by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 6, 2020 | • Politics
Lost on far to many was that Ricky Gervais first condemned companies like Apple, Amazon, and Disney for their reprehensible, greedy, shameful, shitty behavior as corporate citizens before he chided the award winners for working for...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 6, 2020 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
“I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives. That is too much for me,” Ocasio-Cortez said, after Reuters had reported that Biden was...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2020 | • Politics
How To Avoid Swallowing War Propaganda ❧ Current Affairs The Trump administration has assassinated Iran’s top military leader, Qassim Suleimani, and with the possibility of a serious escalation in violent conflict, it’s a good time to think about how...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2020 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
From the article: —“Considering the booming economy, dropping unemployment numbers and the return of many once-emigrated young Portuguese citizens, it seems Portugal is on the rise. Facing the policies of socialist Prime Minister António Costa, which include properly...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020 To a certain kind of Democratic Party establishmentarian, Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 because she was not “likable” enough – a sentiment that may or may not be thinly veiled code for saying that she’s a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 4, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
A good article presenting the reasoning on why we should NOT run Biden against Trump. Stop saying Biden is the ‘most electable’. Trump will run rings round him | Nathan Robinson Supporters of Joe Biden are unlikely to be persuaded by most of the common...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 3, 2020 | • Politics, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
From the beginning of Kurt Andersen’s (Wikipedia & KurtAndersen.com) lecture: Back thirty years before he was President in United States, twenty years before there was a United States, John Adams as you may know served as the defense lawyer for the British...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 2, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
Opinion | Wake up, Republicans. Your party stands for all the wrong things now. Stuart Stevens is a writer and GOP political consultant who is working with a political action committee that backs Bill Weld for president. Here’s a question: Does anybody have any...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 31, 2019 | • Politics, The 2016 Presidential Race, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
The Non-Voters Who Decided The Election: Trump Won Because Of Lower Democratic Turnout An astonishing spectacle of the election aftermath is the false account of why Trump won. The accepted wisdom is that Trump succeeded in awakening a popular movement of anger and...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 31, 2019 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
WTF! NO! Are Joe Biden and the other Republican candidates who talk about working with Republicans on the other side of the isle crazy? Who? This crop of Republicans? The Trumplicans? How the F is that a good idea? I have nothing against working with Republicans some...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 30, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump
I study liars. I’ve never seen one like Donald Trump. I spent the first two decades of my career as a social scientist studying liars and their lies. I thought I had developed a sense of what to expect from them. Then along came President Donald Trump. His lies...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 28, 2019 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race
My support for Bernie Sander is both ideologically based (I think he has the best vision and ideas about the direction this country needs to go) and strategic in that I think he is the inspiring leader we need both to get out the base and build up a supply of new...
