I happen to know a few veterans and active duty service people, and I don’t know a single one who isn’t sickened by Trump and his treasonous behavior following his election loss in 2020.

Mainstream media may wish to convince us otherwise, but it’s hard to imagine that he has a prayer of winning in 2024.

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What FDR said here 75 years ago provides insight into where we are now, where we have a Supreme Court justice taking bribes and a climate change mitigation strategy that’s stuck in the mud, due to the fact that the fossil fuel industry owns our lawmaking process.

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Notice the marked difference between the Republicans’ responses to the crimes of Nixon and those of Trump.  Nixon, who obstructed justice, was forced to resign in disgrace and, within a few years was simply a distant, unpleasant memory.

50 years later, Trump tried to overthrow the United States government, and is now the GOP’s run-away frontrunner in the upcoming primary.  As shown here, one of his congressional supporters made plans to throw a party to celebrate the anniversary of the insurrection.

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But has the gentleman here with the eyebrows taken it too far?

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What American author and journalist William Blum says here seems correct.

The reason trickle-down economics doesn’t work is that making rich people richer does not provide them with any incentive to hire additional people.

I had over 100 employees at one point in the 1990s, and the only thing that made me even consider hiring one more was that I knew that my delivery unit would be incapable of serving our clients adequately if I didn’t.

I’m not a miser, but in the absence of that pressure, I would have kept my money in my pocket.

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Considering where it’s located, Minnesota is quite progressive in its politics.

Check this out, from the state’s governor.

Gotta love his remark on “thoughts and prayers.”

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Reader A asks: How did we discover that the Earth is round?
Reader B: Probably fishermen who saw the top of masts coming first when approaching other nearby ships.
Me: An ancient Greek mathematician (Pythagoras? Euclid?) asked a friend who lived a few hundred miles south of him, a known distance, to drive a stake in the ground on a certain day and measure the angle the sun’s shadow made when the sun was at its zenith. He used the difference between that angle and the one he measured at home (Athens) to compute the Earth’s circumference to within a few percent of what we now know it to be.
Impressive, IMO.
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Speaking strictly for myself, I find this extremely difficult to swallow.

In the United States, the president is elected by the electoral college, which itself is informed by the popular vote in each of the 50 states.  From where I sit, it doesn’t seem that God has too much to do with any of this.

I know there are people (called “lunatics”) who think that Trump was sent to us by God, but do they think that Obama and Biden came to us the same way?

I’m normally pretty deferential to religions and their followers. but sorry, I can’t get on board here.

 

 

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Dr. Tom Konrad, whom I interviewed for my book “Is Renewable Really Doable?” writes: New Yorkers for Clean Power‘s energy coaching program (for which I coach) got a mention on Canary Media today.”

Here’s the article to which he’s referring, providing readers with five broad-stroke suggestions for lowering the carbon footprint of their homes.

Tom: Great going.  I’ve learned a great deal from you, and I remain inspired by the way you apply your intelligence to prevent a catastrophic breakdown of our environment.

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In my recent post Trump’s at the End of His Rope, I made the point that the evidence of Trump’s guilt in the 91 felony counts he faces, especially the testimony of dozens, maybe hundreds of eyewitnesses, is about to crush his political viability like a grape.

In response, a reader notes:  Maybe, but that doesn’t take care of the (low-life) that follow him.

Good point. I have a feeling, however, that cutting off the head of the snake, as it were, will take a great deal of life out of the MAGA movement, and especially in congress.

Image that you’re a lawmaker from a red state and you know that, without Trump’s support, you’re toast in your election. Once Trump’s gone, you have far more freedom to act according to whatever minor level of decency and integrity you may possess.

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