"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts." --Bertrand Russell.

Trump doesn’t need to behave. His minions will explain away everything. “He is actually a devout Christian, but he just doesn’t want to ‘ wear it on his sleeve.’”

Horrible.

But they could’ve made that threat without first bombing the shit out of the country!! This is an ad hoc, post hoc rationalization, covering their ass.

There is a point here.

A comic by Schillar

🚨: You’re 400 million times closer in size to the observable universe than to the Planck length. Let that sink in.

How can you see this and not believe that we are evolutionarily related to gorillas?

Then we’ve got to ask Ted: So do you mean that metaphorically “blowing over like a feather in a stiff breeze” is a feminine trait? Really? And you wonder why you MAGA men like you are viewed as sexist troglodytes.

Have Smith take the dementia test, the one you've "aced" four times.

“Everyone knows instinctively…” we’ve gone from “rule of evidence” to “rule of instinct.”

Yep, this was shocking, disgusting, inexcusable. So what’s going to happen to Trump now? Nothing.

the face of a person who is never challenged, his world-view never questioned, literally never hears a syllable of opposition unless a journalist, usually a woman, questions him, & then he is astonished & infuriated.

Censorship system imperfect; it works largely through gradually escalating intimidation once you get on the radar of the security authorities. So people self-censor. I like He Qinglian's book online captures workings as a system. gaodawei.wordpress.com/2015/…

These are some worrisome statistics. It’s bad enough that 63% of GOP still believe this lie, but 9% of Dems? 21% of Independents? This is why Trump’s lies are so dangerous. If a lie is constantly repeated with no pushback, people will begin to accept it as truth.

Lies that go unchallenged become accepted as truths. Remember Trump even says it these days: “Nobody even questions me about the 2020 election because they all know it was rigged.” He wins.

This is an actual page on the White House web site. It reads like something written about a third world dictator. So embarrassing. I have not seen any branch of the federal government sink this low in my lifetime.

frankly, it is good for the rest of the world to see the US debacle. too long has the US self-aggrandized itself as "exceptional"--"leader of the free world"--"spreading democracy" etc. it is instructive for other countries to see how fragile our democracy has been, how apparently empty our collective values, the pretense of white Christian America & virtue, the appalling power of extreme wealth to corrupt so many persons who would have remained otherwise "good"--at least, "not corruptible."

How could America in the 21st century have a president who doesn’t believe in science? And a phalanx of followers who are either equally stupid or too cowardly to speak out?

Totally delusional. Clearly he’s lost touch with reality. And a roomful of men who know better just stand there silent. Future historians will use such videos to explain how autocracies gain and retain power.

I don’t remember Biden blaming all his problems on Trump. Trump’s motto: “The buck stops anywhere but here.”