"The Jesus Movement"
http://www.helsinki.fi/teol/pro/_merenlah/oppimateriaalit/text/english/follower.htm
"The Jesus Movement"
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"The Jesus Movement": Moving Away From A Sect Within Judaism To Savior-Based Individualism
"The Jesus Movement"
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Why Do We Know The Political Orientation Of These People With Absolute Certainty?
Wrong then, wrong now.
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
A Critical Mass Of American "Conservatives" Are Stupid, Ignorant, Hateful Or Cruel
Core Truths That Dependably Dismantle Attractive-But-Bogus Right-Wing "Arguments"
My Response To A Baptist Minister Friend's Facebook Post Commenting On Jogger's Killing
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"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
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"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
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Stunning Stupidity! (Not All Conservatives Are Stupid, But Most Stupid People Are Conservative)
"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"
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Thomas Merton And The Spiritual Calamity Of "Conservative""Christianity"
Alan: To be clear...
There may be no "Christian""conservative" -- not a single one -- who lives up to this core principle.
There may be no "Christian""conservative" -- not a single one -- who lives up to this core principle.
In fact, most "Christian""conservatives" are dedicated -- at bedrock -- to spurning the principle articulated by Merton in order to build their lives on the premise that the central business of a "good life" is to determine exactly who "the undeserving poor" are, and then take away their place at the table, implicitly hoping that "the undeserving poor" live impossibly hard lives on the dispossessed margins of society.
Preferably, these poor people will die quickly without receiving a penny of assistance from "worthy" people like them.
Preferably, these poor people will die quickly without receiving a penny of assistance from "worthy" people like them.
"The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"
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COVID 19 Mortality Rates Are Often 3 Times Higher Than Spanish Flu Mortality
Alan: Every now and again I do mental calculations of the mortality rate in places where new data is being released.
Originally mortality rates of 6 to 8% were common.
But I assumed these were exaggerated figures attributable to epidemiological chaos in the early going.
And sure enough the mortality rate started to come down. There was a stretch when mortality seemed to range between 1% and 2%.
But today, Massachusetts published a new set of data and mortality was back up to nearly 8%.
And that MA report was followed by another similarly high number from upstate New York.
So...
What really interests me in the context of your post about the 1918 flu is that the mortality rate for The Spanish Flu is usually given as 2% yet these new mortality numbers for COVID-19 are coming in 3 to 4 times higher!?!
While still in Oaxaca over winter, I really enjoyed the following 50 minute video about the Spanish Flu. It's freely available on YouTube. Has some rough production values but it made a strong impression.
Near the end, the comparison of Philadelphia and San Francisco's very different approaches to public health measures made a huge difference in those cities' outcomes.
Free Online Documentary About The 1918 Spanish Flu
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Diverting Child Healthcare Moneys To Coronavirus Could Result In 1.2 Million Deaths By Year's End
Alan: Yes, Trump is as wacky as this cartoon portrays him.
A sick man.
An intrinsically deranged person.
"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About The Pandemic And Trump's Grotesque Mismanagement"
"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About The Pandemic And Trump's Grotesque Mismanagement"
History Repeats Itself: Coronavirus And The Spanish Flu Of 1918
"What's Next On The Coronavirus Timeline And What Happens If Trump Opens America Too Soon?"
"Compendium Of Pax Posts About Coronavirus: Trump's Denial, Ineptitude And Mismanagement"
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Billions are out of work and millions of kids could die from coronavirus’s economic fallout
The U.N. Children’s Fund has issued a warning that the diversion of health-care resources from existing health programs in order to combat the novel coronavirus could lead to as many as 1.2 million extra deaths among kids under 5 over the next six months. That would average out to 6,000 kids dying every day of preventable causes.
This staggering number is the worst-case scenario in a study published in the Lancet Global Health journal this week by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. These deaths are in addition to the 2.5 million children who already die every six months before their fifth birthdays across the 118 countries analyzed in the study. Experts fear this could be the first time in decades that the number of children dying before their fifth birthday will increase.
