Brazil’s president claims DiCaprio paid for Amazon fires
Brazil’s president has falsely accused the actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio of bankrolling the deliberate incineration of the Amazon rainforest.
Jair Bolsonaro – a populist nationalist who has vowed to drive environmental NGOs from Brazil – made the claim on Friday, reportedly telling supporters: “This Leonardo DiCaprio’s a cool guy, isn’t he? Giving money for the Amazon to be torched.”
The spurious accusation – for which Brazil’s president offered no proof – came 24 hours after Bolsonaro made a similarly unsubstantiated claim in a Facebook live broadcast.
“Leonardo DiCaprio, dammit, you’re collaborating with the burning of the Amazon,” Bolsonaro declared, accusing the actor of being part of an international “campaign against Brazil”.
Bolsonaro’s unsubstantiated allegations relate to the controversial arrest on Tuesday of four volunteer firefighters whom local police accused – also apparently without evidence – of setting fire to the forest in order to boost fundraising efforts for an international NGO.
The firefighters were released on Thursday amid widespread public outrage at their treatment and questions over the police investigation.
On Thursday Bolsonaro’s politician son Eduardo claimed on Twitter that DiCaprio had donated $300,000 (£230,000) to “the NGO that set fire to the Amazon” and accused the conservation group WWF of paying the NGO about £13,000 for photographs of the burning forest.
. . . .
In August – as huge fires swept through the Amazon region sparking an international crisis – DiCaprio pledged $5m to help protect Brazil’s rainforests.
Friday, November 29, 2019
Too much for me, anyway
I think the fetus is entitled to protection when it resembles a small human being.
An unborn child, in fact.
But I am willing to accept legislation based on the idea it is entitled from conception since that's better than the baby killer position it is never so entitled.
This, however, is a bridge too far.
Ohio bill orders doctors to ‘reimplant ectopic pregnancy’ or face 'abortion murder' charges
Ohio introduces one of the most extreme bills to date for a procedure that does not exist in medical science
That it isn't done doesn't mean it can't be done.
An unborn child, in fact.
But I am willing to accept legislation based on the idea it is entitled from conception since that's better than the baby killer position it is never so entitled.
This, however, is a bridge too far.
Ohio bill orders doctors to ‘reimplant ectopic pregnancy’ or face 'abortion murder' charges
Ohio introduces one of the most extreme bills to date for a procedure that does not exist in medical science
That it isn't done doesn't mean it can't be done.
Thursday, November 28, 2019
He could just give the Taliban in Afghanistan carte blanche
He really believes most of what happens in the region is none of our business and no skin off our nose.
His totally shameless prioritizing of our business relationship with Saudi Arabia over the least interest in the domestic realities of the regime made that pretty clear, eh?
Trump Makes Surprise Afghanistan Visit, Says U.S. And Taliban Peace Talks Restarted
His totally shameless prioritizing of our business relationship with Saudi Arabia over the least interest in the domestic realities of the regime made that pretty clear, eh?
Trump Makes Surprise Afghanistan Visit, Says U.S. And Taliban Peace Talks Restarted
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Why are O and his former team stabbing Joe B in the back?
Or are these reports mischievous Republican bullshit?
Obama Chides Biden over Failure to Connect to Iowa Voters: ‘You Know Who Really Doesn’t Have It? Joe Biden’
Obama Chides Biden over Failure to Connect to Iowa Voters: ‘You Know Who Really Doesn’t Have It? Joe Biden’
Other things more or less equal
10 years without pain can be 10 very good years.
20 years of agony is a diabolical punishment.
Just thinking where the opioïde controversy is going.
20 years of agony is a diabolical punishment.
Just thinking where the opioïde controversy is going.
Nobody has any right to be surprised.
Trump wants to take his war criminal buddies on the campaign trail
His supporters will love this.
And the leadership of the Republican Party has already implicitly sign on.
Recall that they were the torture party when Dick Cheney - er, GW Bush - was president.
Trump did not start that.
Cheney went there right away, and a lot of the country, and especially the GOP, went there with him.
Trump last week pardoned both Lorance and Golsteyn.
Lorance was serving a 19-year prison sentence for firing on unarmed civilians in Afghanistan, killing two; Golsteyn was charged last year with killing an Afghan bomb maker and burying the remains.
