Donald Trump’s toady Postmaster General is now warning states that their absentee/early mail-in voting deadlines do not comport with his deliberate slow-down of the U.S. Postal Service. In Michigan, a state in which voters enacted by initiative a constitutional provision in 2018 guaranteeing the right to vote early by mail, the Detroit News reports: The … Read more
Donald Trump emerged from the fever swamps of fringe right-wing conspiracy theories on the Internet and talk radio to become the leader of the Obama birtherism movement. Somehow this made him popular enough with Republican voters to win him the GOP nomination in 2016, and even more unbelievably the presidency. Since then, Donald Trump and … Read more
Arizona’s appointed, not elected, Senator Martha McSally let her racist freak flag fly this week by arguing for denying American citizens the right to representation in Congress if it means that Republicans would not be able to control the anti-democratic Senate. Despite what Donald Trump thinks, the Hispanic citizens of the U.S. territory of Puerto … Read more
Saying “We believe we can define America in one word: Possibilities,” 2020 Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden introduced his running mate, California Senator Kamala Harris. Proclaiming that this “a battle for the soul of the nation,” former Vice President Biden said that Senator Harris “knows what is at stake and what do we stand for … Read more
I pointed out the other day that Republicans have absolutely no idea what different political ideologies are, so they randomly assign “bad” words they know they’ve heard somewhere as an invective to describe anyone who does not share their authoritarian views. It is a multiple choice test (choose one): socialist/ communist/ fascist/ Marxist/ Leninist/ Stalinist/ … Read more