aggressive litigation against damage claimants; lobbying to move acts of civil disobedience from misdemeanors to felonies; the eco-devastation associated with drilling; the fouling of pristine wildernesses; methane leakages; and lung damage?
or
b) Misleading Americans into believing that the industry is clean and sustainable, and that it’s operated to make life better and more convenient for everyone?
If you said a), you have what it takes to be loyal, jingoistic fool.
My wife made this prediction when the U.S. Senate failed to convict and remove Trump after he was impeached: “Now that he’s seen that he can commit major felonies in broad daylight with no repercussions–crimes that would have resulted in a life prison sentence had he been anybody else–he will feel empowered to ratchet up the crime spree with no limits whatsoever.”
She nailed it.
Here, to further his own political career, Trump has placed thousands, probably millions of people’s lives in jeopardy.
And that’s just this week. Let’s wait to see what happens next.
Most people would be deeply ashamed to refer to all confident and powerful women with the same “nasty” adjective.
Yet it’s this trait, i.e., shamelessness, that has made Trump who he is.
Astonishingly, about 40% of American voters find this characteristic quite attractive. “He tells it like it is,” they say.
This is the United States in the year 2020. If you were looking for an intellectual and moral hell, and found America’s heartland, you couldn’t tell the difference.
This, of course, is a reference to the fact that this wooden blend of religious fanaticism, racism, and complete ignorance on a broad range of important domestic and international matters–will soon be debating Kamala Harris, one of the most intelligent, learned, and powerfully articulate people on Earth.
It is going to look like a hungry wolverine and a little bunny rabbit.
Just received this:
The United States is doing VERY WELL, thanks to President Trump’s STRONG leadership. We cannot trust the left-wing media to report the TRUTH, which is why President Trump is counting on Patriots, like YOU, to help us break through the Fake News filter.
Two major points: (more…)
We all act amazed when we learn that Trump has labeled the Black Lives Matter movement a “symbol of hate,” or that there are 70K children locked in cages at the southern border, or that Trump is unyielding in his push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination. But actually, it would be more shocking if we weren’t encountering these heart-stopping displays of overt racism on a daily basis.
It’s not an accident that Trump surrounds himself with white supremacists like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller. Hatred is an integral part of the playbook; it’s what makes all this work.
