Cannabis users 6 times more likely to have heart attack, study shows...
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Andrew Sullivan throws the title of a recent book by Hillarycon Rod Dreher in his face, who is now at the heart of this new authoritarian Trump presidency through his friendship with J. D. Vance
Dreher has succumbed to the abuse of Trump. He lives by lies. He thinks Zelenskyy was the bad guy in the Oval Office.
Sullivan has not succumbed to our "sociopathic president":
... What the world saw last Friday was the same, central Trump dynamic: the leader of a smaller democracy that has withstood three years of brutal attack by a far larger dictatorship ... was still publicly humiliated, because he dared air his concern of no security guarantees against Russia. “Just say thank you,” Vance harangued him. “Have you said thank you once?” I cannot recall any visiting head of state who has ever, ever been thrown out of the White House the way Zelensky was. Why? Because he did not submit.
... The challenge for liberals of all stripes is a familiar one in dystopian democracies and rigid dictatorships: Live not by lies. Keep your grip on reality. Avoid the propaganda now washing down on you like torrential rain. Find a refuge, as I did on Wednesday — a place where eternal truths remain, or where free thinking can endure (Spinoza is a role model, which is why the Dishcast discusses him this week).
Avoid hysteria, which Trump wants and exploits. But avoid also being co-opted by a single one of his lies, to see clearly, and to speak simply. Read those you disagree with; get off most social media; choose doubt over certainty; restraint over impulse; resist this authoritarian and irrational moment by refocusing above all on the simple truth, as best as you can, and fighting all those on both extremes trying to annihilate it. ...
Here.
It's a magnificent essay which everyone should read.
Rod Dreher was a Hillarycon in 2016 because of, wait for it, The Madness of King Donald. And so was J. D. Vance.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Paper tiger misses deadline, tells Hamas he really means it this time as he gives billions to Israel but hangs Ukraine out to dry
... Last month Trump called on Hamas
to release the hostages by Feb. 15 or "all hell is going to breakout."
That deadline came and went. This time, Trump is describing his
ultimatum as the "last warning!" ...
“I have just met with your former hostages whose
lives you have destroyed," Trump added. "This is your last warning! For
the leadership, now is the time to leave Gaza, while you still have a
chance.” ...
The Trump Administration has already approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to Israel, according to the State Department’s website. ...
Hamas still is holding 59 hostages in Gaza, many of whom are believed to be dead. ...
More.
Monday, February 10, 2025
Literally the very last line in this story
Trump announces plan to stop making new pennies, citing production costs
In the U.S., discontinuing the penny entirely may require congressional approval.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Luigi's mom: I could see him doing something like that
When detectives reached out to accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione’s mother after the first photos of the suspect emerged, she said she wasn’t certain it was him – but told investigators the shooting “might be something that she could see him doing,” a New York Police Department official said Tuesday.
Here.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
OMG: Haitian chef tells USA Today the strict policy of Haitian cooking is "Whatever there is to eat at the house, you have to eat it"
Nobody in Haiti today can afford the fancy Haitian dishes this chef describes, so they eat . . . you know.
Don't listen to Trump's lies. Haitian chef explains country's rich culinary tradition.
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Democrats have been trying to protect Joe Biden for years, and look how quickly they betray him: They're users
Friday, April 19, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Last August the FBI gunned down 75-year old Craig Deleeuw Robertson in his Utah home, two days ago the ATF mortally wounded 53-year old Bryan Malinowski in his Arkansas home
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Kamala Harris is a millstone hung around shuffling Joe Biden's neck with 52% net disapproval in latest USA Today poll
54% of survey respondents said Harris isn't qualified to serve as president. ... 56% of independents; 37% of African Americans; and 48% of Hispanic voters said she isn't qualified.
Friday, July 14, 2023
The new reactionaries: LGB OK, TQ+ a bridge too far
"It's the TQ+ that I'm not going to support," she
said, referring to transgender and queer or questioning people.
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Tennessee has had plenty of much colder temperatures than this Christmas and never had to turn off the power before, but that was before they went insane
What we know: TVA ordered rolling blackouts for the first time in 90 years amid freezing temps
Tennessee Valley Authority retired 3,370 MW of coal electric power capacity in 2012, 2017, and 2018.
Saturday, September 17, 2022
This is how America ends
One place at a time.
America and its free market capitalism depends on rules, a shared commitment to them and to their enforcement:
Sound money, not fiat money;
truth, not "my truth";
law and order, not one law for me and another for thee.
When you can't trust anybody anymore, it is over. People vote with their feet, as do corporations.
Crime, Homelessness, Taxes: Hollywood Big Shots Fleeing LA...
As Violent Crime in LA Rises, Demand for Private Security Among Wealthy Soars...
UPDATE: In Atlanta's Buckhead Neighborhood, Rising Crime Fuels Move to Secede...
AMAZON relocating workers from Seattle office due to crime...
DC WAWA closes amid ongoing shoplifting, violence...
WALGREENS closing more stores in San Fran due to organized theft...
Violence rises as employees fight back against shoplifters, thieves...
Chicago's Wealthy Neighborhoods Hire Private Police as Crime Rises...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Friday, June 17, 2022
Saturday, May 7, 2022
More than 90% of abortions are for reasons other than rape, incest, or life of the mother
Just 1% of women obtain an abortion because they became pregnant through rape, and less than 0.5% do so because of incest, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Obama White House visitor logs show congenital liar VP Joe Biden met with son Hunter's business partner Eric Schwerin in Nov 2010, who also met Biden aides 18 other times there from 2009-2015
All the visits are detailed here:
The logs also reveal that Schwerin met with various close aides of both Joe and Jill Biden at key moments in Hunter’s life when he was striking multi-million dollar deals in foreign countries, including China. Yet President Biden has long insisted he had no involvement in his son’s foreign affairs. “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” he said in 2019.