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...
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...
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...
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...
Democratic Party Idea
So the Democrats are doing another Talk-A-Thon about the disaster that will be Trumpcare. (GOPCare?) As part of a sit-in on the Capital steps with other Democratic Senators and Representatives, Cory Booker started a Facebook post with this: Health care is a human right. Nice beginning. And yes, I agree...
And Speaking of Liars…
Today, Senate Republicans released their draft of Trumpcare. You remember, the one they were going to rewrite from scratch? It’s like the kids who did their homework on the bus into school. Republicans changed a couple of words from the House version, cut even more money from the poor and...
Republican Agenda
Yes, Trump is a Republican. So Trump decided that America wouldn’t be a world leader anymore. He already ditched the EU and NATO, and now he’s repudiated the Paris agreement. He’s finally convinced everyone that the US is no longer a world power. Nobody’s surprised that Trump’s empty justifications clearly...
Life of the party
Ethical consistency is so 80’s. This is one of the pictures that got Kathy Griffin in trouble. I’m wondering about our reaction. Do I find the image offensive? No. But it wasn’t especially funny, either. Mimicking a President’s death is uncomfortable, so for this to work, she’d need a better...
Republicans Frown Sorrowfully
Making frowny faces at the TV cameras is not the same as ‘action’. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC). With the recent revelations about Trump, Republicans either reiterated their bland responses, or simply stopped answering questions. “We could do with a little less drama from the White House...
Republican Goals and ‘Winning’
It’s a question of character. There will be a test afterwards. I frequently lament the loss of the Republican party. I know I comment on them critically and harshly, but honestly, I do miss having a decent opposition party. I’m not especially thrilled with the Democratic party and their deliberately...
Hypocrisy and Republican Liars
I’ve written too much about Republican liars. I just deleted three drafts because even I was bored. We already know all that. What our interest? Tell us how Democrats can change the system into something better.
History Lesson
Don’t you hate reminders of what you said when you were a child? Back in December, 2015, way back when Candidate Donald Trump first started bragging about banning Muslims from the USA, the Washington Post wrote that Ryan, McConnell denounce Trump plan to bar Muslims from the U.S: Republicans on...
Insane Congress
Trump threatens yet another new war. Congress? So Trump has committed an act of war in Syria and Afghanistan, and now he’s saber-rattling around Korea, just as China warns us that this is a terrible idea. That’s what, three acts of war in three different nations in roughly the same...
Republicans Deny Women’s Healthcare
Talk about tyranny. How emasculated do they really feel? The small penis party managed another tiny victory. I’m sure that’s what they told themselves, anyway. In another resounding example of…. You know, I don’t really understand what they’re trying to do. A vote against common sense? Lying extravagantly? They voted...
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