 A malnourished boy lies in a bed waiting to receive treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. (Hani Mohammed/AP) |
Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has mostly spared young people, with some alarming exceptions that the medical establishment is scrambling to better understand. But that does not mean that kids are safe or insulated from grave suffering as a result of the worst public health crisis since the 1910s and the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.
The study suggests that up to 56,700 more maternal deaths could also occur in the next six months, in addition to the 144,000 moms who already normally die over a six-month period in those 118 countries. “We must not let mothers and children become collateral damage in the fight against the virus,” said Henrietta Fore, the executive director of UNICEF. “And we must not let decades of progress on reducing preventable child and maternal deaths be lost.”
There have now been 302,658 reported deaths from the coronavirus worldwide, with 4.4 million infections. The United States has reported more than 85,000 coronavirus deaths, with at least 1.4 million confirmed cases, and these are probably significant undercounts.
In addition to the body counts, and daily dispatches from hot spots about loved ones who have succumbed, this week has brought a deluge of stomach-churning numbers that illustrate the cascading economic and humanitarian fallout from the contagion. In many cases, shutdown orders are spawning unintended consequences that are causing the world’s poorest communities to careen deeper into deprivation.
The International Labour Organization calculates nearly half the people in the global workforce have already lost their jobs, including 1.6 billion of the world’s 2 billion informal workers.
The World Bank estimates that the loss of income for people already living close to the margins of survival will propel up to 50 million people into abject poverty this year.
The United Nations says 580 million could become impoverished as a result of the crisis.
“And as incomes are lost, a ‘hunger pandemic’ could eclipse the coronavirus, the World Food Program has warned; 130 million people are expected to join the ranks of the 135 million who were expected to suffer from acute hunger this year, the agency says, bringing to 265 million the number of those at risk of starvation,” Liz Sly reports from Beirut.
 Alessandra Said, 45, a physician, sighs in Manaus, Brazil, after attending to her mother, Maria da Consolação Said, 77, who is infected with covid-19 and is a cancer patient. The doctor got special authorization to check on her mother, and she felt bad that she had to pierce her mother with a needle more than once to find a proper vein for the serum. (Raphael Alves for The Washington Post) |
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Fact-Checking Trump's "Suggestion" That Joe Scarborough Killed An Aide
By Salvador Rizzo No, Joe Scarborough didn’t murder an aide
At 6:54 a.m. on Tuesday, just as “Morning Joe” was wrapping up its first hour, President Trump said on Twitter that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough might be a murderer.
It’s an old claim, debunked by The Washington Post in 2017. Trump often smears those who challenge him. He has a long-running feud with the “Morning Joe” crew. And Scarborough has been hammering Trump daily for the administration’s halting response to covid-19.
But it remains astounding to see the president make a thinly veiled murder accusation devoid of evidence.
The president is referring to the 2001 death of a 28-year-old aide who worked for Scarborough when he was a Republican member of Congress from Florida. The circumstances of the young woman’s death have generated conspiracy theories, but authorities never suspected foul play.
Her death was ruled accidental by the medical examiner and the police in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., concluded there was no reason to further investigate. Scarborough was in Washington at the time. A police investigator told The Post in 2017 that authorities had left “no stone unturned.”
Trump earned Four Pinocchios, but we would have given more if that wasn’t the limit.
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Conspiracy Thinking, The Death Of Shared Identity And The Collapse Of Common Purpose
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About Conspiracies And Conspiracism
Daniel Webster Prompts A Review Of Conspiracism And Its Destructive Role In American Politics
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Facebook Thread With Tom Magnuson & Others Concerning Left-Wing & Right-Wing Conscience
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"Donald Trump Was The Dumbest Goddamn Student I Ever Had." Prof. W.T. Kelly, Wharton
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Kelly also said "that [Trump] came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything, that he was arrogant and he wasn’t there to learn.”
