Joe Haack @HaackJoe330

Bertrand Russell as he observed what was happening in Europe on the eve of WW II: “The first step in a fascist movement is the combination, under an energetic leader, of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step…

Truth is when: what we sense, what we think and what we say matches reality. Falsehoods occur when a match does not exist. Conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political…

What is motivating Republican leaders to accept Trump, to live with his lies, to perpetuate those lies and to work towards the destruction of a “We the People” democracy? Fear motivates Republican leaders. Fear that the way of life in America is more and more conforming to the…

The threat that women’s rights will be destroyed by Trump — From the pen of Miss Sally: Women’s rights have not been recognized until recent times. Now those rights are being eroded. Women's relationship to men used to be one of property. Men owned women, just as they owned…

Trump’s grandfather was stripped of his German citizenship and deported for draft evasion and that brought him to the United States. You would think Trump would have some compassion for immigrants, especially ones who avoided the draft like himself.

The tail is wagging the dog. The tail is GOP Trump supporters and the dog is the American people.   The GOP is in a panic mode. They are terrified by race, ethnicity, sex and education because race, ethnicity, sex and education threaten white male supremacy. Because Democracy…

What are the first 3 words of our constitution ? “We The People”. No president is above We The People. Immunization is a construct not a right and must be constructed to protect We The People even to the detriment of the President.

4 good reasons for women to vote Blue: The first one is women’s rights - the right to choose, the right to birth control, the right to vote - those rights need to be clearly carved in stone, made known to men that they are permanent. Number two is climate change: Our planet…

Christianity accepts corruption Why does a corrupt Donald Trump lead in all polls? He lies, he cheats, he has no compassion, he is an egotist par excellence. We choose Donald Trump because of Christianity. Christianity, as we know it today, is based on the doctrine of…

F l u k e s FLUKES are small, chance happenings which are random, and which can go any which way. To understand fluke happenings in society, Brian Klass, who writes for the Atlantic, says look at chaos theory, evolutionary biology, and physics. Minuscule changes can make…

Earth Day global warning: Nailing shut the coffin of humanity Donald Trump, who once described climate change as a "hoax", said he would take the United States out of the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change and support greater use of declining fossil fuels such as…

Republican House : A Threat to Democracy In 2015, a new breed of Conservatives retaliated against John Boehner after he made a deal with Barack Obama on the debt ceiling. That retaliation gave birth to the Republican’s House Freedom Caucus. “Their organizing principle was to…

Trump’s economics Donald Trump has called himself a self-made billionaire, even though evidence reveals  he received hundreds of millions from his father much of which he has squandered. He has engaged in multiple tax-avoidance schemes and outright fraud as he seeks his…

Debt under Trump On February 27, 2024, Nikki Haley posted a truth on Twitter (X) which should have every Republican questioning the economic competency of Donald Trump. Nikki posted: “Donald Trump put our nation $8 trillion in debt in just four years, and there’s no indication…

Remembering Trump and Covid… May, 2018 - Trump disbanded the Whitehouse Pandemic Response team. July, 2019 - The CDC people imbedded in China’s disease control unit were recalled and the Trump Administration eliminated CDC’s role in China. January, 2020 - After China’s…

An Immigration Reminder - Under the direction of Donald Trump, Mike Johnson and his Republicans, like Byron Donalds, blocked the strongest border security bill in decades, crafted by Republican Senator James Lankford and endorsed by the acting chief of U.S. Customs and the…

MAGA is like a Russian-built wrecking ball smashing through all of our democratic institutions, including the Supreme Court.

Jeffrey Toobin @JeffreyToobin

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MAGA is like a Russian-built wrecking ball smashing through all of our democratic institutions, including the Supreme Court.

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Voltaire on Trump “Those, who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”   (Voltaire).   The absurdity: the stolen election.  62 out of 62 lawsuits brought on behalf of Trump concluded that there was no evidence of fraud in the election and the lawsuits…

Connecting a changing climate to human activity dates back to the work of two Nobel winners for Physics, Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann, who pioneered climate models in the 1960s. These models help understand how climate has changed in the past and change in the future.…

Trump - a threat to the separation of Church and state. The forces of Christian nationalism who seek to demolish the wall between Church and state, asserting far-right religious dominion over the government as well as the country’s core institutions, are prevalent both inside…