2022 Archives

White supremacy promoted as pseudo-science is a lie, and the racist politics that flow from it are poison in the bloodstream of our republic. In the 2020 election, the Republican Party chose not to even publish a party platform. They literally had no list of things they’d like to accomplish or do for the American people. As Axios recently reported after attending a meeting between Mitch McConnell and wealthy donors: “Republicans should be 100% focused on Democrats and all the ‘terrible’ things they're doing to the country, McConnell said.” We’ll find out what Republicans support, we’re told, only after they regain power. In a bizarre parody of Seinfeld, the GOP appears to have become the Party of Nothing.

There is an active movement within the United States trying to start a civil war -- and we have two and a half years before the 2024 election to put this country back on track. Congressman Adam Kinzinger is worried about a second American civil war. “I don’t think that’s too far of a bridge to recognize,” he said earlier this week, adding, “It’s going to be armed groups against armed groups, targeted assassination and violence.” There is an active movement within the United States trying to start a civil war. They’re armed and serious, having already tried to kidnap and murder the Governor of Michigan and the Vice President of the United States.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Congressman Adam Kinzinger is worried about a second American civil war. — Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie appears to share Kinzinger's view of a coming internecine war, but he's giddy about it. — Who's Behind the Right Wing Book-Banning Frenzy? Hint: It's Not a Grass Roots Effort, either... — Trump Taking Home Documents Should Be An Easy Prosecution! — Oklahoma is Considering a Database of Pregnant People So They Don't Get an Abortion. — In Good News - Representative Jayapal Gets a Whopping 120 Cosponsors for Medicare For All Bill. — In Science News: Scientists are concerned we may be nearing the tipping point where global warming causes oceans and permafrost to start releasing methane at a faster rate than it can be absorbed and metabolized in the environment. — Geeky Science: Do Scientists Now Know How Long Haul Covid Happens? — Crazy Alert: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster May Be Right: Alien life forms are more likely to look like pasta than like you or me.

When judges or legislators break the law to enrich themselves in ways that would land you or me in jail, it damages democracy. Republicans — and a few Democrats — have done a pretty good job of putting the grift in grifter. Most recently, the notoriously corrupt Senator Tommy Tuberville told a reporter for the UK Independent newspaper that efforts to ban his ability to make millions off insider information in the stock market would discourage other grifters from going into politics and, somehow, that would be a bad thing.