The will of the people does not matter to most Republicans. Especially with regards to all things related to public education and helping the disadvantaged. Despite the voters saying no, they have continually looked for ways to resurrect the expansion of school vouchers. Despite the voters saying yes, they used their obstruction in permanently removing … Read more
Above Image: Charles and David Koch, and Leonard Leo. h/t Slate. Christopher Rufo and the right-wing Manhattan Institute for Policy Research have rebranded critical race theory into an appeal to white identity politics. But they are using this new scare word for an ulterior motive. It is the latest attempt by right-wing billionaires to use race … Read more
Supreme Court Justices have spent their break trying to convince Americans that they are not political, that they are ethereal beings who are above it all. Also, trying to convince themselves that their shit doesn’t stink. It has not gone well, because Americans know that they are being lied to and played for fools. In … Read more
Remember back when then-Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana in 2013 exhorted the Republican Party to “stop being the stupid party“? Republicans didn’t listen. They fully embraced stupid, by becoming the party which fully embraced wild conspiracy theories and performance politics, abandoning responsible governance for a post-policy, post-truth alternate reality fueled by right-wing media disinformation which … Read more
The Arizona Legislative Session ended with hours to spare today. The only winners during these last several weeks of the grueling budget process were: The wealthy received large tax cuts they did not need and possibly greater opportunities to milk the school voucher system. People who enabled the 2020 Election Big Lie and took a … Read more