America First
“Theological heresy” may be too strong a phrase, but the point made here is a strong one.
The idea that God favors American endeavors above those of the French or the Croatians is just plain stupid.
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Analyzing Trump’s Political Position
I’m not sure where this came from, but it’s good:
They (Republican strategists) are seeing what we’re seeing. There are gigantic chunks of Republicans who are done with Trump. And that’s what’s going to make the difference in November. Now that Super Tuesday is over, the stage is officially set. In November, it’s America or Trump. And Trump may have bitten off more than he can chew. He’s not as powerful as he was in 2016, or even 2020. He’s slower, weaker, and lacking firepower. How do we know this? All you have to do is look at (Republican political consultant, policy advisor, and lobbyist) Karl Rove’s whiteboard.
Sure, Trump won most of his primaries yesterday, but not by the “huge” numbers he expected. In states like Virginia and Colorado, the orange messiah could barely muster up 60 percent of the vote. Oh, and let’s not forget what happened in Vermont, where Trump was utterly and completely embarrassed by Nikki Haley, who ended up taking the state. The cherry on top? These are GOP voters who hate the leader of their own party so much that they show up to the polls just to vote against him. These are the people who have made this primary season so special. Well, for us anyways.
The past few months have made us more optimistic than we could’ve hoped, and last night was no different. The bad man is losing, and that means the pro-democracy movement is winning. We know it, the media knows it, and even The Donald himself knows it.
To put it in simple terms: he’s hurting. His support is dwindling.
This isn’t completely dissimilar to what I see here, but I would caution that there are people who voted for Nikki Haley in the primaries who will feel forced to vote for Trump in the general election in November.
There will also be those who abstain. Here, I’m thinking about people like my mom: intelligent, well-educated conservatives, who, bless their hearts, have no appetite for criminal sociopaths in the White House.
In any case, Rover brings us good news: Trump is hurting badly.
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Exxon and Climate Disinformation
From this piece on Exxon’s role in blocking climate legislation:
“Democrats have focused particular ire on Exxon, after a senior lobbyist for the company was caught in a secret video bragging that Exxon had fought climate science through “shadow groups” and had targeted influential senators in an effort to weaken President Joe Biden’s climate agenda.”
These people need to hope that there is no hell.
Redistribution of Wealth in America
News flash to the driver of the SUV shown here: The last 45 years, with its huge tax breaks for corporations and the uber-rich, has presented the most enormous redistribution of wealth in U.S. history.
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Some Women Vote for Trump, But the Reason Eludes Us
Trump is clearly on the ropes, battered as he is by so many important demographics within the overall electorate. Women rank high among them, but they are joined by all manner of men who are educated, honest, sane, and compassionate.
Having said this, it never ceases to amaze me how Trump gets any significant portion of the vote from the people he so openly despises.
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SEC Approved Weakened Climate Rule
According to the Wall Street Journal, after two years of fierce lobbying against the SEC, the regulator has approved a rule that forces listed companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions, and reveal the risks their operations face from climate change, e.g., floods, droughts, wildfires, etc.
In an earlier version, companies would have had to submit such reports pertaining to the entire length of their supply chains.
In any case, even the weakened version of the rule is expected to face immediate litigation.
Bertrand Russell on Religion and Science
There was a time in the recent past at which what Bertrand Russell predicted made perfect sense, and was, it seemed, in the process of coming to fruition.
At this point, however, it appears that humankind has hit a hard limit as to its capacity to replace religion with science in terms of informing its thinking and behavior.
And, as resources become more scarce due to environmental collapse, it’s understandable that the human race will become even more tribal, more superstitious, and less reliant on fair and objective methods of managing our affairs and solving the problems that we face as a species.
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COVID Vaccinations
The chalk drawing photographed here is simply incorrect.
You can’t tell me that when an anti-vaxxer is hospitalized, on a ventilator, dying an agonizing death, gasping for oxygen and slowly drowning in his own blood and pus, that a nagging thought doesn’t go through his head:
If I hadn’t rejected science because of something from QAnon I came across while “doing my own research,” perhaps this wouldn’t be happening to me.
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How All This Stuff Got Here
This is very beautiful, but let’s not forget that it can be taken several steps backwards.
All the material in the recycled butterflies, wolf fur, etc. that is now your body came from the explosion of now-dead stars billions of years ago. (This is a fairly recent discovery –late 20th Century, btw.)
You are literally stardust.
As they say, you are not living in the universe; the universe is living in you.
Interviewing Trump’s Fall Guys
Over a period of several decades, I wrote many hundreds of market research surveys, supervised their execution on a statistically valid sample space, then tabulated and presented the results to my clients.
At this point, I would love to get the opportunity to interview the 800+ people who have been convicted in our criminal courts for their participation in the January 6th insurrection, and ask them to answer:
• Do you feel that you have been treated fairly? If not, why not? What would have been just, in your opinion?
• Please tell me how, if at all, your allegiance to Donald Trump has changed since that day. What did you believe going in? How do you feel now?
• If justice is to be served, what do you believe should happen to Trump at the conclusion of the trial in which he’s charged with inciting the insurrection?
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