Tag: Gerrymandering

• Things Both Sides DON’T Do

  Some day, when Donald Trump is behind us and the Republican Party lies beside the Whigs in the American History Cemetery, we’ll have to turn our gaze on the news media. The press utterly failed us at the moment we most needed them to fulfill their Constitutionally mandated role as the last check on power.…

  A L Katz

  July 6, 2023

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Culture, False Patriotism, The Nature of Evil, Trump

  Both Sides Do It, Conservatives, Conventional wisdom, Gerrymandering, Horse Races, Progressives, Race Tracks, Retail Politics, Voter Suppression, Whigs

• “Elections Have Consequences” – STOLEN Ones Especially

  Let’s put this on the table first: Donald Trump has projected every single one of his criminal acts onto others. Even back in 2016 – when everyone still refused to take Trump seriously – he was projecting a stolen election. He wasn’t making it up. He knew whereof he spoke. And the thing on his…

  A L Katz

  June 30, 2023

  American News Media, Barack Obama, Bill Barr, Corruption, Cyber War, Election 2016, Election 2020, Mitch McConnell, Republicanism, Robert Mueller, Rule of Law, SCOTUS, Treason

  Benghazi, Bill Barr, Cyber War, Fake Electors, Gerrymandering, Kabuki, Mitch McConnell, Moscow Mitch, Mueller Report, Paul Manafort, Projection, Running For Election, Woke

• The Republican Bench

  “One could pick something more valuable from one’s nose than from that collection of political talent.”

  A L Katz

  May 19, 2023

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Republicanism, Trump

  Christo-fascist, Diane Feinstein, Dopey, Fani Willis, Gerrymandering, Jack Smith, Mediocrity, Murderer's Row, Ron DeSantis, Stacey Plaskett, Starters, Ty Cobb, Walt Disney Company

• Rapists At Heart

  Rape is not a sexual act. It’s a power play. Almost exclusively male. The rapist thinks he can violate another person’s personal space – their most intimate personal space(s) – at will and with total impunity. That they derive sexual satisfaction from it – that’s icing. Power is always the cake. When rapists finish and…

  A L Katz

  April 27, 2023

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Culture, Republicanism, Trump

  Authoritarianism, Bi-partisan, Dobbs v Jackson, E Jean Carroll, Gerrymandering, Power play, Rape, Rape Culture, Samuel Alito, Sexual Assault, Voter Suppression

• The GOP – Where Ooga Meets Booga

  In another universe – a dark, terrible one – the Republican Party has achieved something remarkable. They’ve found a way to take bullshit to bold, new heights every single day. Just by opening their mouths. Whatever the serious problem facing America, the Republican response to it is guaranteed to be gibberish. Yet another military assault…

  A L Katz

  April 6, 2023

  Corruption, Culture, Magical Thinking, Republicanism, Trump

  Abortion Rights, Conservative, Democracy, Evolution, Gerrymandering, Kevin McCarthy, Magical Thinking, military assault weapon, Reagan Revolution, Scopes Monkey Trial, Voter Suppression

• The GOP Didn’t Just Turn Fascist

  The way our news media reports it, Trumpism took over the Republican Party quite suddenly – like a terrorist hijacking an airplane. Prior to that? The GOP was an honest actor, holding up its end of the greatest experiment ever in human self-government. Don’t blame the poor GOP for what Trump and Trumpism have done…

  A L Katz

  March 26, 2023

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, Freedom, Republicanism, The Nature of Evil, Trump

  Demagogues, Fascism, Gerrymandering, Hitler, Ku Klux Klan, Lindsey Graham, Nativism, Rachel Maddow, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Southern Strategy, Trumpism, Ultra, Voter Suppression

• Republicans Despise Democracy Cos Democracy Despises Them

  Dear Democracy: Hate to break it to ya, but the Republican Party just isn’t “in to” you. It’s a stone cold fact. Republicans don’t like democracy. In their defense, democracy doesn’t like them either. Some people never graduate from the schoolyard. Turns out, that’s a lot of Republicans. Whatever they were on the schoolyard, that’s…

  A L Katz

  March 8, 2023

  American News Media, Corruption, Racism, Republicanism, Slavery

  All Men Are Created Equal, Bullying, Cheating to win, Democracy, Gerrymandering, Kochs, Mercers, Right Wing Money, The Enlightenment, The Republican Party, Voter Suppression

• The Republican Party Is A Monstrous Ponzi Scheme Of Treason

  The bottom line is always the emperor’s birthday suit. That’s what he’s wearing and everyone knows it. The question is who will say it – out loud – bursting the bubble of bullshit? For a Ponzi scheme to actually work, everyone in existence would have to buy in. The goal of a Ponzi scheme is…

  A L Katz

  February 23, 2023

  American News Media, Corruption, Cyber War, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Kevin McCarthy, Russia, Treason, Trump

  Adam Entous, Criminal Enterprise, Gerrymandering, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Old Money, Patriotism, Paul Ryan, Ponzi scheme, Putin Pays Trump, Trumpism, Voter Suppression, Washington Post

• The GOP’s Nightmare Has Only Just Begun

  Yesterday was a huge win for Democrats. It was, aside from Florida and a few districts in New York, an electoral nightmare. Sure, sure – in the morning after, America stands in a seeming fifty-fifty deadlock. But that deadlock really is “seeming”. For starters, the American political playing field is not even remotely “level”. We…

  A L Katz

  November 9, 2022

  American News Media, Branding, Culture, Election 2022, Republicanism, Russia, Treason, Trump

  Bingo, Deadlocked, Florida, Fox News, Gerrymandering, Kevin McCarthy, Level Playing Field, Lindsey Graham, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, Red tsunami, Red wave, Ron DeSantis, Voter Suppression

• The GOP Has Become America’s Worst Case Scenario

  Sometimes, we have to assure ourselves we’re awake and not dreaming. Yes, the Republican Party really is doing what it’s doing. It’s natural for partisans to always see the worst case scenario sitting on their opposition’s shoulder. If the other guy wins? Welcome to the worst case scenario. To conservatives, that’s socialism. So, all Democrats…

  A L Katz

  August 15, 2022

  Branding, Corruption, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Republicanism, Rule of Law

  Fascists, Gerrymandering, GOP, Magna Carta, Progressives, Republican Party, Retail Politics, Socialism, Voter Suppression, Worst Case Scenario