Wasn't it Goldwater who said that extremism in the defense of democracy, against fascism, is a virtue?
Well, something like that.
Rich white men like calm, and why not, they own it all.

So any police office who carries a taser gets to shoot and kill anyone, and get away with it, at least as far as criminal charges, by yelling "taser" before killing the person?
Sorry, I just am not buying her excuse.

Wealth.
It is the gap between the rich and the poor that is the measure of this culture. And yeah, justice is driving drunk and crashing your car if you are rich, and injustice is driving drunk and crashing your car if you are poor.

Interesting. When I was in the Marines, in the last (Vietnam) century, we were lined up and given shots in both arms. I am pretty sure we were never even told what the hell went in. They used some kind of air drill needle, as I remember.
I just trusted that they knew what they were doing. After Vietnam, I wouldn't blindly trust anyone with a needle. I did just get the Moderna second shot, but I did research that and yeah, for two days I had a 101 temp and a pretty uncomfortable case of the shivers.

Uh, I hate to give free advice to the far right, but as one with a sociology degree, perhaps it might be helpful to point out that outgroup hostility promotes in-group solidarity. The more the far right publicly attacks the African America community, the more it comes together and votes as a block. Thanks to them Trump didn't win again.
The last is perhaps the greatest thing that can be said about racial conflict, it forced the poor and the powerless to vote out the dingbats.
Sociology is the study of people in groups, maybe the far right might think of hiring one once in a century.

Friends of Russia screwing over America? I mean, look at the facts and what was said and done and tell me they didn't.t know they were doing evil...

I would love to see an extended investigation looking to repair the Supreme Court and bring it out of political alliance hell. The law is the law, and jurists need to look to the law, not, as Clarence Thomas obviously does, to the rich and the powerful.
So age limits, make sense, as 50% of us who reach age 85 have cognitive disabilities. It is just a fact of life.
Mandatory retirement after age 70...
Of course, we could abandon all hope and just let things go as they are going, and then the court will be as Congress is, a hotbed of conflict and a place to grease a lot of palms.

Corporations love Texas because of its terrible record regarding workers' union rights. Corporate boardrooms are run for the benefit of the American 1%, and they are as undemocratic as any group in Russia or China.

I don't blame the Judge, for they are are sworn to follow the law, and the law was clear. It is the fault of the politicians and those who support far right Republican Party devotion to gun violence.

A previous Pope wrote that "human rights programs that advocate for women's rights and gay rights are purveyors of evil", and I have no doubt at all that the next Pope will have the same attitudes.
In America, the Constitution makes the establishment of religion illegal, but religions like the Catholic have carved out a special place for themselves in spite of that Amendment.
If a business said that only men could hold power, and that gay folks were evil and so not allowed to full members, that business would be put out of business. Certainly no organization in America could gain tax exempt status and discriminate against women and gay people.

Saber rattling with nuclear weapons...can't imagine what can go wrong. Of course, being an American, I have absolutely no right to complain about the militarization of the seas. I have serious doubts at the survivability of large surface fleet ships in times of war. Hopefully, I won't be alive when that inevitably event happens.
Hugh

Sorry, but the last thing any proponent of the greatness of greed like her would like is to have every American, rich and poor, carry a rifle or pistol as they go about their day. There are far, far too many traumatized and lost humans using far, far too many drugs including alcohol. A local cop was killed by someone who he had stopped, and she was just mad that he had the temerity to interfere with her day, and she was someone who should never had access to lethal firearms.

Also known as the "kill grandpa and grandma" policy to make sure the money flows and the irrelevant die off.

Fascism yesterday, fascism today, fascism forever...
That is really what he is saying and what he is working toward. If the Democratic Party hadn't held strong, the insurrection would have worked and our democracy would have fallen.
Hugh

Can't say Trump didn't warn us that he was heading toward a FAscist state.
Can't say I will ever forgive either Trump or any of his followers.
But that is just me.
I like democracy, I see Fascism as evil, I think having a putin as President would murder American rule of law.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon

It isn't Ted Cruz who worries me as much as all those who voted to put him back into office.
Hugh

Must be exciting time to be a white privileged, racist, soft core fascist member of the Republican Party. So many opportunities to screw over the small and the powerless.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon

I suspect there are more than a few such boards now looking at the residency of their board members. When it is all a game of beat Wall Street capitalism, then sure, one can live anywhere, including in an RV. But to make things work you have to have your boots on the ground. Still, the rich got richer and the poor got shafted, and isn't that the name of the game?
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon

I grew up during the 1950's, just after WWII when so many Americans died to defend America from fascism.
And now, we have to work to cleanse America from our homegrown version of fascism, Trumpism.
Weird times. Racism is the core of the Republican Party and white nationalistic white supremacy is its marching cry.
Maybe it just reveals a weakness in human nature, I don't know. Greed and the need to accumulate power...
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon

It would help cleanse the Republican Party of its core of racists, supporters of the aristocracy of the 1%, and of course, the insane far right white supremacist, white nationalist religious "people".
Me, I am a socialist, but stay in the Democratic Party because splitting the vote is a really stupid way to get things done.
It would make for some amazing tv, this new Trump party, they could advertise as being the home for the true Americans.
Kidding...they wouldn't need advertisements, they would be the party of Q, and as everyone knows, they work in secret to make America stronger.
Just look at how strong they made us after the Capitol fascists attacked.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon

One wonders just what kind of civics is taught in those high quality right wing private schools.
"Democracy is about taking the votes from the undeserving black and brown folks, and from the poor and the powerless, and giving power to the rich and especially the white males with a lot of money..?"
Hugh

If he were to go away quietly, the Republican Party might be able to recover and pretend that it didn't help a fascist gain office and help him run the country into the ground. But if he is out there for years, in rally after rally, he will just keep liberals up at night...and that is not a good thing for a Republican Party takeover in 2024.
Now, if those lawsuits against him go as I think they will, and if there are significant criminal charges placed, he will obviously head on over to stay with his boss. Putin.
Can't see the future, it is pretty cloudy since billionaires like him usually skate from justice.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon

If you look at a map of the area, say in 1930, you will see that it is labeled Palestine.
If you look at a map of today, you would see it labeled Israel.
Murderous ethnic cleansing and apartheid created a state, and the US patronized it all. Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons of mass destruction aimed straight at it neighbors, and the US is fine with that.
Not antisemitic to point that out. Not antisemitic to point out that Gaza and the West Bank are Israeli apartheid hells.
I fear that Israeli far right brutality is one of the factors that is killing America, in that far right here, far right there...they cannot be anything but evil.
Hugh

Ask him if he is going to shoot down your SpaceX satellites when they help Russians unite against your dictatorship.
Asking for a friend.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon

Fascism has always been the core of the Republican Party, they just hid it to wait until they had the natural disaster they could use to bring it in.
And personally, I have always seen the Catholic Church as less an anachronism and more a power base for the male supremacist fascists.
Hugh