Tuesday, August 6, 2019

NRA-bought GOP-partisans are accessories to mayhem

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/charts-and-maps

Nearly 40,000 People Died From Guns in U.S. Last Year, Highest in 50 Years .

1,196 killed (from Jan 1 to August 1, 2019):
"The people who were killed came from nearly every imaginable race, religion and socioeconomic background. Their ages range from the unborn to the elderly; 190 were children and teenagers. In addition, thousands of survivors were left with devastating injuries, shattered families and psychological scars."

Saturday, August 3, 2019

America is NOT great

Unequal wealth and bullying power =/= greatness.
Active shooter near El Paso mall > .

Excessive gun violence and emotionally-disturbed individuals easily able to purchase arsenals of assault rifles and ammunition.
Excessively expensive non-universal healthcare. 
RepuGNican politicians in thrall to corporate greed.
Giving an election to a treasonous, corrupt, stupid, incompetent, immature megalomaniacal autocrat and a Badministration wielding excessive, planet-damaging power.
Excessive self-worshiping pride despite a lamentable history of massacre of natives and importation of slaves, greed-inspired revolution, greed-inspired civil war, religionist-inspired criminal-promoting Prohibition, greed-inspired anti-communist withchunt, endemic racism, endemic misogyny, endemic homophobia, very low general educational standards, excessive reverence for authoritarian religionism, ET CETERA.

NOT great in anything but corruption and military power. 

Friday, August 2, 2019

Appeal of Democratic Socialism

Despite the fact that the USA is divided by states overflowing with selfish, greedy, authoritarians.

Broad geographic support for progressive policies


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/02/us/politics/2020-democratic-fundraising.html .

Dendrochronology of Immigration to USA

People emigrate because the destination is perceived as superior to country they are leaving. Hence, the dramatic reduction in immigration to the USA from western nations with superior societies.

https://vimeo.com/276140430 .

Way To Go Lib Dems!

Brecon and Radnorshire by-election: Lib Dems beat Conservatives:
It was the first electoral test for Boris Johnson since becoming manipulating his way into being prime minister.

Now, with a particularly wafer-thin working majority, he Boris will have to rely heavily on the support of his own MPs and his confidence-and-supply partners the DUP to get any legislation passed in key votes. 

Ms Dodds, who is the Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, said: "My very first act as your new MP when I get to Westminster will be to find Mr Boris Johnson, wherever he's hiding, and tell him to stop playing with the future of our community and rule out a no-deal BrexTWIT".

It was also a bad night for Labour, whose vote share dropped by 12.4% as they were beaten into fourth place by the BrexTWIT Party.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-49200636

Thursday, August 1, 2019

The Fact of the Matter is ...

You are NOT Fit for Purpose, Joe > .

Ad nauseam invocation of Obama is not enough to make you appear sharp and undoddery.