How would you react if one day you were sitting at home and the phone rang and when you picked it up you heard a man shout: “Kill yourself now so we can save ammo!”
Thom Hartmann
Between Agenda 47 and Project 2025, Donald Trump and the rightwing billionaires who own the GOP have big plans for this nation, regardless of which Republican takes the White House next.
Understanding how Republicans got here—and dragged the rest of us with them—may give us some clues to how to get out of this mess.
If their plan works, these Republican toadies of the billionaires who fund and own them will rewrite our Constitution and state governors, the US Congress, and the President will have no say whatsoever.
If Democrats don’t figure out a way to match the passion and fervor of Trump’s MAGA movement with their own passionate and action-driven movement, things could get very ugly for next year’s elections.
Corporations don't need pure food, clean air, or safe drinking water, but they control our government and elections…and the outcome is proving disastrous.
The GOP has turned voter suppression into a computer-based science, and they’ve had a lot of help along the way from five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court.
Unlike the 1890s, when there were still papers engaging in serious journalism, today’s yellow journalism is ubiquitous across media consumed by the majority of Americans.
A lawsuit filed this year by Noelle Dunphy, a former employee of Giuliani, asserts that Giuliani was offering people pardons for $2 million, the money to be split 50/50 between him & Trump.
It shouldn’t surprise us that a political party that swears its first allegiance to billionaires and giant multinational corporations would choose money and profits over health and life.
“Power at any cost” has been the Republican slogan ever since Nixon’s attempts to assassinate Castro in 1960 to beat JFK in that year’s election.
There are few Americans alive today who have personal memory of Hitler, the details are lost to the mists of time. But Donald Trump is bringing it all back to us with a fresh, stark splash of reality.
Donald Trump is a confidence man, a charlatan, an unrepentant liar whose deceits have cost at least a half-million Americans their lives. Why do so many American support him?
The day after President Trump was re-elected (with MAGA Mike's help), he invoked the Insurrection Act and began the mass arrests.
Religious charlatans like Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson, exploiting a basic human urge to know the unknowable, to touch the mystery of life, are the most dangerous of all the various types of con men on Earth.
Oligarchy is always a transitional system, typically a mere way station in the shift from democracy to fascism or some other form of authoritarianism.
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