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"Armageddon Cheerleaders" Fly Under Radar, But Are The Most Likely Americans To Start WWIII
Alan: I have no proof.
But I do have an understanding of "conservative""Christianity" and how it promotes "Armageddon Cheerleading."
White "Christian""conservatives" would rather be dead (or, in one way or another, "taken up by the rapture") than to see their religion crash and burn.
These very white "Christians" realize that Trump is their last hope for a conservative minority to impose "Christian Dominion."
Without that Dominion -- without that proud primacy -- their whole world view collapses.
Even worse from the Christian conservative vantage is that loss of Dominion brings into play the real prospect of losing one's religion - an outcome often conceived as "a fate worse than death."
Again, I have no proof.
But my studied understanding of history, Christianity and psychology tell me that these "smiley faced people" (see the photo below) will do whatever it takes -- lie, cheat, perp false flag attacks -- to secure their ongoing Trumpist Dominion.
And if they see that Dominion slipping way (just as their children, even now, are slipping away from their churches) I see real possibility that these Armageddon Cheerleaders will "sign off" on "dropping The Big One" not only as a way to elicit The Second Coming (which is their formal rationale) but as an act of Jonestown-like mass suicide to avoid losing their religion.
Refusing to wear a mask as protection against Coronavirus is insignificant compared to "The Cheerleaders'" deliberate flirtation with World War III.
These twisted Christians are determined -- above all -- to die as "faithful believers." And that faithfulness-unto-death is more important than Truth - more important than "the truth that will set them free."
To die as "faithful believers" is more important than the pain, devastation and death they are prepared to provoke by exploding humankind back to the Stone Age.
Even now, these "Christian""conservatives" cannot live without their Häagen-Dazs and nail salons.
What will it be like for the survivors when there is no electricity, no running water and no supermarkets - much less any food to stock those would-have-been shelves?
But I do have an understanding of "conservative""Christianity" and how it promotes "Armageddon Cheerleading."
White "Christian""conservatives" would rather be dead (or, in one way or another, "taken up by the rapture") than to see their religion crash and burn.
These very white "Christians" realize that Trump is their last hope for a conservative minority to impose "Christian Dominion."
Without that Dominion -- without that proud primacy -- their whole world view collapses.
Even worse from the Christian conservative vantage is that loss of Dominion brings into play the real prospect of losing one's religion - an outcome often conceived as "a fate worse than death."
Again, I have no proof.
But my studied understanding of history, Christianity and psychology tell me that these "smiley faced people" (see the photo below) will do whatever it takes -- lie, cheat, perp false flag attacks -- to secure their ongoing Trumpist Dominion.
And if they see that Dominion slipping way (just as their children, even now, are slipping away from their churches) I see real possibility that these Armageddon Cheerleaders will "sign off" on "dropping The Big One" not only as a way to elicit The Second Coming (which is their formal rationale) but as an act of Jonestown-like mass suicide to avoid losing their religion.
Refusing to wear a mask as protection against Coronavirus is insignificant compared to "The Cheerleaders'" deliberate flirtation with World War III.
These twisted Christians are determined -- above all -- to die as "faithful believers." And that faithfulness-unto-death is more important than Truth - more important than "the truth that will set them free."
To die as "faithful believers" is more important than the pain, devastation and death they are prepared to provoke by exploding humankind back to the Stone Age.
Even now, these "Christian""conservatives" cannot live without their Häagen-Dazs and nail salons.
What will it be like for the survivors when there is no electricity, no running water and no supermarkets - much less any food to stock those would-have-been shelves?
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Elimination Of "The Fairness Doctrine" And Commencement Of Degenerate, Chaotic Governance
Trump Calls Media "The True Enemy Of The People"
Alan: There is much discussion in the United States about principles.
The apparent underpinning of this all-American appeal to principle is that sufficiently pure principles will save us from evil and ensure emergence of perfection.
