Memes

 

Memes of the moment

 

This really upsets me--Memes

 

This really upsets me. 

This upsets me too:

I support it.

Mirjana Spoljaric, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross

"I never go to any place of conflict without people telling me that they want to stop, without people telling me that they don’t understand why this is happening. I see children without parents. I see children without arms and legs. How senseless does the world feel to you when you’re confronting these things? When you then go to the power holders and they tell you that there’s nothing that they can do, you just don’t understand. I often don’t understand what I see in connection to what I hear."

Great interview in NY Times.

Memes of the moment

 

Hope

 

Failed policies, they're so negative about government, they wish it wasn't there, but it is. The modern day republican is a lying bundle of contradictions, a nihilistic wish to wreck things up.

The tariffs are why we have inflation, and it's an intentional policy (source). Not only did Trump destroy taxes, but he gave the rebates to corporations. And it didn't work to stimulate American manufacturing. Things are too complicated now. The midterms are going to be brutal to the Republicans but probably not enough to impeach Trump, but I still hope.

Many things he's doing is unconstitutional (source), and the people who are supposed to hold him accountable are enablers. Don't contribute and vote November 3rd. 

For as much as the disillusions that democrats will take care of everything, the idea that a strongman authoritarian will take care of things have to be completely dashed. I fear the USA hasn't learned enough from this terrible president.

Pneumonic plague

My friend just read Annie Jacobsen's Biological War and said it had made him anxious. 

And I saw this:

“Biological War” is fact-based except for Jacobsen’s assumption that our leaders have experience, knowledge, integrity and empathy. If we must all perish, this version of events is better than one in which, as it isn’t terribly hard to imagine, the president volunteers to ride a nuke down to earth as if it were a bucking bronco, as Slim Pickens’s character does in “Dr. Strangelove,” whooping and livestreaming the whole way. NY Times.