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The New York Times, still hiding from the truth: "Republican Party Unravels Over Trump’s Takeover...   G.O.P. leaders fear their party is on the cusp of an epochal split between familiar conservatism and a rekindled, atavistic nationalism.  The crisis over Donald J. Trump reflects years of fraying ties between party elites and voters." I know I am going to get really boring between now and November, finding different ways to say the same thing, but let's get something straight right now:  There never were any "ties" between Republican party elites and the suckers that they lied into voting for them; the whole system was rigged to use the voters like livestock, to maintain the position of Republican leaders and the rich guys that pay to keep them on top of the heap.  That included endlessly betraying their voters, and then mesmerizing them into taking it again. And as for a split, there is really no inconsistency between greed (i.e. "familiar cons...

We entered a new era in the history of the United States, oh, about thirty years ago.  This era was certainly cheered into existence by the great moralist Ronald Reagan, but creating it was not his work. It was brough into its miserable existence by rich sociopaths that financed our country's political life, who decided that two hundred odd years of building a country was long enough, and it was now their right to cash in the chips.  Life was for ME and life was for NOW, and whoever comes after me could just take care of themselves.  Time for the greatest smash and grab robbery in history. So, we stopped investing in roads and public transit, except in a few loony hippy places like Los Angeles.  We stopped running our healthcare system for the benefit of patients, and just used it as one more profit center to suck dry.  We ran our mortgage loan system, instead of a way to build stable communities, as one more opportunity to steal from the gullible. We did the ...

I don't even want to talk about this absolutely sickening story about the disgusting Quiverfull movement, a right wing perversion cult most widely known as including the Duggars and their pederast son. I wrote some posts recently about Seven Mountains Dominionism, a revolting perversion of the Christian religion, which grows in popularity every day on the right.  Here is another grotesque story, almost too offensive to be believed, dealing with their opinions about women, when they should marry and what rights they have (spoiler-none) when it comes to picking their husbands.  And yet, this group was deemed worthy by our entertainment moguls of having a TV show glorifying their behavior, until a tiny bit of it peeked out from under the floorboards.  Well, here is another peek.  As I say, I am too sickened by the acceptance of these people to even write about it, but I wanted to make a record of it. I have insisted several times that Fundamentalist Christianity a...

Through a link at Buzzflash, which has become increasingly anti-Semitic over the last year or so, this ludicrous article bemoaning the fate of two "musicians" from Gaza, Mohammed and Osama Alsusi, who just aren't rising to the success of, say, Kanye West, all of which, in the end, is the fault of (whom else) Israel. Now, I must say that my wife has a band that plays all originals, and which has, over the last couple of years, played at the House of Blues, the Viper Room and other major L.A. clubs.  One of my sons is also in a band that gigs about 75 times a year, up and down the West Coast, and has a recording contract with a small record label.  So, I've had a chance to see what the music business is like today, not at the end of the musical universe, but right in one of its world capitals.  That's my perspective.   Anyway, here is some of what this guy had to say: "I’m a 23-year-old rapper, music producer and filmmaker living in the world’s largest op...

It's wonderful.  I'm not sure that anyone ever said this, but the Republicans are about to show how easy it can be. They're hopping on board.  Who could have thought it would be any different?  Republicans have exactly zero conscience, self awareness, or concern with anything other than what they want that very minute; and right now, preposterous as their behavior the last six months makes this claim, they want to win very badly, and if the only path open to them is to support an egomaniacal, racist bully who they hated last week, well, that's just fine with them. Anyone who thought that, after a thirty year ride down into the gutter, Republicans were going to suddenly take an interest in what's good for the country, was a fool.  Here they come, and if passing this guy off as President requires an even bigger pack of lies than normal, they are ready and eager to meet the demand.  Hold on tight, guys, the train is about to leave the station!

An Added Note I guess I should have been a little more prompt in writing this and getting it up, for obvious reasons. I just want to point out that the country has not seen the end either of Ted Cruz, nor of the miserable Dominionists, and their attempt to impose a dictatorship on us, so I hope what follows will still retain some relevance. ___________________________________________________________________ Well, now we get to the heart of all of this, but before the specifics I want to make a comment that applies not just to Ted Cruz but to Republicans in general.  The goals and beliefs of Republicans, both many leaders and their base, have degenerated to the point that they are so foreign and repugnant to decent people, that most Americans simply cannot wrap their minds around the fact that any number of people would believe this sort of thing at all; and in this lies one of the main defenses of people like Ted Cruz: without really being confronted with instances of these hor...

At Daily Kos, they are asking the question that everyone will be asking tomorrow: "How, by the way, can Ted Cruz keep going after tonight? Trump is on track for either a sweep or near-sweep of Indiana’s delegates, which will bring his goal of obtaining a delegate majority that much closer. There's almost no way now that Cruz can stop him, in fact. So what’s the point of carrying on?" Simple, guys, and I can't figure out why you didn't think of it.  The answer: cheating.  This is the party, after all, that has cemented its control on the House of Representatives by Gerrymandering and voter suppression, and the party that held the White House from 2000 to 2008 through the actions of a corrupt Supreme Court.  They still have two good months to rig the convention process to overthrow Trump.  Is there anyone out there naive enough to think that the Republicans don't have "consultants" all over the place working full blast ever minute of the day to ...