How Little Interest We Have in Fact and Truth
Re: the discussion at left, senior energy and financial analyst Robert Rapier writes:
This is Gaslighting 101, from a man who is reportedly a finalist to be Trump’s VP pick. There was nothing smooth about the transition.
Trump’s team didn’t cooperate at all. Trump didn’t concede. They wouldn’t release transition funds to allow for office space for Biden’s team. They wouldn’t share intelligence briefings. And Trump was the first ex-president in modern times not to attend the inauguration of his successor. That’s all in addition to January 6th.
This is unprecedented behavior for a losing candidate, so don’t try to gaslight us with “It was a smooth transition.” More here.
Ever since Trump came on the scene, Americans’ regard for truth has fallen through the floor. We simply don’t care a whit about what’s factual vs, what’s invented.
I’m afraid Steven Martin is correct in what he says here.
If I were to name one aspect of Tim Snyder’s uniqueness as a historian, it’s his capacity to take his tremendous intellect and make it accessible to the average person.
What turn-of-the-20th-Century political figure Eugene V. Debs said here is correct, but never in U.S., history has this nation come so close to radically transforming itself and our society according to extremist right-wing values.
Re: the meme here, I highly doubt it. In fact, 
Anything for money. Last week it was bulls**t food supplements, and now this.
Here’s yet one more cartoon making the point that any woman who votes for Trump has a serious misunderstanding of the importance of her hard-won rights–which are rapidly going down in flames.
Here’s another product targeted specifically to the anti-woke movement, which, in the U.S., is largely found in the Deep South and rural, poorly educated parts of the rest of the country. They advertise:
At left is a reminder of the heights that humankind can reach. Sure, we have our ignorant, hateful slobs, but we have our loving and super-capable heroes as well.
I met a middle-aged couple from Denmark yesterday, and I had the opportunity to ask them about their country’s perennial standing in the top five of the World Happiness Rankings.
