Last night I watched footage of a Proud Boys rally and riot in Portland. The group moved through areas of Portland, brutally beating on people, and all this occurred without the slightest concern of the Portland Police. In fact the police let it be known that they were keeping out of it.
Meanwhile the Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan, in a brutal way of course, and Biden is being blamed for the chaos even though America had no business being there for the last 20 years. One might think that if the US was nation building, that after 20 years of pumping all kinds of military hardware into a country, that the newly formed Afghanistan military would have at least tried to fight back once. The joke going around is this, there are lots of Afghanistan weapons for sale on Ebay, they're in perfect condition and have only been dropped once.
Top it off, Covid is still gaining, and then the real deep problem, global warming, is ringing the bell but good this year. We've had fires, droughts, floods, unbelievable heat waves, and profoundly obvious changes to the environment. Even with all this, I'm leaving out the fact that a solid 35% to 40% of Americans would happily, in a heartbeat, rush to Donald Trump, and they believe that a malevolent deep state conspiracy robbed him of the election. Now the GOP is pretending that a record election turnout in urban areas did not happen, and so they need to 'fix' the voting rules in this country, rather than address the fact that GOP policy is extremely unpopular. And by the way, calling conspiracy grade lunacy, a policy, is a wee bit of a stretch.
I'm pounding on the mat, uncle, I give.
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