Death Culture
Now that Texas, Georgia, and Florida Republicans have left America by subverting the right of every American to vote, let us look at the rest of the southern Republicans, 66% … Read More
Category: Confederacy
Fox News joins the late night (culture) wars with a cancellable Greg Gutfeld
Fox News and Greg Gutfeld apparently believes he’s funny enough to go up against late night comedy programming. Because of the previous guy, the world might be safe for RW late … Read More
Security guy closes door as woman is attacked in front of him
More NYC stories of anti-Asian hate. Because bullies and haters come in all shapes and sizes. TRIGGER WARNING NYPD says 65-year-old Asian American woman was walking to church this morning … Read More
'Q' is for Quisling
For those that are unsure of the meaning. Quisling: Traitor or Collaborator Synonyms : traitor, turncoat, betrayer, informer, back-stabber, double-crosser, double-dealer, renegade, defector, deserter, apostate, Judas, snake in the grass, … Read More
The Door is Ajar
Forty-four of the sitting fifty Republicans in the Senate put on their tinfoil hats, held up Q’s, ignored the Constitution, and voted against having a trial for the twice impeached … Read More
The right is trying to both-sides the MAGA insurrection; here's why that's bullsh*t
Almost immediately after the siege on the Capitol ended, people started both-sidesing the event. You know, liberals didn’t care about the violence and property destruction that arose in the wake of … Read More
Plouffe on Georgia: Epic political malpractice by Trump & confederacy of dunces cost senate loss
David Plouffe did not mince his words as he pointed out that Trump and his enablers likely sped up a Blue Georgia by a few election cycles. With the events … Read More
Biden slams president for Capitol insurrection, Greg Palast, Mitt Romney, Katy Tur. Saw it coming?
Joe Biden calls out Trump on insurrection. Katy Tur calls out the Republican Party. Mitt Romney urges his party to start telling the truth. Biden, Palast, & Romney has messages. … Read More
Trump, The Thug-In-Chief mob is in DC. The adults, Democrats in full control of the government.
Our Thug-In-Chief has unleashed his mob in DC and the Capitol. The adults in this country, Democrats, will take full control soon. Democrats must make the Thug-In-Chief pay for his … Read More
Stacey Abrams laid waste to a silly question the host asked comparing her election to Trump’s
A prepared Stacey Abrams did not allow This Week host to create a false equivalence between her Georgia election and Trump's. Stacey Abrams sets the record straight x x YouTube … Read More
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will become President and Vice President in 19 days.
Don’t listen to any lizard people this year. x Greetings from the White House. Trump appears to be tweeting and watching OANN from the Oval Office this New Year’s Day. … Read More
a Confederacy of Dunces reigns as the Texas GOP considers secession after its sedition stunt fails
The apartheid country of Trumpland’s confederated states seems still an idea in its infancy. The chairman of the Texas GOP floats secession after SCOTUS loss: “Perhaps law-abiding states should bond … Read More
Will Trump go down as the worst President ever? (He has some sadly strong competition)
As each day passes, Trump adds to an already impressive body of evidence arguing that he should be considered the worst president in U.S. history. But, taking a dispassionate, long view, … Read More
Trump tweets fade into the delusion of a 'Lost Cause' presidency
The post-presidential Trumpian revisionist history continues because the grift continues, portending an attempt to attach itself to other pseudo-grievances that have persisted because of cultural and regional divisions. Trump will … Read More
GOP lawmaker urges his state to 'succeed' from the Union in wake of Biden victory
Some Mississippians want to secede from the Union? Okay, just kidding. We need all our states — even the ones that prevent us from passing universal health care and adopting … Read More
Triumph of the Could at Gettysburg: “Slide into partial irrelevance…even more difficult for Trump”
Trump’s self-fulfilling idiocy still needs to drive his numbers further down. Like punking his gun-toting followers, a desperate Trump thinks that having his GOP RNC acceptance speech at Gettysburg will … Read More
In three quotes, Republicans admit the 'great party switch'
Republicans and their amen corner in the right-wing media are trying to perpetuate yet another hoax on the American people. In a nutshell, they claim that history ended in 1865 … Read More
Tom Cotton: Portland protesters are 'insurrectionists,' just like Confederate traitors
Tom Cotton, the only member of Congress named after his own brain, appeared on Fox & Friends this morning, and he was fixing to put both feet, both hands, and … Read More
J. Rubin Is Moving Away from Conservatism
I used to avoid Jennifer Rubin back in the Obama days, when she could find nothing good to say about the President and nothing bad to say about Romney, as … Read More
Trump tries to save the confederacy using QAnon because it fits his dominionist pandering
Trump wants Confederate spectacles, why else try to attack NASCAR because of its flag ban. The ultimate Confederate spectacle is the resilience of the lost cause narrative perhaps reinforced by the Jim … Read More
Cast your Lot
At the end of the movie Cast Away starring Tom Hanks, in the final scene he is left contemplating his next move after reaching a literal fork in the road. … Read More
Trump defending racist statues is not a hill on which to die, not even a suburban one
It is more of a comment on Trump’s “cancel culture” that the Aurora, Colorado police would bust up a crowd of violinists peacefully demonstrating a bias death. x Police showed up in … Read More
so many Masks and Beards, Lies and Retaliation in the Trump era
So much more than meets the eye, and then there’s stupid fruit of the loins. So much lying and falsehoods in a masque of masks. x Kellyanne Conway: “People are … Read More
all those number 6's at the Villages, and Ghislaine made a Dead Pool
How good are the cameras at Rose M. Singer Center (Rikers for Women)? The goods: laundry, baggage, etc. and the tapes, oh so many tapes. Is the GOP “so far … Read More
Joe Biden had a shocking response on Confederate statues I did not expect
Joe Biden made a statement that the Right-Wing is likely to go wild about. He did not condemn protesters removing symbols of oppression, statues, but it is what else he … Read More
Lawn Order: in New Jersey it's wet, in DC it's golf
x Photos of Trump today – from @tru62. pic.twitter.com/dVVHvwUG9q — Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 27, 2020 x In white polo shirt and red cap, Pres Trump returns to WH from … Read More
Trump's anti-iconoclasm and Damnatio Memoirae, “why no one knows who won the American Revolution”
Trump has just issued an executive order to protect statues. This faux martial law applies only for objects, and specifically protects by inference, right-wing extremism. Because Trump wants to sanction only … Read More
Trump Has Jumped the Shark
When you reach the point where absurdity obscures reality, we generally call that jumping the shark. The history behind the phrase dates back to an episode of the tv show … Read More
Jeff Sessions goes all lost cause on Doug Jones
Stealing valor is not like taking your taser, much like renaming military bases happens normally. Jeff Sessions is desperate for “his” voters x … whose courage & duty reached the … Read More
The speed of Abrupt Climate Change accelerates upheaval in the Arctic. And, summer 2020 is coming.