Prima facie evidence of this perfectionistic tendency is the simplistic belief that "the invisible hand of the marketplace" automatically accomplishes "the best of all possible socio economic worlds" without need for the deliberate development of virtue or wisdom; indeed without need for any human intervention.
Just "get out of the way" and "the invisible hand" will accomplish every conceivable good.
"Simplicity" and "automaticity" are essential features of the American "heresy."
In the following passages, Thomas Merton and H.L. Mencken spotlight the dire, if not deadly, shortcomings of "simplicity" and "automaticity."
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
Which brings us to "The Fairness Doctrine," an evidently imperfect mechanism which hindsight reveals as immeasurably better than the espistemological licenstiousness that followed.
Tryanny's Best Kept Secret: It's ALL About Epistemology
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This licentiousness is still rampaging as irrespressibly as coronavirus and culminated in the Supreme Court's "Citizens United Decision" which issued the laughable judgment that "Corporations are persons" and therefore endowed with all rights and protections offered by The First Amendment.
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Excerpt: Five justices formed the majority and joined an opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy. The Court found that the BCRA §203 prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and unions violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech.[24] The majority wrote, "If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech."[25]
The upshot of Citizens United is formal recognition that Big Money is entitled to purchase control of public opinion.
The cheek-by-jowl corollary of Citizens United is that once public opinion is allied with Big Money, the oligarchy that was subtly insinuated into the Constitution's core premise that a few people of property know better than the unpropertied masses, has given way to plutocracy, and, as night follows day, America is now ruled by kakistocrat Donald Trump.
"How Wealth Rules The World"
Ben G. Price
From the plutocratic point of view, the maraschino cherry atop this fetid mess is that "the masses" eagerly applaud their own oppression.
And so America has morphed from a time when a useful-but-imperfect order prevailed in "the media space" -- and in politics at large -- to the chaos that now prevails, and from which we are unlikely to emerge, if only because Plato and Aristotle's well-analyzed "life cycle" (kyklos) of governmental forms observes that democracy gives way to oligarchic tyranny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyklos
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Steve Schmidt's Brilliant Analysis Of How America Arrived At Our "Imbecilic""National Humiliation"
Alan: Until the Trump administration degenerated into total chaos, Steve Schmidt had been a registered Republican, in fact he was the Republican Party operative who led John McCain's campaign.
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"Nun's Arrest And Handcuffing: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words"
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
A Critical Mass Of American "Conservatives" Are Stupid, Ignorant, Hateful Or Cruel
Core Truths That Dependably Dismantle Attractive-But-Bogus Right-Wing "Arguments"
My Response To A Baptist Minister Friend's Facebook Post Commenting On Jogger's Killing
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"The United States Of Education And Compassion" Secedes From "Jesusland"
"The United States Of Education And Compassion" Secedes From "Jesusland"
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Video: "If You Don't Think Trump And Trumpistas Are Hypocritical And Dishonest, You Will Now!"
"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
Video: "Heroes Of The Pandumbic" (Watch This To The Very End!)
"The Divinity Of Donald Trump"The Daily Show
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"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
Renowned Sports Broadcaster And Former Trump Lover Turns On Him With An Irate Rant
"Three Videos Of Trump Supporters That Will Make Trump Supporters Turn On Trump Supporters"
"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
Why Doesn't This Trump Quote Reveal His Satanic Mendacity To Anyone With A Single Synapse?
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"Dumbfuckistan"
"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
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"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
"Hey, Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve? Take The Test!"
"A Simple Test For Trump Supporters: Are You Hateful, Racist Or A White Nationalist/Supremacist?"
"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
"The Exquisite Stupidity Of Trump Supporters"
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American Conservatives Are The Apotheosis Of Pharisaism. (Conservatives, Please Weigh In)
"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
"Everything Jesus (And The Apostles) Had To Say About Rich People And Poor People" http://paxonbothhouses.
