Climate change made simple

Filed under: Climate Change, Economy, Environment, Politics, Society

Climate change is a hot topic that causes much political strife in the US. Mostly it really comes down to money. Who is making it and who is paying it. For the moment though, let’s boil it all down to the simplest equation. Let’s ignore all of that scientific consensus and assume that man-made climate […]

Democrats last gasp

Filed under: 2018 Election, Donald Trump, Laws, Politics, Society

Now that Kavanaugh has been confirmed, as if there was really any doubt, let’s review. If you aren’t a white christian male, you’re pretty much screwed. Everything from Roe to the entire civil rights legislation are up for grabs now. However, those may not be the worst things coming. Elections have consequences. The 2016 election […]

The crumbling ruins on the hill

Filed under: Donald Trump, Economy, Politics, Society

There aren’t too many things that I agree with President Reagan on.  One thing I did agree with him on was the idea of America being the “shining city on the hill”. Sure, we have rarely lived up to that ideal.  We spent most of the last half of the 20th century destabilizing democracies in […]

Why Republicans own the shutdown

Filed under: Donald Trump, Dumb Stuff, Politics

Republicans own this government shutdown 100%. It really isn’t even Trump. While he has shown a total lack of leadership and flip-flopped his position on everything at least once, it ultimately comes down to Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. Republicans have total control in congress. The determine what bills are voted on and what is […]

Why Trump should be Time’s person of the year

Filed under: Donald Trump, Politics, Society

Trump’s latest lie of self importance/delusion is that he turned down Time magazine for the person of the year award because they said he “probably” won it. Time magazine quickly refuted this as a lie. This is typical of Trump and barely news worthy. Very few days go by where he doesn’t tweet something, usually […]

Russia just kicked our ass, bigly

Filed under: 2016 Election, Donald Trump, Putin, Russia

America just got it’s ass handed to us on a silver platter and we haven’t even realized it yet. The game ended before we even realized that we were playing. This week we had the “big reveal” of a 35-page intelligence report alleging that Russia had compromising materials on Trump, among other things. Nothing in […]