Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

“Let’s be clear: Republicans are never, ever going to offer a replacement to the ACA,” Senator Chris Murphy tells TalkingPointsMemo.” The repeal vote will be the first and last vote on this issue, no other vote is coming. Every Republican … Continue reading →

Reading from Steve Bannon’s script, Trump employs the most inflammatory rhetoric he can, deliberately designed to render the US population to a state of frothing hysteria. Softening them up for the new wars that Trump will launch. Trump is an … Continue reading →

It would seem that an era of unprecedented ruin and fiasco for the United States has begun. And for the rest of the world as well. While Trump launches his ridiculous, authoritarian victory lap tours, the Democrats need to go … Continue reading →

Last week’s debacle in North Carolina is a preview of the how the now unabashedly radical and thuggish GOP will consolidate and maintain power nationwide–unless the Democrats can finally wake up. In any case, it is up to us. Fascism … Continue reading →

Pre-emptive surrender in every negotiating round? Tolerance of wildly subversive GOP behavior, such as refusing to grant hearings to a Supreme Court nominee? Employing Cabinet secretaries who will sabotage your presidency? Delivering the country into the arms of the Fascist … Continue reading →

We are very close to seeing Trump employ a private militia. For now, he is insisting on his own private security phalanx.

Talk about useful idiots. The fool Senator thinks he can work with Trump to his own or the Democratic Party’s advantage. Trump and his kitchen cabinet of family members will toy with Schumer and then sell him out with a … Continue reading →

Will do you a world of good. And what better way to take a break than seeing the legendary Anna Pavlova in her single commercial film, 1916’s The Dumb Girl of Portici. Really interesting, and I’ll post more later. The … Continue reading →

I wonder why the GOP doesn’t want the votes recounted or even counted in the first place. Greg Palast for Truthout  supplies a bird’s-eye view of the GOP’s recount sabotage.

And she’d like us to get over the coup, like immediately.