I disagree. There are idiots all over the world who think they’re geniuses, and none of them is causing the least bit of harm to human civilization.
The problem here is that, for some reason, tens of millions of Americans can’t see that this man is a criminal sociopath, with no interest whatsoever in anything other than his own enrichment.
What are America’s priorities, and where does the banning of “woke” terms like “pregnant people” fit among them?
I guess that’s a function of where, geographically, you live in the U.S. The sensibilities of the people of the South don’t mesh too well with those in the more progressive, better-educated parts of the rest of the nation.
If you hail from places like New England, the mid-Atlantic states, or the west, it’s hard to imagine getting worked up about banning the use of gender pronouns when the planet is on fire, teachers are leaving the profession, and countries like Russia and Iran are threatening to transform half of the world into one big autocracy in a permanent state of war, conventional and perhaps nuclear.
The woman who cuts my hair is one of tens of millions of Americans who believe that Joe Biden is senile, and thus unfit to be U.S. president. I run into this constantly, as there is an entire “news” industry that is in place largely to promote this notion, or whatever the MAGA crowd’s message of the month happens to be.
It seems to me that what viewers of programming at places like Fox News and Newsmax are seeing are clips taken out of context that make the president appear to be mentally incompetent. When he’s quoted by any of the world’s other journalistic organizations, he appears to do pretty well. He’s not Churchill or Obama, but he seems to get by fairly decently.
Since my mom watches Newsmax, I sometimes tune it in to see what’s it’s like. I happened to be watching it the other night just as they were introducing Biden’s speech on Israel, Hamas, Palestine, Russia, and Ukraine. I noted that they prepared the viewer to see a horror show, a bumbling old fool who can barely string together a few coherent words without losing his train of thought.
Less than three minutes into the speech, it was clear, even to them, they had gotten this entirely wrong. Again, Biden isn’t Ronald Reagan, but it was abundantly clear to everyone that he was doing a perfectly fine job. How did Newsmax address this debacle?
“We’re going to cut away from this speech at this point…..” — at which time, with no explanation, they went back to the talking heads discussing how none of the world’s military challenges would have happened if Donald Trump were president, and how he’s under attack by the Deep State, and his political opponents who have weaponized the Justice Department.
I roared in laughter, having witnessed with my own eyes and ears a “news” organization that has absolutely zero journalistic integrity. I may have been the only Newsmax viewer at the time who had this experience, and perhaps breaking down into tears at the pathetic state of the American news consumer would have been the more appropriate response.
It’s hard to believe we’ve sunk to this.
It’s no secret that Americans have reached a point where we can argue about anything, regardless of how seemingly noncontroversial.
Perhaps the reaction against wokeism is the perfect example. Evidently, about one-third of the U.S. electorate disputes the belief that all human beings are worth our concern, and have established an entire political movement accordingly.
At left we see what German-born American historian and political philosopher Hannah Arendt had to say on the subject.
The beginning of the end?
Question:
The Wall Street Journal Reports:
Livestock accounts for as much as a fifth of global emissions, mostly from cows. They burp methane, a greenhouse gas, and their pastures and feed can cause deforestation. Besides fossil fuels, few things do more to drive climate change.
Curbing emissions, is no piece of cake. Is farming covered by the Biden administration’s methane fee or by Europe’s emissions-trading system?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: Politics plays a key role in determining emission regulations.
Here’s an article entitled: “Parents of San Diego Unified (the public school system in the southernmost city in the western U.S.) stress over school holiday schedules.”
It begins: “A lot of parents are stressing. What am I going to do about childcare,” said Jennifer Sumber.
First of all, the second sentence needs to be rewritten: “What am I going to do about childcare?” asked Jennifer Sumber.
It’s fine to be a conservative economist like Thomas Sowell, but it would be even better if he didn’t make gross mistakes like this.
From the mid-1930s through the start of the 1980s, the U.S. public sector, with the help of high tax rates imposed on the very richest of Americans, helped build a well-educated and extremely prosperous middle class. This included not only white guys returning from the war, but also expanding opportunity for women, immigrants and nonwhite workers.
Sadly, this eventually gave way to Ronald Reagan and “trickle-down economics,” but the entire half-century event stands out in world history as a shining example of what government can do to enhance the lives of the better part of an entire population.
The author of this meme doesn’t understand too much about the world, e.g., how anti-democratic forces around the globe are working to unseat us, how rogue states are working to build nuclear weapons, and how terrorists forces threaten us all.
Ironically, the meme mentions taxes. Try to imagine what our defense budget would be without allies to share the burden of deterring military threats, conventional and nuclear, from tyrannical governments with criminally insane leadership around the planet.
Given the fragility of the world’s balance of power, anything’s possible for the U.S. and global economy.
One thing that’s highly unlikely, however, is that Tucker Carlson knows anything more about it than you or I.
When we come across ads like this, we are compelled to feel sorry for the level of intelligence of the common American.
Ultra-right-wing Hillsdale “College” asks the question at left, and writes:
