Democrats Wave the White Flag In the face of overwhelming chaos sowed by the Trump administration, Congressional Democrats are being as about as effective as you’d expect. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries simply raised the white flag live on television at a time we need strong leadership. Victim blaming: He went on to criticize “activist groups” for “dividing” the Democratic… Read More
Joe Project Episode 1: Where’s the passion? I’m starting a podcast. For right now, I’m going to distribute it here; that might change. If you’re used to my writing style, you’re going to find my speaking style is a lot more passionate, which is why I’m doing it. BTW, there’s coarse language, so keep that in mind if you have small kids.… Read More
Will Congress Become Neutered? Members of Congress amassed outside the entrances of the U.S. Treasury and the Dept. of Education this week and we’re blocked from entering. In the wake of Elon Musk and his entourage being let loose within Federal institutions in a hostile takeover of the U.S government, Democratic Congressmembers are receiving demands to “fight harder” from… Read More
TikTok unbanning: Accolade and Overreach To recap: The law banning TikTok went into effect yesterday. Just a few hours later, the service was restored, with a gushing message praising our glorious leader-to-be shown to all upon logging in. This is unnerving for two reasons. For one, this law was passed by the Congress, and then upheld by the Supreme Court.… Read More
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew Tries to Keep Pace with Trump As we’ve noted, Trump picks his stances by the direction green pieces of paper are blowing in the wind. As a law banning TikTok is coming to fruition, we should reiterate he was critical of the social media app as a first-term president. He even attempted an executive order to shutdown the platform. But come… Read More
Fetterman thinks he’s being the better man Sen. John Fetterman (D) minimized the threat of fascism with the coming 2nd presidential term of Donald Trump. I think we all wish we could embrace the values of “country first” and supporting the office of the President regardless of party affiliation again. But when the president-elect has demonstrated very plainly that he himself has… Read More
Sanders: Oligarchy is Here Senator Bernie Sanders discusses how Elon Musk threatened Republican Congressmembers into voting against an important healthcare bill.… Read More
Bernie Sanders: “This is what authoritarianism is all about.” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) suggests that President Biden grant “pre-emptive pardons” to the members of the January 6th Investigatory Committee. His comments come in response to Donald Trump’s suggestion that the members of the former congressional committee “should go to jail.”… Read More
Dr. Frankenstein realizes the monster has made it out of the laboratory As we mentioned before, Mitch McConnell sounded the alarm on Trump earlier this week. But he’s not relenting. Trump and MAGA were undoubtedly grown in the legacy GOP’s petri dish. But now that contagion is out of the lab and running amok. Like Dr. Frankenstein, now that he realizes his creation is terrorizing the villagers,… Read More
Trump intends to do an end-run around the Legislative Branch. Will a Republican-majority Congress allow him? Rachel Maddow warned that one of the trajectories on the transition from democracy to tyranny would be the “hollowing out” of Congress. The implied threat would be a concentration of power under the Executive Branch. For comparison, she noted, “There’s a reason actions of the Russian Duma never make news.” Could the powers of the… Read More