From the satirical Borowitz Report in The New Yorker: WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling President Joe Biden “an authoritarian dictator of the most reprehensible kind,” Fox News has accused him of using the power of the federal government to improve the …
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Andy Borowitz: “(Texas Governor Greg Abbott) Considering Other Measures to Prevent People from Ever Setting Foot in Texas”
Borowitz continues: “Just spitballing here, but what if we mandated that every visitor got bitten by a dog or poked with a stick?” he said. Just brilliant. But seriously, what’s the benefit of being utterly reviled? Having entertainers canceling concerts? …
Of Course Trump’s a Liar, But Nobody Cares
Here’s something that’s played itself out hundreds of times over Trump’s presidency. It’s impossible to know why people make a big deal about this, because, even today, he has the support of tens of millions of people who simply couldn’t …
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There Are Two Camps When It Comes To Trump’s Character, and Neither Is Converting
The people closest to Donald Trump are univocal in their statements that the 45th president is an unprincipled, pathologically lying, conman. Yet tens of millions of Americans know better. They are convinced that Trump is an honest servant to the …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: The Politics of January 6th
Question: On January 6th, then U.S. Vice President Mike Pence refused to do then-President Trump’s bidding, and certified Joe Biden as America’s 46th chief executive. He did that because 60+ courts had rejected Trump’s law suits since there wasn’t a …
God and Abortion
As suggested here, political debates are tough enough without the entrance of religion into the mix. Once “God’s plan” comes on the scene, a difficult discussion suddenly becomes impossible. In the collection of quotes below, note in particular that of …
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Hasn’t Ron Johnson Stopped His Own Election?
Precisely to whom does Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) appeal to at this point? Publicly a supporter of Trump and the Big Lie, he explained to a lady he mistakenly took for a believer in the stolen election that there is …
“Texas Leaders Failed To Contain COVID-19” Really??
No kidding? There was a time when Texas was a respectable state. Sure, it’s always been the death penalty capital of the world, and it’s a place where you can legally drive with a beer in one hand and a …
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How Far We’ve Fallen
Here’s yet another sad reminder of where we are as a country, and how degraded we’ve become. It was just 58 years ago that John F. Kennedy composed these words, representing the tenor of the United States of America as …
Specious Logic
I’m a huge supporter of a woman’s right to choose, but I’m an even bigger proponent of solid logic, and the meme here fails in that arena. The ostensible reason to ban abortion is that it’s murder, which is certainly …
