[unable to retrieve full-text content]“But that is what he ran on, what the people who elected him wanted him to do,” the TV journalist said in response to the interviewee’s criticism of some of a deluge of executive orders.  If what he ran on grants license, Trump has license to do almost anything. Say a presidential candidate runs promising […] The post Low-Information Voters appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The weight of evidence—scientific and epidemiological—points to a zoonotic origin for SARS-CoV-2 with the epicenter at the Huanan wet market in Wuhan, China. Although the virus is endemic in bats, there’s little evidence for a direct jump of the virus from bats to humans in Wuhan. The most parsimonious hypothesis is that some other mammal […] The post Did COVID-19 begin with raccoon dogs? appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The differences in Republican and Democrat’s views can play out in how they view certain aspects of the US. For example, small businesses versus corporations. Both appear to perceive small business as being positive and take a negative view on corporations. I suspect it is one having a greater impact versus the other. Americans overwhelmingly […] The post Perception of Business, Military, Education, and Religion appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Certainly, it is not what I and others were expecting to see and hear. If I read this commentary properly and understood? Prof. Heather Cox Richardson accuses todays’ US citizenry of living in some fantasy land, disregarding vaccines, taking on fascist activity and symbols, and having a lack of understanding of what the United States […] The post What is the Reality in the US Today? appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Hello everyone. It has been a while but… Anyway, this is my thinking on the question asked here a few days ago: Do Democrats and Progressives need a marriage counselor or a divorce lawyer. It is long, so forewarned. First, let’s be clear on the idea of the Overton Window. Wikipedia notes the creator’s view […] The post Democrats, Ignore your Marriage Counselors appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]According to Kevin Drum, the Senate budget resolution earmarks $170 billion for border security; the House budget proposal ponies up $190 billion.  5 minutes of googling was not sufficient to figure out how this unimaginable pile of money will be spent.  Let’s assume half is for deportation.  That’s $85 billion, if we go with the […] The post Somebody better call DOGE . . . appeared first on Angry Bear.

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Good short explanation of MMT by an educator. (10 min. read)Pass it on.EducationYou Know Nothing About Economics—But there is no shame in thatThomas Swan

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The current House and Senate budget proposals both include defense increases of about $100-150 billion over ten years, or about $10-15 billion per year in nominal dollars. Toy Sec Def Hegseth is proposing a cut in defense spending of -$70 billion per year. Anyone who thinks the House and Senate will pass a bill with […] The post Ignore Pete Hesgeth appeared first on Angry Bear.

from Peter Radford Yes, I am confused. At least I admit it. There’s a lot going on, and someone like me often wallows in the activity as a way of understanding.  I like to see the systemic rather than the particular.  I am very bad, I admit, at details.  I gravitate to the long term.  What, I usually ask, does all this imply for  what comes next?  And how does it connect with the past? This biases me towards the dramatic.  The swoosh of certainty when an avenue appears within the clutter...