~ It's Been Around For A Long Time ~ *News Media and Presidential Campaigns* The style of campaigning is symbolic of – and results from – the central role played by the mass…
Monday Ménage: Cognitive Dissonance. Downright Moron. The Whole Point.
Fanon. Mencken. Chomsky. Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create…
WayBack Wednesday: The Big Lie Gets Bigger and Bigger and …
Republicans Dance With Fascist 'Joyful Warriors' Moms For Liberty Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and fellow Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy spoke at the event, with DeSantis doubling down—his wife…
Press Freedom: Slippin’ & Slidin’ in the US of A
Journalism vs Fake News: Fake Winning From the annual index by Reporters Without Borders: 2023 World Press Freedom Index – journalism threatened by fake content industry The 21st edition of the World Press…
Wednesday WayBack: Lying Liars and The Lies They Leave Laying Around
In the cesspool that is today's Republican source for their spoken and written words, the latest dump by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy might not be as toxic as the many he has dropped…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Edition Orators, Gladhand, Everything and Bullshit Consumption
Aristophanes. de Beaumarchais. Mencken. Pearlheart. Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on…
Wednesday WayBack: America, Been Here Before
GOP Takes Dump On America, Again 'Former U.S. President Donald Trump and former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy in Ukraine. Pompeo, in a February 18, 2022 interview,…
Wednesday WayBack: Wingers, Propaganda and Vlad, Oh My
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes & ears. It was their final, most essential command - George Orwell, "1984" Once again, right-wingers in the U.S. are just so proud…
Wednesday WayBack: History, Ain’t It Something
Writing at CommonDreams.org, Thom Hartmann asks the question on the minds of many Americans: Will US Turn Away From Fascism and Abandon This GOP Death Cult Before It's Too Late? Hartmann: The current Republican…
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…
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…
Wednesday WayBack: Yes, History Repeats; A Short Reading List
A Little Obsession Is Good Obsession Received a couple of e-mails recently suggesting I might be obsessed with the idea today's Republicans are a Nazi-like political party. Well, I think 'obsessed' could be an…
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.…
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Reminder: History Teaches
We Learn Or We Rot Republican Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona was asked at a recent event sponsored by the far-right group Patriot Voices, a Rick Santorum organisation, what he thought about…
Hmmm…
Coincidence? There's No Coincidence In Politics! On 6 July in 1854, the Republican Party was officially organized in Jackson, Michigan. On 6 July 1923, the Central Executive Committee accepted the Treaty of Union and…
A Propagandist Fails
When You Fail At Your One Job A television host on the Fox Propaganda Network said he had read Adolf Hitler's manifesto “Mein Kampf” as it was part of his high school curriculum. It…
Democracy: It’s Complicated and Fragile
It's Always About Choices During his Memorial Day 2021 address to the nation President Joe Biden warned that U.S. democracy is in danger of failing: “The mission falls to each of us,…
Danger Ahead: Anti-Democracy Drift
Reminders “The radicalization of the Republican Party has outpaced what even most critical observers imagined. We need to grapple with what that should mean for our expectations going forward and start thinking…
Monday Ménage
Angela Davis. H.L. Mencken. Adlai Stevenson. I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who…
We Love To Hate. It’s You, Not Me
Sixty-Four Percent of Americans Think Social Media Divides More Than Unite A new NBC poll reveals astonishing news: Most Americans who use social media more than once a day think platforms like Facebook…
Sunday Morning Talk-News 2021
The Minister Would Be Very Proud
Faux Outrage. It’s What They Do.
It's Who They Are! Republicans in the House led by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise said Monday they are going forward with plans to censure Maxine Waters because they…
And Another One… UPDATED
UPDATE: A correction (via CNN) A White House official, National Economic Council Deputy Director Bharat Ramamurti, tweeted on Sunday to try to correct the inaccurate criticism of Salazar. "I've seen some confusion on this.…
Monday Ménage: Edition CPAC
Adolf Hitler. Joseph Goebells. Joseph Stalin. Donald J Trump. We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian. Adolf Hitler, 27 October 1928. …














