Who CARES? They Did! Billionaires Received Taxpayer-Funded Stimulus Checks During the Pandemic In March 2020, as the first wave of coronavirus infections all but shut down the U.S. economy, Congress responded with rare speed,…
Is This a Trick Question?
Is There a Republican Alive Who Still Believes in Democracy? Republican state governments are currently passing laws to restrict Democrats from voting in the future, while taking care not to suppress the Republican vote.…
Wednesday WayBack: Promises Broken. Elections Lost!
It Is What It Is On Tuesday, Republican Glenn Youngkin, a career private equity executive running his first campaign, defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in not even a close race for Governor in Virginia. Youngkin…
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…)
Friday Serenade: Same Old D-Crap
Can't Step Out of The Fantasy Many campaign promises fail to make the Biden BBB framework as Democrats coming to terms with shrinking agenda The new $1.75 trillion framework and Biden’s morning…
Da Dems…
Prescription Drug Reforms Are Out Of The Spending Deal, At Least For Now No reforms would be a major setback for Democrats, a big victory for the drug industry — and a loss for…
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…
Shrinking Into Nothingness
In an opinion piece on Tuesday at The Guardian, Robert Reich poses a familiar, and some may say inevitable, Democratic Party policy outcome: Is Biden's entire agenda about to shrink into nothingness? While Dr.…
Monday Ménage: Joke Is On Us
Carlin. Mauro. Marx. Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own.…
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…
Monday Ménage: Edition Compromise. The Compromisee Always Gets The Short End
Cavanagh/Gershman. McClure. Rossiter. George [H.W.] Bush has spelled out an economic agenda for his New World Order. It is an agenda that would prove enormously lucrative to a few thousand giant corporations. And it…
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,…
Hey Nancy And Chuck, Meet Neville
Pelosi Tells Her Dems Get Ready To Appease Manchin, Sinema ~ "We can't negotiate the reconciliation bill down to nothing" ~ Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is telling her Democratic members decide which…
Monday Ménage: Mixed Bag With A Plus One
Twain. Milne. Rousseau. Haudenosaunee. In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at…
Left Where? Why?
Rising from the tradgedy that is America, we see today few willing to find solutions but many quite willing to find blame. Much of the blame for the current state of America - leveled…
The Pandora Papers Shine A Big, Broad, Bright Spot Light
From the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ The reporting shows how the United States, in particular, has become an increasingly attractive destination for hidden wealth, although the U.S. and its Western allies condemn…
Wednesday WayBack: Crisis And Calamity
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday warned Senate Republicans the nation faced a “calamity” unless Congress raises or suspends the debt ceiling. “I think there would be a financial crisis, and a calamity”, said…
81M To 1. 1 Wins
Joe Biden won the 2020 election with over 81.2 million votes; by far the most votes cast for any presidential candidate in U.S. history. That's great. So, how come President Biden and his administration…
Monday Ménage: Edition Ignorance
Mark Twain. Dalai Lama. Isaac Asimov. In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined 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…
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…
Shift. Delete. Blame.
The Blame Game, of course, has begun. Media outlets could not wait. They were forming at the mouth, ready to sell headlines and bylines, eager to forget what came before. And then they pounced.…
Monday Ménage And A Plus 1
Philip Pullman. Zadie Smith. Giannina Braschi. Wendell Steavenson. The commercial pressures, the forces urging us to buy and discard and buy again. When everything in public life has a logo attached to it,…
Is It Fair To Compare?
“It’s not about comparing them. It’s more about seeing what happened before in history and what’s happening now or in the last few years”. A new documentary takes a deep dive into the historic…













