April 6, 2018

TYT: Why Christians Wouldnt Care If Trump Paid For Abortions - what we are up against

March 17, 2018

The thing about Trump supporters is

They will never say, "I voted for Trump, but I really don't like the way he did XYZ. I don't support that."

Democrats do that all the time. I was a big Obama supporter, but there are things he did (and things he didn't do by omission), that I really don't like. And I have no problem saying it.

If those fascists would ever just say, "well, of course Trump has to follow our laws" or "I like the guy, but that last move was low class" , or anything like that, I would have hope for our country. But they don't, and I don't.

March 16, 2018

Is the march to fascism/fundamentalism/authoritarianism a ratchet?

We slowly slowly slowly have given the wealthy and their corporations the power to set up and enforce the rules to our society. Corporations are people, money is speech, bribery is legal, elections are auctions, corporations force arbitration, unions are destroyed, banks commit fraud with impunity, manufacturers poison us with impunity, the powerful are moral, the poor are immoral.

The elite, in short, are now in charge of making all the rules, including how the elite should treat everyone else. (hint: like shit)

have other countries ever come this close to full blown fascism (where corporate power = governmental power) and come back from the brink? I'm seeing a lot of roadmaps to how Nazi Germany came to be, but not many where fascism loomed but was beaten back. Can it be?

March 16, 2018

Lectures about "being nice" to potential school shooters

https://twitter.com/robwhisman/status/974340572352626688

March 14, 2018

TYT: the REAL reason Tillerson is out

There has been a lot of speculation here and elsewhere about Tillerson leaving. Cenk provides what I think is the most cogent explanation: the cancelled Exxon/Rosneft deal.

March 14, 2018

I worry that Stephen Colbert will be black bagged

Like Stephen Frye in V for Vendetta. Is that stupid?

March 14, 2018

Cenk of the young Turks predicted Tillerson was out last week

Based on the fact that the multi trillion dollar Russian oil deal he was explicitly put in place to facilitate has been put on hold.

This act about him getting fired for saying something is lame. He was just of no use to Putin at this time.

February 20, 2018

Conservatives: Americans had it coming

Saw this posted by a friend on Facebook:



After every gun massacre, there is a subset of people who don't want any gun restrictions to come of it. And so they start speculating about other reasons (besides the insanely easy access to semi- and pseudo-automatic weapons) that these massacres happen. Therefore, they blame:

* The lack of prayer in school
* violent video games
* the lack of the 10 commandments in school
* kids, for being on their cell phones all the time
* the lack of mental health treatment in America
* our "sick culture" which includes violent movies and tv
* parents for not interfering with their kids' lives enough, not monitoring their every interaction, not being up their behinds enough, not being strict enough
* the victims for not being armed themselves

Guns cannot be to blame, you see, so it must be our fault. Americans had it coming, because we aren't godly enough or respectful enough or gun crazy enough or strict enough, or our culture includes entertainment with violence. It is the victims' fault, or our fault collectively.

I say to hell with that. Amercians don't deserve to be slaughtered. Our children don't deserve to be slaughtered. Americans are (by and large) really excellent people, and certainly no worse parents than in any other part of the world. Our entertainment is the world's entertainment. The only thing that we are at fault for is allowing our leadership to make our gun laws so weak that unhinged people and rapid-fire arms are bound to find each other. And we can (and should) do something about that.

I'm so sick of gun lovers blaming Americans, young Americans, unarmed Americans, peaceful Americans, Americans going to school, or to a concert, or to a peaceful protest, for their own demise at the hands of the NRA, the gun manufacturers, and the putrid politicians who are legally bribed by them. We didn't deserve this, and we will create a better America with stricter gun laws eventually, or die in the inevitable crossfire.

February 19, 2018

You may enjoy this delightfully snarky video

February 15, 2018

The Christian god murdered every man, woman, child, infant, and fetus

on Earth, except for 8 people (so the story goes). And yet, we are supposed to believe that he gives two shits about abortion.