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The Press Has Learned Absolutely Nothing

 Despite its willing collaboration in nearly turning the country into a dictatorship, they go blithely on their way, refusing to distinguish truth from falsity, at least when the falsity is on the side of the Republicans. Today's case in point- this miserable excuse for journalism from the Washington Post: "A Senate report on President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election offers new details about an Oval Office confrontation between Trump and the Justice Department, revealing the extent to which government lawyers threatened to resign en masse if the president removed his attorney general. Democrats charge Trump nearly provoked a constitutional crisis, but for the steady hands of senior Justice Department officials; Republicans say Trump was “faithful” to his sworn duty as president in seeking assurances about voter integrity." No way of knowing which side is telling the truth and which side is spreading malignant lies.  No way of determining whether the ...

Manchin and Sinema

Green Eagle, with his inevitable inability to keep his mouth shut, has some things to say about the issues with Sinema and Manchin. First of all, let me make it clear that I loathe both of them and would be happy to hear that they had been run down on a gravel road in Texas by a teenager rolling coal in a pickup.  Anyway, on with my comment. Let's just get one thing straight before I continue.  It is absolutely standard practice for all reporting, both on the left and right, to refer to this country's political differences as between liberals and conservatives.  That is completely false.  Real Conservatives from the past, like Benjamin Disraeli or Winston Churchill would hate these people who are cozying up to fascists and even out and out Nazis.  In fact, the struggle in this country is between vaguely honest politicians and a pack of corrupt criminals who will do any despicable thing to keep rich sociopaths financing their careers. So, that is pretty much what...

Wingnut Wrapup

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 About time for a real Wingnut Wrapup.  They have pretty much run out of new ideas and are just recycling the old ones from the glory days of The Greatest President Ever, but it would still be a good idea to remind ourselves how literally psychotic they are these days. "The New York Stock Exchange aka WALL STREET which has AUSTRALIA listed has been seized under Executive Order 13818 is now property of Donald J Trump." Not quite sure how that worked, but it's on the internet, so it must be true.  I guess he can put up toll booths on it, and charge admission to anyone who wants to get into the stock exchanges.  "Things are heating up, 23 Quadrillions earmarked cleared and set aside to start the release of working capital for yet undecided and cleared pending transactions." Keep this in mind, from an actual source:  "The world's total net wealth has hit $431 trillion"  (real source) Boy, it will take a while to pay that off.  And they are having strok...

Wingnut Wrapup- Forensic Audit Edition

 This is just a quick reflection on the bogus Republican "forensic audit" of the Arizona Presidential vote.  We all knew the thing was phony from the word go, but I guess we also expected that the final report would be just one more gigantic Republican lie.  Well, the "cyber ninja" goofballs who ran the thing made a giant mistake:  Instead of releasing the report in the promised month or so after receiving and despoiling the actual Arizona ballots, they stretched out this idiotic circus for five months of never ending publicity and grifting.  In the process, they gave the sane observers in this country plenty of time to examine, and reveal as totally worthless, everything they did.  So claims they might have gotten away with in April or May were impossible now.  The result: dramatic proof the the Arizona election was run totally accurately, and a gigantic humiliation to the liar Trump. Of course, that is not what you would hear if you followed the righ...

Trump Sues His Niece

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   For what else? Because she told the truth. "Trump Sues NYT and Niece—Who Calls Him ‘F*cking Loser’ The ex-president claims there was an “insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly sensitive records.  The suit, filed Tuesday in Dutchess County, New York, by attorney Alina Habba, seeks damages “in an amount to be determined at trial, but believed to be no less than One Hundred Million Dollars” from both Mary Trump and the Times.” I was going to put a picture of Trump here, but I thought this would be easier to take.  So sue me...no wait- I don't have a hundred million dollars lying around. Anyway, this has to be the funniest legal story since Larry Klayman sued his mother.

Time To State Something Clearly

The Republicans' refusal to take even the most obvious measures to fight the Covid epidemic stems from one thing and one thing only:  they will do anything to prevent Joe Biden from having a victory, even killing hundreds of thousands of people.  That is the kind of malignant, inhuman opponents we face in this country today.  This is, in intent, really no different than Hitler sending people to death camps.  After all that has happened, any Democrat who denies this is a fool, and a very malicious fool at that.

Is Outrage Dead?

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 I've been busy at work this week, but before too long a time passes, I want to comment on the ways the various living Presidents chose to celebrate the 20th anniversary of 9-11. Jimmy Carter, who is well into his nineties, was not well enough to attend any public ceremonies.  Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all attended public ceremonies at sites linked to the 9-11 attacks.  Our current President made appearances at all three of the attack sites.  Pretty much what you would expect. That leaves Donald J. Trump.  Here is what this disgusting jackass did on 9-11: He appeared at an event sponsored by the Unification Church, where he lavished praise on its founder, Sun Myung Moon, who was one of the worst cult leaders in history, and who repeated every right wing lie on earth in his "Newspaper," the Washington Times,  while making himself and his family obscenely rich.  You can be sure that Trump did this for pay, likely in the millions of do...