A reader asks: Obviously the main part of this is to crash the economy and blame it on Trump so he doesn’t get re-elected. But from everything I can see he’s getting more and more popular and the media less …
Category: Renewables – Politics
Trump Was Born Without Compassion, But This Isn’t News
Mike: I think you’re being coy here. You must have noticed that Trump is incapable of many things, of which empathy is one. Telling the truth is another. Never missing an opportunity for self-aggrandizement or punishing a critic is yet …
Trump Was Born Without Compassion, But This Isn’t News Read More »
Tagged with: Trump Born Without Compassion
Status of the Progressive Agenda in the United States
Here’s a guy who says the progressive agenda in America is not dead. He’s right, of course. There is no reason to think the United States can’t or won’t join the rest of the developed world in offering its citizens …
Status of the Progressive Agenda in the United States Read More »
Trump Faces Huge Liabilities Post His Presidency
Here in the United States, we try to hold our public officials liable for acts of gross negligence and reckless disregard for human life, and former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirshner (pictured at left) speculated in an April 2 interview that …
Trump Faces Huge Liabilities Post His Presidency Read More »
Tagged with: Trump Faces Huge Liabilities Post His Presidency
Trump: Wall Street Journal Is Fake News
The right-wing Wall Street Journal has been pumping out deeply conservative content for 140 years, and now it’s “fake news?” What’s next? The National Review? Sean Hannity? Rush Limbaugh? The most powerful man in the world, obsessed with his ratings …
Tagged with: Trump: Wall Street Journal Is Fake News
Joe Biden To Bernie Sanders Supporters: “I Know I Have To Earn Your Vote.”
Joe, uh, no you don’t. In fact, you can’t. You don’t reflect our values, and we’d prefer that you not pretend otherwise. But almost every one of us will vote for you, for the precise reason that (American humorist) David …
Joe Biden To Bernie Sanders Supporters: “I Know I Have To Earn Your Vote.” Read More »
The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz: Amazing
Borowitz wields an amazing level of talent. We all have access to the same current events, but only one guy was able to weave these two together. So brilliant.
News Flash: Trump Doesn’t Like Oversight
Here’s a conversation about Trump’s firing the Inspector General overseeing the new Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. Jeff is a friend from my school days. Jeff: President Trump fired another Inspector General today.
Tagged with: people assigned to oversee Trump's activities
Bernie Pulls Out of Presidential Race
We love you, Bernie, but this is the right thing to do. We will have another chance to pull the U.S. into the modern world politically, but we won’t escape massive damage to our democracy, our environment, and everything else …
New Zealand Isn’t Just Flattening the COVID-19 Curve. It’s Squashing It.
That’s the headline from an article in today’s Washington Post. It appears that, since New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown on all nonessential activities, it took only 10 days for signs that the approach here is working. They’re targeting “elimination” rather than …
New Zealand Isn’t Just Flattening the COVID-19 Curve. It’s Squashing It. Read More »
