There is no shortage of the reckless and the moronic in the present incarnation of the Arizona Republican Party. Earlier this month, you had Wendy No Flight Mask at High Altitude Rogers equating getting the COVID 19 vaccine with the Mark of the Beast. I went to the rally to show support for the nurses … Read more
Above: Kari Lake, former Fox 10 news anchor and Republican gubernatorial candidate, speaks to Young Republicans at a protest over Arizona State University’s mask mandate. The protest took place outside Hayden Library in Tempe on Aug. 13, 2021. – BENJAMIN CHAMBERS/THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Former Fox News propagandist, now MAGA/QAnon cult candidate for governor, Krazy Kari Lake, teamed … Read more
The right-wing “savior” that Republicans were willing to destroy the U.S. Constitution in order to put her on the Supreme Court in a court packing just before the election (violating the “McConnell rule,” which is really “I can do whatever the hell I want when I am in charge“), Justice Amy Coney Barrett, let down … Read more
Bill Pierce is still on a mission to protect Arizonans and the Grand Canyon State’s environment and water supply from unsavory corporate interests that allow pollution contamination from existing and abandoned mining operations. After losing a fairly close race to become Arizona’s Mining Inspector in 2018, this engineer, who is also EPA trained in dealing … Read more
Remember back when then-Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana in 2013 exhorted the Republican Party to “stop being the stupid party“? Republicans didn’t listen. They fully embraced stupid, by becoming the party which fully embraced wild conspiracy theories and performance politics, abandoning responsible governance for a post-policy, post-truth alternate reality fueled by right-wing media disinformation which … Read more