Donald Trump’s MAGA red caps, his version of Italian “black shirts” and German “brown shirts” fascist militias, stormed the nation’s Capitol on January 6 in a violent seditious insurrection, a coup d’etat that failed to overthrow American democracy and replace it with GQP authoritarianism under the most corrupt and criminal president in American history, Donald … Read more
Permanent musical accompaniment, How do I live (without you) by LeAnn Rimes (1997). Trump fluffer Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is missing his abusive boyfriend, Donald Trump. Maybe he has to pay for his rounds of golf now. Being Trump’s caddy and ball washer simply wasn’t good enough for free golf anymore. On Thursday, Sen. Graham … Read more
Jane Mayer at the New Yorker reports that the unpublished memoire of Republican strategist Harvey LeRoy “Lee” Atwater – an adviser to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and a chairman of the Republican National Committee – who took Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy national, i.e., increasing political support among white voters by appealing to … Read more
The headline in the New York Times today reads Why Democratic Departures From the House Have Republicans Salivating. Nowhere in this analysis do the reporters even mention that 147 Republican lawmakers still objected to the election results even after the Capitol attack. Every one of these seditious insurrectionists should have been expelled from Congress. The … Read more
“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” And yet First Amendment absolutists would make it so, disdaining Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ recognition that there are limitations to the freedom of speech: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” Social … Read more