In what Austin journalist Christopher Hooks has called “one of the stupidest news cycles in living memory,” the entire American political/media class is having an existential meltdown over what the Pentagon claims is a Chinese spy balloon detected in U.S. airspace on Thursday.
I was acting as Trump and his minions do: free to say anything, no matter how ridiculous, with no basis in observable fact.
For forty years, governments around the world have been cutting taxes on the rich, claiming that the result would be more jobs and higher incomes. A new study shows how catastrophically wrong that policy has been.
They Said Tax Cuts for the Rich Would Create Jobs. It Never Happened.
After nearly 400 uncounted ballots were found, Biden actually increased his margin of victory – gaining an 257 additional votes to the president’s 125 additional votes. Once Dane county certifies its results, the state will move forward in its final certification process.
Trump rails at judges as another court rejects his lawyers’ claims of voter fraud | US news | The Guardian
The federal Reserve, Impeachment, The Democrats Trump blames everything but himself for the crash. He’s gone Twittering Mad (ODT)
via Trump blames ‘impeachment nonsense’ for Wall Street rout
Taking the words out of Kim Jong Un’s playbook. (ODT)
US President Donald Trump threatened to obliterate parts of Iran if it attacked “anything American”, in a new war of words with Tehran after it condemned the latest US sanctions and called White House actions “mentally retarded”.
The complaining Trump demands that Judge Nepolitano be sacked off Fox News (ODT
Donald Trump is a conspiracy theorist, but not a kooky or harmless one. He is a far-right conspiracy theorist who made up 10,000 fictions and actively supports the scariest and worst elements of the American Far Right, from Alex Jones of InfoWars to more obscure and even more poisonous nightshades of the internet.
via Conspiracy-Theorist-in-Chief Trump Tweetstorms the Far Right after Facebook Deplatformed Them
Then there is the difference between Finland and California. Finland has…wait for it…rain. Year round. The climate is significantly different than drought-ridden California, where we have not had a major rainfall in a year and consistently higher than normal temperatures. There is no way a person with critical thinking skills could see parallels between the two areas and their fire remittance techniques.
So perhaps that’s why the Finns are having so much fun dragging Trump on Twitter.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different outcome. John Ryan from the Penington Institute weighs in on Australia’s never-ending, never-winning war on drugs.
The comment came hours after Republicans in the House advanced legislation to get rid of the Affordable Care Act.
Source: Donald Trump Praises Australia’s Universal Health Care System | HuffPost
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