Fake News
He asked for it, he can get it. Fire with fire for a little bit. Top ten news stories:- president-runnerup trump removed the bust of Martin Luther King Jr., in keeping with his executive orders banning...
View ArticlePocahontas - of course, another Republican lie
Given Elizabeth Warren’s prominence and possible candidacy for the 2020 presidency, Republicans are making a point refer to her as ‘Pocahontas’, as trump recently did again.The Republican line is that...
View ArticleWhy doesn't Paul Ryan ever have to debate his ideology?
Paul Ryan has arrested intellectual development, from his youth encountering Ayn Rand, who he used to force all his staffers to read until it got exposed.He’s wrong. He has simplistic ideas.He thinks...
View ArticleIf you like Lord of the Rings and want a laugh at trump's expense...
I laughed.twitter.com/...
View ArticleWhen politics is psychology: understanding trump supporters
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen a liberal say, “a trump supporter was confronted doing what THEY say is wrong and they don’t care!”…Why is that?Here’s my theory about a big part of it. It’s...
View ArticleMy remembrance of 9/11/2001
One particular part of the day. The day the attacks happened, I thought, the one thing we must not do is let these attacks change the country for the worse. That would give enemies a far bigger victory...
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Talk about Republicans' real agenda, not their cover issue
There’s a technique Republicans generally use to sell their policies, and it’s effective.It’s to simply mask the agenda with a different issue.A top example is passing voter suppression but calling it...
View ArticleIf I were in Congress, a bill I'd submit: legally make donald trump president...
Can’t we just put this down as a mistake officially, and make him #44.5, so the next one is 45? It’ll be so much easier for future books and histories to just go from 44 to 45.Write him out of...
View ArticleLet's take a moment to review a pattern of modern Republican presidents:...
Used to be, the Republican Party for better or worse tended to follow the American system — run a candidate who would be in charge if he (he, this is Republican history) won.So Thomas Dewey, Barry...
View ArticleWhat's missing from our national narrative: The Republican Party is organized...
It’s hard to get people to act appropriately when the discussion is warped.It’s a little like when slavery was hard to fix when the two sides were those who treated their slaves less badly and those...
View ArticleA short point about the Syria strike
I wrote a diary hours after the strike making a lot of the same points others later posted, and a few others, I didn’t post because of a power outage. But since they’ve largely been made, just one...
View ArticleA sobering historical reminder how hard the American people need to fight to...
Richard Nixon was horribly corrupt. His whole political career was built on wealthy people picking him to serve them and funding him. He had personal slush funds, he had literal mob payments of...
View ArticleA little perspective on trump so far versus previous Republicans
trump is as bad a person as we think. Horribly corrupt, incompetent, deluded, rather evil.But it’s not a bad idea, as I see some yearn for how ‘all the Republicans in the past weren’t as bad as this’,...
View ArticleA next step the anti-democracy Republicans want to destroy the constitution
People are always surprised by each new measure to gut the constitution — its power for the people — because the plutocrats at war with it don’t lay out their plan.Grover Norquist made this point when...
View ArticleAn idea to bring out the vote
We already have had great participation in protests. Of course the protesters would rather not have to, because we won the election, because people voted. Here’s an idea. Plan and widely publicize...
View ArticleHow trump (or a Republican on his coattails) wins in 2020
I’ve though this for some time but didn’t want to post it lest it have any chance of helping Republicans. Remote chance but still.But now I don’t think it’s any secret, so let’s just say it. I suspect,...
View ArticleQuick, how much has the CFPB saved the American people?
I think a lot of us know the CFPB is ‘good’, ‘on our side’, Elizabeth Warren’s creation with Obama’s support, so we’re for it. But if we can’t answer the actual good it’s done, what are the odds that...
View ArticleWe've lost France
Sorry this is not a thorough commentary on the French election.But in short, the runoff is between the trump of France radical right, and an ‘indepndent Centrist’.So the idea of semi-socialist,...
View ArticleThis CNN story seems to have serious problems
I’m reacting to something I saw. I’d like to hear if I have anything wrong.I remember a CNN story where a ‘voter panel’ of trump voters was interviewed for them to respond to trump’s claims of millions...
View ArticleIt's ok to use public money to implement free speech
Here’s my point. There’s a worldview that’s allegedly been in vogue the last 500 years — since ‘the enlightenment’— about how human beings are able to be ‘rational’.This has led to a gradual shift from...
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