American Stupidity
The author of the meme here makes a good point.
But we need to consider cruelty and callousness as well.
Stupid and/or mean. Preferably both.
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Why Trumpism Is So Entrenched
The thought expressed here represents a serious challenge for humankind, and it’s precisely the mechanism that keeps Trumpism so firmly rooted in place. The MAGA crowd is organized in lockstep around the principles of hate, violence, and exclusion.
As MLK put it, “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
It’s not an easy task.
Climate Change “Insanity?”
A reader notes: Bravo! Hats off to Alberta Canada for standing up against the climate change insanity being foisted on them by their federal government.
Alberta is Canada’s largest oil producing province, providing 79.2% of Canadian oil production.
But I’m sure that’s a coincidence.
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Republicans and the Truth
Here’s a video that challenges Republicans to speak up as to which side of the truth they stand on.
“Any (GOP politician) one who says that the election was stolen is lying to America.”
Doesn’t get any more direct than that.
Common Sense Gun Laws
One reason that gun laws are so difficult to enact here in the U.S. is Americans’ belief that offering “thoughts and prayers” to the victims’ families is a worthwhile response to having their little child’s body blown to bits by a psychopath with an AR-15.
The author of this very clever cartoon seems to agree with me on this point.
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Americans’ Priorities
As suggested in this brilliant cartoon, when most Americans go to the polls in 2024, climate change mitigation will not be at the top of their list of priorities.
Having said that, Biden has done more than any of his predecessors in funding infrastructure and other programs designed to lower our country’s carbon footprint; kudos.
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Jamie Dimon Urges Even Liberals to Back Nikki Haley as Alternative to Trump
The headline here is taken from this article in Bloomberg.
A few quick points:
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase, leads a company that, since the adoption of the Paris agreement, has sat at the top of the list of fossil fuel bankers, financing $434 billion from 2016 through 2022. Liberals have very little respect for him and his political suggestions, considering that his status as a multibillionaire derives from his lust for baking our planet.
Nikki Haley may be less repugnant than Trump insofar as she is not, at least apparently, a criminal sociopath. But as a member of the Republican party, her values are so completely loathsome that it’s hard to imagine her garnering any support from liberals.
Koch Industries is also backing Haley. The billionaire class has most certainly lost any appetite it may have had for living in a country led by a psychopath.
Socialism Is Coming, But What Does That Mean?
Americans tends to overlook the fact that all of us benefit a great deal from our government’s programs. Few of us spend any time at all asking ourselves where capitalism ends and socialism begins, or vice versa.
Snow removal is a small piece of what we refer to as infrastructure, which is a huge element of what we all receive from government. Outside of toll roads, our taxes pay for our local roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, etc.
But, let’s not ignore police, fire fighting, criminal justice, national defense, public education, labor laws, auto and food safety standards, air traffic control, TSA, libraries, emergency medical care, environmental regulation, social security, Medicare, the National Archives, national parks, bank regulations and deposit insurance, copyright and patent laws, federal dams to provide electrical power, flood control, the Weather Service, the Federal Housing Authority, consulates and embassies, FEMA, veterans affairs, public water systems, monitoring of all international cargo, NASA, border protection, and the National Institutes of Health.
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Has Trumped Crossed a Psychiatric Line?
Apparently, a psychiatrist believes that Trump’s mental condition has made a quantum step toward insanity, based on his Veterans’ Day speech that included: “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections.”
I don’t buy this. Since he came on the political scene, it’s been clear that Trump is a criminal sociopath, and that he will say anything that is calculated to grow and rile his base.
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No Children?
Throughout the millennia, couples have been opting not to have children, and for many, the reason has been reluctance to bring boys and girls into a hostile and cruel world.
IMO, this way of thinking has been heightened by climate change and, at least in America, what could be called “Trumpism,” i.e., a blend of fascism, ignorance, racism, and violence.
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