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Lewis and Clark Statue removed
OK, taking down Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson was ill advised but understandable, but Lewis and Clark is just too much like the Taliban blowing up Buddhist relics. History is being erased to eliminate the concept of the United States.
I am reminded of what happened to Mike Castle in Delaware. Instead of keeping a safe Senate seat held by Ron Portman, the Trump GOP will offer Ohio the Trumpiest candidate they can find. Yay!
One of the candidates J.D. Vance – author of “Hillbilly Elegy” – who said of Trump in 2016 . . .
“I can’t stomach Trump, I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.”
has now gone cap in hand to Mar-a-Lago with a billionaire donor in tow to make his obeisance. This is what the death of party looks like. Hopefully not of a country.
Depending upon which study, there is a shameful amount of mentally ill and addicted Americans in jails and prisons. A lot of the problems with police is regarding mentally ill people. At some point, perhaps we can recognize that mental illness can be as debilitating and deadly as any other serious disease. Until then, it is “lock ‘em up and forget ‘em”.
Here’s a transcript, slightly edited, of something I heard on TV last night. It captures my own thinking pretty well.
Continue reading “The World According to 2020 Trump Voters”I’m posting it here and sending a link to Mayor West so no one will be able to say they weren’t warned.
CHESAPEAKE’S COMING WATER CATASTROPHE
Sometimes fishermen who live close to nature see things coming well before those who are in charge, and Chesapeake is facing a catastrophe largely of its own making.
Chesapeake draws its drinking water from the Northwest River near the North Carolina border only a few miles from my home. I am on the river several times each month.
Apparently this initiative has been part of the Obama administration efforts since 2015. What happened to stall it since then?
Back in the 1960s or 1970s I might have had a positive or at least a credulous reaction to the idea of Federal government representatives knocking on doors to educate the public on a public health initiative. Today, however, I am skeptical.
When I was young I didn’t know anything about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, or Project MKULTRA, or other Federal programs that have used the American public as unwitting guinea pigs in medical and biowafare experiments. I had no idea about Federal efforts to control media (Project Mockingbird) or NSA surveillance of every single U.S. citizen.
These things I didn’t know when I was young concern me deeply now that I am older. As a result, I do not trust Stumble Joe’s vaccine strike force.
https://www.unz.com/mmalkin/the-jan-6-video-cover-up-case-of-john-steven-anderson/
As with JFK’s assassination, the full and verifiable story of the events of Jan. 6 may never be known. As details emerge through litigation, however, the federal role is looking less savory.
“The Sacklers have never faced charges. Under this deal, they will admit no wrongdoing and will remain one of the wealthiest families in the U.S.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
The attempts by Trump, his “conservative” followers and some of the people who post here to make a martyr out of this tragic dope is a bellwether of the rising threat of fascism and political violence wrapped in a cloak of “Americanism” – whatever that is.
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