I’m certainly not the first to ask what precisely is meant by the phrase “make America great again.” If a typical Trump supporter were to answer that question honestly, he’d probably say things like white-dominated, Christian, heterosexual, militarily aggressive, deregulated, unsubsidized, and sink-or-swim. Of course, progressives don’t see it that way, but that’s not the issue here. (more…)
I don’t claim to have any special understanding of the sensibilities of voters in the sleepy Virginia town of Luray, but is it a good idea for its major to make a brutally racist remark about a black woman running for vice president?
Aren’t people offended by that? Doesn’t someone want to knock his teeth out?
If I lived in Luray, I’d write a letter to every official in state government explaining how incensed I was that Mayor Barry Presgraves had just disgraced my town in the national news headlines, and demanding that he be removed immediately.
Here’s a thought (at left) that ought to make you smile. Yes, (Fox News anchor) Tucker Carlson, that’s the plan indeed.
Let’s see…..America gets:
• A new tax code, reversing huge cuts for the super-rich that came at the expense of looting the Treasury
• A return to the Paris Accord and a relaunch of a policy of environmental stewardship (more…)
When I speak with my mom, life-long conservative Republican as she is, we try to keep the conversation light. Yes, after all the banter about the goings on in the family, we eventually turn to politics, but it never gets ugly.
The one thing that concerns me most about her position in support of Trump is that she shares her political sensibilities with the people shown here. Doesn’t that sound a bit unlovely for an extremely well-read Bryn Mawr graduate?
In any case, we can all hope that the worst of all this will be behind us on November 3rd.
Pictured here is a smallish rally in Tallahassee, capital city of Florida, on the opening day of “Black Voices for Trump.”
Yet there’s something curious about this photo, isn’t there?
It appears that Trump has a 14% approval rating among black voters, which is far higher than I would have guessed. If someone referred to those who oppress my race as “fine people,” I would be quite adamant that he not be re-elected President of the United States.
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.
