July 29, 2020

America's Children are our most precious resource.

They are America's future. Some will be leaders. Some will be scientists, inventors. They are too precious to squander by reopening schools without proper health and safety measures in place. Sadly, too many "leaders" are following Betsy DeVos' playbook, demanding in person classes without sufficient PPE or social distancing. In other places, schools will be teaching remotely without equal access to technology or broadband internet. Unfortunately, the students without equal access to remote learning will be students of color living in underserved communities, and they will be left behind while their more privileged peers will get a head start in life.

July 26, 2020

Some thoughts about the murder of George Floyd

As I understand it, Mr. Floyd was accused of passing a counterfeit $20 bill.
I have never seen a report which confirms that the bill in question was in fact counterfeit. That is something I would like to know.
If the bill was in fact counterfeit, I haven't seen any reports as to whether or not he had any more in his possession that day, nor any reports of an investigation into how he happened to have one. It seems to me that this is the kind of information which the Secret Service would desperately want to know.
Of course, even if he were guilty of knowingly passing counterfeit money, the punishment he received most emphatically did not fit the "crime".

July 21, 2020

Not even Nixon

Richard Nixon would not have dared to send Federal agents into American cities to detain unarmed people who were exercising their Constitutional rights. Dolt45 is truly desperate, as are his sycophantic advisors.

July 18, 2020

Rude Pundit: Portland Becomes the Testing Ground for the Next Level of Trump Fuckery

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/07/portland-becomes-testing-ground-for.html

What follows is a list of actions by day on, near, or against federal property, and, gotta tell you, it's just fuckin' embarrassing and overwrought, like trying to hype D-Grade meat as a quality Trump steak. This is really from the DHS doc:


For three days, apparently anarchists violently spray-painted graffiti. I'm not really sure how you do that. Maybe you scream, "Fuck Trump" as you write that. Maybe you punch the wall. What I'm saying here is that you kind of water down your accusations of violence if you include wanton tagging in the category. Basically, you look like a pussy or a drama queen, which is really the two modes that Trump and his lackeys operate in.

And even when Secretary Wolf's weak-ass list of alleged crimes gets to more serious stuff, any credibility has been destroyed by the image of the federal government shitting itself before the terrorism of the graffiti artists. Oh, and it's destroyed by the fact that most of it is complete hyperbole.