At left from a reader.
I’m wondering how many subjects I’ve changed my viewpoints on over the last 30 years. It would be hard to count them all. I doubt that the people who read my books would call me a hypocrite.
I also think about how many international social/economic/military conditions have changed since 1996.
Honesty matters.
For Trump, a suffering population of Americans isn’t an emergency; in fact, it’s of no importance at all.
The author of the meme here raises a point we’ve seen countless times since the 2016 presidential election here in the U.S.
The best answer here is the idea of a “perfect storm” i.e., Trump came along at the precise moment that the American electorate had set itself on fire, dying to express its unique blend of ignorance and hate.
As suggested at left, this whole catastrophe could have been avoided had congressional Republicans upheld the U.S. Constitution, rather than buckle under the pressure they were under from a sociopathic president.
I’m not sure why people insist on calling Donald Trump “stupid.” All indications are that he’s in the process of toppling the world economy and positioning himself to become the most powerful figure on Earth since Julius Caesar.
Of course, this process will inflict immeasurable pain upon the the world’s population, and that is pure evil, but evil and stupidity have nothing to do with one another.
Here’s a short video that puts into perspective the pressure that U.S. military veterans are experiencing at the hands of team Trump and Musk.
Veterans make up only about 5% of private sector workers, but approximately 30% of the federal workforce. What happens when these folks are fired en masse? Obviously, many of them are now living out on our streets.
If that seems acceptable to you, congratulations, you have the moral qualifications to make you a Trump supporter.
I remember an essay I wrote when I was applying to colleges in 1972 in which I drew the distinction between what America’s Founding Fathers had intended and what the nation had ultimately become. I recall wondering if this made me appear unpatriotic, but I dismissed the notion on the basis that, after all, this was the Vietnam War era, and the conflict was opposed by at least 90% of people my age. Their admissions departments wanted only members of the Young Republicans? Seemed unlikely.
The point: being patriotic, at least in the United States, doesn’t mean believing that your country is perfect, but that it’s worth fighting to improve.
One of the main reasons that the legendary environmentalist remains optimistic in the face of all this destruction is the enthusiasm of young people, which is why I chose the photo here, co-featuring climate activist Greta Thunberg.
It seems that Mike Lindell, The Pillow Guy, has disappeared from the airwaves. Some have speculated that he went bankrupt, perhaps partly due to a court that ordered him to pay $5 million to computer forensics expert Robert Zeidman after (Lindell’s) making a public pledge to pay that sum to anyone who could disprove his claim that the 2020 election was rigged in Joe Biden’s favor.
In any case, the only news I can find on him at this point is his interest in running for governor of Minnesota.
My advice: Go south, not-so-young man. Minnesota, a state which the current president lost 51-47 really doesn’t like crackpot Trump supporters. And that was before DOGE, Musk, tariffs, market crashes, threats to Social Security, and all the other stuff for which the GOP is so thoroughly reviled right now.
I can’t say, as Will Rogers did, “I never met a man I didn’t like,” but I really don’t hate anyone, regardless of the content of our disagreement. You can show me the lowest level MAGA KKK racist you can find in the bowels of rural Mississippi, and my reaction is really more pity than contempt.
