Today there is a story that is pretty much a canonical example of irony. The story comes from CNN, who note that one of the people charged in the January 6 insurrection and riot was caught on video using a bullhorn to heckle Capitol Police by saying that they were “protecting pedophiles”. This appears to […]
Republicans seem hell-bent on passing off the January 6 insurrection as a normal day of tourism. They will pretend it never happened. And now Donald Trump is claiming that not only did he win the election, but that he will be reinstalled as the president by August. Is he delusional? Is he acting crazy so […]
Vernon Jones used to be a Democrat, serving in the Georgia House of Representatives twelve years until 2021. He switched to the Republican Party in January 2021 after endorsing Donald Trump for re-election and then speaking at the 2020 Republican National Convention. He is currently a candidate in the GOP primary for Georgia governor. Jones […]
All federal elected officials swear or affirm an oath to support the constitution before they can assume their office. This includes the President, Senators, and Representatives to Congress. For example, here is the oath for Senators: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against […]
I’m very disappointed, very frustrated that politics has trumped — literally and figuratively — the good of the country. — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on the defeat of the bill to create a commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection.
Just how many investigations did Republicans in Congress do over the 2012 Benghazi attack (that killed 4 Americans), which morphed into investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails, and on and on? If you guessed 10, you win the jackpot. But the GOP is now against even a single investigation into the insurrection on January 6, even though […]
In the 1990s, Mississippi added a voter-initiatives process to their constitution, and since then has passed a number of initiatives. This includes an initiative passed last fall, approving a medical marijuana program for the state. Their initiative process has an interesting requirement: in order to get on the ballot, signatures have to be gathered from […]
This is even funnier if you remember Snoopy fighting the Red Baron and sneaking around behind enemy lines. But like the Republicans, it was only a fantasy. Insurrection, what insurrection?
I guess it means that we really are putting the Covid quarantine behind us, if comedians are starting to make fun of what we might have to talk about when we finally get to interact with other people, face-to-face. This guy even jumped the gun, and had to play both sides of the conversations himself! […]
All the evidence says that we can beat Covid-19 if we get vaccinated. For example, here’s new evidence from the Cleveland Clinic hospitals. Note that Cleveland Clinic is the second-highest rated hospital system in the country, right after the Mayo Clinic and ahead of Johns Hopkins, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. According to them, of […]
While the name sucks, the ideas behind “Defund the Police” make perfect sense. When will we stop debating semantics and come to our senses?
Do you remember when everyone was worried that there would be nothing scandalous for the media to talk about once the former occupant shuffled back to Florida and got kicked off of social media? Well, fear not! The GOP is taking up the slack, and then some. In some ways, I just want to avoid […]
In the end, all they had left was their anger… The governor of Minnesota had this to say about masks: I just want to note on this. The politicization around masks, I think history is going to write as one of the worst things that’s happened to this country. I think it cost lives. I […]
Make no mistake about it, this country is in danger. According to FiveThirtyEight, somewhere around 70% of Republicans believe — without any actual evidence — that Joe Biden stole the election from Donald Trump. The bigger problem is what this portends for the next presidential election. The Republican Party is actively eliminating their members who […]
To me, the biggest hoax is calling everything a hoax. When will the right get tired of it? Einstein is credited with saying “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” Does this mean that any reasonable infrastructure bill should include a mental health program to […]
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