All their speeches are the same: If the Democrats win, civilization will end, mobs will take over cities, and barbarians will burn down your house. (click on image to enlarge)[...]
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July 16th, 2020 - 1:45 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Is something wrong with America’s voters?
Some of them, sure. But on the whole, probably not. Back in 2016, nearly two-thirds of America’s voters thought Trump was unqualified, untrustworthy, and lacked the temperament to be president, although a significant number of those who felt that way voted for him anyway (and some probably wil[...]
June 22nd, 2020 - 4:48 pm § in Economics
America’s next housing crisis
With more than 20 million Americans still unemployed, and eviction moratoriums about to expire, America faces a new housing crisis. Millions of households suffering income loss from Covid-19 can’t pay rent. Moratoriums and one-time stimulus payments provided some temporary, short-lived relief;[...]
June 11th, 2020 - 6:00 pm § in Racism
Tulsa police commander says more African-Americans should be shot
A Tulsa police major denied there’s “institutional racism” in policing, then added “research says we’re shooting African Americans about 24 percent less than we probably ought to be” during a radio program on Monday, June 8, 2020, according to NBC News. The mayor, who[...]
How America stacks up against Asia in fighting Covid-19 (spoiler: not so well)
America, pop. 330 million, has 98,000+ Covid-19 deaths; six Asian nations with a combined population of 328 million have ~1,200 Covid-19 deaths. (The six nations are Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Vietnam.) Our death rate is 80 times theirs. On Saturday, May 23, 2020, “Ameri[...]
April 8th, 2020 - 12:15 pm § in America
An American Hero
“As the coronavirus pandemic intensified, Leilani Jordan insisted on going to her job as a clerk at a Maryland grocery so she could help seniors …. She had challenges … as a worker with cerebral palsy. But as shoppers around the country raided shelves for necessities in early to mi[...]
Workers of the World Unite: Screw the Americans!
I wonder if the age of imperialistic capitalism is over? The industrial revolution but it was based on raw materials imported from poor colonies and turned into manufactured goods at relatively high wages for workers in the imperialist countries. Mills in England and New England would not have be[...]
February 24th, 2020 - 12:00 am § in Misc.
Is this how America’s democracy ends? A fascist against a naif?
I am an American, a patriot, a follower of Jefferson and King. I see Trump as a foul synthesis of the worst fate America can have .. failure under a leader with the morals of Jackson, the egomania of Hitler, and the competence of a businessman who has used Russian money to bail himself out [&helli[...]