Conservatives have rallied around the pair, suggesting they were unfairly punished for decisions made in the heat of battle, while critics, including some military members and veterans, have suggested the pardons are a slap in the face to those who have served honorably and give soldiers carte blanche to commit heinous acts.
In perhaps his most contentious intervention in recent days, Trump ousted Navy Secretary Richard Spencer to protect Gallagher, who appeared poised to lose his Trident pin following his conviction this year of posing for a photograph with the corpse of an ISIS detainee he allegedly killed.
He’d been acquitted of more serious offenses, including murder, but was still facing repercussions in the SEALs.
His supporters will love this.
And the leadership of the Republican Party has already implicitly sign on.
Recall that they were the torture party when Dick Cheney - er, GW Bush - was president.
Trump did not start that.
Cheney went there right away, and a lot of the country, and especially the GOP, went there with him.
Trump last week pardoned both Lorance and Golsteyn.
Lorance was serving a 19-year prison sentence for firing on unarmed civilians in Afghanistan, killing two; Golsteyn was charged last year with killing an Afghan bomb maker and burying the remains.
Conservatives have rallied around the pair, suggesting they were unfairly punished for decisions made in the heat of battle, while critics, including some military members and veterans, have suggested the pardons are a slap in the face to those who have served honorably and give soldiers carte blanche to commit heinous acts.
In perhaps his most contentious intervention in recent days, Trump ousted Navy Secretary Richard Spencer to protect Gallagher, who appeared poised to lose his Trident pin following his conviction this year of posing for a photograph with the corpse of an ISIS detainee he allegedly killed.
He’d been acquitted of more serious offenses, including murder, but was still facing repercussions in the SEALs.
Monday, November 25, 2019
The thug in the White House
We have known since the 2016 campaign he approves of the third degree, police brutality, torture, and war crimes like murdering the families of terrorists.
His voters like him because they share those attitudes.
Trump issued direct order to halt disciplining of Navy Seal Edward Gallagher
Hitler's Nazis had a mass following. The Italian Fascists were a mass party.
Brutality was part of their appeal, and is still essential to the appeal of modern authoritarians and so-called "populists" in America, Europe, and around the world.
Lindsey Graham and others of the fucking bastard party are now talking about the need to cut, if not to outright privatize, Social Security and to cut Medicare benefits so money gathered by the relevant dedicated taxes can be diverted to deal with the shortfall in general tax revenues created by the Republican wet dream tax cuts so long wanted by the plutes and so well fronted by that pal of the common man, the forgotten man, Bozo the Liar, the Mini-Mussolini in the White House.
Plutes gonna plute.
An entire party whose central task is to fuck over everybody who isn't really, really rich, on behalf of those who are.
And they are delighted to find a front as effective as Trump.
They are like German and Italian plutes and capitalist sympathizers between the wars happy to find so effective a bulwark against the dreaded socialists and communists.
Warren and Sanders are, on this matter of excessive individual wealth, right, just as both Roosevelts were.
And I could live with a cap on individual private wealth.
Might be a good idea, like trust busting.
Too much individual wealth is also too much market power as well as too much political power.
And that's why Obamacare for all is better than Medicare for all.
Not a good idea for just one insurer to be effectively the only customer of all medical providers in the country, and that one under the direct, immediate, and constant control of bourgeois politicians of only weak, unreliable, minority, and limited loyalty to the masses.
Still, he's wrong to urge actual socialism as better than capitalism and she's right to urge what's needed is capitalism run by progressives for the social good.
All the same, a lot more Americans need to learn that Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, and libertarian ideology are just bullshit really handy for the plutes.
They need to stop thinking, in effect, that the rich have every right to screw them to the wall.
Marx was certainly right that the moral and political convictions of the many are to far too great an extent a duperie, a false consciousness, an ideological smokescreen that makes the 90% - or more like 99.99% - their own class enemies.
But this is not.
There is no reason for the 90% to accept any version of capitalism that doesn't work as well as possible for them.
Even such a capitalism will work just swell for the remaining 10%, don't you worry about that.
Not as much as they want, but then there is no limit to what they want.
It goes way, way beyond anything remotely like rational self-interest, except on the most ludicrous construals of what is or might be rational.
Homo homini lupus, not because of need, but because of human nature.
The idea that there is no human nature, that "socialist man" is a social creature so much superior to "capitalist man", is part of the bullshit the left, unwilling to face the horrid truth, have sold themselves.
That it's all nurture, the stuff that matters, and none of it nature.
