My Confession

 

"Last night at the Convention - A packed house! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

I have a confession.

I voted for a Republican once.

It was for Gerald Ford.

I thought he was a decent guy and unlike Nixon, relatively honest. I had misgivings about Carter because a Southern Baptist in the White House didn't appeal to me. I suspected he would inject evangelicalism into our government. 

Of course, he proved to be one of the most honest and decent presidents we ever had. He didn't impose his religion on us, but acted in accordance to his faith. We don't see that in today's Christian Nationalist MAGA crowd.

After Ford pardoned Nixon, that was the end of my voting for Republicans.

I didn't trust Ronnie "Aw Shucks" Reagan at all, and I was validated by his October Surprise deal with Iran for holding the hostages until after the election.

Iran/Contra told me they would stoop to any lie and betrayal of our country for power.

Since then, I have vehemently opposed the Republican Party. Union busting and tax cuts for the rich told me exactly where they wanted to take our country.

The "Reagan Revolution" resulted in the rebirth of the Confederacy and imposition of corporatocracy in disguise. The age of the Economic Royalists had returned.

I have no resentment for those who voted for Republicans in the last century, but I was disappointed and a bit perplexed when they voted to re-elect Bush after he lied us into war. I will blame FOX News more than them. 

I even tolerated friends and family after they voted for Trump in 2016. Barely.

But after 2020 and 2024, they only drew my disrespect and revulsion for their obvious lack of critical thinking, vacuous values, indifference to truth, and tolerance of indecency, blatant lies, and criminal conduct.

I still welcome any remorse they show for supporting Trump and will forgive them if they finally wake up. Otherwise, I cannot forgive the racists, greedheads, dupes, and willfully ignorant true believers who support the most vile, corrupt, and criminal occupant to ever sit in the Oval Office. I cannot abide any ideology that so gleefully inflicts pain and suffering upon non-violent people they happen to hate.

As far as I'm concerned if anyone supports Trump's Big Lie, criminal election interference, and his pardons and rewards for his J6 thugs, they are the worst of us who deserve only scorn and contempt. These MAGA loyalists are the racist and bigoted authoritarian ilk that would have been loyal Nazis in 1930s Germany. 

It's time for Americans to wake up and smell the fascism. I can only hope it's not already too late.

Critical Thinking

 

(In other words, left versus right. 😉)

Critical thinking. What is it? I’m sure to the MAGA mob mentality it’s some kind of insidious form of Marxism or "wokism". They would be wrong, as usual. Look at a Trump rally, where the Criminal President declares, “I love the poorly educated”. Their malevolent mendacious messiah can tell them any lie and they will believe it, regurgitate it, and even enforce it with violence.

Unfortunately they are not the only group that has never been concerned with critical thinking. It takes curiosity and effort to practice it. Many people have neither the time nor inclination to bother with it. To the functionally illiterate, intellectually lazy, and incurious masses it’s something completely off their radar. This is one of humanity’s gravest flaws. Without critical thinking humans are as easily herded as sheep.  And, indeed they are. They will believe and follow authoritarian leaders, which has NEVER resulted in a more just, equal, prosperous, and stable democratic society.

Rational and civil discourse becomes impossible with cults and the willfully ignorant.

And the problem is it isn’t always just them. People with higher intelligence, or average intelligence like myself, can slip into authoritarian prejudice and bigotry, snap judgments, unconsidered impressions, and impulsive actions. Who among us has never said or done anything stupid? It’s very easy to forget to use an important tool for our own well-being, or survival.

Before further any discussion on critical thinking, let's have a look at stupidity.

Stupidity is knowing the truth, seeing the truth but still believing the lies. And that is more infectious than any other disease. —Professor Richard Feynman

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Christian theologian executed by the Nazis just days before the end of WWII for his participation in a plot to assassinate Hitler.

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Back to the original question. What is critical thinking? Here are some definitions and insight.

Merriam-Webster defines it as, “the act or practice of thinking critically (as by applying reason and questioning assumptions) in order to solve problems, evaluate information, discern biases, etc.” 

