Dear Attorney General Merrick Garland: What more does your Department of Justice need to send some FBI agents to arrest the “Orange Julius” Caesar in exile in Mar-a-Lago for seditious conspiracy and incitement of violent insurrection? What are you wiaitng for? Over the weekend Donald Trump admitted to his coup plot in writing, promised that … Read more
Above: Seven Arizonan Republican legislators face calls to ban them from the House and Senate: They are Republican Representatives Mark Finchem, David Cook, and Walt Blackman along with Republican Senators Wendy Rogers, Kelly Townsend, Sonny Borrelli, and David Livingston. Friday afternoon is supposed to be the “big reveal” of the Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit” … 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
Doug Ducey, the ice cream man hired by Koch Industries to run their Southwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Arizona, has a fantasy about running for president in 2024. (Ducey denies that he is running for the U.S. Senate.) If Ducey does run for the U.S. Senate, he will lose in the GQP … Read more
“The House on Monday formally delivered an article of impeachment charging former president Donald Trump with inciting the deadly insurrection at the Capitol, as Democrats prepared to use his own words as evidence against him in his Senate trial next month.” House Democrats plan to focus impeachment trial on how rioters reacted to Trump’s remarks: … Read more