War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
A most-disheartening slip of events this morning in DC — just a tiny time space after the House passed voting-rights legislation, and thus, sending it to the Senate, and shortly before Joe Biden was at arrive on Capitol Hill for a push on the measure’s passage, nefarious nit-twit Kyrsten Sinema blew the shit all over…
Even in the fading light this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley and the future of our current American life is on the line, starting next year. In that regard, good interview this afternoon at the Guardian with Patrick Gaspard, the new president and chief executive of the Center for American Progress (CAP), among…
As Republicans slowly-swiftly strangle democracy at the voting booth, there doesn’t seem to be much we can do, other than get as many people out to vote next November as possible. Until then: Shitty details via NBC News yesterday: State Republicans spent 2021 hunting for the widespread voter fraud that former President Donald Trump told…
As America wades into the start of the 2021 holiday season there’s violent weirdness seeping into the festivities — along with a fatal SUV attack at a Wisconsin parade, Kyle Rittenhouse walking and a shitload of less notable people, places, and things screwing with any kind of spirit of the season. Add to the recipe,…
So far this Friday morning there’s at least two major news stories rolling out, both have current significance as well as somewhat longer-range connotations. Oddly, too, the pair also should be of no big surprise. Shock maybe with the overriding lead item (Washington Post): ‘At least 159 people are unaccounted for following a condo building’s sudden…
One of the most-glaring examples of current Republican malfeasance occurred yesterday in the US Senate — Dana Milbank at The Washington Post correctly summed it up: ‘Senate Republicans voted in lockstep on Tuesday to block the landmark voting rights bill, in effect embracing the disenfranchisement of non-White voters under the “big lie” justification that widespread…
A daughter coming to visit today — we haven’t seen each other in nearly a year-and-a-half, a circumstance of the pratfall-paradox of a pandemic. In such, I’ll probably be offline for the immediate-near future, but I always try to contribute at least one post a day to keep Compatible Creatures in harmony wth history. Reconcilable…
Idiots outside of an institution have a shitload of problems, reality being one of them, and with the case of T-Rump and his followers, it’s part of the Big Lie: Standing story of our times recapped this morning by Chuck Schumer on the Senate floor: “He lied over and over and over again … poisoning…
Joe Manchin is a self-centered, self-righteous asshole. He made it official this morning in an unofficial opinion piece he’d never vote for the ‘For The People Act‘ — maybe the only sole/soul survivor in the fight to contain the Republican-led tsunami-like voter supprssion laws cascading across the country — and the shitheel did it with…
Two of the biggest cogs in opposing Republicans’ war on voting/democracy are Democrats — Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, with Manchin being the greater asshole. Manchin is the obstacle in the way of the Senate passing the For The People Act, the real-only course of action to stem GQPers voting suppression bills/laws sprouting-up all over…