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Critical Thinking as Defined by the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking, 1987

A statement by Michael Scriven & Richard Paul, presented at the 8th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and Education Reform, Summer 1987:

Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness. 

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7 Steps For Critical Thinking

By Brendon Burchard

1. Identify the problem or question: Define the exact issue or goal clearly and write out a precise problem statement.

2. Gather relevant information: Collect data, facts, and insights from multiple credible sources while avoiding gut reactions.

3. Analyze and evaluate the data: Test the information for accuracy, relevance, and reliability to filter out noise.

4. Consider alternative viewpoints: Look at the issue from different perspectives and actively check for personal biases or hidden assumptions.

5, Draw logical conclusions: Connect causes and effects based purely on the evidence to formulate potential solutions.

6. Communicate the solution: Share your decision and the factual rationale clearly with others involved.

7. Reflect and learn: Review the results after implementation to see what worked and improve future reasoning.

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Inter-American Development Bank

 

Why Is Critical Thinking Important?

Critical thinking is a skill that has applications in practically all aspects of daily life. It can help you make better decisions, improve employability, and better understand the world. In other words, critical thinking is a fundamental skill for being a 21st-century citizen.

What Is Critical Thinking Used For?

Critical thinking has various functionalities in everyday life, whether in fulfilling professional obligations or carrying out personal activities. Thinking critically is used to:

Make good decisions: it is important as an exercise to analyze and evaluate sources of information based on their truthfulness, relevance, and reasoning, which leads to better decision-making. Ask or question before blindly accepting things as they appear, and form your judgment based on the facts, information, and knowledge available.

Solve problems: use logic and reasoning to analyze and deconstruct problems and choose the best solutions considering the weaknesses and strengths of each alternative solution.

Promote creativity: this is one of the main characteristics of critical thinking and is associated with the previous point, by questioning facts, theories, or concepts, space is also opened up which is very useful for developing new solutions to problems.

Improve employability: especially in the digital age, where many jobs are being automated, there is consensus that critical thinking and creativity are two fundamental skills for improving people's employment prospects.

Digital and global citizenship: Critical thinking plays a role in individual well-being, but above all, it is considered an essential pillar of the functioning of modern democracies. The ability to voice an independent and well-founded opinion to vote and weigh the quality of arguments presented in the media and other sources of information. In addition, when misinformation, fallacies, and fake news can be a problem for democratic systems, critical thinking helps prevent the spread of false information. It contributes verified, respectful, and ethical content to digital communities and social networks.

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 The Skeptical Inquirer 

Richard Feynman famously said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” Science is how we correct for this tendency toward self-deception. That’s why I spend the first third of the semester exploring how we come to our beliefs, the limits of our perception and memory, the importance of skepticism, the cognitive biases that can lead our thinking astray, and the logical fallacies we use to convince ourselves (and others) that our conclusions are justified.

Influential voices in the skeptical community played a crucial role in shaping the ingredients of critical thinking I use in Science for Life and Thinking Is Power, which include the following:

Being aware of our limitations: Understanding that our perception and memory are flawed, and the biases and heuristics our brains rely on to make fast and easy decisions can lead us astray.

Arguing with evidence and logic: Using arguments that are well-structured and supported by evidence. This includes understanding how the different types of arguments work (i.e., deductive, inductive, and abductive) and avoiding logical fallacies.

Thinking about our thinking (metacognition): Actively examining and questioning our own thought processes—including the source of our knowledge, assumptions, intuitions, motivations, emotions, and biases—and how they might influence our judgments.

Embracing nuance and uncertainty: Avoiding the black-or-white thinking that can lead to oversimplified conclusions and accepting that our knowledge is never perfect or complete.

Seeking objectivity: Actively working to counter the limitations that prevent us from accurately understanding the world. This includes seeking diverse perspectives, separating our identity from our beliefs, and prioritizing accuracy over ego.

Having curiosity and open-mindedness: Possessing a desire to learn and understand by asking questions and seeking out information, even if it contradicts what we want to believe.

