In this speech, Trump explains that the radical left is “invading” our country, and that he and his administration are going to “take them out very quickly.”
He seems to be talking about civil war. If so, this will be much different than the Union vs. the Confederacy, where the enemies lived in different parts of the country and the soldiers wore different colored uniforms.
Here, to take an example, we have high school faculties that are a blend of both liberals and conservatives. If you’re stupid enough to believe that the liberals are invading the United States and need to be removed, you have a real challenge on your hands, not only legally, but logistically as well.
Now, I suppose he could simply have the military deploy machine guns and wipe out each one of the seven million men, women, and children in protests like “No Kings” protesters. Or maybe just round them up and deport them. He has no regard for the Constitution and rule of law anyway, so maybe this isn’t as far-fetched as it seems.
One thing that Trump doesn’t seem to be considering, though, is that “the military” is run by generals and admirals who are sane and intelligent people, who have sworn an oath would prevent them to committing atrocities at the behest of a psychotic in the White House.
Wow. Life in America gets more absurd with each passing day.
To the author of the meme here (if it’s an actual human being, vs. a Russian bot): to the best of my knowledge, the only actual major “scientific fraud” in world history was “Piltdown Man.” In 1912, a pseudo-anthropologist attempted to fool the scientific community into believing he had discovered the “missing link” between apes and humans.
Now, are there examples of instances when the science of the day turned out to be incorrect?
Of course, and new instances of this surface every day.
Think of how little when scientists believed 200 years ago is still intact today. Perhaps most obviously, Newtonian mechanics has fallen to relativity and quantum physics, but there are hundreds of other paradigm shifts in health and medicine, psychology, cellular biology, chemistry, and particle physics.
Contrary to what conspiracy theorists want you to believe, science is not a set of facts; it’s a methodology whereby we come to learn more about ourselves and the world around us.
Are there other methods by which we “learn?” Sure. Some uneducated guy goes on YouTube and becomes convinced that our consumption of fossil fuels is not causing the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans to rise. I would argue that this conduct is inferior to the scientific method.
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Trump’s Only Real Talents: Attracting Attention and Controlling Morally Weak People
Trump is not an idiot. His IQ may not be too high, but he’s smart enough to know how to conduct himself in his lifelong quest to amass more wealth and power at the expense of everyone else on Earth.
Trump’s Only Real Talents: Attracting Attention and Controlling Morally Weak People
At left we see the moral bankruptcy that guides our civilization.
I recall many years ago, when Musk was becoming a “thing,” writing a post to the effect that, “What a terrible shame. We really didn’t need just one more super-rich asshole on this beleaguered planet.”
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