War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Earlier this Monday morning came the official December solstice with a short day followed by a long night, sort of like the reality of all of 2020, with not much light in a shit-long night — at least Billy Barr bounced out with bells ringing the legal ears (h/t Susie): Barr held his last press…
Politics of health nowadays is deadly. Here on this Tuesday evening, the country is being ground into mush by a pandemic fueled in part by a huge faction of Americans sprouting bullshit from the Republican bullhorn, twisting facts into lies and killing 300,000-plus people. The huge problem with getting a handle on COVID-19 is politics…
A couple of big stories this Monday afternoon, neither a big surprise, but one kind of sudden — the Electoral college voted correctly with Joe Biden once again proclaimed President-Elect (how many times now?), and in a kind of aftershock, US AG Bill Barr resigned, an action of “a mystery wrapped inside a riddle.” First,…
America is currently located at a twisted crossroads where our 250-year-old experiment in democracy has come to a threshhold of change, one way or another the future is storm-cloudy. The T-Rump and a hige chunk of Americans seem to think we can veer off into the weeds and be fine — the bad shit is…
A warmed-hearted breaking-news event this afternoon (h/t tengrain): Via CNN: The Supreme Court rejected a bid from Texas’ attorney general — supported by President Donald Trump — to block the ballots of millions of voters in battleground states that went in favor of President-elect Joe Biden. The court’s move to dismiss the challenge is the…
Despite all the T-Rump’s blather about election fraud, his big swag is to maintain a grip as head of the Republican party with an aim at the 2024 presidential race, and of course (should go without saying), make as much money as possible off the MAGA idiots who support him. In the current/future GOP climate,…
In this current climate of reckless horror by the Republican-infused anti-democratic horse shit, this is probably the most-frightening example since the plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (h/t LG&M): Quick summary via The Daily Beast this afternoon: The Republican leader of the Pennsylvania State Senate said she feared she’d “get my house bombed” if she…
COVID surge continues as Californbia starts a nearly statewide ‘stay-at-home’ mandate as ICU beds become sparse while the numbers tick upward: Here in the Central Valley (the San Joaquin Valley portion of the state), we are scheduled to begin our ‘lockdown’ this evening, and will reportedly last for three weeks, if the numbers can be…
Hideous in its absurdity (h/t tengrain): And about that amazing, but not surprising story of the day from The Washington Post: Just 27 congressional Republicans acknowledge Joe Biden’s win over President Trump a month after the former vice president’s clear victory of more than 7 million votes nationally and a convincing electoral-vote margin that exactly…
Family of the T-Rump need to ready themselves for legal matters: Ivanka is up to her fashion-tinted eyeballs in an example of early-in-the-presidential-game T-Rump grift: She testified in a lawsuit on ‘misuse’ of inaugural funds: ‘The Washington, D.C. attorney general’s office sued the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) in January, alleging the committee misused over…
