As you read the meme here, ask yourself why Trump did this.

As a reader suggests, “Dead people can’t vote.”

I believe that’s it exactly.  With Trump, every decision is transactional.  “What can this do for me?” he reasons.  If the answer is “Nothing,” it’s not going to happen.

Now, in fairness, everyone has some level of self-interest; thus, we’ve never had a completely selfless president.  On the other hand, until now, we never had one who honestly couldn’t give a s*** about anyone but himself.

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From VoteVets:

Donald Trump recently promoted fascist propaganda on his personal social media site, Truth Social. He posted a video of ideal newspaper headlines for if he won re-election. One of them reads “a unified Reich.” This is threatening fascist language that was used by European dictators in Nazi Germany during World War II. If we want to prevent history from repeating itself, we must act NOW.  Please rush a donation and help VoteVets take action against this disgusting and dangerous behavior.

A couple of points:

• Yes, of all words meaning “governmental administration,” his choice here is a dog whistle (perhaps “airhorn blast?”) to his white nationalist support base.

• In the off chance that Trump is re-elected by electoral college, there will be nothing “unified” about his administration whatsoever. The majority of American voters detest Trump and everything he stands for.

As I’ve said before, it’s interesting that so many vets are so adamantly committed to ensuring Trump never sees the inside of the White House again.  These are people of honor and truth, and they see through Trump completely.

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To me, this comes under the heading: Don’t ask a question on the air to which you don’t know the answer.

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Conventional wind turbines extract about 90% of the theoretically available kinetic energy from the wind, making this statement at left a bald-faced lie.

In addition, there is a reason that small wind no longer exists: it’s inherently impractical; the output is so small that it doesn’t justify the cost of building a high-quality turbine.

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Anyone, especially Trump, should have known that the former president is reviled everywhere in New York City.

Want cheers?  Sweet home Alabama.

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Senator Lindsey Graham is typical of today’s Republican party in that facts don’t matter.  Truth and lies run together like the Euphrates flowing into the Tigris.

The commenter could have added: Except when a political party wants to allow the overthrowing of the U.S. federal government / American democracy.

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“How do they not see it?”

It’s the one-two punch of ignorance and hate.

Alternatively put, cult members don’t understand that they’re in a cult.

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I predict that the event promoted here will cease to exist in a few years, because we’re getting very close to the point where both the scientific and the business communities realize that the entire CCS enterprise is a bust.

Actually, “bust” is too kind a word.  It’s a scam, a ruse perpetrated by Big Oil, to lead the general public to believe that our civilization has no problem burning fossil fuels into perpetuity.

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These are good questions, and they come with a few, tightly related answers:

Ignorance, white nationalism and anti-wokeism.  Trump supporters don’t love everything he says and does, but their hatred is so intense that they happily accept their leader.

Of course, all this is re-enforced with 24/7 coverage from Fox News and the other ultra-right-wing “information” sources.

 

 

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Memorial Day is a bad 24-hour period for Trump, as, like Veterans Day, it reminds our country how hostile the former president has been to the American military.

In turns, this reminds us that, in addition to being a pathological liar and criminal, that in many ways, Trump’s a bumbling fool.  How hard would it have been to refrain from publicly referring to our troops as “suckers” and “losers?”   How tough would it have been to let the military justice system stand on its own and not pardon a convicted war criminal?

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