My wife believes that the United States is headed towards the Orwellian dystopia “1984,” based on the systematic distortion of truth we see all around us. If a U.S. president can convince his followers that Ukraine started the war with Russia by attacking first, I suppose she has a point.
We shouldn’t expect people with hundreds of billions of dollars to become heroes, but we shouldn’t allow them to become terrorists, either.
I’m sure that millions of people have had the thought offered at left.
Personally, I would tackle the environment, making large investments in decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors, and moving to sustainable agriculture.
As at least 99% of us know, school students can read the Bible if they so choose.
School students cannot be forced to read the Bible, any more than they can be forced to read the Quran.
Like so many of his college friends in the early 1940s, my father (temporarily) dropped out to fight in WW2. Dad happened to become a B17 (bomber) pilot, running missions out of London, destroying Nazi oil refineries. Also like his friends, he was thrilled to come home when the war was over in 1945.
Dad left us in 2010, a few months before his 90th birthday, and Mom and I still have discussions as to how her late husband would have regarded Trump. He was a conservative life-long Republican, but he was a fair and honest man. It’s hard for me to imagine his supporting a clearcut enemy of democracy.
I so wish I could have a talk with Dad.
It’s good to know that there exists a handful of congressional Republicans who openly and fiercely oppose Donald Trump.
What Liz Cheney says about the president’s lackeys is 100% correct, i.e., that Trump will be gone at a certain point, but the world will never forget their spineless betrayal of their country.
Are there people who believe Elon Musk’s claims that millions of dead American are receiving Social Security checks? Of course.
There are people who think that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, and that it was the Deep State and Black Lives Matter (rather than Trump himself) who incited the insurrection on January 6, 2021.
I’m sure there are Americans, albeit a minority, who believe that Elon Musk’s activities in the U.S. federal government are selfless, and aimed at making our country a safer, healthier, and overall better place for the common person to live in.
They’re called “idiots.”
A reader notes: Here is a 10 MB hard disk from the 70’s that I was told cost $40k. Sitting on it is the 1 terabyte hard drive from my laptop.
The cost (and size) of data storage is a problem we beat the snot out of over the last few decades. Now let’s hope we can be as effective with energy storage. We have better, more cost-effective storage for sushi than we do for energy.
Hate to say it, but I’m not sure that I fully believe this fellow. If he’s a Trump supporter (and he sure does look the part), he’s going to have a tough time with me and my beliefs as a typical woke, science-based, citizen-of-the-world progressive.
Maybe “hate” is too strong a word, but certainly I’d be shocked if he wouldn’t resent the hell out of me.
