Your illustration just about says it all. If I were a conservative, religiously observant Muslim I'd pull my hijab over my eyes every time the news comes on. Of course, that would make it more difficult to put my fingers in my ears, so...There are times when all of this seems to amount to a true apocalypse. At times I can just about hear the Four Horsemen galloping toward us at breakneck speed. But too many of us have ignored and continued to ignore the sound. Why? There are a lot of reasons why, but the most potent one might well be that it's an "inconvenient truth" as Al Gore warned us about the reality of climate change. Time to wake up and face the music, painful as that now evidently is.
Think I will make a new sign that says MILITARY LIVES MATTER. We know that the outrageous budget proposal doesn't include anything that will improve life for the troops. Hell, Hegseth can't even manage to keep them fed or do proper rotations.
When I was demonstrating recently, the sign that people liked the most simply says HE'S A PSYCHO! See you in the streets.
Not to mention that he's kept the carriers out for so long that they'll likely need a year of shipyard work to be made mission capable again. Witness the USS Gerald Ford as the first example.
As a retired Navy Captain who spent half his career working for the Navy Chief of Operations and the JCS, it is crystal clear that the DOD budget overruns are due to Hegseth firing all the generals and admirals who were both experienced and competent (likely to reduce criticism and refusal to obey stupid and illegal orders like invading Iran). Hegseth's leaders are like Trump's cabinet: incompetent sycophants. No competent admiral would have left an aircraft carrier deployed for over 250 days at sea. A nincompoop Defense Secretary would. Keep in mind, Hegseth's National Guard career was terminated for loss of confidence and revocation of his security clearances as a mid-level reserve Major. Then Trump promoted him to be the boss of all the generals and admirals, which triggered a bunch of early retirements across rank levels servicewide even before the firings started.
In my mind, this is sabotage if not treason. Putin and Xi must be dancing. Keep in mind that Congress did nothing to remove Hegseth much less stop the demented Iran invasion, to protect America from being nuked by bombs that did not exist, delivered by missiles that lacked 6000 mile range.
I agree with your comments. It is like watching a train wreck (or battle ship collision) in slow motion. And none of this was necessary and all of it was avoidable.
An organization takes on the characteristics of the person leading it, which accounts for the way the navy is spending money like a drunken sailor. Similarly, for the sake of precious oil and the profits to be derived therefrom, we have to endure climatological chaos and a diminishing quality of life. If only we could have leadership that wasn't so eager to trade away all our tomorrows for another hour of today. This is the practice of virulent stupidity.
This isn’t governing. It’s a yard sale conducted by burglars who are still inside the house. They’re emptying the family wallet, the Navy payroll, public health, voting rights, and national parks, then calling the missing furniture freedom. The spiritual sickness beneath it is simple: nothing is sacred once everything has a price. At this rate, Yosemite will soon require Trump Gold membership, and the sequoias replaced by condos named Executive Immunity.
Just to clarify one point, Trump doesn't want magnetic launch catapults on aircraft carriers because a sailor told him they didn't work as well as the old steam driven ones. And that was enough for him. As he sort of says at the beginning of this video, he knows a lot about ship building. Then he babbles about how he doesn't know if magnets work under water (a 1-minute experiment in a grade school science class would answer that: they do). He apparently confuses magnetism with electricity. What is interesting is the people at this rally who, when he asked them which is better, were obviously told to answer "steam". They appear to be soldiers with no naval background.
Capitalism has failed completely. As a result of capitalism we are on the verge of destructive global warming. There are now at least 8.8 billion people on the planet. The Earth’s human population quadrupled in 79 yrs. Ten nations have nuclear weapons. This puts all life on Earth and human civilization at major risk of elimination.
Greed is considered a positive characteristic by many wealthy citizens who want even more (see the movie Wall Street). There are more multibillionaires than ever before. The U.S. has the most ultra-wealthy people of any country. World billionaires are richer and more numerous than ever. According to NPR and Forbes Global Media there were 140 billionaires in the World in 1987. Today there are 3028 of them.
These super-rich are sick with greed. They should be in institutions to deal with their psychological sickness. They shouldn’t be running countries and businesses. They may kill us all if they aren’t stopped. They have already done serious damage to the infrastructure of the United States.
The ultra-rich finance both sides in any war. War is very profitable for them. Corporations including General Motors, Ford and Standard Oil supplied resources to Nazi Germany during WWII. These facts are contained in the book “Trading With The Enemy” by John Higham. Another source is the documentary “JFK to 911 Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick” at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYh7OVqXUN_GZ8K8IF5VWdYCkvy7fGYt.
Meanwhile, many people in the U.S. are homeless and cannot afford medical care or higher education. According to the National Literacy Institute, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. were illiterate in 2024. Fifty four percent of adults have literacy below a 6th-grade level. Twenty percent are literate below the 5th-grade level. Readers can learn even more at https://www.nu.edu/blog/49-adult-literacy-statistics-and-facts/. A 2020 Gallup study found that the U.S. economy could be losing up to $2.2 trillion annually due to low adult literacy rates.