Maintaining healthy skepticism: Balancing gullibility and doubt and proportioning our beliefs to the available evidence. And remembering that claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Exhibiting intellectual humility: Recognizing the limitations of our knowledge, being open to the expertise of others, and being willing to change our minds with evidence. 

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We finally arrive at the "prime directive" and core value of critical thinking.

"Willing to change our minds with evidence". This is the unattainable basic requirement for critical thinking that eludes the authoritarian personality and MAGA mindset. I'd wager that not one Trumpist has read this far, yet will dump their willful ignorance, hate, and stupidity in response.

Any takers? 

"Ally" Revisited

 

The image above will be called "antisemitic" by Zionists. I don't buy it.  Zionists will enforce their version of political correctness for this "offense". Substitute the Israeli flag with "ICE" or a red MAGA hat and the message still resonates. Authoritarian fascist brutality exists under every flag, in every religion, and in every population.

We have some more symptoms of Zionist Fever from my fellow blogger that beg examination. He's an atheist, and I agree with his assessment of the cruelty and authoritarianism that is rampant in fundamentalist political power, especially Muslim and Christian. But he gives the Netanyahu regime a pass for their authoritarian cruelty to Palestinians and theft of their homes and land. He sounds more like a member of Netanyahu's regime. The body count is meaningless to him. It's as if he believes every innocent victim in Gaza and Iran deserves to die because the Israeli government and Trump hate them.

This is a recent sample of his extreme Zionism.

The likely next Democratic senator from Minnesota is an enemy of Israel, but not in the same league as El-Sayed, Mamdani, or Platner.

Bizarre accusations against Jews have historically led to actual persecution -- which makes the current "Gaza genocide" lie all the more alarming.

Notice how he frames it in Zionist terms, "Enemy of Israel" and "Bizarre accusations against Jews".

Zionists will insist anyone who fails to support unconditional military aid to Netanyahu's Israel is an “enemy of Israel”.

This is the mirror equivalent of MAGA fascists declaring peaceful protesters are “terrorists”, the press is the “enemy of the people”, and anyone who opposes Trump “hates America”.

As I noted above, this is what happens if we criticize the Netanyahu regime.

The radical Zionists will conflate it with hate for all Jews and declare the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and Israeli-born genocide scholar and IDF veteran Omer Bartov are all “liars” and "enemies of Israel".

At least 73,391 Palestinians have been reported killed in the Gaza Strip since the conflict began on October 7, 2023, with 70% being women and children. That’s a lot of innocent blood on the hands of the “good guys”.

Would a rational and objective person and over 174,280 of the Gazan people that have been injured call it genocide?

A quarter of a MILLION dead and wounded in Gaza alone. This excludes the ongoing violent purges in the West Bank and thousands of dead and displaced people in Lebanon.

"Bizarre accusations" my ass!

But what do they know. Zionists and MAGA always have the correct answer.

This is another example of what would be called "antisemitic" by Zionists.

Netanyahu's Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has control of prisons and the police. If anyone wonders how this thug treats Palestinians you can count on cruelty. The language he uses is identical to what the Nazis said against Jews.

“I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat — there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.”

"They're not even people."

We dare not mention this similarity of this rhetoric and that of the Third Reich. 

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), an intergovernmental organization with 35 Member Countries, has a "working definition of antisemitism":

Among clearly recognizable cases of actual antisemitism that accuse Jews of being inferior or as a people of crimes and wrongdoing is this gem:

"Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis."

To hell with that. If war criminals Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu act like Nazis, they damn well should be compared to Nazis.

No tyrant or tyrannical regime should ever get such a pass. 

"AIPAC isn't about peace. It's about securing U.S. support for whatever the Israeli government wants." -  Jimmy Carter

One Way Ally

 

Merriam-Webster: Ally

a: a sovereign or state associated with another by treaty or league

b: the Allies : the nations that fought together against Germany in World War I or World War II

2: one that is associated with another as a helper : a person or group that provides assistance and support in an ongoing effort, activity, or struggle

No, the United States does not have a formal mutual defense treaty or alliance with Israel. No, Israel doesn’t financially support the United States. And no, Israel has never been a military ally of the United States.

It’s a “One Way Ally”. Foreign aid has been cut to every other country but Israel.

