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Getting rid of homeless encampments doesn’t solve the problem Today, I saw that advocates are suing a town in Oregon for the homeless. The powers that are in town in their infinite lack of wisdom, want to ban the homeless from sleeping outside. What I can’t help but wonder, are there enough beds and shelters to get those people off the streets? is the town offering solutions, or do they want…

it is time to discuss the latest in far-right

insane-in-the-membrane conspiracy theories,

the sort of inane nonsense that, unfortunately,

too many idiots, including our own president,

actually listen to because they have never

gotten their immunity shots against bullshit.

The (Chinese) corona-virus was manufactured

in a lab and weaponized to attack America.

The evidence? It happened during trade

negotiations between our two nations—that,

and the fact that it started over there, and you

can’t trust those sneaky, slant-eyed bastards.

And be prepared to hear this bogus argument

ramp up as we near the election because if

China ‘attacked’ us, then Trump becomes

a ‘war-time president’ and according to some

folks, you should never not re-elect a war-time

president while he’s fighting the good fight.

The main reason for this conspiracy is that

it deflects the blame towards the Chinese

instead of Trump who screwed this thing up

at every turn, declaring the virus a Democratic

‘hoax’ meant to bring down his administration,

or saying that it’s no worse than the seasonal flu.

Which delayed our response by two months,

during which time the virus rant rampant across

our population unchecked, the death-dividends

of which we are witnessing a month later:

thousands dead, tens of thousands sick, and

and a medical system on the verge of collapse.

Had ‘He-who-shall-not-be-educated’ not stupidly

dismantled the pandemic task force, or not

defunded the CDC, or listened to the experts,

foreign and domestic, the wealthiest nation

on earth would have been in a position to fight

this affliction which has brought us to our knees.

Occam’s razor says the simplest explanation

is the most accurate, and the basic, blade-edge

truth is that ‘he’ is an ignorant bloviator who

cares more for money and fame and power

than people. He does not consider himself a

public servant; he thinks the public serves him.

That is why the virus has taken us by ‘surprise’

not because we didn’t see it coming, but because

‘he’ refused to acknowledge it, much like the

Chinese government, and isn’t it funny that

such minds—who care only about power and

appearances of control—think so much alike.

Not to mention that there are thousands of

corona-viruses out there, so you don’t have to

manufacture them; and it didn’t just attack us

but every nation on earth; and every hundred

years, a plague wipes out millions, going back

to ancient times—but who needs actual facts.

Thus, the real plague is not viral, or bacterial,

or material, but political—the insidious sickness

of far-right-wing-radio, Fox-news-fueled, vote

Republican-party-or-die Trumpist bullshit that

spreads unchecked through the tunnel-visioned

echo-chamber of ignorant America like a disease.

It will destroy us long before the Chinese, or

the Russians, or the Democrats, for the Great

Political Divide has been cracked open like a

gash in the earth, separating our nation between

those who know facts and those who know Fox,

Progress and Poverty    - Henry George

Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide, probably more than any other American book before that time. The treatise investigates the paradox of increasing inequality and poverty amid economic and technological progress, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of rent capture such as land value tax and other anti-monopoly reforms as a remedy for these and other social problems.