As one could expect, the people spreading malicious lies on Facebook are having a hell of a time with the fact that FB will not host their BS. Someone wrote: FB has just censored 3 of my posts before the …
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“America First”–Racist, Nationalist Since Its Inception
“America First” and “Make America Great Again” are the two most prominent slogans of Trump and his supporters. Once could argue that they’re not too much worse than “God Bless America,” because it too suggests that there is something exceptional, …
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Where Does the Big Lie Go from Here?
From The New Yorker: In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, Donald Trump’s vision of an August reinstatement reaches new level of surreality. (Larger version below) So what happens in the mind of Trumpers when their guy isn’t reinstated in August? What …
Anti-Vaccine Contingent Out of Control
The outside world continues to watch the spectacle of American politics with a blend of sympathy, sadness, and contempt. But in no arena is their revulsion for what’s happening here deeper than our pitiful reaction to the availability of safe …
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Was Trump a Fascist?
Here’s a great article whose author argues that, where Trump’s policies were brutally neoliberal, racist, nativist, authoritarian, and narcissistic, they were not fascist. I won’t try to summarize, except to say that there are, to be sure, different flavors of …
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Convergence of Mainstream Conservatism with the Extreme Far-Right
Wow. Here’s a cheery thought from behavioral scientist and researcher Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D, who specializes in studying disinformation. What she says here is what the past and present might suggest, but will it get that far? Even Fox News …
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“News” Source Reports Trump Landslide Victory
Someone sent me this screen shot from OAN, the ultra-right wing “news” source that makes Fox News seem sane and fair in comparison. Wow! California went Trump. Who would have thought it possible? LOL In reality, Biden won, 11 million …
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GOP Congressman Says He Wants ’18 More Months of Chaos’ to Stall Democrats So Republicans Can Retake Congress in 2022
I wrote a post on this subject recently, but I want to re-express what a vile bastard Chip Roy is, and, by extension, how repugnant the entire Republican party is. We now know, as if we didn’t before: The GOP’s …
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The Demagogue
I wish I knew who wrote the words we see here, but I guess it doesn’t really matter. This is what the United States experienced from 2016 – 2020, and, to an extent, continues to suffer under. Most of us …
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Education Is the Vaccine
Indeed. As Robespierre put it, “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” But how to get there from here? In the United States, we have essentially a two-party system, …
