A little propaganda idea
You know how we use blue and red for the parties? How about we use blue and orange while trump is president, to rub it in and smear them with him?His ratings are terrible and only going down and...
View ArticleWill history repeat itself with how Republicans pass the AHCA?
A reminder, or bit of history for those who weren’t aware of how Republicans passed Medicare Part D under Bush.Big Pharma was Republicans’ #1 donor industry. Republicans were very much pay for play,...
View ArticleA bit of a rant on the right-wing argument about 'originalism'
Republicans want bad things. And we still have a democracy for now. So, they predictably want to represent their bad things as good things.One of these sheep outfits the republicans like to dress their...
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Book Club: "the Devil's Chessboard" by David Talbot
Our news is very important. But I think books play a critical role in being informed.I might post a book from time to time if there’s interest.The Devil’s Chessboard is a biography of Allen Dulles —...
View ArticleWhat a crazy system we have for democracy to function
Sorry to take a break from the headlines of the day, but let’s look at this for a moment. The theory of our system is, everyone gets one vote, preventing the few most powerful from ruling, and the...
View ArticleThey're not donors. They're anti-democracy and anti-voter.
We could have a system where elections are auctioned. It would give the most wealthy the disproportionate representation they want.It would even have a side benefit the money could go into the public...
View ArticleHistorical note: when France's President de Gaulle was nearly overthrown,...
I think we in America mostly vaguely remember France’s President de Gaulle as a ‘very French’ president who was a strong advocate for France and sometimes tricky to interact with for us.I’m not sure...
View ArticleLet's support progressive businesses
We talk a lot about ‘call the members of Congress’, which often means ‘call the people who get 99% of their campaign money from the interests you want them to vote against’. It’s worth doing, but how...
View ArticleI might disagree with your opinion, but I'll defend your right to say it. But.
If I were talking to a person, that old saying is right.But when I’m talking to someone who isn’t expressing an opinion, but is writing a check for $10 million to hire someone to do their bidding and...
View ArticleName for the Republican healthcare Bill
It’s often called ‘trumpcare’. I don’t care for that, because it sounds too much like a legitimate ‘trumpversion of healthcare’ as if it’s also a well-intended healthcare plan. It’s not. Its whole...
View ArticleImpeaching a Republican president is a lot harder than most understand
People are getting excited about how the firing of Comey accelerates the trump scandal toward his being held accountable. I need to pour a bucket of cold water for now. Recapping Watergate: Watergate...
View ArticleA danger trump poses, a reason the radical right back him, we don't hear often
Put aside for a moment what trump does or signs or doesn’t do we talk about daily.There’s a bigger issue here. For the one reader who hasn’t seen the quote, Louis Brandeis said:We can have democracy,...
View ArticleLet's demand trump follow his own rule on firing department heads disliked by...
So, when trump couldn’t get away with saying he fired Comey for his actions on Hillary, he changed the reason to say it was because Comey was disliked in the department.A lie, but he stated the...
View ArticleWhich media to support?
Specificially, I’m wondering what the opinion is on the Washington Post. I think it has a mix of good and bad, I’m not a fan of supporting Jeff Bezos more particularly. They have a sale on for $39/year...
View ArticleRefocus the resistance on the Republican Party and its donors, now
Politically, we’d like Democrats to win. trump could actually be an asset to that.What we’re looking at now is that when Republicans realize it, and some already do, they have no interest in keeping...
View ArticleIs Dershowitz's comment against the special counsel role correct it could...
I’m not crazy about Alan Dershowitz. When I went to google his recent article on the special counsel, the top three results were for Fox, Breitbart, and Newsmax.But reading the article he seems to have...
View ArticleShort fiction - I've invented a machine that sends out waves that change...
I’ve invented a machine that sends waves, similar to radio waves, across the country, and it changes voters’ opinions.I’m pretty excited and look forward to getting some things passed I’ve long wanted....
View ArticleSatirical suggestion: Let's allow buying votes.
Issues with the current system: - Wealthy interests have most of the money, and they use it to influence public opinion, by spending billions on advertising and media industries.- There is too much...
View ArticleA note on authoritarianism
How about we build an authoritarian apparatus within the US — be prepared to crack down on citizens, on dissent? Doesn’t sound very good, does it? Not something politicians can win on easily? So how do...
View ArticleMedia: start reporting propaganda as propaganda
The media has struggled with what to do when a president tells frequent, egregious lies. The normal culture of gentle correction no longer fits the behavior — they have to look at the word “lie”....
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