I am sharing some of the stories from the Arctic that have not received the media attention that they deserve. We can expect increasing wildfires, a busy and dangerous Atlantic storm … Read More
Columbus statues toppled… It's an iconoclasm of indigenous days and knights
So much iconoclasty, so little time to election day. Darn all those racist targets and their problematic cultural frames, constructed from their siting and historical context, all with social and … Read More
Trump brings his Murrah building to Tulsa on the Juneteenth, darn that systemic Meta
So much performance art, so little time left to the November election. Much like Trump’s refusal to consider changing the names of military bases named for traitors, Trump’s brain trust … Read More
Petraeus: Rename the Rebel Forts
In this new post at The Atlantic, the former 4-Star General and Director of Central Intelligence forcefully gives his support to renaming those US military bases named for traitors to … Read More
We are in deep trouble as long as 35% to 45% of the country remains committed to idiocy
I clicked on the below Super Bowl halftime interview of frmr. President Obama by Bill O’Reilly because I remembered that it got some notice at the time for how often O’Reilly interrupted … Read More
RWNJ Todd Starnes whines about recruiting a toaster
Toasters, haircuts, and tattoos are what everyone wants now. Todd thinks sanitizer will mess-up his mani-pedi, maybe only at Costco. Likely Starnes would like that toaster thrown in Grover Norquist’s … Read More
He only hires the best…He is the best…OMG Wonder where the worst are?
IQ drop day . I would really hate to be a republican legislator today. When Fox trashes Bolton and calls him a tool of the left………When Trump’s defense team talks … Read More
Happy New Year!
Archives photo: Yours Truly with PDA Senior Advisor, Russell Greene, at theClimate Emergency March with Greta Thunberg in Los Angeles Together, let’s change the world! Alan Minsky for Mike F., … Read More
An open letter to Nikki Haley from the briefly reanimated corpse of Jefferson Davis
Sunday, December 15, 2019 Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia Dearest Ambassador Haley, I am writing from the distant past to offer some modest thoughts about your exciting future. I understand congratulations … Read More
Black Community, Raise Your Hands
In the Republican Party’s continued plunge into racism, former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley tethered herself to white nationalism and bungee jumped into the valley. Speaking to … Read More
LA-Gov: Trailing In The Polls, Desperate GOPer Files Resolution To Expel Nancy Pelosi From House
Pathetic: With just three days remaining before the Saturday election for the governorship of Louisiana, Republican candidate and House representative Ralph Abraham is pulling out the symbolic, Trump-friendly gestures in … Read More
Trump wants Mitt Romney 'impeached'; uh, who's going to tell him?
I always wondered why Donald Trump wanted to go into politics — a field he has no aptitude for nor knowledge of. Consider this tweet: x I’m hearing that the … Read More
Republicans peddle grotesque abortion-slavery comparison
In the great and proud history of the United States, no failing, no appalling ideology, no perverse institution—no national tragedy—compares to the American sin of chattel slavery. Codified in the … Read More
Alan Minsky’s Speech to The Party of the European Left
April 3, 2019 Brussels, Belgium By, Alan Minsky, Executive Director | Progressive Democrats of America Hello, I’m Alan Minsky, the Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America, also known … Read More
Last Aug. Students Pulled Down Confederate Monument; Now UNC Wants to Build $5M Home for It.
Last August students joined together to pull down the Confederate monument “Silent Sam” at the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina which was erected in 1913 by … Read More
Karma about Jefferson Davis Defender of Slavery.
I was thinking about defender of slavery and traitor Jefferson Davis tonight because of the Senate debate in MS, and I am not sure if I ever wrote about how … Read More
Dozens of witches to put hex on Brett Kavanaugh
I don’t believe in magic, miracles, curses, hexes, horoscopes, Ouija boards, the power of prayer, or much of anything supernatural. I believe in technology and phenomena solidly backed by the scientific … Read More
Texas Board of Education votes to remove Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum
Sigh. From The Hill: The State Board of Education in Texas voted on Friday to eliminate several historical figures, including Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller, from the state’s social studies curriculum. Barbara … Read More
America in black and white in Alabama
In an age of “both sides do it” and “teach the debate,” some issues are simply black and white. So it was this week in Alabama, where truth and myth, … Read More
Vergangenheitsbewältigung in America
This year represents the 25th anniversary of one of the great enduring memes of modern American culture and politics. In his thundering speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, former … Read More
