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(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 9, 2021 Trump's Shadow Cabinet is Part of His Ongoing Attempted Coup
Making sure the coup never ends but keeps rolling on is probably Trump's best chance to avoid going to jail for crimes ranging from rape to bank fraud, sedition and treason.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 4, 2021 DeSantis' Anti-Mask Order Is Replaying Reagan's Phony "Rugged Individualism"
A gauzy whitewashed history of America is intrinsic to the Republican brand, which is why DeSantis must oppose mask mandates while the GOP continues to promote their "rugged individualism" triumvirate of balanced budgets, personal responsibility and small government.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 2, 2021 Trump's Shadow Cabinet is Part of his Ongoing Coup
Now, in the Trump shadow-universe he's created a shadow-government for his shadow-fans. It's not as wacky an idea as it seems and suggests Trump's solidifying his control over the GOP going toward 2022 and 2024.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 31, 2021 Civilization-Ending Climate Change Is Knocking On Our Door
The insect apocalypse is only a leading indicator of what is already a larger disaster for much of humanity and is now beginning to hit the wealthy world hard. Climate change from man-made global warming is here in a way that even fossil fuel billionaires and their paid shills can no longer deny.
SHARE Tuesday, July 27, 2021 Hawley's "Love America Act" Is All About Hate
White supremacy, racism & the rest of America subsidizing Red states weren't just realities in 1787: they're alive and well today & Hawley and his white supremacist buddies want to keep it that way.
(39 comments) SHARE Monday, July 26, 2021 America is Suffering from an Epidemic of Political Bullying
America has a bully problem, and we're not going to solve it by giving in; today's Democrats need to take a lesson from FDR & LBJ and take on the bullies so they can get things done for Americans.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 24, 2021 Trump's Supreme Court Crime Spree
During the confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh, over 4,500 tips about sexual assault, gambling and other issues came into the FBI, including several now known to have come from highly credible sources. Instead of investigating them, Chris Wray's FBI handed them over to the Trump White House"where they died.
SHARE Wednesday, July 21, 2021 Can America Go from Empire to "Good Neighbor?"
America needs to define a consistent, honest and public position on foreign aid and foreign interventions. If we fail to do so, we'll continue to produce disasters that have long-term consequences not only for the countries with whom we've interfered but also here in the US.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 20, 2021 The GOP Delivers More Crime to America
Inequality causes crime because it destroys social trust, the core fabric of any society: Without social trust, empathy and shared values disintegrate and culture begins to collapse
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 17, 2021 When Does the Greed Stop?
Our government has been corrupted by greed and the money it brings, and that corruption has spread like a cancer to religion, education and helping professions like healthcare.
SHARE Friday, July 16, 2021 The Multiracial Democracy Ulysses Grant Was Willing to Die For is in Danger
Prior to 1965, the only American president to have both promoted and presided over a multiracial democracy was Ulysses Grant, the former general in Lincoln's army who became president when impeached Southern slaveowner Andrew Johnson's term expired on March 4, 1869.
SHARE Wednesday, July 14, 2021 The GOP's Shameless Plot Against Democracy
Seventeen Republican-controlled states have passed 28 voter suppression laws, even asserting that if elections don't turn out the way the Party likes they can simply change or ignore the results. It's driven Texas legislators, faced with another law like that, to flee the state in a desperate effort to preserve their voting rights.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 13, 2021 Death is Their Election Strategy
Letting Americans die to win elections. Is that how low today's GOP has sunk? What other possible explanation could there be?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 12, 2021 Time to Trigger the Nuclear Option
Texas Republicans prepare to pass another massive voter suppression bill. The only remedy available to the American people is for the federal government to use its constitutional authority to regulate federal elections to block what President Biden has referred to as the GOP's "Jim Crow in the 21st century."
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 9, 2021 Oligarchy: When Brutal Capitalism Becomes More Important than Democracy
In an oligarchy, the rich can get away with anything and average people who try to stop harm to themselves and their communities get crushed. We're now there; the question is whether we'll pull back from this horror show, or whether it'll continue its evolution toward a full-blown police state.
SHARE Wednesday, July 7, 2021 The GOP's "Flood The Zone With Sh*t" Race Strategy
"Be Afraid of Black People" is the GOP's main message to white voters these days, leveraged by lies about an obscure academic pursuit sometimes called Critical Race Theory (CRT). Many white voters, it turns out, are listening.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 1, 2021 Cosby Got Trump's Sweetheart Deal
It's time to end Rich Man's Deals and hold people with well-stuffed money bins to the same level of accountability as the rest of us.