kakistocracy /kakəˈstäkrəsē/ noun: (1) government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state. (2) a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens. This is what the MAGA/Qanon personality cult, the Party of Trump, has to offer Americans. Think of the 2006 science fiction comedy film Idiocracy, a dystopian world … Read more
The House on Wednesday passed a bill to establish a commission to investigate the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection on the Capitol on January 6. More House Republicans voted to whitewash this horrific assault on American democracy, in an attempt to disappear it down the memory hole, than the 138 House Republicans who gave aid and comfort … Read more
By now I think I have made myself abundantly clear that I think Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is a naive fool who is putting the very survival of our American democracy at risk by appeasing a radicalized anti-democratic insurrectionist GQP with his version of Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time,” insisting that he can negotiate … Read more
Update to January 6 MAGA/QAnon Insurrection: Was The Call Coming From Inside The House? Some new developments. POLITICO reports that a Trump appointee was arrested in connection with the Capitol riot: The FBI on Thursday arrested Federico Klein, a former State Department aide [serving as a special assistant in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs], … Read more
Freshman Republican Illinois congresswoman Mary Miller was a speaker at the “Moms of America” rally a day before the seditious insurrection at the Capitol. Freshman lawmaker hit with colleagues’ fury after Hitler comments: During a rally for the conservative Moms for America [a day before the seditious insurrection], Rep. Mary Miller, an Illinois Republican said … Read more