2022 Archives

If Democrats had run all the Red states in 2019, then 171,030 fewer Americans would have died that year; if the GOP ran the Blue states, there would have been an additional 217,635 dead Americans. If you were born and live in Japan, you can expect to live to 85 years old. For South Korea average lifespan is 83, as are Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Israel, and Australia. It’s 82 for Italy, Spain, Ireland, France, Finland, and New Zealand. Cuba (!) and Panama are 79; Uruguay and Croatia are 78. A total of 61 countries have average lifespans of 78 years or older, ranging from Singapore’s 84 to Estonia’s 78. And then there’s the United States. Our average lifespan comes in at a paltry 77 years, along with Iran, Tunisia, and Morocco. And it’s entirely because of Republican policies.

We can tell Saudi Arabia’s dictator and the most predatory oil companies to go screw themselves at the same time we do the best thing for an average working Americans. It’s not even winter yet, and America’s Northeastern states are already experiencing both shortages and price shocks on heating oil. The headline at Bloomberg this week says it all: “New York, New England Ration Heating Oil Even Before Peak Winter.”

Authoritarianism has been interwoven into the fabric of our republic since its inception and the Republican Party is today fighting what will hopefully be a losing battle to hang onto and expand it… Americans are afraid of the wrong thing. When you ask most Americans what authoritarianism looks like, they’ll describe jackbooted thugs goosestepping up to their house to drag them away to a concentration camp. That, however, is not authoritarianism: that’s Nazi style tyranny, aka totalitarianism, where the government controls every aspect of life including those that are social, religious, and economic, along with a police state that uses terror to rule with absolute power.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Whoa...Was Trump selling America's secrets on Iran & China? — On top of being a traitor, Trump is also a criminal, although this most recently identified crime was also in furtherance of his attempts to destroy democracy in the United States of America. — While Ukrainians are fighting for their lives, Republicans are openly bragging that they intend to stab our allies in the back. — Meanwhile, it appears that Putin is upping his genocide threat against Ukraine, while his own military may be sabotaging his desire to use tactical nuclear weapons against that country. — The predictable consequence of too many guns. — If you want to destroy a democracy, the first step is to convince its citizens that they can't trust their own election systems. — What's up with the polls? — Why is the mainstream media ignoring the GOP plan to blow up the global economy and destroy Social Security? — Good News: Record numbers of Americans are voting early.