Trump may resent Fox News for its occasional criticism. But not surprisingly, Fox is 100% behind the former president in 2024.
There is no doubt that he “has a proven record.” Unfortunately, it includes 30K+ lies, two impeachments, and a 34-count fraud indictment, not to mention election tampering, seditious conspiracy and other felonies.
Will America re-elect a career criminal to a second term in the White House? It just might.
We live in challenging times for all Americans.
As suggested by the meme at the left, the fine folks from Wyoming who are as conservative as U.S. voters can get, recoil at Trump’s “ego.” But is his ego, the core problem?
No. Lots of high-flyers have huge egos, but they’re not career criminals. He’s among the very worst human beings that the world has ever known.
Here’s another reminder that the present-day politics of the United States bears a certain resemblance to that of Germany in the 1930s/40s.
We cannot normalize criminal behavior in our leaders–especially that which threatens to overthrow our democracy.
The screen cap here is from a video in which Ted Nugent explains how EMP Shield provides electromagnetic pulse (EMP) protection for your home.
Somewhere, there are people who trust Ted Nugent to give them advice on technology.
I want to stay as far away from there as possible.
Legendary quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger said: “Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
Quite a statement, but is it true? Certainly, humankind has made little if any progress with respect to understanding what makes up consciousness. In Western philosophy, the phenomenologists say that “to be conscious is to be conscious of an object”–as if that gets us anywhere.
But are we saying it can’t be explained at all? Or maybe Schrödinger’s using the word “physical” to introduce the idea that consciousness has a spiritual element.
Who knows? I’m not predicting some sort of breakthrough before I leave this planet in the next couple of decades. But I hesitate to claim that a certain thing — anything — is immune to our comprehension.
At left we see the decisions that Allstate and State Farm have made re: climate change.
If you live in a trailer park and get your “news” from Fox, Newsmax, and QAnon, you’re probably a climate denier, an anti-vaxxer, a Trump supporter, and so on down the line. This is a free country, and thus you’re at liberty to hold those views, and, if you’ve achieved middle-age, there is very little additional cost to you. You’re not wealthy, you never will be, and your ignorance can’t cost you any more going forward than it already has.
However, think for a moment of the people who made it to the top of their respective fields. If that field happens to be insurance, imagine that you manage the strategic investment decisions of Allstate or State Farm. You’re one of very few who are held to account for the intelligent direction of hundreds of billions of dollars. You must have been extremely intelligent, advancing far beyond your peers. Above all, you didn’t achieve this station in life by absorbing right-wing disinformation.
Can you be at the top of the insurance industry with profoundly conservative values? Sure, but not if those ideas led you to “news” sources that caused you to reject science, or you would have been cut off at the knees if you wanted to advance beyond selling auto or term- or whole-life to the now-grown kids you knew in high school. You’d be no closer to the upper echelon of the insurance industry than you’d be to flying to the moon on a skate board.
In the final analysis, no one cares what utter crap you believe. Just don’t think that pure bulls*** is going to take you anywhere in a world that has anything whatsoever to do with big money. Nature abhors a vacuum. Big money abhors stupidity.
I used to co-coach my kids’ soccer with a devout Christian who couldn’t get his wits wrapped around my passion for the environment. Since the world is soon coming to an end, as laid out in the Book of Revelation, why would anyone waste his energies on things like pollution and climate change mitigation?
I submit that there is nothing alarming about soccer coaches’ believing garbage like this (as long as they don’t contaminate the kids with it).
We need to draw the line, however, when it comes to electing a president of the United States.
Mike Pence is running for U.S. president in 2024, but doesn’t that mean he has backers who think he could possibly win? What level of stupidity does that require?
Does someone with money honestly think that Americans want to be governed by a religious zealot who stood by and watched Trump commit crimes for four years?
Worse, doesn’t charisma matter? Pence is no more dynamic and passionate than a pool of stagnant water.
This from Trump a few hours after his lawyers left the Department of Justice offices.
I’m going out on a limb and suggesting that the attorneys didn’t succeed on pressuring the DoJ to lay off.
Earlier, I wrote a post on how Trump never quits, never apologizes, and never backs down.
In response to the meme here, reader Luke Renna offers this: Shut up, you f***ing fraud. You’re not going to get your way this time, Mr. Privilege, because if you do all hell will break loose and I think you know what I’m talking about.
I have bad news, Luke. The fact that “all hell will break loose” when the former president is arrested is something that Trump knows very well, and is, in fact, what he’s counting on to extort the U.S. government into sweeping his numerous crimes under the rug.
