Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif. and second in line of presidential succession) released a “fact sheet” breaking down Donald Trump’s “shakedown” of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a “pressure campaign”…
Meltdowns, Walk-Outs, And One Great Pic
House Dems Walk Out Of White House Syria Meeting; Trump Had Tremendous, Bigly, Best-Ever-Of-Any-American-President-In-The-History-Of-Presidential-Meltdowns 'Meltdown'
Let’s Do It Again
Speaker Pelosi: "All Roads Seem To Lead To Putin..."
Monday Ménage
Marie Curie. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Buddha. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie…
Impeachment Inquiry
America, Wishes Can Come True
Less Than 1,000 Days In Office An Unbeatable Record
Oval Office Occupant Does False Or Almost False 13,435 Times Over 993 Days. That’s As Of 9 October, Less Than 1,000 Days In The Office. (more…)
When An Image Tells The Story: Fascists Edition
Sycophant Of All Congressional Sycophants Lindsey Graham Of South Carolina Demands Fellow Senate Republicans Sign A Loyalty Oath To Donald Trump. No, Really... Read Here
Neville Chamberlain Meet Donald Trump
Betrayal for the Kurds. Appeasement for Erdogan. Donald Trump will draw down U.S. military presence in northern Syria to make way for Turkish troops to wipe out the Kurds. Trump’s policy of appeasement toward…
Déjà Vu All Over Again?
On 1 October 1974, five of Richard Nixon’s cabinet went on trial for conspiring to derail the Watergate investigation: U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Kenneth Parkinson, Robert…
Someone Is Not Having A Good Day
Support For Impeachment Grows. Up 10 Points In One Week. Majority Now Approve Of Impeachment. (more…)
Democracy Coming To The Best Of The Worse
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Monday Ménage: Democracy Edition
John Pilger. Simone Weil. John Adams. The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope.…
Isn’t He The Smart One…
Mitch “Moscow Mitch” McConnell, Senate Majority leader (Republican-KY), said during a radio interview that people who gave him the nickname “Moscow Mitch” are not-nice hard-left people who just want to smear him. Hey Mitch,…
It’s In The Cards
Donald Trump likes to boast about his deal-making genius, about how he always comes away with the best deals in the history of deals. Well, as we have all witnessed over the past couple…
Bat-Shit Crazies
Five Year Anniversary Today. Remember When Republicans and Their Buddies In Corporate Media Went Bat-Shit Crazy and Tried To Create An End-Of-The-Republic Scandal Because President Obama Wore A Tan Suit To A Pressor? And…
Shit Ya Can’t Make Up…
Wednesday morning, hours after declaring people of Jewish faith disloyal to America and having a total lack of knowledge if they voted for Democrats, Donald Trump agrees he is the ‘Second Coming of God’…
Democracy, Use It Or Lose It
This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him. Tom Morello
Reminder…
The Crime of Betraying One's Country
Monday Ménage and A Plus One
H.L. Mencken. George Eliot. John Kenneth Galbraith. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins,…
“As We Sit Here”
In the 24 hours since former special counsel Robert Mueller warned lawmakers about Russia’s past, present (they’re doing it “as we sit here”), and future meddling in America’s elections, of course much has been…
Choices 2020
Hmmm… Number Four
"Reference has been made to his “unpunctuality, his erractic work routine and his failure to keep appointments - a source of much embarraassment to party officials who usually found him in the late afternoon…
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…)













