2024 Archives

Biden's real economic reforms were drowned out by the powerful lure of Trump's promises... We just elected a guy who's fine with the planet melting down, kids getting shot in school, insurance companies going back to denying coverage for preexisting conditions, and wants to weaponize the federal government in a way dictators do. What happened? Democrats thought the 2024 election would be all about Donald Trump's embrace of fascism and the future of our democracy. And abortion.

Bought politicians, and a court on their side—they’ve seized control... When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” — Frédéric Bastiat, Economic sophisms, 2nd series (1848) We just watched the final fulfillment of a 50 year plan. Louis Powell laid it out in 1971, and every step along the way Republicans have follow it. It was a plan to turn America over to the richest men and the largest corporations. It was a plan to replace democracy with oligarchy. A large handful of America’s richest people invested billions in this plan, and its tax breaks and fossil fuel subsidies have made them trillions. More will soon come to them. As any advertising executive can tell you, with enough money and enough advertising — particularly if you are willing to lie — you can sell anybody pretty much anything.

America is the only developed country in the world that's allowed an unaccountable, unelected Supreme Court to hand its political system over to its richest citizens… The biggest lesson Americans learned this election year is that billionaires basically own half of our political process. In the seven most tightly contested Senate races, billionaire spending on Republican candidates outpaces that on Democratic ones by seven-to-one. This is not how a democracy is supposed to work. The "demos" in democracy means "the people." Democracies are supposed to fulfill the will of the people; add the protections for minority groups a republic provides and you have what the Founders called "republican democracy" and we refer to as a democratic republic.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Don't despair! — Last year Trump wanted General Milley put in front of a firing squad; now he's saying that should happen to Liz Cheney. Do you still think he's joking? — Crazy alert! Tucker says a demon attacked him while he was in bed with his wife and four dogs. — Europe's Greens ask professional grifter Jill Stein to pull out of US election to prevent a Trump victory — Texas Republicans Ted Cruz, Ken Paxton, and Greg Abbott just put another notch in their manly-man belts: An 18-year-old Texas woman died after being turned away from two hospitals for her miscarriage complications. — WTF? Our National Archives are removing displays and information about MLK, Native Americans, the Holocaust, the Civil Rights movement, unions, birth control, and the American internment of Japanese during WWII because it may upset Republican legislators. — Georgia official warns of Russian interference in this year's election.Hunter in a Farmer's World Alert: ADHD: Learning to Ask Questions Can Be a Game-Changer — Wisdom School Alert: Is This Common Drug the Secret to Defying Age?