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Ran across this quote from Asimov, which I love because it eliminates all the pointless word-mincing.
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
― Isaac Asimov
Completely LOST in the press conference insanity
is the fact Trump's infrastructure "plan" will revoke an Obama-era executive order that required strict building standards for government-funded projects to reduce exposure to increased flooding from sea level rise. Its meant to “streamline the current process” for what Naomi Klein calls the Disaster Capitalists. It will make another Katrina nightmare more likely.
And do you notice that since Saturday, we haven't talked about Russia, or North Korea, or Healthcare? The media is being [unintentionally] complicit in Trump's (and the GOP's) deconstruction of our democracy. YES, they need to cover Trump's partnership with the Alt-Right/White Nationalism, but they ALSO need to focus on what disastrous programs his cabinet is working on! I think this is a large reason why most in the GOP are sticking with him - he is quietly getting their dirty work done.
A rapid, rabid regression of history
I'd been saying for a while that the Republican assault on women's rights had started to make me feel we were back in the 60s, but the racism that has been stoked under Trump seemed reminiscent of the 50s. Trump's "fire and fury" rhetoric can't help but make you realize that the nuclear horror of the 40s is a real possibility. Now this, in Charlottesville. The 30s! A good plot for a movie. Except it's real.
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