Christian Ministers Have A Moral Obligation To Call Bullshit On Trump Cultists Spreading Lies
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If Trump Cult Liars Do Not Repent, Their Descendants Will Be Ashamed Of Them Forever
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"Conservative""Christians" Refuse To Distinguish Between Punishment And Compassion
https://paxonbothhouses.Fr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian""Conservatives" Are Always Wrong
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: What I Think About Christianity
"My Gripe With Christianity"
"The Moral Confusion Of Trump Christians," John Pavlovitz
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Merton: "God Is Sick Of The Rich People And The Powerful And The Wise Men Of The World"
"Thomas Merton: Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality"
Armageddon Cheerleaders: "Christian""Conservatives" Pining For Nuclear Conflagration
Evangelical Academic Decries Coronavirus Theories: "Gullibility Is Not A Christian Virtue"
(St. Paul Put To Evil Use By "Christian""Conservatives")
"Jimmy Carter On The Separation Of Church And State And The Danger Of Religious Superiority"
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Facebook Dialogue With Christian Fundamentalist Friend Who Asks: "How Does Morality Work?"
Aquinas Discovers That "Divine Truth" Cannot Contradict Nature And "The Natural Light"
American Conservatives Are The Apotheosis Of Pharisaism. (Conservatives, Please Weigh In)
The Pharisee Party And The Devolution Of GOP Leaders Into Oligarchs Who Despise Democracy
The Pharisees Are Always With Us: A Field Guide
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Bibliolatry... And How To Live Happily Ever After
"Hey, Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve? Take The Test!"
"A Simple Test For Trump Supporters: Are You Hateful, Racist Or A White Nationalist/Supremacist?"
"My Attempt To Supply A Rigid Christian Friend With A Theological Alternative To Self-Strangulation"
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"Donald Trump Was The Dumbest Goddamn Student I Ever Had," Wharton School Prof
... but like I said... nobody gives a shit.
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"Donald Trump Was The Dumbest Goddamn Student I Ever Had." Prof. W.T. Kelly, Wharton
Approximately half the population (and the half that is more likely to vote) cultivate ignorance.
Stunning Stupidity! (Not All Conservatives Are Stupid, But Most Stupid People Are Conservative)
But don't forget!
Even the "smart" people are stupid:
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Paul Krugman's Illuminating Analysis Of Trump's Do-Nothing (And Resurgent) Covid-19 Debacle
Alan: Krugman's "lens" that Republican domestic policy-making reduces to just two measures -- cutting taxes and deregulation -- imparts keen focus.
Excerpt: "But it may be something even more mundane than either of these explanations. Krugman observes that Republicans historically have really shown themselves to be concerned with only two objectives: tax cuts and “deregulation,” which both amount to pretty much the same thing—more money for their corporate donors. In furtherance of this single-minded imperative, the GOP has absolutely no clue (or really any interest in) how to formulate any policy—or response to a crisis-- that doesn’t involve one of these two end results.That is why the only “achievement” of the Republican Congress prior to the Democratic takeover of the House in 2018 was a grotesquely skewed tax giveaway to corporations and the nation’s wealthiest. For all the power they held in the House, Senate and Presidency during the first two years of Trump’s administration, all the opportunities they had to actually work for the benefit of ordinary Americans, they had nothing else to show for it. No accomplishments, least of all anything that remotely helped the American people..."
"Stephen King wrote a novel sometime back in the 70’s called “The Dead Zone.” It’s about the rise of a ruthless politician who essentially cons the American people into office, carefully disguising his evil nature with bald promises and demagoguery. His rise to power seems inevitable, almost fore-ordained, until the very end when he’s brought down after, trying to defend himself from a sniper, he picks up a little baby and uses him as a human shield, all in front of an aghast crowd of onlookers.
Perhaps the American people, who Republicans clearly intend to sacrifice in the coming months, are just like that little baby. And perhaps this is the Republican Party's "human shield" moment, when the full extent of their moral depravity is finally revealed.
It sure looks like we’re about to find out."
Alan: Remember.