But we’re always reminded, “Israel has the right to defend itself!”

Okay.

Does apartheid have the right to defend itself?

Does illegal occupation have the right to defend itself?

Does theft of homes and land have the right to defend itself?

Does expanding its borders towards a “Greater Israel” have the right to defend itself?

Does ethnic cleansing have the right to defend itself?

Does genocide have the right to defend itself?

These are different questions with different considerations. Apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide are bad. Most of the world agrees Israel is guilty of these. 

“Greater Israel” is the Zionist version of the Third Reich’s “Lebensraum” expansion.

Zionists will quickly condemn me as “antisemitic” for daring to compare ANYTHING the Israeli radical Right says or does to the Third Reich.

Too often left out of the discussion is, “Do Palestinians have a right to self-defense and the land they lived on”? Or do Palestinians have any rights whatsoever?

Do Zionists have a right to attack me for these questions and observations? Is this included as Israel's right to self-defense? Good questions. I’m willing to let the facts make my case.

I’m sure I would be accused of supporting Hamas if I dare to point to the fact that establishing the ethnoreligious state of Israel was lighting the fuses to the powder kegs of permanent war in the Middle East. Israel has been at war from before its inception. I don’t blame the Jewish people. Ultimately it’s all Hitler’s fault. (This surely won’t stop anyone from calling me antisemitic.) The WWII Allies, minus the Soviet Union, had sympathies for a Jewish state. It was well-intentioned, albeit ill-considered, to serve as compensation for the people who suffered from the Holocaust.

I believe it would have been a better idea to allow the European Jews to move to the United States instead of displacing Arabs in Palestine. (Am I still being antisemitic?”)

That’s all history and we can’t turn back the years. Now the difficulty is finding a way for Israel, its neighbors, and Palestinians to get along with each other. It’s never easy to reach an armistice for ancient tribal religious wars.  The only way I see out of the mess is to convince Muslims and Jews of the fact that religion is their primary problem, despite both being Abrahamic in origin. 

It’s the nature of religious conservatives and nationalists to become hostile to people of other faiths. “God told us”, or “God promised us this land”, will ALWAYS be the wrong solution to tribal/religious conflict.  

Yet here we are. I’m not just blaming Jews and Muslims, either. American Christian nationalism suffers from the same delusions.

Recently a fellow blogger who strongly dislikes dissent, especially from me, made his case for supporting Trump’s war for Netanyahu. Now he’s no doubt angry at Michigan for voting for Abdul El-Sayed over the Zionist woman who was backed by over $30 million in AIPAC money. Abdul's sin was to agree with the broad international consensus that the Netanyahu Regime was committing ethnic cleansing and genocide. He’s troubled by the Democratic Senate candidate for suggesting support for Israel should be conditional and that our money would be better spent helping Americans. Again, this is antisemitic in Zionist eyes.

I want to address our Zionist blogger's opening remarks at one of his posts.

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"Vote blue no matter who" is just "my country right or wrong" on the level of a mere political party rather than a nation.  In both cases, applying it without regard to the details of the particular situation could lead to supporting some pretty awful things.

In 1991, when anti-Semite and former KKK "grand wizard" David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana as a Republican, the party repudiated him and major Republican figures such as President Bush vigorously denounced him.  This week, after Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan, prominent Democratic figures rallied around him -- even some like Buttigieg whom I would have expected to know better.  Only a few, such as Fetterman, had the guts to speak out against him.

This may be a sign of the degeneration of politics in general over time.  I'm not at all sure that today's Republicans would repudiate a candidate like David Duke either.

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I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that this particular fellow blogger would wildly equate Abdul El-Sayed with David Duke.

It shows whether they are Democrats or Christian nationalist Republicans, Zionists will put the interests of Netanyahu and his apartheid Israel over America  (Yes, even Jimmy Carter knew it's apartheid.) Islamophobia is part and parcel of the Zionist creed. See Bill Maher. Our loyal Zionists cheer Trump for joining Netanyahu's war on Iran.

