It’s time to abandon your team

Posted by Dave Switzer under From the web, My thoughts

Most people in the US think they have to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, although Ross Perot won 19% of the vote in 1992. Ones who are logical and are paying attention to what’s going on have certainly abandoned the Republicans, but there are many Americans who know less about what’s […]

A day for justice

Posted by Dave Switzer under From the web

45 has been indicted for one of his many crimes. It’s the first time a former president has been indicted, but as Jon Stewart says — you either have the rule of law or you don’t. Here’s Brian Tyler Cohen on the topic: BREAKING: TRUMP INDICTED IN NEW YORK

China exhibiting control over Hollywood

Posted by Dave Switzer under From the web

All Hollywood studios want to release their movies in China, because of the large market. But the Chinese government won’t allow you to say certain things — they won’t allow you to say Taiwan is a country, and they won’t allow you to say the Dalai Lama is a great guy. Richard Gere found out […]

Ontario voters need to vote strategically

Posted by Dave Switzer under From the web, My thoughts

Most people in Ontario don’t want Doug Ford to be premier again (CBC News says he has 36% whereas the combination of Liberal, NDP, Green, and Other has 64%). And rightly so — he will do very horrible things. But because of how our election system works (first past the post) he is likely to […]

People who get paid to not do their job

Posted by Dave Switzer under My thoughts

Name a profession where the people who refuse to do their job still get paid. I can only think of one — US congresspeople. Republicans have for years, ever since Newt Gingrich gave them the idea, refused to work with the president if he was a member of the other party. But the definition of […]

It’s time for bold action in the US

Posted by Dave Switzer under My thoughts

The US is an undemocratic country. At the very least, they need to get rid of the electoral college, eliminate the filibuster in the Senate, and jail 45 for his crimes. They also need to either add more justices to the Supreme Court or give them term limits. But all of that is for another […]

What Biden has done as president

Posted by Dave Switzer under From the web

Joe Biden is at risk of being able to do less after the midterm elections this year. It’s useful to remember all the great things he’s done as president, along with fellow Democrats. Thom Hartmann gives the run down: Here’s What The Dems Have Done – Did You Know?

An eruption of possibility

Posted by Dave Switzer under From the web

Eddie Glaude, from Princeton, calls this moment when Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed for the Supreme Court “an eruption of possibility… What we think is possible expands.” Fellow guest Joe Lockhart, former White House Press Secretary, points out no Republicans stood up to condemn their colleagues’ sickening behaviour during the hearings. This is […]

It’s time to get rid of monarchy

Posted by Dave Switzer under From the web, My thoughts

Among the things we should get rid of in the 21st century? Monarchy. Note that I’m not talking about a specific monarchy, or specific people. Any specific monarch might be a nice person — that is irrelevant to my point. Regardless of their niceness, or usefulness, they should get off their throne. As for the […]

Citizening

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Baratunde Thurston uses “citizen” as a verb to suggest that you need to be a citizen not just at elections but all the time. “Some people have always felt the right to take from others, to deny democracy to some, to keep some power for themselves,” he says. He has a podcast called “How to […]