We're all illegal immigrants.

Except for Native Americans.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and the Certification of the Election.

Will Republicans rally around House Speaker Michael Corleone if for no other reason than to certify the election to get Caligula back into the White House?

If they try to replace Mikey then whoever they replace him with might come up short in votes due to Republican infighting.

What happens if by January 6 Mr. Corleone doesn't get enough votes to be the Speaker again? They can't certify without a Speaker, right?

What happens if Democrats unify and refuse to vote for any fascist (excuse me, I mean Republican) to be Speaker?

I know, I know. I'm engaging in wishful thinking and the incoming orange emperor will have all of our heads on a spike.

Trump's New Expansionist Posture.

Neither Project 2025 nor Agenda47 gave any indication of Trump's intention of completely taking over the North American continent.

Does this mean that Putin, via Trump, is trying to take over all of this territory?

Does Putin ultimately want to take over the whole planet?

A New Declaration of Independence.

Although in general Democratic politicians are much better than Republicans, our politicians collectively have failed us. They always end up looking out for their own best interests at the expense of ours.

Also, the American oligarchy have continuously gamed the system to protect their interests, which is why the rich and the big corporations never pay their fair share in taxes (and over the decades their tax rates keep falling), the federal minimum wage never gets raised, we never get universal healthcare, the social safety net is never secure, Big Pharma is never reigned in the way it is in other countries (although Democrats have had some success with this), and income inequality continues to grow without limit (and of course this will accelerate wildly after Trump is inaugurated). Generally speaking, the American oligarchy wouldn't be able to accomplish these things without both Democrats and Republicans being complicit to some degree, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Our democracy is broken. It's always been broken. Even worse, it's about to be replaced with an autocracy.

I wish that the American citizenry would rise up, shut the system down, and reform our government in a way that works for all of us. In the absence of doing that, we're all going to end up as serfs.

An excerpt from the Declaration of Independence:

Which do you trust more: Polls or Allan Lichtman's Keys?

Me? I trust Allan Lichtman, the American University historian who's been called the "Nostradamus of presidential election predictions," because of his near-perfect 40-year track record.

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The biggest threat to our democracy.

The biggest threat to our democracy is not Trump, Project 2025, MAGA, SCOTUS, the Heritage Foundation, Leonard Leo, voter suppression, racial gerrymandering, or even political coups.

The biggest threat to our democracy are

LOW-INFORMATION SWING STATE VOTERS.

In my opinion.

To a Project 2025 loving FASCIST,

even Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, and Dick Cheney are the Radical Left.

Just sayin'.

Trump is now claiming that he'll end taxes on overtime pay.

The greatest statement by a political figure in world history.