(Never mind the rising costs for struggling Americans. Just for this war, the average household has paid over $600 in higher gas and food costs. It is certain to cost much more. But hey, we don't mind having less money for healthcare, just to help Israelis have their universal care while they slaughter tens of thousands and deprive millions of people of their homes.)

If we don't like it, we're Islamic terrorist lovers to Zionists, I'm sure.

American Zionists are quite tolerant of illegal settlers murdering West Bank Palestinians and taking their homes.

And so what if IDF forces shoot kids and medics in the head and bomb aid convoys and workers? 

Israel’s attack on April 1 on the World Central Kitchen convoy, which killed seven workers, far from being an isolated “mistake,” is just one of at least eight incidents that Human Rights Watch identified in which aid organizations and UN agencies had communicated with Israeli authorities the GPS coordinates of an aid convoy or premises and yet Israeli forces attacked the convoy or shelter without any warning.

Ethnic cleansing and genocide are cool when Israel does it. Just call it “self-defense”.

A UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. (Zionists HATE the UN.)

International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS): The world’s largest professional organization of genocide scholars passed a formal resolution stating that Israel's conduct in Gaza meets the legal threshold for genocide.

Human rights groups: Prominent organizations such as B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel, alongside international groups like Amnesty International and Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders have published reports concluding that Israeli policies in Gaza constitute genocide.

Radical American Zionists believe they understand what's going on better than this person:

Israeli-born genocide scholar and IDF veteran Omer Bartov explains why incitement, displacement and the destruction of civilian life can meet the legal bar for genocide, even without gas chambers or shooting pits.

And Fetterman?? He may have guts, but his brain isn't operating at full capacity. Naturally, he gravitates to FOX(R) for attention. 

He gets it. He knows everyone critical of Israel is a raging Jihadist, salivating to impose Sharia law in the US.

Now Democratic Zionists all but prefer the Senate remaining in Trump's hands rather than having a Muslim as a member. El-Sayed's opponent will be the Zionist Republican Mike Rogers.

I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say MAGA and Zionism make a toxic mix.

Zionist Republican senators sent a threatening letter to the International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned".

As if we didn't already have enough evidence that Trump and his party are mobsters.

THAT should teach us a lesson. Serve Israel and support the Criminal Trump Cartel, or else...

PSA on DSA

 

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.

Democratic Socialists of America National Co-Chair Megan Romer went on FOX (R) to feed into their latest red scare campaign and communist hysteria. Of course, anything this foolish woman said would be used to attack the Democratic Party as “fellow communists”, as our fascist Criminal President does regularly.

I have long favored democratic socialism in the Bernie Sanders vein. In a world of shifting ideology and world views, it would seem the label would now be "social democrat" that reflects European Social Democracy.

Now that the DSA has lost it’s common sense and grounding in reality with their interpretation of democratic socialism, I would call on AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Zohran Mamdani to disavow their ties to that party. The Democratic Party needs to embrace progressive policies that actually help Americans maintain their inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We don’t need wackos who welcome communists into their party giving Republicans their excuse to revive McCarthyism and to smear every opponent as a communist. This is exacerbating their hate and fascism, not opposing it.

Yes, I agree with the DSA when they advocate public health and public education, as exemplified in Western Europe. I support higher income and wealth taxes on the ultra-rich. I agree the Electoral College should be eliminated. I support dismantling the criminal and unaccountable rogue ICE agency. They were established 23 years ago with the Department of Homeland Security in reaction to 9-11. We survived over 220 years without them and can do just fine without them. 

But come on, when Megan Romer blathered on about having “no borders”, who the hell does she think would go along with that?

Other absurd tenets of the party are delusional and deal breakers for all but the most extreme Left. (I’m not one of them. But I know fascist MAGA dupes will refuse to understand this.)

I’ll mention a few of the DSA policies that only alienate the vast majority of Americans.

“You work as much as you are able and no more than needed.”

That’s Marxism, as in, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". I may be ABLE to work 80 hours a week, but I sure as hell don’t want to, and glad I don’t have to.

“Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.”

If this means I can’t go out to my favorite restaurants, forget it! Yes to public education and medicine, but energy and transportation need to be addressed rationally with cooperative utilities management and serious budget considerations.

“Demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system which protects the rich and jails the poor. Treat drug addiction and mental illness as health issues, not crimes. End qualified immunity and empower civilian oversight bodies with real authority over the police.”

They had me at demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, redirect funding to public services, and ending qualified immunity for rogue ICE agents and violent cops, but sorry, we need public safety and a way to remove violent thugs from society. Look at how Trump praised, pardoned, and wants to PAY his J6 thugs for terrorizing Congress and beating cops bloody in his insurrection. Ironically, Trump is more communist than any Democrat in his freeing and rewarding criminals, and his state acquisition and control of corporations and media.

“For the working class to govern, we need a new political system. End political corruption and legalized bribery: get rid of lobbyists, dark money, and Citizens United, and publicly finance all elections. Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”

Lofty ideals. How to get there would be the problem. I’m with them up to the last sentence. I still support the founders’ idea of three coequal branches of government for checks and balances. Yeah, that’s totally a fiction now, but salvageable if we bury MAGA and get sane people in office.

Anyway, the bottom line is the DSA is essentially a destabilizing movement in so many ways. All we need is for the Democratic Party to embrace its progressive ideals of civil rights, voter rights, and an economy that benefits working class and poor Americans.

Again, I return to my embrace of the socialist ideals in our Constitution. We need our fair representation, rights, and civil liberties, along with the taxes, regulation of commerce, and provision for the general welfare in our foundation of law.

 

Who has a problem with that? 

For perspective, Democrats don't vote for communists.

MAGA voters, on the other hand...

“Russia Hoax” Hoax

“Russia, if you’re listening…” 

Putin WAS listening. He listened in 2016, 2020, and 2024. 

Putin admitted he wanted his Crooked Puppet to win. He knew this would serve his interests in gaining an ally/stooge and in destabilizing the United States. 

Mission accomplished.

Let's thank the Criminal President for confirming Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference on behalf of the Criminal Candidate.

This "we won or they cheated" anti-American, debunked, destabilizing, undermining, and denial of elections bullshit needs to be rejected, shunned, and shut down for the good of the country.

Unfortunately, this won't happen until we all see the "big, beautiful obituary", the sooner the better. His bullshit lies need to be buried along with him. 

And the sooner we electorally bury his treacherous, lying, spineless, sleazebag sycophants in the Republican Party the better. This is our republic's last hope.

Opposite of MAGA

 

The Bidens are the opposite of MAGA. The difference? Basic human decency.

I will include one more perspective:

I have nothing to add on the demise of Lindsey Graham. He's gone, but the evil he abetted remains.

The Criminal President Trump has broken and divided America with his crimes, while corrupting an entire political party.

They made their bargain with the Great American Satan. They side with his lies, hate, cruelty, and evil at every turn, simply on the whims of their Criminal and Corrupt leader.

They reward thugs who beat cops bloody to overturn a fair election. 

They look the other way when unaccountable secret police ICE thugs murder innocent human beings on the street.

They cheer Trump throwing non-violent immigrants into cruel and unaccountable corporate concentration camps.

They abet the Criminal President's obstruction of the Epstein Files and protection of pedophile child molesters. 

They cheer Trump's cuts to cancer and medical research. 

They cheer his tax cuts for billionaires.

They cheer Trump's cuts to food stamps and healthcare for the needy.

They support their Criminal leader for demonizing, scapegoating, and punishing people he hates.

They cheer Trump for decimating NOAA, leaving America more vulnerable to threats of severe weather.

They willingly join his corrupt war on our democracy. 

They support Trump for breaking his promise for no new wars. They support Trump for abandoning Ukraine and his promise to end the war.

They are willing to send Americans to die for Netanyahu's war with Iran.*

They suppress voter rights, impose racist redistricting to eliminate representation for Black Americans. 

They are actively encouraging Trump's election deniers who pedal his Big Lie to interfere in the upcoming elections. 

They amass power and wealth while people they hate suffer. They are the true domestic enemies of our Constitutional democratic representative republic.

They are fascists.

