This was absolutely the best SOTU I’ve seen in terms of both content and style, with strong persuasion value for independents and undecideds. They’re some of the people who will decide the next elections. I especially loved Biden’s rope-a-dope over Social Security and Medicare. He suckered in the liars/haters/cheaters and showed them to be the… [read more]
Maybe We Should Try It
Final Comments of President Biden’s State of the Union Address, February 7, 2023 “And finally, to my Republican partners I say – and this is from the heart – no joke: cut the crap. “Stop the brinkmanship over the debt ceiling. Not even you are dumb enough to pull that stupid default stunt again. I… [read more]
Theocracy Is Just A Tool
What do you think about the Framers, the guys who hammered out the Constitution in a locked room with windows nailed shut and, obviously, no air conditioning, this over the course of the very hot Philadelphia summer of 1787? Are they the forebears of all national bedrock, the seers with the ability to establish the… [read more]
Slapping Forehead
Thursday is my dog Blue’s birthday. He’s five and he’s a great dog, so I urge you to raise a bone or a biscuit in his honor. Woof! Then focus on Punxsutawney Phil’s time to shine and a reminder that Groundhog Day is more than an entertaining movie. It’s a reminder of Einstein’s definition of… [read more]
The Best We Can Do
Monterey Park, CA After hearing an interview with Brandon Tsay, the man who disarmed the Monterrey Park shooter, Shannon Watts, Founder of Moms Demand Action, said, “We are asking everyday civilians to stand up to gunmen because our lawmakers are too cowardly to stand up to gun makers.” * You know in your bones that… [read more]
The Through-Line
Last Sunday’s post dealt with the goal of extremist Republicans: destruction. They want to destroy democracy and replace it with autocracy – fascism. They want to destroy the Constitution and replace it with some tool of absolute power only for themselves. They want to destroy facts and truth and replace them with propaganda and self-serving… [read more]
Destruction
It’s painfully obvious that the primary purpose of the debt ceiling is to provide a leverage point for Republican wackos to use to pretend to be deeply concerned about government spending. They know they’re unable to club government to death like a baby seal or put it in the dryer and shrink it like a… [read more]
Brutality
Reading time: 91 seconds I’m thinking about the honoring of Dr. Martin Luther King, jr. earlier this week and doing something of an inventory. For example, it’s striking – stunning even – to hear Dr. King’s hopes, indictments, demands and predictions in his I Have A Dream speech, as delivered on the steps of the… [read more]
Full Transcript – First Press Conference
Outside the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives . Jones: Mr. Speaker, Cynthia Jones here – Laughing Stock News. We cover the Congress. You know about the blistering list of lies George Santos told in order to get elected in New York’s 3rd congressional district. You’ve been asked about that repeatedly and… [read more]
Cluelessness
Struggling to Understand New York Times Senior Opinion Staff Editor Alexandra Sifferlin wrote a piece on Monday triggered by the Covid-19 death of sports journalist Grant Wahl while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Her story was not about his death. It was about the “anti-vaxxers [who] were quick to blame his death on the… [read more]
