UPDATE (ABOVE) The New York Daily News rebrands the Trump Organization “Fraud.org.” That’s going to stick. The Manhattan DA scores the first legal victory against the Trump criminal enterprise. A jury has found the Trump Organization guilty on all charges in a criminal tax fraud trial. The penalty will be financial fines, but in the … Read more
Above: h/t Huffington Post Illustration. Before the election, Trump sycophant and election denier Jim Marchant (R-NV) openly declared that the team of Republican election deniers he had recruited to run for Secretary of State in battleground states that Trump lost in 2020 would ensure that Trump (or whomever the GQP nominee is in 2024) would … Read more
In the first of a new series, The Guardian looks at how November’s midterm elections could be an inflection point as election deniers seek to take control of the vote counting process. Democracy, poisoned: America’s elections are being attacked at every level (excerpt): [Sandra Merlino, Nye County Clerk] was alarmed. She knew that what they … Read more
Kakistocracy (kak·is·toc·ra·cy | \ ˌkakə̇ˈstäkrəsē): a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. Kleptocracy (klep·toc·ra·cy | \ klep-ˈtä-krə-sē): a government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed. Many political scientists use these terms to describe Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation. Vladimir Putin is effectively … Read more
Completing the trifecta of a bad week in court in last week, a federal judge once again rejected Donald Trump’s authoritarian claim of absolute immunity, and will allow three lawsuits to proceed against him for inciting a violent seditious insurrection on January 6, 2021, a violation of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act, which bars violent … Read more