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SHARE Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Get ready for the House "Roland Freisler" show trials
Jordan is best known for delivering political rants during the impeachment hearings of Donald Trump while often targeting witnesses with personal insults.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 16, 2022 Why Trumpism as a fascist movement will not disappear
The only way to combat the re-emergence of fascism as a potent political force is by holding far-right parties legally responsible for the actions of its members and affiliates.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 14, 2022 Judging by History - The Trump-DeSantis Feud could turn very violent
The political civil war that is erupting in the Republican Party between loyalists of Donald Trump and Florida's recently re-elected Governor Ron DeSantis, has the making for a full-blown Hatfield and McCoy-style feud
SHARE Wednesday, September 21, 2022 Florida - the Schwarze Sonnenschein Staat
In DeSantis's Florida, neo-Nazis proudly march around with Nazi swastika flags and hate-filled placards. The ADL cited the appearance, over DeSantis's term in office, of new hate groups in the state.
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 30, 2022 Don't look up (river) - It's not there
Rivers around the world are drying up. Some perennial rivers will eventually dry up permanently, many within this century because the glaciers that feed them are disappearing at a rapid rate.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 23, 2022 Mar-a-Lago - a "wretched hive of scum and villainy"
An important question remains in the investigation of Trump's classified materials cache at Mar-a-Lago. Did his Palm Beach estate serve as a Kwik-E-Mart for the sale of America's secrets to the highest bidder?
(16 comments) SHARE Monday, August 22, 2022 Cheney's loss predicated by Trumpist death threats
Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), the co-chair of the House Select Committee on the January 6th insurrection faced constant death threats from supporters of Donald Trump and his hand-picked opponent to Cheney, Harriet Hageman.
(11 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Walker, Pollard, Hanssen, Trump . . . America's most traitorous spies
Since Trump's circle of acquaintances over the years has included notorious spies and sex blackmailers where does that place Trump in the world of espionage against the United States? We know that Trump has stolen the nation's most sensitive secrets but for how long has this gone on?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 15, 2022 A very Trumpian national security scandal
For someone like Trump who is known to avoid writing anything down it is a paper trail that may end up sending him not back to the White House but to a federal "big house."
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 9, 2022 What would past presidents say of Trump?
In examining the historical record it can be deduced what past presidents would have thought of and said about president number 45.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, July 18, 2022 Trump's "Red Wedding" was to have been a "Night of the Long Knives"
Trump knew that many of the insurrectionists were armed and that they had a list of who they planned to murder. That list included Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the second and third in the presidential line of succession.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Scoundrel !!
It will set a bad precedent if Trump is not sentenced to prison after his conviction on counts of fraud, criminal conspiracy, communicating the threat of assassination to the vice president, misprision of justice and a host of other charges under the U.S. criminal code.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, June 27, 2022 Republicans are directing the world's largest spamming operation
The unsolicited Republican spam is no different than receiving email directly from the Ku Lux Klan or the American Nazi Party - the content is the same. The spam is chock full of racist, sexist, ageist, and homophobic dog whistles.
(19 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 2, 2022 Value systems and wars against fascism
One cannot be pro-Putin and anti-Trump. Putin, the mastermind of the worldwide fascist putsch against democracy, began scoring successes in 2016. The first two were the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom, largely the work of the Russia-funded fascist and racist Nigel Farage and his UK Independence Party, and Trump's presidential election victory.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 16, 2022 On the eve of another war: familiar bluster and false signals
Was this past week's talk of imminent war a 2022 version of the final week of August 1939. The present situation in Europe is a virtual case of what the French say plus - ça change plus c'est la même chose - 'the more it changes the more it stays the same'.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, December 17, 2021 Is The Global Mass Psychosis a Result of COVID and The Far-Right?
Nationalistic politicians have taken advantage of the situation to gain adherents and financial support with democratic institutions serving as convenient targets of opportunity.