Immorality
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Decline and fall
This is a different sort of essay. Instead of just writing and posting and that’s it, I’m adding to it daily as I find more and more evidence that the United States I grew up in is done, gone, and replaced by a thuggish, fractured, immoral and criminal rogue society. For most of my life, Continue reading
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Are they liars, or just stupid?
One thing I’ve found you can safely assume about virtually anything committed right-wingers say is that it’s not true. Doesn’t match reality that you can quite often check easily. Which they never do. Another twist when they’re in charge of something is keeping secrets about things they do wrong. What I don’t know for sure Continue reading
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ICYMI
Every once in a while the nonstop liars tell the truth — and sometimes about their lies. Way back in 2024, JD Vance openly admitted that he made up lies about Haitian immigrants, even though his lies led to violence and injuries. “…he wasn’t going to stop repeating his false narrative just because his words Continue reading
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Traitors gonna traitor
The violent counterrevolutionaries who injured, killed, and caused millions of dollars worth of damage to the US capitol building during the January 6 attempted coup not only got pardoned by the traitorous orange baby. Now they’re trying to get their various fines refunded. These are the misguided, seditious assholes who actually should be deported and Continue reading
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“Two Weeks” again
Now the orange baby says it will sue JP Morgan Chase for closing one of its accounts a few years ago. It’s claiming to have been “de-banked” as a result of its attempted Jan 6 coup. The whole thing is nonsense, just more deflection. They didn’t even “de-bank” Epstein. Oh, remember him? You’re not supposed Continue reading
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Is it simpler than it seems?
It seems like there are so many reasons for the decline and fall of the United States. But I keep wondering if it mostly comes down to one thing: the decades-long dismantling of public education, and of education in general. The people in the current cadre are not deep thinkers, with only (maybe) a couple Continue reading
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Interesting timing
So just in the past couple of weeks we’ve seen an international kidnapping abetted by a military strike, escalating threats about Iran and Greenland, a Department of “Justice” attack on the Federal Reserve chairman, escalations of ICE thuggery and atrocities… Boy, there must really be some incriminating stuff in those Epstein files, eh? Remember Epstein? Continue reading
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“Exceptionalism”
For a long, long time “American exceptionalism” has been a jingoistic slogan generally used to tout some way in which the US is touted as better in some way than anywhere else. But “exceptional” doesn’t really mean “better.” It means different. Adam Bonica did some interesting math to illustrate the current state of American exceptionalism. Continue reading
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Let me get this straight…
Advocates of the second amendment have used, as one of their justifications for why there should be no restrictions on guns, that they need to be able to fight back in case the government sends armed thugs into their communities. Now that the government is sending armed thugs into communities around the country (and killing Continue reading
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The rat in the house
“January 6, 2021 was the most shameful day in American history. It should live in infamy, as should the traitor who refused to accept the election results and incited the attack on the U.S. Capitol — Donald J. Trump.“ Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity.