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“Hydroclimatologist Peter Gleick told Taryn Luna, Liam Dillon, and Alex Wigglesworth of the Los Angeles Times that Trump’s linking of water policy to the raging fires was blatantly false, irresponsible and politically self-serving.’”

In effect, I would say that everything Trump is saying is “blatantly false, irresponsible and politically self-serving.”

so we know this, over and over!

so, what's the next step, after saying all this, over and over?

Biden's last hurrah should be to exploit the SC's unfortunate ruling about presidential immunity, ASAP.

Release the Jack Smith summary.

Extradite the J6 convicts to blue state prisons where possible.

But that's window dressing -

We’re not that democratic, are we? A little pie-in-the-sky, perhaps?

We have NOT been democratic as a nation since Reagan gave money the vote; it has deteriorated ever since Carter left office (as the result of Reagan's treasonous deal with the Iranian hostage holders).

Well, I'm certainly NOT in favor of bringing a vote to a dollar fight, with apologies to Indiana Jones.

To have a democracy, you first have to fix misinformation. (And NO, one doesn't fix misinfo with just more of it.)

To fix misinformation you have to defund, deny, depose the billionaire class.

Money altering, when not determining, political outcomes is, was and always will be (a good old fashioned word) "corruption". So are some of the jaw-dropping conflicts of interest we have folded into our current concept of normalcy. Money has always weighed corruptingly on the "scales" of justice, and social justice has continued in some respects, to the current day, but since decades of progress against political corruption has been on a roll ever since sleazy Reagan successfully smeared gover…

I took a great macro econ class from the author of Prices and Choices in 1986 or -7 at HSPH, and he said, and I will always remember this formulation, that the benefits of Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' of a free market have just 3 simple pre-requisites. The simple requirements EVERY American defender of a free market should know, inside out, are:

1) product choices (a variety of competing products in a niche)

2) informed consumers (who know key distinguishing attributes of the products), and

3) co…

Exactly, and I was aware that I risked defaming Adam Smith by using what was originally his metaphor; although I think it was an unfortunate one as it seems to ascribe a benign purpose to what is instead a strategy of balance. Russian communists thought the could change human nature. The USSR even tried to push a phony theory of genetics (Lyesekoism) to reinforce that belief. The "right" believes that selfishness alone can deliver us to the promised land. Smith grasped that competition CAN serv…