The U.S Government has not supported education nearly enough. A very important subject not taught in my high school was logic. That should be a required subject to graduate from high school. Logic teaches students to analyze and evaluate speeches, videos or writing by anyone with a commercial, political, religious or another agenda.
These skills are rare in the United States. That is why Trump and his MAGA supporters were able to use his lies and get him elected by many poorly educated citizens.
Another problem is that the “mainstream, ” corporate media does not give citizens any important news that may criticize corporations and their major shareholders. Possibly democratic socialism is the way to go.
Logic should definitely be taught in public schools, starting in sixth grade and continuing through middle and high school, and should be included in English literature and government classes. Individual teachers already teach this way, and it should be encouraged. It doesn't have to be a separate course, but it could be.
It’s not just POSOTUS. Repugnicans across the board are doing everything in their power to support POSOTUS and destroy America at every turn, and some of them know it. Understanding their motivations is secondary to thwarting their efforts. If the fascists allow us to retake the House they must be crushed. That means Democratic “leadership” will have to show some unaccustomed energy, courage, and conviction, of which we’re seeing precious little at the moment. They can start by turning their attention from repeating reichwing lies about Hasan Piker and focusing on the actual, fascist enemy.
The Tedious Game Of Democracy: The Fascist Republican Solution
Fascist Republicans as a group want Cheeto's dictatorial way of governance because it's the way an immoral racist minority can control the majority of the American people. And Cheeto likes it because he's a lazy demented malignant narcissist who doesn't really believe in negotiating a deal, but rather telling someone what to do. For Cheeto democracy is too tiresome and labor intensive, better just to demand his way or the highway and move on to another "issue to solve".
Since Reagan the fascists have gradually been working to consolidate a majority coalition that is built so that a minority of wealthy class of oligarchs, plutocracy if you will, can be in control of the country.
But there is a WE the People movement that is pushing back this power takeover and resistant to the racist immoral greedy wealthy class's power grab. Join the WE the People movement with Indivisible or start your own Indivisible chapter to consolidate your voice with the many who want our government back and determined to put down this oligarchic fascist insurrection.
The population that dies disproportionately dies from viruses, and contaminated food is on Social Security. What is one way to reduce the national debt without taxing the wealthy?
Dr. Oz understands the national economic benefits of Social Security recipients not living to their genetically predisposed lifespans, even if RFK Jr. doesn't.
Your illustration just about says it all. If I were a conservative, religiously observant Muslim I'd pull my hijab over my eyes every time the news comes on. Of course, that would make it more difficult to put my fingers in my ears, so...There are times when all of this seems to amount to a true apocalypse. At times I can just about hear the Four Horsemen galloping toward us at breakneck speed. But too many of us have ignored and continued to ignore the sound. Why? There are a lot of reasons why, but the most potent one might well be that it's an "inconvenient truth" as Al Gore warned us about the reality of climate change. Time to wake up and face the music, painful as that now evidently is.
Think I will make a new sign that says MILITARY LIVES MATTER. We know that the outrageous budget proposal doesn't include anything that will improve life for the troops. Hell, Hegseth can't even manage to keep them fed or do proper rotations.
When I was demonstrating recently, the sign that people liked the most simply says HE'S A PSYCHO! See you in the streets.
Not to mention that he's kept the carriers out for so long that they'll likely need a year of shipyard work to be made mission capable again. Witness the USS Gerald Ford as the first example.
As a retired Navy Captain who spent half his career working for the Navy Chief of Operations and the JCS, it is crystal clear that the DOD budget overruns are due to Hegseth firing all the generals and admirals who were both experienced and competent (likely to reduce criticism and refusal to obey stupid and illegal orders like invading Iran). Hegseth's leaders are like Trump's cabinet: incompetent sycophants. No competent admiral would have left an aircraft carrier deployed for over 250 days at sea. A nincompoop Defense Secretary would. Keep in mind, Hegseth's National Guard career was terminated for loss of confidence and revocation of his security clearances as a mid-level reserve Major. Then Trump promoted him to be the boss of all the generals and admirals, which triggered a bunch of early retirements across rank levels servicewide even before the firings started.
In my mind, this is sabotage if not treason. Putin and Xi must be dancing. Keep in mind that Congress did nothing to remove Hegseth much less stop the demented Iran invasion, to protect America from being nuked by bombs that did not exist, delivered by missiles that lacked 6000 mile range.
I agree with your comments. It is like watching a train wreck (or battle ship collision) in slow motion. And none of this was necessary and all of it was avoidable.
An organization takes on the characteristics of the person leading it, which accounts for the way the navy is spending money like a drunken sailor. Similarly, for the sake of precious oil and the profits to be derived therefrom, we have to endure climatological chaos and a diminishing quality of life. If only we could have leadership that wasn't so eager to trade away all our tomorrows for another hour of today. This is the practice of virulent stupidity.
