Mammon category archive
Stemming the Red Tide, Reprise
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To figure out why (mostly Republican) elected politicians refuse to take action against the flood of guns and gun violence, the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini follows the money.
It’s a weapon elected officials refuse to ban, because they love the money and the support provided by the gun lobby more than they love innocent civilians.
Or police officers.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott runs the numbers–and calls out the misdirection plays. A snipped snippet:
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For a while, a favorite strategy of the pro-industrial climate-change-denial crowd was to point at every cold snap as if it was incontrovertible proof of the “global-warming hoax,” as they called it. This is as idiotic as, say, showing footage of people milling around peacefully during lulls in the violence of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and citing it as proof that there was no riot. Yet they got away with that skewed logic for a long time.
I fear for my grandchildren.
Responsible Fiscals 0
A quote from Sam:
Stupid or evil? I’m not convinced it’s mutually exclusive.
Decoding de Code 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Veronika Tait argues that “endorsing the ‘poor but happy’ trope excuses inequality.” A nugget (emphasis added):
Yet research shows that those from low-income households are less happy on average than those from higher-income households.
The Business of America Is Giving America the Business 0
My local rag comments on what happens when you run the government like a business.
The Crypto Con 0
Some of the shills have settled with the SEC.
The Privatization Scam 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini conjugates the con.
The Mythbuster and the Fee Hand of the Market 0
Robert Reich exposes the three myths that the ultra-wealthy use to justify their bazillions. The myths he lists are
- The first is trickle-down economics.
- The second myth is the “free market.”
- The third myth is that they’re superior human beings — rugged individuals who “did it on their own” and therefore deserve their billions.
His detailed debunking of the bunk awaits you at the link.
This New Gilded Age, Little Timmy Gets a Job Dept. 0
Mike and Farron point out that Little Timmy gets to go back to the assembly line, thanks to today’s Republican Party.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
