TODAY'S WEATHER vs. CLIMATE CHANGE

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"YO MAMA'S SO MAGA..."

 Could this be the next rolling punchline? "Yo Mama's So MAGA..."

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Click here for additional "Yo Mama's so MAGA..." tweets.

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WHAT THE TEXAS GOVERNOR SAID/SHOULD HAVE SAID

 

By the way, while the storm caused the power outages this is what is actually happening in Texas.

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HOMO NON ERECTUS ... YEAH, IT'S THE GOP

 

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DONALD BIN LADEN AND AL QANON

 

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"TYPICAL YEE-HAW THINKING" IN TEXAS CRITICIZED AFTER 2 MILLION LOSE POWER

Quote of the Week:

"...these idiots who think they know more than experts go 'Yee-haw! Hardy-hardy-har! It's so cold and the libs say global warming!! Har har. Let's watch The Bachelor now.' This would not be anywhere near this bad if, 1. The USA invested money in our power grid. 2. If Texas either got on the national grid, bought cold temperature packages for turbines, or both, and 3. Listened to science..."

You can read the entire article from Raw Story by clicking here.

- Mark

IT'S THE QLOWN SHOES THAT SELL IT...

 

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INSURRECTION MYOPIA

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YEAH, IT'S A REAL PUZZLER...

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For their moment in the sun, they dressed with the date stamped on their comically juvenile "uniforms"...

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FREE SPEECH IS NOT ABSOLUTE

Per the Supreme Court, free speech is not an absolute right. You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater; just the same, you can't set fire to our political system by inciting a mob.

Donald Trump needs to be convicted. 

- Mark

WHY WE MUST CONVICT TRUMP

 

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GLIMPSING THE RISE OF HATE THROUGH THE LENS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL VALLEY

Author, and San Joaquin (Fresno) native, Mark Arax takes a hard look at the San Joaquin Valley's "conversion from one reality to the other" and it's not pretty. He presents a simple but incisive overview of why California's Central Valley is "an excellent place to study how the cult of Donald Trump came to be" and why the Central Valley is such a stronghold in Trump's cult of personality. Below are a a few excerpts. You can access the entire Fresno Bee article by clicking here.

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"The economy, I concluded, had little to do with a demagogue occupying the White House. No, what Trump was tapping into was racism pure and simple. He was both feeding the hate and feeding off it. He was like a Geiger counter the way he revealed the ugliness that had long been hiding just a few inches below the polite soil. He was playing on white America’s fear of being eclipsed, if not eaten, a deep psychological dread over its diminished status in a new country in gestation. Make America Great Again was the very essence of looking backward for salvation."

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"So there [Trump] stands, aggrieved and wounded, a messiah in the eyes of the committed. Counting the crowd of QAnon-ers, Boogaloo Bois, Proud Boys, Three Percenters, Oath Keepers, militias, Christian warriors and the rest, this may be an army of 10 million, 20 million, 30 million, who knows. We can now start arguing whether or not they pose a threat to the country greater than Islamic terrorism."

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"Our native sons have played no small part in the national rise of right-wing extremism. There’s House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a world-class suck up who Trump calls “My Kevin,” and Congressman Devin Nunes, the dairyman without a dairy who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for smoking out the Russia Hoax and who swears the California drought is a communist conspiracy." 

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Again, you can access the Fresno Bee piece by clicking here.

- Mark

YEAH, JEFF BEZOS CAN AFFORD PAYING $15.00 AN HOUR, BIG TIME

Here's a fun fact: Jeff Bezos's wealth grew from $113 billion on March 18 to $184 billion in 2020, an increase of 63%. Adding in his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott’s wealth of $60 billion on that day, the two had a combined wealth of almost a quarter of a trillion dollars thanks to their interest in Amazon.

This is an even funner fact...

 If Bezos’s $71.4 billion growth in wealth was distributed to all his 810,000 U.S. employees, each would get a windfall bonus of over $88,000 ... and Bezos would not be any “poorer” than he was 9 months ago.

You can read about it - and more - by clicking here.

- Mark

STABLE GENIUS, IN REAL TIME

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WE NEED TO HOLD THE SABOTEURS OF DEMOCRACY TO ACCOUNT

When World War II ended in 1945 we had the Nuremberg Trials, to embarrass and convict Nazis, not every German.

When World War II ended in 1945 we implemented the Marshall Plan, to rebuild all of Europe, which helped repair the world.

When World War II ended in 1945 we embraced a containment policy, which helped defeat ideological fantasies centered around Marxist authoritarianism. 

Unfortunately, when World War I ended, in 1919, we did none of these things. America went it alone, ignored the budding nationalism of Europe, and let bygones be bygones. The provocateurs of past evils, betrayal and vengeance were free, allowed to reorganize. The serpents of Nazism would rise and choke the world.

Ignorance and stupidity don't learn from civility and accommodation. 

America needs to convict Trump and hold his saboteurs of  Democracy to account.

    - Mark