Morally, Just How Far Are We from the Bottom?
Shakespeare wrote about “the quality of mercy.”
Here in the 21st Century America under Donald Trump, it might just cost you your U.S. citizenship.
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Help for Working Families
There is a vast difference between the demographic of “working families” and the uber-wealthy, the two groups that re-elected Trump. In particular:
Working families tend to be poorly educated, a phenomenon that’s only getting worse with each passing year. Too many of them are ill-equipped intellectually to understand that they’re supporting a criminal conman.
Rich families are well-educated, making them smart enough to know that Trump will make sure his wealthy donors get even richer. But sadly, most of them couldn’t care less about anyone but themselves.
Misinformation: Who Profits from Making the U.S. Dumber?
If I were to show this to a science classroom of high school students who have B-or-better grades, the majority of them would understand instantly that this is just one example of the onslaught of misinformation that is circulating around the Internet. Solar PV generates electricity by absorbing photons, not by letting them pass through.
Legitimate question: Who profits from a scientifically illiterate population?
Trump: Is There a Limit to the Damage He Will Do?
If you take the damage Trump inflicted on our country (and the rest of the world) yesterday and multiply it by the number of days in four years, you get a startlingly large amount. Yet it’s finite, and more to the point, he’s bound to run out of atrocities eventually.
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Trump Pardons Insurrectionists
There is no way of knowing the degree to which the meme here describes Trump’s true motivation for his despicable act, but there is no doubt that today there are millions of armed, hateful morons in this country who feel empowered to commit violent felonies on the president’s behalf.
I have a friend who said, “I feel so much safer now that Trump’s back in the White House.” I don’t.
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American Oligarchy
Bernie Sanders delivers the truth about the real power structure in the United States, and adds, “We must fight back.”
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Pardoning the Cop Beaters
From her Wikipedia page:
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian. She is a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
She writes:
Back at the White House, retaliation continued. Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of the January 6 rioters who had been convicted of crimes related to the attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election, including Enrico Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys who was serving 22 years for seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.
His pardon also included Daniel Rodriguez, who was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to tasing Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who suffered cardiac arrest and a traumatic brain injury. “Omg I did so much f—ing s— r[ight] n[ow] and got away,” he texted to his gang. “Tazzed the f— out of the blue[.]”
Richardson doesn’t offer an opinion on the moral nature of Trump’s decision to pardon/commute the sentence of these people, but the reader infers, correctly, that justice and the rule of law is not well served.
We need to prepare ourselves for four years of these fascist actions, and hope we get some semblance of our country back when it’s over.
Domestic Violence?
I thought these people where the salt of the Earth. True patriots who observed a day of pure love. Are you saying that perhaps we’ve been misled?
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Distrust of Science
I would say it’s largely disinformation campaigns that focus on poorly educated Americans.
You won’t find Europeans who believe that climate change is a hoax or that COVID-19 was planned and implemented by some government.
In the same vein, you won’t find Europeans voting for obvious conmen like Trump. People who grow up learning three languages, reading Aristotle, studying advanced science and math, and playing classical piano are immune from the bullcrap that affects us here in the U.S.
Trump to the Rescue
From The New York Times:President Trump’s inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a military that has limited engagement in conflicts around the world.
This comes under the heading of “politics is what you can get away with.” The majority of American voters, albeit a slim one, eagerly accepts Trump’s bald-faced lies, and, at this point, that’s all that matters.
We can only hope that this country will have any semblance of honesty and decency four years hence.
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