After years of defending Putin’s puppet, Donald Trump, and dismissing Russia’s interference in American elections, Republicans have become “Putin’s Caucus” in Congress, spreading pro-Russian propaganda and voting against military assistance to Ukraine, or even holding Russia accountable for its state acts of terrorism and war crimes. This is appeasement of evil. Meet the pro-Putin Republicans and … Read more
Will Bunch of the Philadephia Inquirer has done the research I have been meaning to get around to, so a big thank you to Will Bunch for a time saver. Who’s behind those vile, right-wing political TV ads during the baseball playoffs? If you live in Philadelphia or thereabouts [and here in Arizona], the October … Read more
The Arizona Republic fka The Arizona Republican (still the mouthpiece of the Arizona Republican Party) is busy trying to normalize extremist MAGA/QAnon Republicans, and thus enabling their fascist destruction of American democracy by treating this election as if everything is fine, nothing to see here, same as it ever was. Llike this drivel from media critic … Read more
Jennifer Rubin writes at the Washington Post, Democrats have never had a better defense against the GOP’s anti-crime canard: Judging from the hyperbolic headlines and cable news chyrons, you might think Republicans have never campaigned on crime before. After all, it’s not as though Republicans have found some new, devilishly clever way to attack Democrats. … Read more
The “debate about debates” that only the self-important media villagers give a damn about flared anew last night. The media is supposed to be the “watchdog of democracy,” but the GQP-friendly media in Arizona is doing its damnedest to normalize Republican anti-democracy extremism, insurrection, and election denialism (Just read The Arizona Republic fka The Arizona Republican … Read more