Reporting on the Pandemic: A Cabal?
Este análisis sobre la “pandemia”, viene de un hombre lúcido y con criterio,” or, “This analysis on the ‘pandemic’ comes from a lucid man with credentials.” The following discussion ensued: (more…)
Fox to Trump: “Ignore Alarmist COVID Drivel”
Until the coronavirus, few Americans thought too much about pandemic management. In the last few months, however, we’ve come to understand at least a few basic concepts, perhaps the most central of which is this: You will never know if you’ve overkilled the virus, but you will be acutely aware that you’ve “underkilled” it, and wish in vain that you had done more. (more…)
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The Spectre of Socialism
We often hear otherwise intelligent people say, “Trump is the only thing standing between us and socialism.” What a strange remark that is.
What would a Biden presidency be like? He’s a centrist Democrat like Obama, and there will be very little difference from what we experienced from 2008 – 2016. Keep in mind that the Supreme Court is even more conservative now than it was then, which will work to impede against progressive’s agendas. (more…)
Tagged with: better educated young people, better health outcomes, better protection of personal liberties, degradation of water and air standards, educated people are harder to lie to and suppress, improved image of America on the world stage, improvement in environmental quality, more voter participation, runaway greenhouse gas emissions, stronger democracy
“Coronafest 2020”
Today’s Americans find themselves in a strange moral position.
Obviously, it’s not right to hope that 50,000 Trump supporters in Oklahoma who don’t believe in epidemiology will infect each other and wind up thinning the herd considerably. Having said that, it sure is tempting. (more…)
How The Rest of the World Sees the United States
I found this just now, and I thought I’d publish it in an effort to describe how ridiculous the U.S. appears on the world stage.
It’s possible that the garden-variety Trump supporters from the so-called “fly-over states” don’t travel abroad as much as people from the blue states along the coasts, and so perhaps they don’t know (or care) how America is perceived, but, in the main, people simply feel sorry for us.
We appear ignorant, confused, hateful, at each other’s throats, hyper-violent, and, perhaps most of all credulous: we’ll believe anything–and that “anything” keeps getting more absurd by the day.
We elected a clown, got the circus that comes along with it, and, to the world’s utter astonishment, seem unwilling to do a goddamn thing to change that.
Unsafe Consumer Products?
We’ve often discussed Americans’ peculiar rejection of science, whether it takes the form of climate change denial, fear of vaccinations and GMOs, dismissal of the COVID-19 response, or the welcoming of environmental deregulation. In many cases, this is the result of corporate disinformation campaigns, launched to confuse the citizenry, calling into question what they’re being told by the scientific community.
Who loses? Everyone but the corporate stakeholders themselves. The entire population winds up with a hotter, more toxic, less life-supporting environment. (more…)
We Are All Connected
What Pope Francis points out here is almost definitely true; he’s spot-on as usual. Like so many other challenges our civilization faces, overcoming the pandemic will not be possible if we continue to ignore the needs of the least fortunate members of our population. (more…)
U.S. Supreme Court: Pipeline Can Cross Appalachian Trail
Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia.
Bernie Sanders notes: The Supreme Court shamefully chose to protect the profits of the fossil fuel industry today over the future of our planet. Our job: Rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels like fracked natural gas and create millions of jobs in sustainable energy.
Obviously, this comes as a disappointment, but in truth, we (at least I) don’t know the law surrounding this case. I want to see environmental responsibility, but even Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined the 7 – 2 majority, so I’m sure the defendant (Dominion Energy) had a good case.
Dominion went on to make the obligatory bs comment “Today’s decision is an affirmation for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and communities across our region that are depending on it for jobs, economic growth and clean energy,” Dominion said in a statement. As if pipelines and clean energy somehow coexist. As if the transition to renewable energy wouldn’t result in far more jobs.
(Pictured: The Trans-Alaskan Pipeline)
Trump’s Health
I like this. Not only is this right from a humanitarian perspective, but who wants to see Trump removed for health reasons?
He needs to be removed (and imprisoned) because he’s a sociopathic criminal; that’s the only way to fully repudiate him and what he stands for.
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Election Day Is Our Opportunity to Make Orwell Fiction Again
If I didn’t live on a small cul de sac where no one would see it, I’d be sporting this little beauty out on my front yard.
Some people knew that we were going full Orwellian before Trump was sworn in, but the rest of us figured it out when Shawn Spicer took to the TV cameras and announced to the world’s amazement that Trump’s inauguration was the largest in history, defying straightforward photographic evidence. This was quickly followed by the admonition: “What you’re seeing isn’t what’s really happening,” and then by the suggestion that there are “alternative facts.”
If we fail to make all this psychosis disappear in November, we will soon start to be taught by the Ministry of Truth that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and that ignorance is strength.
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