When confronting unpleasant facts, Trump's invariable response is to double down with whatever lie of the moment seems to satisfy Dimwit Nation.
And now, with 100,000 Americans already dead -- in large part due to Trump's huckster promises that "the virus is contained,""the virus will disappear like a miracle," and "coronavirus will go away with the warmth of April" -- Malignant Messiah is destined, by his malevolent nature, to double down on death.
And his neo-necrophiliac body-bag tally -- already twice that of American GIs killed in Vietnam -- will soar to new heights.
And led to "Lemming Cliff" by his gross ineptitude and Darwinian determination to re-open prematurely, no lasting good will come from the half-hearted efforts already complete, and the United States, a dysfunctional failed state, will become the global epicenter of persistent pandemia.
Oh! One more thing...
His cultists will cheer!
Excerpt: "But it may be something even more mundane than either of these explanations. Krugman observes that Republicans historically have really shown themselves to be concerned with only two objectives: tax cuts and “deregulation,” which both amount to pretty much the same thing—more money for their corporate donors. In furtherance of this single-minded imperative, the GOP has absolutely no clue (or really any interest in) how to formulate any policy—or response to a crisis-- that doesn’t involve one of these two end results.That is why the only “achievement” of the Republican Congress prior to the Democratic takeover of the House in 2018 was a grotesquely skewed tax giveaway to corporations and the nation’s wealthiest. For all the power they held in the House, Senate and Presidency during the first two years of Trump’s administration, all the opportunities they had to actually work for the benefit of ordinary Americans, they had nothing else to show for it. No accomplishments, least of all anything that remotely helped the American people..."
"Stephen King wrote a novel sometime back in the 70’s called “The Dead Zone.” It’s about the rise of a ruthless politician who essentially cons the American people into office, carefully disguising his evil nature with bald promises and demagoguery. His rise to power seems inevitable, almost fore-ordained, until the very end when he’s brought down after, trying to defend himself from a sniper, he picks up a little baby and uses him as a human shield, all in front of an aghast crowd of onlookers.
Perhaps the American people, who Republicans clearly intend to sacrifice in the coming months, are just like that little baby. And perhaps this is the Republican Party's "human shield" moment, when the full extent of their moral depravity is finally revealed.
It sure looks like we’re about to find out."
Alan: Remember.
When confronting unpleasant facts, Trump's invariable response is to double down with whatever lie of the moment seems to satisfy Dimwit Nation.
And now, with 100,000 Americans already dead -- in large part due to Trump's huckster promises that "the virus is contained,""the virus will disappear like a miracle," and "coronavirus will go away with the warmth of April" -- Malignant Messiah is destined, by his malevolent nature, to double down on death.
And his neo-necrophiliac body-bag tally -- already twice that of American GIs killed in Vietnam -- will soar to new heights.
And led to "Lemming Cliff" by his gross ineptitude and Darwinian determination to re-open prematurely, no lasting good will come from the half-hearted efforts already complete, and the United States, a dysfunctional failed state, will become the global epicenter of persistent pandemia.
Oh! One more thing...
His cultists will cheer!
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Have American Investors Gone Off The Deep End?
Alan: Of course, I do not know what's going to happen with The Economy.
But in my private musings, I would consider Americans lucky if we escape the pandemic with any economic outcome shy of a new Dark Age.
"There is no expiration date on karma," and what we've done, starting with our giddy devastation of Native America, and proceeding through slavery and, now, White Supremacism,makes it very difficult for the long arc of history to bend in any direction other than trashing the trashers.
In any event, pray for mercy, NOT justice.
But in my private musings, I would consider Americans lucky if we escape the pandemic with any economic outcome shy of a new Dark Age.
"There is no expiration date on karma," and what we've done, starting with our giddy devastation of Native America, and proceeding through slavery and, now, White Supremacism,makes it very difficult for the long arc of history to bend in any direction other than trashing the trashers.
In any event, pray for mercy, NOT justice.
