Tag: Voter Suppression
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Chicken Little, Journalist
I sure hope this isn’t a revelation: American journalism continues to fail America. I’m a news junkie. Cable news is always on in my office. But I don’t obsess so much on the news itself as our news media’s consistent inability to report it. And that’s even as it happens right in front of us!…
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America’s Having An Ideological Argument, NOT A Political One
The GOP’s hate for democracy stands on one tectonic plate. Our love for it stands on another. America’s differences are ideological not political.