A discussion with Rone Tempest, former national and foreign correspondent for the L.A. Times and co-founder of the the Wyoming nonprofit public policy news site, Wyofile.
That strikes me as a microcosmic view of what is happening in numerous states — Christofascists becoming central players. It also strikes me as antithetical to most all things American. Didn’t our forefathers flee the theocratic monarchical oppression of yesteryear Europe brilliantly drafting our Constitution and developing our democratically legislated constitutional republc all couched in the pursuit of liberty and justice for all..?
The Wyofile article was great. I don't understand how the Heritage Foundation can get by with calling themselves a non-profit.
Kevin Roberts is a paper intellectual. His own notions of his own self importance are amplified in his bullshit word salads. Anyone who says they're a Christian and embraces Agent Orange to pursue their own autocratic dreams says more about the bottom falling out of their morality bucket.
A race historian??? Please! J.D. Vance and Roberts have a lot in common.
Sometimes, when one experiences childhood poverty, there seems to be a spirit of poverty that lingers. No matter the education, wealth, or status, that spirit is always there. A reminder of vulnerabilities. Loss of control. Like those who suffered from the Great Depression. I saw it in my grandparents.
Does that spirit of poverty invoke their fucking moral high ground? Fix the lead in the water. But, they don't give two-shits about that. Go after a trans teenager instead. Fuckwads.
I've long bemoaned trumps permission to let one's worst feelings, prejudices, hatred out in public. Now I'm wondering if there is also another thing he typifies: self-righteousness. The feeling that your views are the righteous ones is very addicting. It doesn't have to spring from religion, though the religious are certainly very much a prey to it. And trump OOZES self righteousness. Or perhaps blasts it out. Can't find the right verb at the moment.
When I look at "laid back" states like Wyoming going through the changes Tempest describes I wonder if that willingness to believe your own way is the only right way--whatever your own way is-- is a large part of the appeal of trumpism.
There needs to be minimum population for a state to be a state. Wyoming has less than 600,000 people, and California has almost 39 million, yet they each get two Senators. Either give California and other high population states extra Senators, or force states to merge until they reach a certain population, say two or three million.
Clearly real history is not taught to us in school. They don't tell us about the rich collusion that conspired to defeat William Jennings Bryan, or about the Jekyl Island coup, or the attempt to overthrow FDR. They don't tell us about War Plan Red, or how tenuous our relationship was with Great Britain in the early 1900s. They don't explain the origin of CIA, or relationship with Galen Org. They lied about Gulf of Tonkin. They don't tell us about Admiral Kimmel's testimony from Pearl Harbor. They don't tell us how Truman regretted formation of CIA, after Kennedy assasination. However, they are quite willing to feed us bullshit, such as Columbus discovered America, and oil comes from fossilized dinosaurs. Absolutely ponderous. The fact is, there are unreported trillionaires in this world, the marionettes of billionaire puppets, with vast power and resources. Woke to me, is about people waking up to the fact that we have been lied to for far too long. The fact that the $$$ owned media does not report that, but tries instead to redefine and obfuscate the meaning of woke is very telling. The promotion of civil war is disturbingly under way by $$$ TPTB.
Meanwhile, France adds a Women’s Rights To Choose to their Constitution. 🗽 Vive La France!
TGIF🎉🎉🎉
That strikes me as a microcosmic view of what is happening in numerous states — Christofascists becoming central players. It also strikes me as antithetical to most all things American. Didn’t our forefathers flee the theocratic monarchical oppression of yesteryear Europe brilliantly drafting our Constitution and developing our democratically legislated constitutional republc all couched in the pursuit of liberty and justice for all..?
The Wyofile article was great. I don't understand how the Heritage Foundation can get by with calling themselves a non-profit.
Kevin Roberts is a paper intellectual. His own notions of his own self importance are amplified in his bullshit word salads. Anyone who says they're a Christian and embraces Agent Orange to pursue their own autocratic dreams says more about the bottom falling out of their morality bucket.
A race historian??? Please! J.D. Vance and Roberts have a lot in common.
Sometimes, when one experiences childhood poverty, there seems to be a spirit of poverty that lingers. No matter the education, wealth, or status, that spirit is always there. A reminder of vulnerabilities. Loss of control. Like those who suffered from the Great Depression. I saw it in my grandparents.
Does that spirit of poverty invoke their fucking moral high ground? Fix the lead in the water. But, they don't give two-shits about that. Go after a trans teenager instead. Fuckwads.
I never gave much thought to the term American Revolution, but I can readily agree that it was instead a war to achieve independence.
I've long bemoaned trumps permission to let one's worst feelings, prejudices, hatred out in public. Now I'm wondering if there is also another thing he typifies: self-righteousness. The feeling that your views are the righteous ones is very addicting. It doesn't have to spring from religion, though the religious are certainly very much a prey to it. And trump OOZES self righteousness. Or perhaps blasts it out. Can't find the right verb at the moment.
When I look at "laid back" states like Wyoming going through the changes Tempest describes I wonder if that willingness to believe your own way is the only right way--whatever your own way is-- is a large part of the appeal of trumpism.
There needs to be minimum population for a state to be a state. Wyoming has less than 600,000 people, and California has almost 39 million, yet they each get two Senators. Either give California and other high population states extra Senators, or force states to merge until they reach a certain population, say two or three million.
Clearly real history is not taught to us in school. They don't tell us about the rich collusion that conspired to defeat William Jennings Bryan, or about the Jekyl Island coup, or the attempt to overthrow FDR. They don't tell us about War Plan Red, or how tenuous our relationship was with Great Britain in the early 1900s. They don't explain the origin of CIA, or relationship with Galen Org. They lied about Gulf of Tonkin. They don't tell us about Admiral Kimmel's testimony from Pearl Harbor. They don't tell us how Truman regretted formation of CIA, after Kennedy assasination. However, they are quite willing to feed us bullshit, such as Columbus discovered America, and oil comes from fossilized dinosaurs. Absolutely ponderous. The fact is, there are unreported trillionaires in this world, the marionettes of billionaire puppets, with vast power and resources. Woke to me, is about people waking up to the fact that we have been lied to for far too long. The fact that the $$$ owned media does not report that, but tries instead to redefine and obfuscate the meaning of woke is very telling. The promotion of civil war is disturbingly under way by $$$ TPTB.
How does a state with a population the size of Milwaukee or Albuquerque get two senators, but DC is not a state? This is wrong on so many levels.