Update to The moral rot of the GOP: it has become a fringe conspiracy QAnon Party: 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 … Read more
Update to ODNI confirms that Republican senators are dupes for Russian propaganda (excerpt): Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman of the Washington Post report “President Trump’s own intelligence officials just released a statement confirming something we all know: Russia is interfering in our election with the express goal of harming Trump’s opponent, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe … Read more
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” – 1984, by George Orwell I was struck by something the Washington … Read more
Update to The entire Republican Party apparatus is gearing up to suppress the vote in 2020 (excerpt): In 1982, the Republican Party agreed to a consent decree after Democrats sued it for activities at polling places that they said were aimed at suppressing the minority vote. The consent decree barred the organization from using voter challengers, … Read more
Putin’s puppet in Belarus, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, is facing mass protests in the streets after he rigged an election earlier this month. Under Siege in Belarus, Lukashenko Turns to Putin for help. Putin’s puppet in the U.S., Donald J. Trump, is facing mass protests in the streets after he got caught trying to rig our election … Read more