I’m not sure I would say that this is the true horror of religion, but it’s certainly in the top five.
If there is another public intellectual who has a better grasp on these issues than Sam Harris, I hope someone out there will introduce me.
Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich says: Every day the Supreme Court fails to make a decision in Trump’s immunity case is effectively a decision in his favor. They’re acting like an arm of Trump’s campaign by letting him run out the clock on his prosecution.
This is unsavory, to say the least; it’s a totally unprecedented travesty of justice, a disgrace to this once-fine nation.
Yet it’s quite unlikely that Trump will be able to “run out the clock on his prosecution” and walk away a free man.
For that to occur, he’d first have to be re-elected. And even if he used his power to force the DoJ to drop the federal cases against him, or to pardon himself, that won’t get him off the hook in the cases filed in Fulton Country, Georgia, where he and 18 coconspirators are charged with a broad variety of felonies associated with attempting to overthrow the U.S. federal government under the RICO Act, and he is powerless to intercede.
You and I may agree with the meme here, but let’s be real: You could replace “Trump” with “Biden” and the MAGA crowd would be just as adamant.
What this means is that, though we talk about independent voters, they exist in extremely small numbers, if they exist at all.
We’re told that there are people who are on the fence about Biden because he’s too old. I’m unconvinced, reminded of the old joke:
To be on the fence in this case is like being asked to choose between two dishes on a cross-country flight, chicken, or a plate of dogs**t, infused with shards of broken glass, and then to ask how the chicken is prepared.
At left are a few words from four-star Marine Corps general John Kelly, who served as Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff from 2017 to 2019. He had previously served as Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration and was commander of United States Southern Command.
Question: If you’re a top executive in a U.S. media organization, and you actually care about your country, what precisely have you been doing these last three-plus years? Where have you been? Why on Earth have you not been having this gentleman tell his story in full detail?
You’ve led us to the precipice of another four-year term for this criminal sociopath.
Though I admire the author’s fierce independence, I urge caution.
Yes, parents have the responsibility for their children’s health, but they’re also held accountable when they fail to apply a basic level of reason in these duties.
In particular, there are parents who are criminally indicted for rejecting basic science in favor of whatever religious cults they may be participants in and winding up with dead kids. For instance, there are Christian Scientists who, on religious grounds, didn’t get their kids clearly needed medical care on the basis of their belief that faith in Christ is the only legitimate healing power, who are now in prison.
My advice: Calm down, and apply reason and science to protect your children.
I’d be careful here.
Your kids will remember all kinds of things about you, in this case, that you were a selfish redneck who contributed to the demise of the planet with his refusal to care about anything but himself.
Kind of a drag that we’re just hearing about this now, wouldn’t ya say?
It would have been nice if the mainstream media had given General Mattis all the airtime he needed to tell his story to the American people.
Had that been the case, we would probably not be in danger of re-electing a criminal sociopath to lead the United States.
The “Fund for American Studies” asks:
Are you concerned about the Left’s push for more government control? Do you want to know what life looks like under socialism?
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: The important thing is that we survive future disasters, not do nothing because we don’t all agree that climate change exists or if it is a natural cycle or caused by humans. I have my opinions and so do you. But I think if we can avoid planetary catastrophe we should do that. Doing effective things about it now is more important. There is a lot that can be done.
Now we have a new way to differentiate our products from those of our competitors: wokeness. Regardless of what we’re selling: beer, razors, cars, workout facilities, or scientific theories, we can always claim that our products are for men who aren’t woke.
Note: this would have have been laughed out of the room until the Trump/MAGA days of the last ten years. We didn’t hold our nation’s morons in esteem until just that recently.
