Americans, in particular the anti-science, anti-masker, anti-vaxxer crowd, are fond of saying that they are done with Covid-19, they are going to live their life as normal. Even more responsible Americans, those who have had both shots of their Covid-19 vaccination and the booster shot, also are saying that they are done with Covid-19, they are … Read more
Update to The Republican Party Has Fully Embraced the QAnon Conspiracy Cult – An Absolute Bar To Holding Political Office (Updated). The QAnon conspiracy cult is a loosely organized, far-right network of people who believe the world is controlled by a satanic cabal of pedophiles and cannibals -some even say lizard people – made up of … Read more
Radley Balko writes at the Washington Post, QAnon goes mainstream: There’s a common thread between attacks against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as being soft on child predators, the manufactured controversy on the right over whether teachers can mention homosexuality to students, and the anti-trans laws sweeping Republican-controlled state legislatures: We’re witnessing the mainstreaming … Read more
The Fox News fascist propaganda network parroting the Kremlin talking points on Ukraine should take a lesson from World War II and what happened to the propagandists of the Axis allies after they lost the war. Tucker Carlson is Nazi Germany’s “Lord Haw-Haw” (not as well-remembered as Japan’s “Tokyo Rose”). David Corn at Mother Jones … Read more
I have said before that if the current generation of Americans had been around in 1940, we would all be goose-stepping and speaking German today. The “Greatest Generation” today’s Americans decidedly are not. I’ve never seen a bigger bunch of whiners (e.g, anti-vaxxer trucker convoys. Seriously?) There has never been a more selfish, narcissistic, and … Read more