Attacks by Republican fundamentalists on women’s human rights in the US have accelerated over the past five-plus years. These attacks, obviously, are based on fear. Much like their brethren in countries such as Iran,…
Truth Is Never Easy, In Politics
Wealth Supremacists And White Supremacists. United In Anti-Democracy, Backed By SCOTUS ˜ A Sunday Read That Will Make You Crap Your Pants ˜ Why isn’t Joe Biden doing all he can to protect American…
Hey, Democrats. It Is A Big Fuking Deal!
Think Republican Attacks On Voting Rights In Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Texas And Other States Is No Big Deal, That There's Time To Turn America's Traitors Around… Then Remember This… In…
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…
McConnell Has Another Grab-For-Power Orgasm
Determined To Reach That Pleasure Spot It's The Only Thing That Matters To Him During an interview with a conservative radio show, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave notice that he will repeat…
Where Is America Heading?
An article in The Guardian asks: Is America heading to a place where it can no longer call itself a democracy? I offer once again these reminders as among possible answers to that question.…
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…
Worse Of The Worst: #4
2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. GOP Backing Trump's Attempted Coup Posted 2020.11.10 Sycophant and…
Barr Sycophantish Nature On Full Display
Your dishonourable, shameful, suck-up - and down right disgusting - resignation letter will not change the fact that William Barr will be remembered as the worst (and possibly most corrupt) Attorney General of the…
Fascists In The House
UPDATE Supreme Court: NO! UPDATE 20 More Join Attempt At Coup, Including Top Republican Leadership: Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). 106 Anti-Democracy House Republicans Sign On To Texas…
Yes, It Could Happen Here
Political Leaders Need To Speak Out As Did Chairman Of Joint Chiefs of Staff And House Majority Whip. We are unique among militaries. We do not take an oath to a king or…
America 2020. Or, America 2024
Ain't History Something... "In 1930, Germany is a liberal democracy. Just four years later, democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and the government is in the hands of the Nazis." See how…
Don’t Let Them Take It. The Replay
Don’t Let Them Take It
REPOST: The Extremely Dangerous ‘What If…’
In March of 2019, Mehdi Hasan writes in his article at The Intercept about the possible scenario where Donald Trump is impeached or defeated in the 2020 election and refuses to leave office. Hasan…
A Fragile Democracy: Déjà Vu Upside Down
OPENING STATEMENT AG William Bar, House Judiciary Committee. 28 July 2020. (more…)
REST IN PEACE IN POWER
(A Partial) Name Chart of Black Americans Killed By Police. Produced by LA Johnson of NPR
The Top Six
On the day Turkey’s authoritarian leader was welcomed at the White House - also the day public impeachment hearings of Donald Trump began - we thought it only proper to add Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
Hmmm… Number Three
“In an effort to strengthen his hold on the party and to purge it of unreliable elements, Hitler established the Committee for Examination and Adjustment (Untersuchungs--und Schlichtungs-Ausschuss). This body, which came to be known…
Hmmm… Number Two
“Most of the ‘intelligentsia’, apart from the minority of intellectuals forced into emigration, needed no terror to make them fall in line with Nazi ‘Gleichschaltung’ (or ‘coordination’). Indeed, ‘self-coordination’ applied to many sections of…
Hmmm…
The whole structure of [Hitler’s] government has been aptly dubbed “authoritarian anarchy”. (more…)
Use It Or Lose It. Democracy Is Funny That Way
Like it or not, and I don’t, Donald Trump is president of the United States of America. In 2016 he lost the popular vote by 2.9 million votes but received 304 Electoral College votes…
History As Reminder: March Madness
In the last parliamentary elections of the Weimar Republic in March 1933, the Nazis polled 44% of the vote – not enough for a majority but enough to put down any future political resistance.…
History As Reminder: America?
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‘You Are Not Welcome in Pittsburgh’
Jewish Group Tells Trump to Stay Out After Anti-Semitic Mass Murder. For the past three years, your words and your policies have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement. You yourself called the murderer…
All You Need To Know About This “Man” This “President”
Trump During The 60 Minutes Sit-Down With Leslie Stahl... “Had I not made that speech, we would not have won. I was just saying she didn’t seem to know anything.” “I didn’t really make…













