The sickening truth about the unprecedented flooding shown here is that no one in the moneyed class could possibly give a s*** about it.
To them, whether it’s happening in Australia or anywhere else, the slow but steady destruction of life as we know it on this planet means that the world’s poor are perishing in agony, leaving more room for additional country clubs and polo fields.
Obama is 100% correct here. As few as 10 years ago, Republicans stood for conservative principles that offered, at least purportedly, real value for those who shared these political philosophies.
But if you happen to flick on Fox News right now, it’s all Democrat-bashing: Biden’s supposed senility, weakness on crime, “open borders policy” (whatever that means), inflationary spending, handouts to lazy poor people, limitless generosity to the Ukrainians (with whom the American people have nothing in common), defunding the police, affiliation with BLM and Antifa, lavish spending on the climate change hoax, school discussion of critical race theory, promoting baby-killing in the form of abortion, and politically motivated persecution of an honest and effective former president.
America is a country peering into a future in which the gap between the haves and have-nots can only be expected to widen as time passes.
The demise of public education represents a significant aspect of this decline.
What a shame. It could have been avoided if more of us had stood our ground.
We’re often reminded of how nonsensical our world is.
Until recently, the U.S. electorate would not stand for complete gibberish emanating from a president’s mouth. In 2016, however, that standard went as far out of mainstream American life as chrome bumpers, black and white television sets, and drive-in burger joints.
I’m amazed to find legitimate, intelligent environmental activists support Elon Musk because of the role he’s playing in forwarding the cause of electric transportation.
Let’s imagine a world where both the energy and the transportation sectors have made great progress in decarbonization, but MAGA Republicans have brought Donald Trump back into position as the most powerful person on the planet.
We’ve gone a long way to mitigating climate change, but we are now living in a world in which the wealthiest country on Earth is no longer a democracy, nor is it a nation of laws. It’s run by a cruel dictator, whose every whim, regardless of how grossly unfair and illegal, is carried out without question or recourse. Dissidents are hunted down like pheasants.
If you’re not a similarly amoral person sitting on at least five or ten million dollars, you find yourself in a living nightmare.
Some days, good news just rains down upon us. Not only did we learn today that the DoJ is getting closer to indicting Trump on charges of stealing classified government documents and obstructing justice, but, on another front, the EU took a big step towards removing coal from its grid-mix.
Coal accounts for 12% of the EU’s grid-mix, and the vast majority of this comes from Poland. The replacement: (near) zero-carbon nuclear.
Well, Jo, I would think your position as laid out here is shared by the vast majority of American women.
Having said that, the values and sensibilities of U.S. voters today are difficult to understand by traditional standards.
I took two little kids around trick-or-treating last night and wound up in the garage of a house with a sign on the wall, must have been at least 8′ X 15′, that read “TRUMP – MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – 2024.”
God only knows what the woman of the house believes about abortion rights. I certainly wasn’t about to ask.
The Department of Justice has assigned David Raskin to the investigation of the former president in the case involving stealing classified documents and obstructing justice by hiding them at his home.
Why is this significant? As discussed here, Raskin is currently prosecuting a low-level FBI agent for taking classified documents home with her. She didn’t lie about it; she immediately cooperated with law enforcement, but she was in possession of (much less sensitive) documents at an inappropriate place.
This woman is going to jail for something that is a tiny fraction of the magnitude of the crime that Trump clearly committed.
To choose not to prosecute Trump at this point would be a direct admission to the nation and the world that, in the United States, laws do not apply to wealthy and powerful people, a statement that the Justice Department, and Merrick Garland in particular, seems extremely unlikely to make.
From this:
A woman who accused Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker of pressuring her into having an abortion defended her claims in an exclusive interview with ABC News, saying he is not fit for office and that “honesty matters.”
That’s funny, because it’s so obviously untrue, especially in this case. Herschel Walker is a pathological liar, and everyone on both sides of the aisle understands that. Yet prominent Republicans passionately endorse him; Nikki Haley calls for us to support her “friend.”
The woman has no shame, and that’s specially what has taken her to such stratospheric heights.
Congratulations to the people of Brazil, who tossed out an authoritarian strong man and elected a man of peace, honor, and environmental responsibility.
Lula won by almost two points, which is good, because had this been any tighter, Brazil could have found itself in the constitutional crisis we’re fighting our way through here in the United States, where Trump, who lost by seven million votes, is still claiming to have won the 2020 election, even though there is zero evidence to that effect.
