Part 1 On greed

 It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher

On my friend’s feed, he has a couple of MAGA devotees who continually make the most inane defenses of DJT, the egregious treatment of immigrants, the insanity and devastation of the tariffs, etc. Logic is unheard of, baseless propaganda is repeated again and again.  Consistently, these two men turn to deflection when faced with absolute evidence. A common deflection to anyone who confronts them and has solid arguments is, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you a millionaire? Where are your millions?” Supreme Court documents? Well, he’s wealthy, where is yours? Department of Justice documents? Stock market? Evidence from world leaders? If you’re not rich, you can’t be as smart as their leader. Corruption? Cruelty? He’s rich. Mind you, much of this is sprinkled with references to God. 

This love affair with wealth is disgusting and disturbing. Our economy was doing well under Joe Biden’s leadership. The idea that you have to support everything about a leader is ridiculous; I was not and am not a fan of our enabling the genocide of the Palestinian people. Facts are facts and Biden handed Trump an economy that had recovered from the Pandemic better than any other country. 12.6% GDP growth, 16.6 Million jobs created, 1.6 Million jobs created in construction and manufacturing, Lowest average unemployment rate in 50 years.

This love affair with greed has led people to believe abject lies about immigrants, lies about waste and fraud, lies about the effectiveness of tariffs -- all things that this administration has used and is using to hurt thousands and thousands of people. It has allowed for rollbacks of commercial fishing regulations for a conservation area off the coast of Maine which is extremely important to right whales. He has rolled back regulations in our national forests in order to ramp up logging. He signed an executive order to expedite permits for deep sea mining - an action dangerous NOW and dangerous for the future of our planet. ““Scientists agree that deep-sea mining is a deeply dangerous endeavor for our ocean and all of us who depend on it,” said Jeff Watters, vice-president for external affairs at the Ocean Conservancy. “The harm caused by deep-sea mining isn’t restricted to the ocean floor: it will impact the entire water column, top to bottom, and everyone and everything relying on it.’ Such concerns prompted most countries in the 1990s to join a United Nations-affiliated International Seabed Authority to govern seabed mining in international waters.” He plans on opening up 13 million acres of public land for gas and oil drilling, an action that environmentalists say will have devastating results.

GREED.  Greedy exploitation of resources without any concern for the future, without any concern for the animals that share this world with us, without any concern for the water supply. This continual rape of the earth is not sustainable but HE DOES NOT CARE, nor do his MAGA zombies.  They don’t care about what remains for their children and grandchildren. They don’t care about the endangered species nor do they care about endangering more life on this earth.  

Many of the fundamentalists that follow this insanity are wrapped up in a twisted mistranslation and pipedream of “the apocalypse,” believing it doesn’t matter what happens to the earth because they are betting out of here.  The fools don’t even comprehend that “apocalypse” does not mean the ending of the earth, it means unveiling.  Oh, things are being unveiled alright - their lust, greed, and abject idolatry.