This isn’t governing. It’s a yard sale conducted by burglars who are still inside the house. They’re emptying the family wallet, the Navy payroll, public health, voting rights, and national parks, then calling the missing furniture freedom. The spiritual sickness beneath it is simple: nothing is sacred once everything has a price. At this rate, Yosemite will soon require Trump Gold membership, and the sequoias replaced by condos named Executive Immunity.
Just to clarify one point, Trump doesn't want magnetic launch catapults on aircraft carriers because a sailor told him they didn't work as well as the old steam driven ones. And that was enough for him. As he sort of says at the beginning of this video, he knows a lot about ship building. Then he babbles about how he doesn't know if magnets work under water (a 1-minute experiment in a grade school science class would answer that: they do). He apparently confuses magnetism with electricity. What is interesting is the people at this rally who, when he asked them which is better, were obviously told to answer "steam". They appear to be soldiers with no naval background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvU7FpgDD5A
Capitalism has failed completely. As a result of capitalism we are on the verge of destructive global warming. There are now at least 8.8 billion people on the planet. The Earth’s human population quadrupled in 79 yrs. Ten nations have nuclear weapons. This puts all life on Earth and human civilization at major risk of elimination.
Greed is considered a positive characteristic by many wealthy citizens who want even more (see the movie Wall Street). There are more multibillionaires than ever before. The U.S. has the most ultra-wealthy people of any country. World billionaires are richer and more numerous than ever. According to NPR and Forbes Global Media there were 140 billionaires in the World in 1987. Today there are 3028 of them.
These super-rich are sick with greed. They should be in institutions to deal with their psychological sickness. They shouldn’t be running countries and businesses. They may kill us all if they aren’t stopped. They have already done serious damage to the infrastructure of the United States.
The ultra-rich finance both sides in any war. War is very profitable for them. Corporations including General Motors, Ford and Standard Oil supplied resources to Nazi Germany during WWII. These facts are contained in the book “Trading With The Enemy” by John Higham. Another source is the documentary “JFK to 911 Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick” at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYh7OVqXUN_GZ8K8IF5VWdYCkvy7fGYt.
Meanwhile, many people in the U.S. are homeless and cannot afford medical care or higher education. According to the National Literacy Institute, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. were illiterate in 2024. Fifty four percent of adults have literacy below a 6th-grade level. Twenty percent are literate below the 5th-grade level. Readers can learn even more at https://www.nu.edu/blog/49-adult-literacy-statistics-and-facts/. A 2020 Gallup study found that the U.S. economy could be losing up to $2.2 trillion annually due to low adult literacy rates.
The U.S Government has not supported education nearly enough. A very important subject not taught in my high school was logic. That should be a required subject to graduate from high school. Logic teaches students to analyze and evaluate speeches, videos or writing by anyone with a commercial, political, religious or another agenda.
These skills are rare in the United States. That is why Trump and his MAGA supporters were able to use his lies and get him elected by many poorly educated citizens.
Another problem is that the “mainstream, ” corporate media does not give citizens any important news that may criticize corporations and their major shareholders. Possibly democratic socialism is the way to go.
Logic should definitely be taught in public schools, starting in sixth grade and continuing through middle and high school, and should be included in English literature and government classes. Individual teachers already teach this way, and it should be encouraged. It doesn't have to be a separate course, but it could be.
It’s not just POSOTUS. Repugnicans across the board are doing everything in their power to support POSOTUS and destroy America at every turn, and some of them know it. Understanding their motivations is secondary to thwarting their efforts. If the fascists allow us to retake the House they must be crushed. That means Democratic “leadership” will have to show some unaccustomed energy, courage, and conviction, of which we’re seeing precious little at the moment. They can start by turning their attention from repeating reichwing lies about Hasan Piker and focusing on the actual, fascist enemy.
The Tedious Game Of Democracy: The Fascist Republican Solution
Fascist Republicans as a group want Cheeto's dictatorial way of governance because it's the way an immoral racist minority can control the majority of the American people. And Cheeto likes it because he's a lazy demented malignant narcissist who doesn't really believe in negotiating a deal, but rather telling someone what to do. For Cheeto democracy is too tiresome and labor intensive, better just to demand his way or the highway and move on to another "issue to solve".
Since Reagan the fascists have gradually been working to consolidate a majority coalition that is built so that a minority of wealthy class of oligarchs, plutocracy if you will, can be in control of the country.
But there is a WE the People movement that is pushing back this power takeover and resistant to the racist immoral greedy wealthy class's power grab. Join the WE the People movement with Indivisible or start your own Indivisible chapter to consolidate your voice with the many who want our government back and determined to put down this oligarchic fascist insurrection.
I see the U.S. has sent a mere half a million dollars to Nepal to help with disaster relief.........
I'm surprised we sent anything with this regime.
The population that dies disproportionately dies from viruses, and contaminated food is on Social Security. What is one way to reduce the national debt without taxing the wealthy?
Dr. Oz understands the national economic benefits of Social Security recipients not living to their genetically predisposed lifespans, even if RFK Jr. doesn't.
November or embers. That is all.
How does the news get WORSE??? Sigh.. So appalling.. ONE of the pressure points is Democracy Docket.. Donate there, I do..