His voters like him because they share those attitudes.
Trump issued direct order to halt disciplining of Navy Seal Edward Gallagher
Hitler's Nazis had a mass following. The Italian Fascists were a mass party.
Brutality was part of their appeal, and is still essential to the appeal of modern authoritarians and so-called "populists" in America, Europe, and around the world.
Lindsey Graham and others of the fucking bastard party are now talking about the need to cut, if not to outright privatize, Social Security and to cut Medicare benefits so money gathered by the relevant dedicated taxes can be diverted to deal with the shortfall in general tax revenues created by the Republican wet dream tax cuts so long wanted by the plutes and so well fronted by that pal of the common man, the forgotten man, Bozo the Liar, the Mini-Mussolini in the White House.
Plutes gonna plute.
An entire party whose central task is to fuck over everybody who isn't really, really rich, on behalf of those who are.
And they are delighted to find a front as effective as Trump.
They are like German and Italian plutes and capitalist sympathizers between the wars happy to find so effective a bulwark against the dreaded socialists and communists.
Warren and Sanders are, on this matter of excessive individual wealth, right, just as both Roosevelts were.
And I could live with a cap on individual private wealth.
Might be a good idea, like trust busting.
Too much individual wealth is also too much market power as well as too much political power.
And that's why Obamacare for all is better than Medicare for all.
Not a good idea for just one insurer to be effectively the only customer of all medical providers in the country, and that one under the direct, immediate, and constant control of bourgeois politicians of only weak, unreliable, minority, and limited loyalty to the masses.
Still, he's wrong to urge actual socialism as better than capitalism and she's right to urge what's needed is capitalism run by progressives for the social good.
All the same, a lot more Americans need to learn that Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, and libertarian ideology are just bullshit really handy for the plutes.
They need to stop thinking, in effect, that the rich have every right to screw them to the wall.
Marx was certainly right that the moral and political convictions of the many are to far too great an extent a duperie, a false consciousness, an ideological smokescreen that makes the 90% - or more like 99.99% - their own class enemies.
But this is not.
There is no reason for the 90% to accept any version of capitalism that doesn't work as well as possible for them.
Even such a capitalism will work just swell for the remaining 10%, don't you worry about that.
Not as much as they want, but then there is no limit to what they want.
It goes way, way beyond anything remotely like rational self-interest, except on the most ludicrous construals of what is or might be rational.
Homo homini lupus, not because of need, but because of human nature.
The idea that there is no human nature, that "socialist man" is a social creature so much superior to "capitalist man", is part of the bullshit the left, unwilling to face the horrid truth, have sold themselves.
That it's all nurture, the stuff that matters, and none of it nature.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The most criminal White House gang since Nixon
And the most revolting president in living memory.
A devoted and devout Trumpist in six hours of testimony says they were all in on it, Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Giuliani, Mulvaney, and numerous others.
Gordon Sondland Directly Implicates Trump, Top Aides In Ukraine Shakedown
And the Republican Party is still committed to responding by screaming nothing but the most utter horseshit.
Baseless accusations, tawdry conspiracy theories, projections, absurd and irrelevant demands, character assassination, vicious denigration, and evil screams.
Sort of a Kavanaugh defense.
The entire party is a national disgrace.
Fucking banana republic, eh?
PS.
This is the Republican White House, today.
A devoted and devout Trumpist in six hours of testimony says they were all in on it, Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Giuliani, Mulvaney, and numerous others.
Gordon Sondland Directly Implicates Trump, Top Aides In Ukraine Shakedown
And the Republican Party is still committed to responding by screaming nothing but the most utter horseshit.
Baseless accusations, tawdry conspiracy theories, projections, absurd and irrelevant demands, character assassination, vicious denigration, and evil screams.
Sort of a Kavanaugh defense.
The entire party is a national disgrace.
Fucking banana republic, eh?
PS.
This is the Republican White House, today.
Monday, November 18, 2019
Trump clears the path for Likud and Greater Israel
Pompeo announces reversal of longstanding US policy on Israeli settlements
From the egregiously unstable moron in the White House.
Repugnant, repulsive, disgraceful filth, that man in the White House.
He is scum, a thug, a tool of Putin, a traitor to his country, and he belongs in jail.
He will never see the inside of a cell, but he belongs in prison for the rest of his sorry life.
He makes me much more ashamed of America than even Reagan or Nixon.
