This excellent rebuttal was made by a Canadian, but it could just as easily been a Japanese, or a citizen of almost any other country on Earth than the U.S.
I think the point she made is spot-on: we need to get rid of Republicans–at least in their current incarnation.
What these congressional Republicans are attempting to do, of course, is to communicate to the National Rifle Association and the most extreme right-wing voters that they are not wishy-washy on the Second Amendment, and that they couldn’t care less how many little kids’ bodies are riddled with bullets.
Of course, you won’t find people representing Massachusetts or California wearing AR-15 pins, but that leaves plenty of folks from places like West Virginia and Oklahoma.
Prediction: This won’t last indefinitely. The political pendulum in the United States has swung hard in the direction of hatred and stupidity, but the GOP is about to see that most Americans reject all this garbage.
I saw the announcement at left on a social media group called “Grammar Police,” where people come to ask questions about the proper use of English, and to lampoon folks who may have gotten something wrong.
There is a reason I didn’t see this in a Home Depot store: I boycott the company because of its support of Donald Trump.
I thought I’d make a few comments on the foolish garbage presented at left.
1) In addition to hydro and nuclear, there are other flavors of renewable energy.
2) The grid is getting cleaner every year. Just yesterday, Denmark closed its last coal plant. Many hundreds have been shuttered in the U.S. since 2GreenEnergy was launched 15 years ago.
3) The electrification of everything will be a huge boon in terms of bringing scale to clean power.
4) Getting rid of Big Oil will reduce international hostilities, political corruption, lung disease, and a host of other societal woes.
As suggested in the cartoon here, humankind is currently losing the battle to keep the Earth a healthy place to live. This is largely driven by the United States, the world’s largest economy, and our refusal to reduce carbon emissions.
If change can be brought about, it will come from masses of Americans who see through the disinformation and demand it.
Liz Cheyney is 100% correct in what she told her party here. Trump will be gone, and soon. He’ll lose the election, then face criminal conviction on dozens of different felony counts.
And what of his supporters in Congress? Like the worms they are, many will try to pretend none of this every happened.
Most people would like to believe that Pat Toomey’s announcement, is, in fact, a big break in the campaign. But let’s look at it squarely for what it is: a statement that may affect the thinking of a few voters who are still uncommitted.
Imagine you’re a Trump supporter somewhere in Central Pennsylvania, and a former senator tells you that he won’t elect a convicted felon, or a misogynist, or a …. whatever. The reaction of most of these folks, is going to be, “Well, that’s because he’s a lily-livered woke socialist.”
I hope I’m wrong here.
A reader who believes that hydrogen fuel cell-based vehicles represent our future asked me to explain why I disagree.
The question posed here is one that many of us have asked ourselves frequently throughout our lives.
My belief: The best response probably isn’t a present-day world-leader, even the president of one of the most enlightened countries on Earth, and thus it’s not a “household name.”
Most of us have our own personal mentors: people who arrived in our lives accidentally, who have impressed us beyond words, and changed our lives forever. These are the people we would have represent humankind if such a situation arose.
Let me see if I get this.
You go to a grocery store and buy something, e.g., sausage that, from the moment it was processed out of pigs’ ankles and intestines, has been wrapped in traditional plastic made from petroleum.
You take it home, remove and discard the packaging in which it came, and place it into bags made from a new kind of plastic harvest and processed from plants.
And you think you’re promoting a lifestyle that’s healthier for your family and planet?
