Re: Liz Cheney’s words at left, a reader notes: Quoting Liz Cheney? Really! She is such a war monger. She has no credibility.
IMO, this is what makes her so interesting: she’s an extremely conservative Republican. That she can see through Trump and is brave enough to stand up against him makes her extremely rare among GOP congresspeople.
My hat’s off.
This guy has a point.
All this stupidity wouldn’t have been possible as recently as 10 years ago.
As shown at left, Bernie Sanders is among many U.S. leaders who are saying no to Trump and his team of oligarchs.
We’re not giving up.
At left we see some of the most compelling reasons that no decent person should be supporting Trump at this point.
The only thing that the president has going for himself is what could be called the “firehose effect” with which all these illegal/unethical acts are coming at us; he figures that if he can overwhelm us with the sheer volume of his criminality, we’ll be unable to deal with any of it.
We’ll see.
OK, the interview at left won’t happen. But it is illustrative of how Trump supporters find twisted ways to justify anything and everything that their hero does. Will the United States be a better, stronger country without things like European allies, a decent public education system, and economic stability?
Right now, as you’re reading this, there are people at Fox News, hard at work behind the scenes, creating narratives that explain how all this crap happening in Washington is actually Making America Great Again.
At left we have the words of American actor, comedian, writer, and talk show announcer Andy Richter. And what he says is 100% true.
The United States has not been invaded by a hostile foreign power.
This is what we voted for, which is why part of me is regarding all this with a certain level of dispassion. We need to accept that we live among a plurality of American voters who demanded the return of Donald Trump to the White House, having had four full years of direct experience with the criminal sociopath.
If we believe in democracy, as many of us do, we need to accept the will of the people.
This reminds of us of what Tom Joad said at the end of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, when someone asked him where he was going:
I’ll be everywhere, wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.
Of course, this is not going to happen, for dozens of different reasons, but the author of the meme here does make an interesting point.
Here’s just one more example of how far the United States has fallen in the period of less than two months since Trump took office:
We now have an alcoholic Fox News host appointed as Secretary of Defense who has no military leadership experience nor training in science. He’s now claiming that climate change is “crap” and the U.S. Pentagon has nothing to do with it.
In truth, the U.S. military identified climate change as a threat to national security several decades ago, and has been assiduously trying to assess the many different aspects of how it has an increasing impact on geopolitics, e.g., dependence on oil, scarcity of resources, climate refugees, loss of land masses, the increase in the number and severity of weather emergencies, food shortages due to ocean acidification, etc.
How do I know this? Largely, it’s through the people I met and interviewed in preparation for the books I wrote over the years, including
Ex-CIA Director James Woolsey, and retired Navy Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, former president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, who told me, “US dependence on oil is a ‘national security issue.'”
According to my observation, the UK has an electorate that is similar to that of the US in many ways, with its wealthy conservatives and its underclass. However, there is a significant difference in that almost everyone in the UK has a minimum standard of grace, class, good humor, charity, and honesty that is absent in many Americans.
Trump could no more become Prime Minister of England than he could become King.