I would like to be able to vomit him up and out of the White House.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced a major reversal of the US' longstanding policy on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, rejecting a 1978 State Department legal opinion that deemed the settlements "inconsistent with international law."
The announcement, which breaks with international law and consensus, is the latest in a string of hardline, pro-Israeli moves that are likely to inflame tensions between the Trump administration and Palestinians and widen the divide between the Trump administration and traditional US allies in Europe.
From the egregiously unstable moron in the White House.
Repugnant, repulsive, disgraceful filth, that man in the White House.
He is scum, a thug, a tool of Putin, a traitor to his country, and he belongs in jail.
He will never see the inside of a cell, but he belongs in prison for the rest of his sorry life.
He makes me much more ashamed of America than even Reagan or Nixon.
I would like to be able to vomit him up and out of the White House.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced a major reversal of the US' longstanding policy on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, rejecting a 1978 State Department legal opinion that deemed the settlements "inconsistent with international law."
The announcement, which breaks with international law and consensus, is the latest in a string of hardline, pro-Israeli moves that are likely to inflame tensions between the Trump administration and Palestinians and widen the divide between the Trump administration and traditional US allies in Europe.
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
The Nigger of the Narcissus
From the very beginning you wonder what the heck Conrad is doing or saying about race.
Finally, in Chapter 4, Jimmy Wait and Donkin are there to make more or less Nietzschean political points which do not as such reflect well on Conrad's contemporary acceptability, though it might be too harsh, reading him quite that way, and the storm is there to make the metaphysical points that maybe do and maybe don't.
One hell of a story eh?
And lovely English prose.
Finally, in Chapter 4, Jimmy Wait and Donkin are there to make more or less Nietzschean political points which do not as such reflect well on Conrad's contemporary acceptability, though it might be too harsh, reading him quite that way, and the storm is there to make the metaphysical points that maybe do and maybe don't.
One hell of a story eh?
And lovely English prose.
Inconvenient Truths
Fox News Legal Analyst Makes The Case For Trump's Impeachment
Judge Andrew Napolitano wound up and let fly on Monday on Fox News' companion site, Fox Nation.
Judge Andrew Napolitano wound up and let fly on Monday on Fox News' companion site, Fox Nation.
Russian interference?
Not a bad guess.
Russia strongly favors Brexit and anything that undermines institutions of Western supra-national unity.
Hackers hit UK Labour Party with back-to-back cyberattacks
Russia strongly favors Brexit and anything that undermines institutions of Western supra-national unity.
Hackers hit UK Labour Party with back-to-back cyberattacks
Who is silencing the right?
The further and more aggressive right.
Donald Trump Jr walks out of Triggered book launch after heckling – from supporters
Donald Trump Jr ventured on to the University of California’s overwhelmingly liberal Los Angeles campus on Sunday, hoping to prove what he had just argued in his book – that a hate-filled American left was hell-bent on silencing him and anyone else who supported the Trump presidency.
But the appearance backfired when his own supporters, diehard Make America Great Again conservatives, raised their voices most loudly in protest and ended up drowning him out barely 20 minutes into an event scheduled to last two hours.
Who's triggered now? Seven times Donald Trump Jr out-snowflaked the left
Donald Trump Jr walks out of Triggered book launch after heckling – from supporters
Donald Trump Jr ventured on to the University of California’s overwhelmingly liberal Los Angeles campus on Sunday, hoping to prove what he had just argued in his book – that a hate-filled American left was hell-bent on silencing him and anyone else who supported the Trump presidency.
But the appearance backfired when his own supporters, diehard Make America Great Again conservatives, raised their voices most loudly in protest and ended up drowning him out barely 20 minutes into an event scheduled to last two hours.
Who's triggered now? Seven times Donald Trump Jr out-snowflaked the left
He is just who you thought he was
And Trump relies on nobody as he relies on this guy regarding the entire issue of immigration and the Mexican border.
Trump adviser Stephen Miller injected white nationalist agenda into Breitbart, investigation reveals
Senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller shaped the 2016 election coverage of the hard right-wing website Breitbart with material drawn from prominent white nationalists, Islamophobes, and far-right websites, according to a new investigative report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Miller also railed against those wishing to remove Confederate monuments and flags from public display in the wake of Dylann Roof’s murderous 2015 attack on a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and praised America’s early 20th-century race-based, restrictionist immigration policies.
