There are a few possible reactions to this, two of which are as follows:
1) Stupid people are constantly killing themselves, and there’s nothing you or I or anyone can do about that. This is natural selection at work; it’s how species evolve. Letting this upset us is like crying over the disappearance of slow gazelles. (more…)
We’ve discussed this before, but a reader asked me the question at left.
I reply: I propose leaving this to the 1.3 million members of law enforcement, assisted as required by 1.1 million active duty military service people. Every single one of them has sworn to defend the U.S. Constitution, and they, collectively, are equipped with hundreds of billions of dollars of weaponry. That should get the job done in a matter of minutes.
The good people at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) want to teach you how to arrest immigrants…presumably without your getting yourself wounded or killed, or charged with assault, battery, kidnapping, misprisonment, stalking, threatening, harassment, hate crimes, terrorism, negligent homicide, manslaughter, murder, or any of a broad number of other misdemeanors and felonies.
Good luck with that, hateful morons.
Yes, academy students face numerous types of physical threats and legal liabilities, but don’t think the “professors” are immune from prosecution when one of those students commits multiple murder and goes down for 25 years to life.
The meme here makes a good point about former acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
But here’s something else to be added: Speaking strictly for myself, I don’t want to see Trump’s tax returns so as to embarrass him, but rather to imprison him. We have every reason to suspect, especially because his two sons bragged about it, that most of Trump’s business dealings are with Russian oligarchs, and his loans (that only one bank on Earth would write) come at their behest.
If this can be proven this explains his treasonous behavior toward the United States, I think I speak for the vast majority of Americans in saying that I want him to die in prison.
Here’s a short chat with a reader, who notes: I think that we’re heading toward socialism. This election will determine if this is what Americans want.
My thoughts:
Biden is a centrist Democrat, like Obama and Clinton. He’s actually slightly to the right of where those others were when they were in office. He represents essentially no change from the neoliberalism that has dominated the American political-economic landscape since the 1980s. (more…)
There are many important differences, many of which are interrelated, between New Zealand and the United States. First, where the U.S. has rampant corruption that seems to be getting worse by the day, the Kiwis can proudly claim that their country ranks along with places like Denmark and Finland, as the most honest and transparent, least corrupt nations on the planet.
Another distinction to be made is that their system of governance enables science to play a superior role to that of the government itself. (more…)
South Korea (pop. 51.2 million) and the U.S. (pop. 328 million) had their first confirmed cases on the same day. Five months later:
S. Korea:
13,338 Cases
288 Deaths (more…)
Sure, COVID-19 is scary as hell, both the disease itself and Americans’ truly pathetic response to it.
But all along the way, there are funny little exchanges, like the one here.
Normally, badass people do not refer to themselves as such, but that’s a minor point here.
It’s also noteworthy how many deeply twisted morons this pandemic is bringing to the surface. Here, a furious Trump fan unleashes an obscene tirade after seeing another driver’s Black Lives Matter sign.
Energy storage has the ironic virtue of helping out so many consumers of electrical power that it makes it hard to figure out how to integrate it into the market.
It helps:
• generation, by replacing expensive peaker plants, (more…)
Here’s a brief presentation of the world’s great cartoonists and their interpretation of Donald Trump.
In a survey of people in 37 countries around the globe, approximately 75% say they have “little to no” confidence in Trump’s ability to handle international affairs competently, and yowza, does that hit home here.
