Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, appearing before the House Intelligence Committee, warned the American people that, if they aren’t stopped, members of the Russian intelligence service, working on behalf of Vladimir Putin, will surely attempt to influence the outcome of our next election, just as they did in 2016. Warning that, “(they’re still) doing it […]
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Less than 24 hours after Mueller warns that foreign election interference is imminent, McConnell blocks $775 million in election security funding
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged #MoscowMitch, active measures, Cindy Hyde-Smith, disinformation, Election Assistance Commission, election hacking, election integrity, election security, electronic voting, Joe Scarborough, Mitch McConnell, paper ballots, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 Election, SAFE Act, Securing America's Federal Elections, Senate Intelligence Committee, vote tampering, voting 25 Comments
Largest trade imbalance in nine years, biggest stock market drop in a decade, government set to borrow nearly $1 trillion… Is this the “tidal wave” of good economic news Trump was talking about?
As I took last night off, there’s a lot that we could talk about today. We could talk about he fact that our president, standing before a terrifyingly representative sample of what’s left of his base announced that those who refuse to applaud him are “un-American” and likely “treasonous”. Or we could talk about the […]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged $1.50, budget deficit, Cadet Bone Spurs, DACA, deficit spending, Donald Trump, Dow Jones, international trade, Jay Carney, John Kelly, Koch brothers, lazy, Medicaid, Medicare, military parade, New Deal, Paul Ryan, racism, rolling back the New Deal, Sean Hannity, social security, Steven Mnuchin, stock market, trade deficit, treason, wealth inequality 218 Comments
Trump, having given racists permission to come out of the closet, now tells that that, if they really want to make America great again, they need to “toughen up” and start doling out the violence
Since we had our discussion a week or so ago about the circumstances within the Republican party that made Trump’s ascent possible, and whether or not the comparison to Hitler is justified, quite a bit has happened. Most notably, we’ve seen Trump’s aggressive, authoritarian rhetoric intensify. And, with this ramped up rhetoric, we’ve seen a […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged aggression, Alvin Bamberger, birther, dehumanization, Donald Trump, fascism, Hitler, incite violence, ISIS, John McGraw, mob mentality, protesting, racism, subhuman, terrorism, threats to Democracy, threats to humanity, Untermenschen, violence 101 Comments