Emails from Miller to a former Breitbart writer, sent before and after he joined the Trump campaign, show Miller obsessively focused on injecting white nationalist-style talking points on race and crime, Confederate monuments, and Islam into the far-right website’s campaign coverage, the SPLC report says.
Trump adviser Stephen Miller injected white nationalist agenda into Breitbart, investigation reveals
Senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller shaped the 2016 election coverage of the hard right-wing website Breitbart with material drawn from prominent white nationalists, Islamophobes, and far-right websites, according to a new investigative report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Miller also railed against those wishing to remove Confederate monuments and flags from public display in the wake of Dylann Roof’s murderous 2015 attack on a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and praised America’s early 20th-century race-based, restrictionist immigration policies.
Emails from Miller to a former Breitbart writer, sent before and after he joined the Trump campaign, show Miller obsessively focused on injecting white nationalist-style talking points on race and crime, Confederate monuments, and Islam into the far-right website’s campaign coverage, the SPLC report says.
When the only defense of the constitutionality of X is that people have relied on it, well . . . .
Anyway, that was all one of the attorneys arguing Trump cannot kill the program had to say in response to Trump's reliance on the often expressed view not only of Republicans that the Obama era program is egregiously unconstitutional.
Daca case draws crowds to Supreme Court as justices consider program
Supreme court to rule on whether Trump can end Daca
Can't see the court buying that as a compelling argument.
It's full of conservative judges who are on record thinking Roe was wrong and should be overturned.
Daca case draws crowds to Supreme Court as justices consider program
Supreme court to rule on whether Trump can end Daca
Can't see the court buying that as a compelling argument.
It's full of conservative judges who are on record thinking Roe was wrong and should be overturned.
And that's it for her credibility
Nikki Haley plants a really juicy kiss on his royal ass.
Nikki Haley insists Donald Trump is 'truthful' as she returns to spotlight
Strip her claims of pro-Trump, sycophantic spin and you get core that sounds believable.
On Monday night Rex Tillerson, Trump’s first secretary of state, hit back at Haley’s claim in the book that he worked to undermine aspects of Trump’s agenda in an effort to “save the country”.
“During my service to our country as the secretary of state, at no time did I, nor to my direct knowledge did anyone else serving along with me, take any actions to undermine the president,” Tillerson said in a statement.
“Once the president made a decision, we at the state department undertook our best efforts to implement that decision.”
Tillerson was responding to Haley’s claim that he and the former White House chief of staff John Kelly invited her to join their attempts to subvert the president on several contentious issues, including pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord, and moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
The latest major Trump resignations and firings
In his statement, Tillerson said Haley “was rarely a participant in my many meetings and is not in a position to know what I may or may not have said to the president”.
In her book, Haley claims the two advisers “confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country”.
Nikki Haley insists Donald Trump is 'truthful' as she returns to spotlight
Strip her claims of pro-Trump, sycophantic spin and you get core that sounds believable.
On Monday night Rex Tillerson, Trump’s first secretary of state, hit back at Haley’s claim in the book that he worked to undermine aspects of Trump’s agenda in an effort to “save the country”.
“During my service to our country as the secretary of state, at no time did I, nor to my direct knowledge did anyone else serving along with me, take any actions to undermine the president,” Tillerson said in a statement.
“Once the president made a decision, we at the state department undertook our best efforts to implement that decision.”
Tillerson was responding to Haley’s claim that he and the former White House chief of staff John Kelly invited her to join their attempts to subvert the president on several contentious issues, including pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord, and moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
The latest major Trump resignations and firings
In his statement, Tillerson said Haley “was rarely a participant in my many meetings and is not in a position to know what I may or may not have said to the president”.
In her book, Haley claims the two advisers “confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country”.
If you want actual news, and world news at that, go to BBC
Not Fox, not CNN, and not MSNBC.
Satellite radio (BBC World Service) or cable TV (BBC World News).
The three big American cable channels are 24/7 nothing but Trump and the political war in America.
Gets a bit old, that.
Satellite radio (BBC World Service) or cable TV (BBC World News).
The three big American cable channels are 24/7 nothing but Trump and the political war in America.
Gets a bit old, that.
Bolton hypothsizes
Reportedly, in a private meeting with Republican bigwigs, Bolton told them he believes Trump gave Syria and the Kurds to Erdogan for personal or business reasons having to do with him or with Turkey.
