Immorality
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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
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It’s all distraction
The orange baby knows the Epstein files have its name all over the place. All it cares about is itself. All it’s worried about is the Epstein files. It’s willing to do anything to change the story, because changing the story is how it has managed to survive for decades. It won’t work forever, but… Continue reading
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Oh great, another year of this
The orange baby seems to enjoy starting off its calendar years by presenting new evidence of how subhuman and despicable it is. It attempted a coup a few years back, on January 6. The US turned out to be a little bit too resilient for it, so the 2026 subhuman atrocity was aimed elsewhere. Like… Continue reading
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Remember Sarah Beckstrom
Sarah Beckstrom was a National Guard member from Summersville, West Virginia. She died from bullet wounds while deployed to Washington, D.C. “She swore an oath to defend the Constitution. Donald Trump violated it to put her there. She should never have been deployed at all. A federal judge ruled last week that Trump’s activation of the National… Continue reading
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Thatcher and Reagan
You can trace a lot of the mess the world is in today back to two supervillains decades ago: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Calling them both supervillains may be slightly overstating things. In Reagan’s case, it’s quite possible that he just continued his acting career, as a politician, by repeating lines scripted for him.… Continue reading
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Cruel, Stupid, or Both?
The Affordable Care Act has now been around for 15 years. It’s a very complicated combination that accommodates greed, human rights, and pragmatism. The greed it accommodates comes from the demands of the wealthy and powerful health insurance industry, which now believes it’s entitled to profit from misery because…well, because. I’m using “human rights” as… Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer (among other things) located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. No surprise, she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
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