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Dis Coarse Discourse 0
When you got nothing, well, I guess, all that is left for you to do is make something out of nothing.
Snakes on a Campaign 0
Charles M. Blow make the case that Donald Trump has a way with the reptilian amongst us. Here’s how his article opens:
One wouldn’t be wrong to think that this results in a treacherous environment. But Trump prefers this sort of snake pit because he understands snakes.
Follow the link for his arguments.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exercises his responsibility.
Police say 51-year-old Francisco Griffin opened fire on the block while arguing with a woman.
Video obtained by Action News shows a woman walking to her car and then a gunshot being fired.
The stray bullet traveled across the street to a second-floor window and struck 67-year-old Deborah Strang in her bed (she was fortunately only slightly injured–ed.).
Too many guns. Too much stupid.
The Bully’s Puppets 0
Robert Reich looks at how the rich and powerful use misdirection plays to get even more rich and powerful and expresses hope that persons are finally catching on. An excerpt; follow the link for the rest.
The bullied are still there; Trump is still exploiting their anger.
For nearly a decade, Trump has channeled that anger into racism, nativism and misogyny. He has encouraged his followers to feel powerful by bullying those with even less power: poor Black and Latino people, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, Muslims, families seeking asylum, undocumented workers, pregnant women who can’t afford to travel to a state where abortions are legal.
This bullying game has been played repeatedly in history by self-described strongmen who pretend to be tribunes of the oppressed by scapegoating the truly powerless, but who are actually fronting for the rich and powerful.
In reality, Trump and his lackeys work for the oligarchs — cutting their taxes, rolling back regulations that protect the public but that cost the oligarchs, and dividing the rest of us into warring factions so we don’t look upward to see where most power and wealth have gone.
The good news is that Americans are catching on.
A Trumpled Crypto Con 0
What can I say?
Grifters gotta grift.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” (Updated) 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” chooses to settle a dispute with politeness.
Addendum:
The “responsible gun owner” may be required to accept responsibility.