America still can’t shake off its racist impulses, and the Tea Party movement — renamed “MAGA” — is the merely latest iteration of racist backlash. Its driving force, rooted in pre-Civil War “nullification” ideology, is defiance. Physical secession is imposs[...]
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Those silly maps of “red” counties don’t mean a darn thing
A bad trail map can lead you off a cliff. A bad political map can lead to absurd, pointless, meaningless arguments. Like this map (and its countless similar previous iterations): Why is it absurd, pointless, and meaningless? Because dirt doesn’t vote, and the U.S. population isn’t evenly[...]
Now watch Republicans seek more restrictions on voting
Smarting from Trump’s loss, and feeling their culture is under siege, Republicans will act in states they still control to make it harder to vote. Tightening ID laws, restricting mail voting, and banning drop boxes will be major goals. This isn’t speculative; they’re already laying[...]
Where the push for electoral college reform stands now
The electoral vote system has long been criticized, and polls show a majority of Americans support reforming the system to ensure the popular vote winner wins the presidency. That consistently happened from 1888 through 1996, then in 2000 and again in 2016, the popular vote losers squeaked into off[...]
December 12th, 2020 - 3:35 am § in America, Donald Trump, Economics, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health, Law and Courts, Politics
By the numbers: Quantifying Trump’s presidency
From Atlantic magazine (read original article here): More than a quarter of a million Americans have died from COVID-19 so far; 2.3 million Americans lost their health insurance before the pandemic, and millions more during the pandemic. Trump pulled the U.S. out of 13 international organizations, a[...]
Does Trump believe he lost?
The question is important, because if he does, then isn’t he conciously trying to overthrow our system of government? Michael D’Antonio, a Pulitzer Prize-winning CNN journalist and a Trump biographer, writes, “Does he really believe what he says? … he tells his follow[...]
2020 weekly unemployment claims
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Biden defends his SecDef pick
President-elect Biden has come under fire from his own party for choosing retired 4-star general Lloyd Austin as his secretary of defense (but Colin Powell calls him a “superb choice;” read about that here). So Biden has decided to explain the decision. First, and true to Biden form, he [...]
On GOP liars and election deniers
This article contains liberal commentary. In a debate between Georgia senate candidates on Sunday, December 6, 2020, GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler “repeatedly refused … to acknowledge … Trump lost re-election in November … and hammered [her Democratic opponent] as a socia[...]
This ex-fighter pilot shouldn’t be allowed near the Pentagon
This article contains news and liberal commentary. “President Donald Trump’s nominee to become a senior Pentagon official spread debunked conspiracies on Twitter that called Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden a ‘coup’ attempt and shared tweets that suggest Trump[...]