Media Bias and Misinformation
Did you know that 37% of Americans say the US is losing jobs? In reality, job growth under Biden is high, and unemployment is historically low. We get our news from the media. If we’re misinformed, is that media bias?
The End of the American Experiment
Trump calls for unchecked power. His supporters cheer and talk about needing assault rifles against the government. And we make excuses. He attacks impartial justice, and they agree. Stop pretending they’re not calling for the end of the American experiment.
Evangelicals welcome the Antichrist
Evangelicals, like so many groups, have betrayed their principles under President Trump, who corrupts everything he touches. Unlike the Republicans, I find the Evangelicals hard to explain. What price did they get when they sold their everlasting souls to Trump, a walking, talking Antichrist in bad hair.
Stop Pretending: We Already Know the Truth
Americans are waiting for evidence about Republican corruption, even though we already know the answers. What does it say about America that we’re not willing to defend it?
Insane or Stupid: the New American Kleptocracy
I can’t tell if we’re insane or stupid. We see the collapse of the two-party system into a criminal kleptocracy, and yet we keep pretending it’s something else. I started this with the Stoneman Douglas High School deaths. It still hurts to think about it, but we have another mass shooting in another school. We see the broken and bloody bodies of our children on...
The Line Between Good and Evil Runs Through Each of Us
Like many Republicans before him, Trump and his administration talk about people as either good or bad. That’s a child’s concept, and a political tactic. Republican started the approach decades ago under Lee Atwater, but Trump took Atwater’s noxious toy and just ran with it. He frames almost every disagreement as combat between good and evil. This tactic isn’t just infantile nonsense; it corrupts any conversation it...
Republican Healthcare
So, President Trump decided to become more actively evil. What a surprise. The question now is how evil the Republican party decides it’ll become in response. For some impossible-to-discern reason, Trump suddenly decided he had to throw a firebomb under the health care bus. Actually, three bombs: yanking the payments to insurance companies to cover poor people, splitting healthy people out of the ACA marketplaces,...
Trump the Fighter
The latest spout of Trump Crazy tweets — the ones that leave me shaking my head — leave a third of us delighted. They see Trump as a fighter. “Look at him hit back against those snobby elites!” they tell each other, as if Trump ever actually won a fair fight. Here’s a quote from Washington Post opinion piece by Hugh Hewitt: The rest of...