James' Epistle: "Judgment Without Mercy Will Be Shown To Anyone Who Has Not Shown Mercy"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/james-epistle-judgment-without-mercy.html
America's Passion For Punishment And Torturehttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/americas-passion-for-punishment-torture.html
Christians And "Christians" Choose Mercy, Love And Forgiveness, Or Retribution & Punishmenthttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/christians-and-christians-must-choose.html
Bad Things Happen: Punishment, Mercy And The Demise Of The Republican Partyhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/06/bad-things-happen-punishment-mercy-and.html
"Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/whom-gods-would-destroy-they-first-make.html
Rep. Joe Kennedy III Tells "Christian" Trump-Care Supporters: Your So-Called "Mercy" Is "Malice"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/rep-joe-kennedy-iii-tells-christian.html
The Thinking Housewife Almost Never Mentions Mercy, Love, Compassion Or Forgivenesshttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-thinking-housewife-almost-never.html
Mercy Is Not Fairhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/mercy-is-not-fair.html
Which Do You Value More? Mercy? Or Justice?http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/which-do-you-value-more-mercy-or-justice.html
Abraham Lincoln And Pope Francis Agree On The Roles Of Mercy And Justicehttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/abraham-lincoln-and-pope-francis-agree.html
"The Man Born Blind": Jesus Overturns The Core Supposition Of The Ancient Worldhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-man-born-blind-jesus-overturns-core.html
America's Passion For Punishment And Torturehttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/americas-passion-for-punishment-torture.html
Christians And "Christians" Choose Mercy, Love And Forgiveness, Or Retribution & Punishmenthttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/christians-and-christians-must-choose.html
Bad Things Happen: Punishment, Mercy And The Demise Of The Republican Partyhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/06/bad-things-happen-punishment-mercy-and.html
"Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/whom-gods-would-destroy-they-first-make.html
Rep. Joe Kennedy III Tells "Christian" Trump-Care Supporters: Your So-Called "Mercy" Is "Malice"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/rep-joe-kennedy-iii-tells-christian.html
The Thinking Housewife Almost Never Mentions Mercy, Love, Compassion Or Forgivenesshttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-thinking-housewife-almost-never.html
Mercy Is Not Fairhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/mercy-is-not-fair.html
Which Do You Value More? Mercy? Or Justice?http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/which-do-you-value-more-mercy-or-justice.html
Abraham Lincoln And Pope Francis Agree On The Roles Of Mercy And Justicehttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/abraham-lincoln-and-pope-francis-agree.html
"The Man Born Blind": Jesus Overturns The Core Supposition Of The Ancient Worldhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-man-born-blind-jesus-overturns-core.html
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Impressive Duo Dance Routine To The Tune Of "Honky Tonk Women"
Impressive Duo Dance Routine To The Tune Of "Honky Tonk Women"
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"I've Seen Trump's Tax Returns And So Should You"
Alan: Get a load of this... from a fellow who has seen Trump's tax documents.
Excerpts:
1.) "If we’ve learned one thing from the Trump presidency it’s that it’s no longer enough to rely on tradition when it comes to the Oval Office and financial transparency. Financial transparency should be a requirement for all presidents going forward — and the Supreme Court would do well to help pave the way."
2.) "While the Supreme Court’s decision will likely touch on crucial Constitutional matters such as the separation of powers and the legislative branch’s ability to monitor the executive branch, the animating force guiding the court in this matter may be even more basic: whether or not any president is above the rule of law. If the court’s decision pivots off of that, then you’d do well to read George Conway’s recent op-ed in the Washington Post. “The Constitution is concerned with protecting the presidency, not the person who happens to be the president,” Conway writes. “That’s because no one in this country is above the law.”"
3.) "The Constitution also makes it clear that presidents can’t use the most powerful office in the land to line their wallets. Articles I and II forbid presidents from accepting what the 18th century called “emoluments” and what the 21st century calls “bribes” from foreign or domestic sources. The Constitution’s ban on emoluments in and of itself requires presidents to be transparent about their finances and circumspect about their business dealings."
