America in Conflict

 

Starting a series of random posts illustrating the struggle the United States is going through today, emphasizing the moral drought of our political system.

A president impeached twice with absolutely no remorse for what he did to the United States during four catastrophic years in the White House. Read more...

As one columnist put it, "The United States is visibly in an early stage of disintegration," like Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," only the giant insect is the country we live in.

Evangelicals courted Donald Trump throughout his four years in office despite his despicable behavior, particularly his abuse of women. Read more...

Republican lawmakers proposing laws to prevent liberals from voting, targeting blacks and Hispanics. Read more...

And this is one of those 'can you really believe this?' pieces. The Washington Times suggests replacing Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski with Sarah Palin. Read more...

Here's a whopper, "Conspiracy nuts think Bill Gates helped Biden generate 'synthetic snow' to make Texas look bad." Don't know for sure but do believe we can assume this group supports Donald Trump.

With 390 million guns on U.S. streets in a country of 329 million people, one would expect gun violence. And we got it with a 50% increase in mass shootings in 2020, plus in the first seven weeks of 2021, there have been 63 mass shootings. Read more... 

President Biden appointed more Postal Service Board members, but nothing is done about the arrogant and incompetent Postmaster Louis DeJoy. Why is Biden dragging his feet on this? Read more...

Stephen Miller is the sneaky behind the scenes Donald Trump work master for white supremacy in what the Washington Post's Greg Sargent calls a "shadow war" against Joe Biden. This administration shouldn't let Miller out of its sights. 
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SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas, obviously an ardent Donald Trump follower, seems to be overstepping his bounds by becoming a supporter of the "fixed 2020 election," movement. Read more...

Joe Biden mirrors Donald Trump if he lets Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman get away with the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. We keep warning China's Xi Jinping about human rights in his country. But, then, he doesn't have any oil. Read more...

As you may know the CPAC convention got under way last Thursday, and one of its speakers, Ted Cruz, mocked the wearing of masks when the COVID-19 pandemic has now claimed 524,480 deaths. Maybe he should just go back to Cancun and stay. Read more...

Speaking of CPAC, have you heard of the life size gold metal statue of Donald Trump served up to the emperor during the convention? By the way, it was made in Mexico, probably by the kind of people he described as drug dealers, criminals, rapists. Read more...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the U.S. Representative who was stripped of all of her key House posts due to radical views, is attending CPSC with the rest of the Republican lowlife to praise the recently dethroned dictator. Not sure if she brought her baseless QAnon conspiracy theories with her. Read more...

You can thank Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for being one of the first-rate idiots in the attempt to overturn Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election. He the epitome of untruth with his ongoing claims of rampant voter fraud rampant voter fraud with absolutely no evidence. Read more...

Matt Gaetz, the moron congressman from Florida, pushes Donald Trump for 2024, by comparing Trump's book, "The Art of the Deal," with Gaetz's new version, 'The Art of the Comeback.' Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said it best, "That guy [Gaetz] is

not an adult". Read more...

Catching up on the news

 

"'Insulting' GOP bill would let Arizona lawmakers throw out presidential election results." As a Zoni, I have witnessed the stupidity of the governor and AZ legislature for over twenty. This is just another one of their idiocies. Read more...

"Josh Hawley has become 'the face of the Biden resistance': report." AlterNet says...

"Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri has become one of the most hated Republicans in the U.S. Senate and is being associated with violent insurrection, extremism and refusing to accept democratic election results."

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"Gun seller turned congressman becomes first of 2 republicans fined for 'skipping' metal detectors: report." You can take a gun nut out of his gun store but you can't the "nut" out of a gun nut. Read more... 

"Nearly 150 constitutional scholars sign letter dismantling Trump's 'First Amendment' impeachment defense." Yet, a Republican congressional mass will vote no to impeachment. Pathetic! Read more...

"The polls are in — and the Republican Party looks like a total mess." Here's an example...

"McConnell's favorability, according to FiveThirtyEight, is 19%, while Cheney's is 27%. And the favorability among the 'better-known Trump allies' includes 19% for Hawley, 34% for Cruz and 23% for McCarthy." 

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"Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's multi-million-dollar profits made while working for the government." Calling the New York Attorney General...Are you listening? Read more...

"The good news and the bad news in the fight against COVID." AlterNet says, "The good news: millions of people around the world have been vaccinated." The bad news not so good. Read more...

"Trump's election fraud lie has cost taxpayers $519 million -- and his tab is still rising: report." RawStory covers a piece in The Washington Post...

"President Donald Trump's onslaught of falsehoods about the November election misled millions of Americans, undermined faith in the electoral system, sparked a deadly riot — and has now left taxpayers with a large, and growing, bill. The total so far: $519 million."

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"Multiple Republican lawmakers are debating bolting and forming a new party: ex-GOP House member." Just what we need, another gang of Republicans running loose. Read more...

"Opinion: The GOP is not a normal party." Clearly the understatement of the year. Just count the psychiatrists like Brandy Lee from Yale who have labeled Donald Trump unfit mentally to hold office. The rest of the Republicans, especially those who continue to ardently continue to support Trump, well, they all seem to be on the midst of a brain freeze. Read more...