This ignores that he gave Syria and the Kurds to the Russians.
Bolton told the gathering of Morgan Stanley’s largest hedge fund clients that he was most frustrated with Trump over his handling of Turkey, people who were present said.
Noting the broad bipartisan support in Congress to sanction Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan purchased a Russian missile defense system, Bolton said Trump’s resistance to the move was unreasonable, four people present for his speech said.
Bolton said he believes there is a personal or business relationship dictating Trump’s position on Turkey because none of his advisers are aligned with him on the issue, the people present said.
This ignores that he gave Syria and the Kurds to the Russians.
Bolton told the gathering of Morgan Stanley’s largest hedge fund clients that he was most frustrated with Trump over his handling of Turkey, people who were present said.
Noting the broad bipartisan support in Congress to sanction Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan purchased a Russian missile defense system, Bolton said Trump’s resistance to the move was unreasonable, four people present for his speech said.
Bolton said he believes there is a personal or business relationship dictating Trump’s position on Turkey because none of his advisers are aligned with him on the issue, the people present said.
The rot now runs all the way down
Rank partisan solidarity is all Trump’s defenders have left
Probably taking a bribe, not offering one and not soliciting one, is the example cited in the constitution of what would count as a high crime or misdemeanor.
But never mind.
He was subordinating US foreign policy and congressionally authorized spending to his personal interest as a politician campaigning for reelection, holding congressionally authorized defense money for Ukraine for ransom, that being a very specific quid pro quo, that being the president of Ukraine publicly and with great fanfare launching an investigation, not at all called for by any known facts, into corruption on the parts of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
And pretty much the entire body of Republicans in the US legislature is committed to defending that, and to defending him at every step of the way, with no matter what disgusting and low methods, of the impeachment process launched by Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Probably taking a bribe, not offering one and not soliciting one, is the example cited in the constitution of what would count as a high crime or misdemeanor.
But never mind.
He was subordinating US foreign policy and congressionally authorized spending to his personal interest as a politician campaigning for reelection, holding congressionally authorized defense money for Ukraine for ransom, that being a very specific quid pro quo, that being the president of Ukraine publicly and with great fanfare launching an investigation, not at all called for by any known facts, into corruption on the parts of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
And pretty much the entire body of Republicans in the US legislature is committed to defending that, and to defending him at every step of the way, with no matter what disgusting and low methods, of the impeachment process launched by Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
When cartels are as dangerous as rebel guerillas they are no longer a police problem
Time for somebody in Mexico willing to do what was done in Peru against the Shining Path by Fujimori.
Civil war is not a law enforcement problem.
Civil war is not a law enforcement problem.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
I can't really see that having sex with an intern is an impeachable offense, though it was way worse than merely tacky.
But Trump's entire term has been an uninterrupted string of impeachable offenses, and the Republicans will give him a pass on all of them.
That is how far their republicanism and devotion to the constitution and the historic American republic are all fake news.
But Trump's entire term has been an uninterrupted string of impeachable offenses, and the Republicans will give him a pass on all of them.
That is how far their republicanism and devotion to the constitution and the historic American republic are all fake news.
Eyes Wide Open
Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
Denial is a coverup.
The party of denial is the party of triumphant selfishness on a sociopathic scale.
The very thing that makes democratic socialism utterly impossible and social democracy a heck of a push.
Denial is a coverup for that selfishness.
"Untold suffering?
"Yeah, but not mine.
"Not my problem, compadre."
Denial is a coverup.
The party of denial is the party of triumphant selfishness on a sociopathic scale.
The very thing that makes democratic socialism utterly impossible and social democracy a heck of a push.
Denial is a coverup for that selfishness.
"Untold suffering?
"Yeah, but not mine.
"Not my problem, compadre."
Friday, November 1, 2019
Why it's maybe NOT such a great idea
It sounds great, single payor socialized health insurance, Medicare for All, right up until you realize the very same Democrats who want this are already planning to starve the healthcare industry for funds beginning on the very first day.
If you want the country to have the best medical care, and if you want medical care to continue to progress and do ever more and better things for our health, then you DON'T want cheapo health care.
You want to be reality based? Then suck on that reality.
Top Democrats criticize Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All plan
If you want the country to have the best medical care, and if you want medical care to continue to progress and do ever more and better things for our health, then you DON'T want cheapo health care.
You want to be reality based? Then suck on that reality.
Top Democrats criticize Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All plan
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