Category: Republicanism
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Is Lindsey Graham Scared Because Putin’s War Is About To Expose The Entire GOP As Traitors?
Lindsey Graham just had his turn to – in his case – ask Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (who’s as or more qualified than anyone who’s ever sat on the SCOTUS) “how many jelly beans are in the big ol’ jar?” Lindsey seemed less interested in questioning a SCOTUS nominee than in putting on a rather…
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And To Think – All This Started With “Mexicans Are Rapists…!”
Did ya catch Vladimir Putin doing his best Donald Trump impersonation the other day – right down to the paid attendees? Pacing the stage (more like a caged animal than the prize fighter he probably sees himself as), Putin rambled and grieved for himself, made wild, unsupported and unsupportable accusations, and did his best to…
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The GOP Hitched Its Wagon To Trump KNOWING His Wagon Was Hitched To Putin
The Republican Party saw Donald Trump coming. While Trump was a registered Democrat longer than he’s been registered as a Republican, that wasn’t because he used to embrace Democratic policies; it was because it made zero sense to be a Republican in NYC where Democrats held the political power and therefore access to the public’s…
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I Hereby Declare War On Greed
Of all the deadly sins, only one matters. In a sense, every sin – deadly or otherwise – flows from this one: greed. Greed is the triumph of “me” over everything else in the universe. One’s sense of self-worth is disconnected from reality in the worst way possible. “I alone can fix it”. No one…
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Hey, Russia, If You’re Listening…
How much treason does a traitor have to commit before our news media finally deigns it “treasonous”? Maybe a better question is “how much treason do they have to describe before they finally accept their own reporting as true”? One of the truly confounding things about Donald Trump and his assault on our body politic…
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The Republican Party IS “The White Man’s Burden”
Rudyard Kipling wrote his fawning poem “The White Man’s Burden” in response to America’s takeover of the Philippines after winning the Spanish-American War in 1899. Now, to be fair to Kipling himself, he came from a particular time and, in his case, from a very particular place (he was born in British India in December…
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Russia Won’t Subdue Ukraine And America’s Right Wing Won’t Subdue The Rest Of America
Someone should write this down so we can all remember it next time: whenever humans fail to learn the lessons history’s trying so desperately to teach us, it’s a dead certainty that humans will repeat those exact mistakes again and again. Megalomaniacal “leaders” who think they can “rule the world” ALL inevitably fail. No one…