4.) "Litigants typically aren’t hesitant to release information or documents that reflect well on themselves, so the natural question arising from Trump’s stonewalling in the matters the Supreme Court will hear is, “What’s he hiding?”
Trump sued me for libel in 2006 for a biography I wrote, “TrumpNation,” claiming the book unfairly and intentionally misrepresented his track record as a businessman and lowballed the size of his fortune. The suit was dismissed in 2011.
During the course of the litigation, Trump resisted releasing his tax returns and other financial records. My lawyers got the returns, and while I can’t disclose specifics, I imagine that Trump is hesitant to release them now because they would reveal how robust his businesses actually are and shine a light on some of his foreign sources of income.
Deutsche Bank AG, one of the firms Trump’s lawyers are trying to stifle in their arguments before the Supreme Court, also turned over documents in my case — including its own assessment of Trump’s wealth that pegged his fortune at $788 million in 2004, well below the $3 billion he told them he had at the time. Deutsche is the only major global bank to have continued doing business with Trump since the early 1990s and is conversant with his financial comings and goings since then."
5.) Mazars USA is Trump’s outside accounting firm. Trump’s lawyers will argue before the Supreme Court that it too shouldn’t comply with subpoena requests for documents. Mazars, which boasts a history ProPublica recently described as “colorful,” turned over documents in my litigation with Trump as well (through a predecessor company with which Mazars later merged). That trove included a financial statement Trump routinely used to substantiate his claims to fabulous wealth. The document, it turned out, was drafted without regard for standard accounting practices or other factors that might have diminished the future president’s claims.
If all of this information from Trump’s taxes, bankers and accountants was good enough for me over a decade ago, it’s certainly good enough for Congress and the Manhattan district attorney today. It’s also good enough for the American people. If we’ve learned one thing from the Trump presidency it’s that it’s no longer enough to rely on tradition when it comes to the Oval Office and financial transparency. Financial transparency should be a requirement for all presidents going forward — and the Supreme Court would do well to help pave the way.
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Memes For My Correspondents On A Trumpista-Moderated Facebook Page
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
A Critical Mass Of American "Conservatives" Are Stupid, Ignorant, Hateful Or Cruel
Core Truths That Dependably Dismantle Attractive-But-Bogus Right-Wing "Arguments"
"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
Best Trump Documentary EVER, Made In Scotland, By Scots, In 2011: The Asshole At His Worst
https://paxonbothhouses.
https://paxonbothhouses.
"Think Life Will Go Back to Normal After Coronavirus? Think Again" Umair Haque
Stunning Stupidity! (Not All Conservatives Are Stupid, But Most Stupid People Are Conservative)
"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"
"Confirmation Bias And The Power Of Disconfirming Evidence"
Video: "If You Don't Think Trump And Trumpistas Are Hypocritical And Dishonest, You Will!"
Video: "Heroes Of The Pandumbic" (Watch This To The Very End!)
"The Divinity Of Donald Trump"
The Daily Show
https://paxonbothhouses.
The Daily Show
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"A Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken"
"Mostly True": Fact-Checking Bernie Sanders Claim That 99% Of "New" Wealth Goes To Top 1%
"The Rich Aren't Just Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Income Pie.
They're Taking It All"
"Inside Job," Oscar Winning Documentary About 2007-2008 Financial Meltdown
Billionaire Nick Hanauer's TED Talk: "Capitalism's Dirty Little Secret"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/01/billionaire-nick-hanauers-ted-talk.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/01/billionaire-nick-hanauers-ted-talk.html
If The Current Economic Collapse Had Happened On Obama's Watch...
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Renowned Sports Broadcaster And Former Trump Lover Turns On Him With An Irate Rant
"Three Videos Of Trump Supporters That Will Make Trump Supporters Turn On Trump Supporters"
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