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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It’s unlikely that we will ever completely unravel the strange story of Trump and Giuliani, in particular, how the former president appears to have grabbed “America’s mayor” by the neck a few years back and forced him to destroy himself to keep Trump in the White House, Recall, if you will, that this happened at the expense of everything that made Giuliani one of the most admired figures in U.S. government in the months and years post 9/11.

It’s easy to sympathize with the average Joe hotshot entrepreneur, say a building contractor, who got fleeced by a conman, whose only frailty was his lack of skepticism about the morals of a billionaire. But what about a man who knew full well there was no substantial fraudulent voting in the 2020 election, but who somehow was coaxed into using his position as an extremely prominent attorney to overthrow the U.S. government?

Maybe he was convinced that he’d somehow get away with it.

The only thing anyone could possibly say under these circumstances is: he deserved exactly what he got.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I know the majority of Americans share the viewpoint of the author of the meme here.

My father was a B-17 pilot in WWII, who, after 29 successful missions bombing oil refineries in Germany, was shot down, and, with his crew, spent the last six months of the war in a POW camp.  He died in 2010, and so, regrettably, I couldn’t ask him how he regarded Trump’s antics post the former president’s loss in the 2020 election.

Dad was a deeply conservative, life-long Republican, but he was a man of honor.  Moreover, he lived and died before the right-wing became so unhinged with its hate, ignorance, and embrace of fascism.

I’m quite sure, if I had been able to ask him about Trump 2024, he would have said, “Under no circumstances would I vote for someone who tried to overthrow the U.S. government.  It’s that simple.”

This is, most certainly, a deeply regrettable point in our nation’s history.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I would say the answer is a combination of greed and tribalism.

We evolved living in groups, distrusting/hating people from outside our group who do not look like us, worship like us, etc.

At the same time, the socio-economic paradigm in the developed world of 1000 years ago, i.e., medieval Europe, morphed from feudalism to free-market capitalism, eventually giving rise to greed and, in general, indifference to the suffering of others.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

At left we see how far American politics has shifted–from something that actually made sense just a decade ago, to something that is now completely insane.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Is this really “huge?”

If you’re a voter at either end of the state, i.e., an easy drive to downtown Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, you already understand the danger that Trump represents to the republic, to international relations, to women’s rights, and to science-based policy making.

But suppose you’re in the middle of the state, and you have essentially the same political sensibilities as the folks in Mississippi or Alabama.  Fox News has convinced you that the Democrats have opened the southern border to vermin who are flooding in and taking your jobs.  Are you swayed by the fact that some Harvard-schooled Republican doesn’t support your hero?

Sorry.  I’d like to think so, but I’m having trouble believing that.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As the entire electorate knows, Trump has made numerous attempts to set aside the U.S. Constitution in order to retain power after his loss in the 2020 presidential election.

There is, however, an important difference between the MAGA base and the majority of Americans: most of us actually care that Trump committed treason.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

If you’re a Republican politician and you’ve lost Fred Upton, you’re in deep fertilizer.

From The Los Angeles Times: Due to his environmental policies, Upton represents one of the biggest threats to planet Earth on planet Earth.

From Mother Jones:  Fred Upton really, really does not want to talk about climate change. Last week the new chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce introduced draft legislation that would permanently bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
If Trump has lost the core of the anti-science GOP base, who’s left?

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Making a statement, regardless of how stupid and obnoxious, wouldn’t disqualify a person from being president, though it should dissuade anyone who cares about this country and understands the principles on which it was founded from voting for him.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

What I noticed about this is that the name “Donald Trump” didn’t arise once in his endorsement, nor did any of the phrases commonly attached to the former president, e.g., “criminal sociopath.”

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I think I speak for at least 99% of progressives when I say that I care about the safety and well-being of police officers.  At the same time, I resent the efforts of the extreme right-wing to suggest otherwise.

 

 

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