As we look at the photo here in a kind of dazed horror, we ask ourselves where this is all going. We know that all this is driven by Trump’s desperation to be perceived as a strong leader who will keep us safe, as opposed to a Biden presidency under which our country will be taken over by anarchists. But how credible is that? How much danger are we suppose to think this young lady poses? (more…)
A reader posted this and adds, “Imagine seeing this just six months ago.”
That’s an astute remark if there ever were one, and it’s illustrative of how fast a situation can decay in a country led by a man with no interest in anything but his own re-election. (more…)
Sorry for the obscene language here, but this made me smile.
Why has our search for extra-terrestrials been so unsuccessful? Some speculate that great civilizations know we’re here, but have no more interest in us than we have in a small maggot colony deep in some forest.
Maybe it’s not that we’re uninteresting, but they actually find us repulsive. Perhaps they say to one another, “Not only are their people so selfish as to destroy their own home, but check this out: the very highest form of life, ‘man,’ I think it’s called, is the only species on the entire planet that kills its own kind. And they do it with great relish, under the very slightest provocation. In some cases, they like to cause their fellow man as much agony as possible in the process. That’s a good part of the galaxy to avoid.”
To be sure, Trump’s border wall has been one of the many pieces of idiocy that has brought ridicule to the United States over the past four years.
In particular, the Mexicans aren’t paying for it, it’s easily scaleable, it’s an ecological catastrophe (not that too many people care), the ground underneath it is eroding, it’s broadly regarded as a “vanity project” and “a scam,” and it’s just three miles longer than it was when Trump entered office.
Did I say three miles longer? Oh, that was before Hurricane Hanna. Now, it’s far less than that, as the strong winds have knocked part of it down, as shown in this short video.
This guy notes:
A Trumpster trains his mounted military-grade sniper rifle on peaceful protesters in Weatherford, Texas. This is a class C felony weapons intimidation, but Texas police didn’t bother with him or interfere with his white supremacists friends when they violently attack a group of Black Lives Matter protesters. This will eventually end in a massacre, and the police are no longer enforcing the law against racist criminals killing peaceful protesters. What do you think happens next?
Good question; this really is a recipe for a massacre, and Texas law enforcement will have oceans of blood on their hands if it takes place. This is true whether shots are fired a few minutes after this photo was taken, or when Trump is removed from office. In either case, failure to enforce weapons laws lays the groundwork for mass shootings.
This meme got me thinking: Is this really what kids are learning? A few points:
It doesn’t apply to young kids growing up in the homes of Trump supporters, since they’re told that the president is an honest hero, working hard for the interests of the American people, and if they come across any idea that conflicts with this, it’s necessarily Fake News. This, FWIW, is the way all cults operate; their leaders are billed as perfect and their beliefs are the only valid ones, though all this is misunderstood by society at large.
As these children get older, they have the opportunity to figure this out for themselves, but an opportunity is not a guarantee of anything. I recall some of the racists in my high school class in the early 1970s, and I have to admit the sad truth: many of them are racists today. (more…)
Given the honor and devotion to country required to make it to the top ranks of the U.S. Military, it’s hard to think of anything these people find satisfactory about Donald Trump as their Commander-in-Chief.
Shortly after the president bypassed the entire system of military justice and pardoned a convicted war criminal, I spoke with a few friends, including a close boyhood pal, a recently retired lawyer in the U.S. Marine Corps’ Judge Advocate General system. (more…)
To think that he could have gotten away scot free had we not had the pandemic. He would have sailed right past all the lies and the criminality, and probably won a second term and installed himself as absolute ruler had he not faced this specific type of challenge, i.e., one that requires honesty to address.
Pandemics don’t respond to lies, spin, or blaming others; they’re beaten by the honest and transparent application of science, and that is as far from Trump as the rings of Saturn.
What’s going to happen next is anyone’s guess, but at this point it seems clear that we’ll have a new president in January, and all because of a few strands of genetic material, encased in a thin layer of grease.
Some folks find the current crises too much to deal with. Pandemic raging due to criminal mismanagement, Trump breaking down rule of law and committing more impeachable acts on a daily basis, cops murdering black people, unmarked shock troops indiscriminately pulling protesters into custody–and these are just the recent ones.
Can’t we simply avert our vision if this becomes too much to bear?
No, and here’s why it is morally unacceptable, as told in this powerful and beautifully written article: “Why we must not look away in the current crisis,” by Baptist pastor Mark Wingfield (pictured).
In today’s America, there is an entire political party who not only condones this criminal sadism, but is energized by it as well.
It will take the rest of the world a long goddamn time to forget what this country has become.
Here we have unmarked federal troops armed with war weapons, shown beating two medics who were treating an injured and apparently unconscious man. If you have the stomach for it, you can watch them crack their heavy wooden batons against the doctors’ helpless bodies and smash them with their boots