Americans want the OPPOSITE of all of this hate and lies. Americans want the OPPOSITE of this deliberate and cruel destruction of our rule of law and democracy.

They have eroded all decency in leadership. Americans want the OPPOSITE of MAGA!

*Yes, it is Netanyahu's war. The Criminal President Trump was the only president gullible and stupid enough to be talked into a war by the Israeli tyrant.

Happy 250th

 

This is how the world sees the US under the Criminal President:

Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw shows the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes in shame in Roubaix, France. 

This is where we rate:

This is MAGA fascism:

Fox News personality and “Outnumbered” co-host Emily Compagno said this about James Talarico, the Democratic candidate in Texas for U.S. Senate.  “(Talarico) is not just some Democrat. This person is a demon in human skin."  

Trump's white supremacist, neo-Nazi "Patriot Front" in DC. Naturally they have a Confederate flag.

This is how fascists and tyrants rule.

This is MAGA racism:

This is MAGA corruption:

An anonymous MAGA racist had this to say, “Who really cares if he is a Racist or not As long as he’s a good president for the country.”

This is who, and what, they are.

This is MAGA hypocrisy:

This is MAGA oligarchy:

Much of the Declaration of Independence is relevant today:

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us...

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." – Declaration of Independence 

This is true patriotism and loyalty to our Constitution. Active-duty Air Force Major Jason Watson was arrested for protesting Trump. He is a hero, bravely taking a stand against the corrupt Criminal President and his authoritarian white nationalist regime. 

Major Watson should be the role model for all patriotic Americans. Trump and the entire MAGA cult is obsessed with punishing and inflicting pain on everyone they hate. The words that describe this extreme ideology are "fascism" and "evil".

Time to wake up and resist the evil, America. If you don't, it is finished.

MAGA = Racism...

 

 

…And sexism.

…And corruption.

...And crime.

...And greed.

...And cruelty.

No wonder they hate the "RINO" who dared to show some sanity. Thomas Massie observed, "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

Before the 2024 election the Criminal President and his allies spread the vicious racist lie that LEGAL Haitian immigrants were “eating the dogs in Springfield”. Despite the blatant racism, enough ignorant and racist Americans voted the criminal back into power. Can’t have no brown woman for a president now, can we?

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 majority to allow the Department of Homeland Security to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 350,000 migrants from Haiti and Syria.

They have a higher employment rate than the general population, so they are clearly not hear to “take free money and handouts”. Corporations and billionaire oligarchs get most of that loot anyway.

Yeah, it’s the racism again. The “eating the dogs” smear was just setting the stage for the white nationalist purge and to keep punishing people of color. In case I haven’t made it clear by now, fascists are known by their extreme hate, racism, and eagerness to harshly punish anyone they hate. This is MAGA at its core.

A while back I wrote:

These are indeed the glory days for 21st Century American racists and “Christian” nationalists. Their white privileged minority rule has just become set in concrete; thanks to the serial criminal they TWICE installed into the Oval Office.

White Christian Nationalists have their racist criminal president. They own Congress. And they own the Supreme Court, abetted by their token black White Nationalist. They have won their decades-long engineered coup by taking control of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of our federal government.

These despicable racists deserve as much hate in return as they dish out. But I won’t play into it. Hating them does no good. Only justice will. Trump deserves to be in prison, as do his criminal cronies, murderous ICE thugs, and war criminals running the Pentagon. And speaking of justice, the six racist MAGA Supreme Court Justices have all committed impeachable offenses, from lying to Congress to accepting bribes from rich benefactors whom they side with in their cases brought before the Court.

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.

Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.

Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.

Got a problem with that? Then YOU should be in JAIL!

The Criminal President threatened our right to free speech and dissent with, "These people should be put in jail, the way they talk about our judges and our justices, trying to get them to sway their vote, sway their decision”.

The word for this is “tyranny”, folks. 

I won’t wallow in hate, but I will express my anger at racism and racists, at thugs and bullies, and at every Trump supporting racist, oligarch, and ignorant dupe. But I repeat myself.

I’m not wasting any more words. I’ll let others continue to get the message across.