Can we rescue our nation from treasonous Republicans, who are trying to shut down our government to help Putin while they continue to bow and scrape to "The Rapist Who Would Be King?"
Thom Hartmann
The Putin Caucus in the GOP, along with the fossil fuel billionaires, appear quite pleased that they’ve succeeded in intimidating fact-checkers just in time for the 2024 election.
For today’s bought-off GOP (and a handful of bought-off “problem solver” Democrats), as long as Republicans on the Supreme Court keep the corrupt payola machine running, there simply is no bottom.
The threats of violence used against government officials by Trump supporters echo the terror campaigns run by followers of Mussolini and Hitler in the early days of their rising to power.
It’s been 60 years since JFK was murdered, and we still don’t know the whole story. We can’t afford to wait another 60 years to find out who was in on the attempt to overthrow our government on January 6th.
America has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in money, credibility, and blood. We must remember the lies, and tell our children about them so that memory isn’t lost.
The GOP has become the party of Putin, bin Salman, and Orbán, rejecting George Washington’s warning about partisanship replacing patriotism and, increasingly, rejecting the very idea of democracy.
Nobody in America should be without a home, and for society to work, housing costs must track incomes in a way that makes housing both available and affordable.
The next time you hear some TV pundit proclaiming the “solution” to the “problem” of Mitch McConnell or Dianne Feinstein being in office too long, consider their real agenda.
The merger of billionaire wealth with Republican governance—the public be damned—threatens the integrity and future of the American experiment.
Republicans like Vivek Ramaswamy want to convert America into, essentially, a feudal state, with them as the lords and you and me as the serfs.
Trump has done his work, and the Republican Party is no longer a legitimate political party. Like a cat with a toxoplasma-infected mouse, he’s eaten the party whole.