We Have Journeyed Far From Here ~ Supreme Court Blocks Biden The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its emergency rule mandating that workers at large businesses get vaccinated or undergo regular…
Wednesday WayBack: White Nationalists and Their Motherland
Moscow Mitch McConnell's outrage yesterday at Democrats' radicalism – fighting for the right for every eligible citizen to vote – is not anything new. Far-right Republicans have long turned to Russia and the former…
McConnell’s Big Fear: If You Let It, Democracy Works
McConnell Thinks Fighting For Voting Rights Is 'Radicalism' - And Not The Good Kind U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday laid bare his reasoning for vehemently defending the use of the…
Friday Serenade: Story Of The Year – Democracy In Crisis
Democracy Crisis in the Making Report Update: 2021 Year-End Numbers Research identifies at least 262 bills were introduced in 41 states this year with the intent to hijack the election process As 2021 draws…
Unguarded Moments
The Resemblance Is Uncanny ~~ Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: I am "100 percent" focused "on stopping" President Joe Biden's administration
Wednesday WayBack: Insecure Domestic Tranquility; The Road To America’s Ruin
As part of his long-game manifesto to disrupt America's domestic tranquility, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell openly urges the current unhinged disruptor having his moment, coal multimillionaire Corporate-Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia,…
Treason. Sedition. Insurrection. Attempted Coup. Yeah, It’s All Of That.
Names. Dates. Times. Places. We already knew that a large number of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives had tried to overturn the free and fair election of 2020; and some continue this…
The Real Joe Manchin: Shafting American Workers
Joe Manchin illustrates that the real division in American politics is no longer left versus right, conservative versus liberal, even Democrat versus Republican. The real division is democracy versus the moneyed interests. It's…
Wednesday WayBack: Backsliding In The USA
On Monday, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) published results of a study that finds the United States of America is a “backsliding” democracy. “The visible deterioration of democracy in the…
Backsliding, It’s All The Rage
“This year we coded the United States as backsliding for the first time, but our data suggest that the backsliding episode began at least in 2019” No American – woke or unwoke, engaged or…
When An Image Tells The Story
Democracy Dies In The Home Of The Once Brave
Oxymoron: Republicans – Free Fair Elections
'Blatant Partisan Power Grab': Wisconsin GOP Attempts to Seize Control of State's Elections “They're not dismantling democracy in secret. They're doing it right out in the open” Wisconsin Republicans, at the urging…
Friday Serenade: Nancy With The Hammer
Governing, Or At Least Trying To, Versus Fear And Loathing Led by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Democrats passed President Joe Biden's landmark $.17 billion Build Back Better bill. The…
Dem Rep. Cori Bush Takes Down That Phony Little Joey
Democratic Representative Cori Bush of Missouri did not hold back (she rarely does) when on Monday she told the country just what she thought about Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and his…
When A Image Tells The Whole Sad Story: Part Infinity
Top Democrats Spend Weekend Talking Amongst Themselves While Mitch McConnell And Top Republicans Wait In The Bushes, Ready To Pounce, Ready To Eat Dems' Lunch. Again! (more…)
I’m Not Sure, But Doesn’t It Sound Familiar?
Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson of North Carolina said he's almost certain he will run for governor in 2024. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina is a Christian nationalist. On Friday, at a…
Wednesday WayBack: Choices, Still. But For How Long
Early Thoughts On the American Coup of 2024 A warning about the very possible nightmare yet to come Background: Message from the Manila Hotel The message for democracy offered from the Manila Hotel…
Similarities? Undeniable!
School Board Protests Are Not Grassroots Movement, Are Not Spontaneous Conservatives are disrupting school board meetings by shouting, using Nazi salutes, and even physically assaulting anyone they disagree with. But these attacks are anything…
Mr President, Whattaya Gonna Do
'No issue is more important than voting rights'. Agreed! “Let’s be clear: Obstructing the Freedom to Vote Act was as subversive as state voter-suppression actions to roll back access to the vote, as…
Friday Serenade: Blue Skies No More
Where Did All The Blue Skies Go ~ In Face of Planetary Emergency, Long Awaited U.S. Report Denounced as 'Pitiful' Failure "Finding consensus between those who see or don't see our climate reality is…
Wednesday WayBack: SCUM vs SCUM
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa at a Saturday rally received endorsement for reelection from the former guy. Yeah, OK. Said the former guy (TFG): "We have with us tonight a great American patriot,…
Yes, The Hitler Playbook IS The Republican Uschla Playbook
In Plain Sight Republicans have rigged election mechanics in more than half the states. But Party members are not worried about Democratic opponents. They are, though, more than worried about primary challengers from the…
Monday Ménage, But On Tuesday
H.L. Mencken. Hunter S. Thompson. John Lewis. In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common…
Sun Setting On America’s Experiment With Democracy
According To U.S. Supreme Court, The Right To Buy An Election Is More Protected Than The Right To Vote In One The extraordinary lengths to which the Court has shown it will go to…
Shift. Delete. Blame. Part Deux
If This Was Scratch And Sniff You Would Smell The Horseshit Rightwing Republicans and their media leaders have been quick to condemn President Joe Biden for failing to evacuate Afghan allies. In the…
Stop Being His Puppy Dog
You're Not A Senator. Haven't Been For A While. Since January of this year, at least 14 Republican-led states have gone after the voting rights of American citizens with a vengeance. At least…
Surrender. Yeah, It’s The Dems’ Way
Looks Like President Biden Surrendering On Passing Voting Rights Protections If the filibuster isn't reformed so that voting rights laws can pass the Senate by a simple majority vote, then efforts to fight the…













