Tag: Kochs and Mercers

• We The People & The Authority To Govern Us

  What, really, is the point of democracy – of this experiment of ours in self-government? The business of governing a large, diverse, complex society is full time work. Being a politician was never meant to be full time work; our founders envisioned citizen-politicians who dedicated a few years to the commonweal then returned to their…

  A L Katz

  March 3, 2022

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Cyber War, Election 2016, Election 2020, Mitch McConnell, Republicanism, Robert Mueller, Rule of Law, Treason, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, Authority To Govern, E Pluribus Unum, Gerrymandering, Kochs and Mercers, Originalism, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, Right Wing Money, Robert Mueller, Russia if you're listening, We The People, White Man's Burden

• Is Donald Trump A “Useful Idiot” Or A Totally Useless One?

  As Trumpism has taught America, perspective can cut you like a knife. For purposes of argument, I don’t believe for two seconds that anyone actually believes The Big Lie. To believe it honestly because you really thought it happened would violate the whole point of the exercise: this is about manufactured “truth”; authoritarian truth which…

  A L Katz

  December 30, 2021

  Corruption, Election 2016, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Republicanism, The Nature of Evil, Treason

  Adam Kinzinger, Addition via subtraction, Kevin McCarthy, Kochs and Mercers, Liz Cheney, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, Right Wing Money, The Big Lie, Treason, Trumpism, Useful Idiot, Vladimir Putin

• America’s Exceptionalism — Its DIVERSITY — Will Save Us From The GOP’s Authoritarian Power Grab

  In his indispensable book “On Tyranny”, Timothy Snyder lays out the fairly predictable tick tock that democracies experience while succumbing to authoritarianism. It’s impossible not to see us well into that experience. Someone claiming to tweet for German film maker Werner Herzog put it this way (Herzog doesn’t do social media: the tweet itself is…

  A L Katz

  August 24, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Culture, Election 2016, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Freedom, Racism, Republicanism, Slavery, Treason

  American Exceptionalism, Authoritarianism, Confederacy, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Hitler, Kochs and Mercers, On Tyranny, Permanent Minority Rule, Southern Strategy, Timothy Snyder, Werner Herzog

• We Really Can’t Compare What’s Happening To America Right Now With ANYTHING From Our Past

  People with zero imagination (like most of our news media) will always look to the past as prologue — and most of the time, it absolutely is. But this is not “most of the time”. You can tell because nothing even remotely like it has ever happened to us before. Richard Nixon may have been…

  A L Katz

  July 6, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, American News Media, Corruption, Culture, Cyber War, Election 2016, Mitch McConnell, Racism, Republicanism, Trump

  American News Media, Bullshit kabuki, Electoral College, Hijacking the Judiciary, Hostile Foreign Power, Joe Biden, Kochs and Mercers, Mitch McConnell, Past Is Prologue, Richard Nixon

• Reparations For Slavery Are Actually “Back Pay” That’s Long, LONG Overdue

  Slavery, understandably, is one of those words that juices our emotions. Anyone with a history of being enslaved understands on a deep, subcutaneous level how that hangs on one’s sense of self. And that’s without ever having been a slave oneself. Slavery isn’t just one thing of course. It’s a lot of things, none of…

  A L Katz

  May 29, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Freedom, Racism, Slavery

  All Men Are Created Equal, American Civil War, Black Wall Street, Greenwood, Kochs and Mercers, Reparations, Slavery, Stolen Labor, The Confederacy, Tulsa 1921, Wage Theft

• The GOP Is Soooooo Pro-Slavery, They’re Actively Trying To Bring It BACK!

  Wanna talk the bitterest of irony? “The Party of Lincoln” isn’t just some “fellow traveler” with slavery. The Republicans are the Bond Villain convinced he can make it rain. The GOP makes no bones about how racist it is. The overwhelming whiteness of its membership isn’t a bug, it’s the whole point. The Right White…

  A L Katz

  February 2, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, American News Media, Election 2016, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Freedom, Racism, Republicanism, Slavery, Trump

  Bond Villains, Fellow Traveler, Gerrymandering, Heather Cox Richardson, Kochs and Mercers, Party of Lincoln, Poll Tax, Slavery, Stolen Labor, Woodrow Wilson

• Do You Suppose, Down Deep, Mitch McConnell Is “Glad” Donald Trump Just Lost The Presidency?

  One thing about Mitch McConnell: he may suck as a human being but he’s a very talented politician. If we consider Mitch from the Koch Brothers’ point of view (a little tricky since David Koch’s now dead), Mitch isn’t merely a great functionary, he’s a great one. Charged with hijacking the judiciary, Mitch delivered 300…

  A L Katz

  November 4, 2020

  Election 2016, False Patriotism, Mitch McConnell, Political Commentary, Republicanism, SCOTUS, Treason, Trump

  Federal Bench, Hijacking the Judiciary, Koch Brothers, Kochs and Mercers, Lifetime Judicial Appointment, McConnell hijacking the judiciary, Mitch McConnell, Moscow Mitch, Republican corruption, Stolen Election, Treason

• The SCOTUS Should Look Like America, Not Just Repressive, White, Christian Men And Their Handmaiden

  Fact: the Republican Party is, as we speak, hijacking the judiciary. What began as Mitch McConnell’s secret mission — begun the day Barack Obama became POTUS — became clear the day Trump assumed the office he stole as Mitch began filling the federal bench with lifetime appointments — each and every one a right wing…

  A L Katz

  October 28, 2020

  Barack Obama, Election 2016, Mitch McConnell, Political Commentary, Republicanism, SCOTUS, Trump

  Amy Barnett a "handmaiden", Benedict Arnold, Hijacking the Judiciary, Kochs and Mercers, Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, Paul Manafort, Permanent Minority Rule, Republican Party, Right Wing Money, Supreme Court, Trump stole the presidency

• Mitch McConnell And The Republicans Are Hijacking The Judiciary Because They’re All About JUDGING Us…

  

  Mitch McConnell thinks America’s his “handmaiden”. When we get Moscow Mitch under oath, one thing we must ask the Treason Turtle is when exactly he signed onto the mission the RW money (the Kochs especially) assigned him: the hijacking of the federal judiciary. When specifically did Mitch agree to refuse President Obama (elected by clear…

  A L Katz

  October 10, 2020

  Election 2016, Mitch McConnell, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Rule of Law, Trump

  Amy Barnett a "handmaiden", Bush v Gore, Kochs and Mercers, McConnell hijacking the judiciary, Mitch McConnell, Mitch McConnell under oath, Moscow Mitch, Pack the SCOTUS, RW Money, We The People