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Trump Trauma Semi-Redux
Election night, I left Steve Kornacki for a French Netflix series — unfortunately, about an election. Fortunately, the underpinnings were so corrupt, so overloaded with weird electoral methodology, I couldn’t draw comparisons to us and develop an associate depression. I … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Fascism, political campaigns, Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, voting and voting rights
Tagged Brown v Topeka, Civil War, Robert E Lee, Steve Kornacki, the Confederacy, Twitter, Virginia, white academies
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End the filibuster! Okay but how?
Today, once again, I’m being irritated by people I respect, by other people whose ideas for policy I wholeheartedly support. But they drive me nuts when, understandably impassioned, they yell at the Democrats for not ending the filibuster in order … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Joe Biden and his people, Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged Brookings, changing the filibuster, Chuck Schumer, Democratic Party, eliminating the filibuster, filibuster, GOP, nuclear option, Senate filibuster, Senate filibuster rules, Senate rules
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“…organized depravity”
“I doubt whether from the beginning of the world until now, a community, nominally civilized, has been so fully under the domination of systematic and organized depravity…the most atrocious organization that the civilized part of the world has ever known.” … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged Amos T Akerman, Anthony Trollope, Attorney General of the United States, Department of Justice, Ku Klux Klan, Philneas Finn, Ron Chernow, the Pallisers, US Grant
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