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Sympathy and Support
If you want the announcement of your potentially fatal disease to be met with universal declarations of sympathy and support, don't spend your entire adult life being a toxic asshole.— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) February 4, 2020 I don’t wish ill health on lousy people.I also don’t feel the need to show empathy for people … Continue reading “Sympathy and Support”
What refutes science
The Trump Administration
it's Goodfellas, but with morons— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) January 16, 2020
Partial Trade Deal
Could they have done this partial deal last year without a Trump trade war and without spending 30 Billion dollars to subsidize farmers for what it cost them? https://t.co/s5QoyDshL9— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) January 15, 2020
Transactional Approach
NEW: Trump demanded human rights groups be admitted to Iran to monitor treatment of protesters. But hours later when a human rights official from the U.S. was barred entry to Hong Kong, Trump was silent, the latest example of his transactional approach. https://t.co/MI2Sxuh1z7— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) January 14, 2020
Nepotism Money Train
STATE MEDIA: “The Left's Nepotism Money Train.”Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Donald Trump, Jr.Ivanka TrumpEric TrumpJared KushnerMeghan McCainLiz CheneyBetsy DeVosMatt GaetzGeorge W. BushFranklin GrahamJerry Falwell, Jr.Fred Trump's kid, Donald pic.twitter.com/FwjqTNZuih— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) January 10, 2020
Anti-intellectualism
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” Isaac Asimov, born on this day in 1920 pic.twitter.com/ijhBkxkMfO
— Ray E. Boomhower (@RayBoomhower) January 2, 2020
The Republican Party and its Members are to Blame for the Republican President
A tiny number of third party voters is not the reason we have Trump. The Republican Party is the reason we have Trump. For fuck’s sake. David Brooks and every goddam Republican is why the Republican President is Trump. How fucking stupid does he think we are? https://t.co/658KuhbsF9— Susan of Texas (@SusanofTexas) December 26, 2019 … Continue reading “The Republican Party and its Members are to Blame for the Republican President”
Windmill Fumes
W T F ? “I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much… Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes.”—A man with sole control of nuclear weapons— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 23, … Continue reading “Windmill Fumes”