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Covid may soon be the least of our worries Our planet is screaming a message at us, and Covid is part of that communication. The death of nature and the appearance of Covid are all part of the same thing. I’ll never forget the day the trucker called into my radio show. It was at least a decade ago, and he identified himself as a long-haul trucker who regularly ran a coast-to-coast route from the southeast to the Pacific Northwest dozens of times a year.

Multiple Republicans, from former NRA spokespersons and rightwing talkshow hosts, to Republican congressional candidates, to the rightwing media are speaking out, loudly, about their concern that Joe Biden has not yet held a State of the Union address.

Who wants to be a rich man in a poor country? About 75 percent of Americans trusted the federal government to “do what is right” when polled during most of the last years of the Eisenhower administration and early years of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency. In 2019, when the Pew Research Center released its most recent poll of public trust in the government, only 17 percent of Americans trusted their government.

Dems must stop the religious hustlers, racists and billionaires from picking Uncle Sam's pockets There's a recurring pattern to American politics that began in the 1980s, right after the Supreme Court legalized billionaires owning individual politicians in 1976 with their Buckley decision.

The GOP’s lies should land them in the dustbin of history Two weeks ago Jerry Schneiderman, my best friend for 50 years, didn’t answer my call when I phoned his home to say hi. Instead, his stepson told me he’d been taken by ambulance to the hospital with Covid pneumonia. When I finally got through to him at the hospital ER, he told me between gasps for breath that the doctors “aren’t optimistic,” that he missed his beloved wife, and his final words to me that day were, “I don’t want to die here all alone.”

With phony “concern for the debt,” Republicans will try to sucker-punch a fourth Democratic President: will it work again? The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus. -Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976 The Republican Party has been running a long con on America since Reagan’s inauguration, and somehow our nation’s media has missed it — even though it was announced in The Wall Street Journal in the 1970s and the GOP has clung tenaciously to it ever since.

Trump still has majority Republican support; most are ready and willing for a 2024 authoritarian coup When Republicans in the United States Senate refused to convict Donald Trump of his crimes against democracy, they set up his comeback plans for 2024. Odds are he’ll be either making an announcement at the upcoming CPAC conference, or at least will strongly hint at it. This will benefit the Trump Crime Family in a variety of ways, but represents a significant peril to the fragments of American democracy that survived his departure from the White House.

Of course Ted Cruz left for Cancun: when government fails, it’s party time for libertarian Republicans! Here’s the one question that always stops libertarians dead in their tracks when they come on or call into my radio/TV program to proclaim the wonders of their political ideology: “Please name one country, anywhere in the world, any time in the last 7000 years, where libertarianism has succeeded and produced general peace and prosperity?” There literally is none. Nowhere. Not a single one. It has never happened. Ever.

Biden needs to avoid the old rope-a-dope “Bipartisanship” is the word of the day. But what the hell does that mean? News commentators are asking Democrats on TV, as happened to Patrick Leahy on CNN this morning, “Without bipartisanship, won’t will further divide the country?” This is a bullshit question. It’s also the Republican’s song every time Democrats get political power; it’s even how they repeatedly crippled the Obama presidency, and the Democrats repeatedly fell for it during the 2009–2017 Obama era. They need to stop.

When politics are based on lies, fascism thrives - Republicans and their media are lying right now about why people are dying from the cold in Texas. - The GOP has been embracing lies instead of policy since the Reagan Revolution. - It’s become a way of life for Republican politicians. - As a consequence, Republican voters are among the most misinformed people in America. - When the electorate believes lies, democracy doesn’t work. - The Libertarian billionaires who own the Republican Party don’t believe in democracy, so this is working out exactly the way they want. - This is a formula for the destruction of democracy and the rise of fascism.