What do these 3 items mean when taken together? That we just elected Vladimir Putin as President of the United States 1 – The distrust between U.S. intelligence agencies and President-elect Donald Trump became open antagonism after he mocked a CIA report that Russia intervened to help him win the election… 2 – Russia clearly wanted to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton, the CIA said. But in another briefing, the FBI was more circumspect having leaked false news to help... Read more
Once upon a time the Republican Party claimed to be patriotic. For instance imagine how the GOP leadership would have reacted to the news 8 years ago that Russian hackers, spies and secret agents had gotten Obama elected. Imagine how white evangelicals would have reacted to having a “communist president.” Oh, wait a moment they did call him that and lots of other things too! Now according to the CIA president-elect Trump has been put in power by Kremlin dirty... Read more
WATCH as Colbert trashes the fake president-elect’s, fake news… : The latest of many Trump-lie conspiracy theories originated from “alt-right” Trump supporters sifting through Clinton campaign emails following the Podesta/Wikileaks scandal. After noticing more references to pizza and pizzerias than they had expected, they landed on this bizarre explanation. “A lot of uninformed, gullible people fell for the Clinton/Podesta sex ring theory, people like Trump’s pick for national security adviser Michael Flynn, who tweeted out the link writing ‘New Hillary... Read more
In August, shortly after publishing “Five Reasons Donald Trump will win,” filmmaker Michael Moore appeared on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” to offer democrats a terrifying warning. “I never wanted to be more wrong,” Moore told Seth Meyers a month after the election. Michael Moore correctly said Trump would win. He was almost alone in making that prediction. (I was wrong and claimed Hillary would win.) Now Moore holds out hope that before the inauguration… Trump might find he is... Read more
The Rape of the Sabine Women, Piazza della Signoria, Florence (Photo Wikipedia) When a Liberty student penned an editorial critical of Trump for the campus newspaper, Falwell censored it. Now that Falwell has hired a new football coach —Ian McCaw–accused of covering up gang rape of women at Baylor U, Liberty U’s Facebook page is filled with enraged comments. Falwell offered “explanations” on the university’s website. Liberty had conducted an “investigation,” he claimed. He’d found that McCaw was a fine... Read more
(Photo YouTube) As the Guardian reports Trump’s team is the wealthiest and most cut off from the rest of us– ever. The administration is now packed with mostly white old male tycoons who will do nothing to fulfill Trump’s promise of helping working-class Americans. They are poised to eradicate Medicare, roll back health care into the dark ages and cut the Trump voters adrift. Part of Ryan’s Obamacare repeal plan has long been known to anyone who listened to him... Read more
(Photo YouTube) Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each. In view of the fact that we now are on the way to an America defined by Trump it is time to look in the mirror of world history to see our potential future. 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism – Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of... Read more
(YouTube) Mind you this was made BEFORE 2000.“Donald Trump: A True Narcissistic Sociopath (Full)” put Trump under a microscope LONG BEFORE there was a political point of view about him. This is just about a man… Trump tried to stop this movie from ever being seen. Now– years later– it is out. It is about the president-elect of the United States. Now the subject soon will have the nuclear codes because of white Evangelical voters who call him God’s own.... Read more
(Photo: Wikipedia) We are facing the most important question in human history and it’s not about Jesus, abortion rights, women, Black Lives Matter, Facebook or gay rights. It is about whether organized human life will survive in any recognizable form called civilization. Do you feel your brain shutting down as you read these words? Just keep your brain working a few more seconds. Tell your brain to shut up and read the rest of this. Because we’ve let our brains... Read more
(Photo YouTube) WATCH this hilarious sketch–“The Bubble” from Saturday Night Live. It imagines a place where “life could continue for progressive Americans just as before” Donald Trump won the presidential election. Live Trump-free in a liberal urban utopia where Bernie Sanders gets to be on the dollar bill! “So if you’re an open-minded person, come here, and close yourself in!” WATCH “““““““““““““““““““““““““““““ P.S. If you want to know a little more about where I’m coming from and my perspective... Read more
Why I Still Talk to Jesus -- In Spite of Everything
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