To the reader who sent me this meme:

I wouldn’t say that Trump’s illegal invasion of Iran was done for “no … reason.”

What he did created world chaos and caused most Americans in particular to suffer.  The more desperate we become, the more likely we’ll be to accept his repeated claims that “Only I can fix it.”

Chaos also helps to justify a claim of a “national emergency” that Trump could use to cancel the 2026 midterms.  If November happens as everyone predicts, this will the end of his political and legal future.

Destroying renewable energy to further enrich his Big Oil megadonors makes Trump that much more powerful.

We’re in a pathetic position.

I’m not one to say, “I told you so,” but since my adolescence, I predicted that big money in government would soon ruin this country.

The War in Iran

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I’m not sure that Fox News caused the decline of our nation, but it certainly makes some level of sense.

When I was young, there was no source of “news” that was based solely on the profit to be made by making Americans stupid and mean.  In fact, news in most of the 20th Century really didn’t have any real commercial value, because it wasn’t used to sell drugs and useless crap to elderly, addle-minded white people 24 hours a day.

Thirty years later, we have people who are as addicted to this hate news as alcoholics need another shot of booze.

Did Fox News Take Us Down?