A Rotten Theocratic Oligarchy In a state of over 30 million people, there are actually a few million in Texass who are decent people. But with its Republican trifecta and Republican triplex, it’s not a state that’s run democratically (in both the small-d and Big-D sense of the word). In 2024, Texas is a bin…
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Nevermind Secession: Cut Texas Loose The U.S. doesn’t need Texass and would be better off without their corrupt, godawful theocratic government. Secession is to Texass what apple pie is to Real America, but sadly, they have no apparatus to secede. We need to kick them out. It’ll be a painful breakup for millions of people.…
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“Skilled, Likable, and Lovable” While the origin of American Christofascism is debated among historians, the ascent of smiling Christofascist Mike Johnson to Speaker of the United States House of Representatives on October 25 demonstrated the grip fundamentalists have on the nation today. A man who looks a bit like Stephen Colbert, Mike Johnson was described…
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Please Stay Alive, You Lying Sack of Shit Betting markets offer a chance to place a wager on U.S. presidential elections, but predicting the future is a messy business that I don’t want to get involved in. On January 5, Biden and Trump were running neck and neck on PredictIt. This betting market is probably…
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Finally, a conspiracy that was more than a theory What ails the “United” States today? Lots, and some of it was encapsulated by a particular news story this month. In an age of countless make-believe conspiracies pushed by that nation’s Reich-wingers, an actual American conspirator confessed to falsifying documents and paying actors to fabricate a…
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This goes beyond a clown and his circus CNN could be worse: they could present verifiably false information as fact each day in a manner consistent with what cost Fox “News” nearly $800M recently. But if the network proved one thing on May 10, it’s that CNN is a national disgrace too. That’s the day…
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Don’t look to Florida’s presidential candidates for the truth Here’s to Ronald “Meatball” DeSantis, who went out of his way to be a douche with his “Law and Order” tour of cities. Cities in Florida? Of course not. He visited northern cities that rub his delicate sensibilities the wrong way. Is it coincidence that Florida…
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Kitara Ravache was a drag queen in Brazil who currently assumes the aliases of George Santos or Anthony Devolder. North Americans mostly know him as George Santos since he used this name to literally scam his way into the 118th Congress of his adopted nation. The people he pretends to represent are livid that he…
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One of those “A” states If you’re a Canadian, or even a U.S. citizen who isn’t from “the South”, Arkansas is easily mistaken for Alabama. Both are former slave states far below the Mason–Dixon line. Not only geographically at the bottom, both states rank in the bottom 40 of 50 states for places you’d want…
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GRANDIOSE narcissists Kanye, Elon, Trump. What do they have in common? They command wealth to a degree that working people cannot truly comprehend, yet each is losing a significant percentage of their fortune. Why are they losing? In 2022, these three trolls unmistakably displayed their true colors to the public. Intelligent observers boiled them down…
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