Gerrymandering is one of the oldies but goodies for rigging elections by concentrating opposition party voters into numerically smaller numbers of districts. Both parties have done it, but Republicans are grandmasters. In 2016, Democrats got a majority of votes, but…
Author: Ron Anthony
The liar tweets tonight
Our only hope: Michael Bloomberg
Both parties are trying to bribe voters with “free stuff”. The Republicans have passed a tax cut that went primarily to the big corporations and their rich owners. Trump has talked about more tax cuts that aren’t free. They get…
Being informed, the media and the truth
John Kelly, former White House chief of staff, head of Homeland Security and four-star Marine General slammed Fox News, saying a person who only watched that network wouldn’t be “an informed citizen.” Spot on! He also said we need a…
Future hope for the Republican party
The Republican party has degenerated into a Trump cult. No amount of ignorance, arrogance, childishness or lawbreaking turns his worshipers off. He seems to embody their values or lack of any. If John F. Kennedy could update his “Profiles…
The State of the Union or Trump’s BS
We held our breath in anticipation before the State of the Union. What lies and misleading statements will Donald dream up? He didn’t let us down. He flipped some real whoppers. Social Security and Medicare During the election, Donald promised…
Impeachment in the Senate was Dead On Arrival
Trump’s actions to get the President of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joseph Biden’s son broke the law and violated the Constitution. His blocking of the inquiry was an obstruction of justice. Both justified impeachment and removal from office.…
Trump vs Coronavirus
Biological threats will always be around. Global warming is releasing germs that have long been frozen and we have not yet been exposed to them. We have no immunity. The native Americans populations were annihilated by the introduction of European…
Trump’s Geography
This would be a comedy if it wasn’t for real and from the President of the United States. “President Donald Trump confused the Baltic states in Europe with the Balkans—and chastised leaders of the former for starting wars in the…
The ends justify the means
The Trump mob’s attitude is that anything is OK if Trump means well. The Constitution does not apply. We don’t need the Constitution if a Republican is President. The story.
Trump and Nipple and Button
Trump’s downward spiral
Trump’s nonsensical foreign policy is: to stand firm with Saudi Arabia for something called oil give Israel what it wants to fire up his Evangelical Christian base. Otherwise, he has successfully alienated just about everyone else by: Tearing up the…
The Middle East Crisis deepens
As mentioned in a previous blog, there is a reaction to every action. A wise leader will take reactions into consideration before taking military action. Trump is impulsive and not a wise leader (to put it mildly) so he killed…
Mob Rule
In a normal court of law upon which our civilization is based, the prosecution can present witnesses and facts and the defense can do the same. But with mob rule, a kangaroo court will allow no such possibility for a…
More plunder of the taxpayers
Trump continues to funnel taxpayer money into his own properties. He doubled and tripled the rates for his Doral Resort used by the Republican National Committee on January 13-15, 2020. Taxpayers got soaked for staff and Secret Service while to…
Trump says ‘Who the hell cares about the budget?’
The Social Security Trust Fund and Medicare Trust Fund are heading to run out of money in 10 to 15 years. The Federal Deficit is now over $1 trillion per year thanks to the recent Republican tax cuts. This comes…
Trump called top military leaders dopes, babies and losers
This know-it-all ignoramus has gone off the deep end in the past. He called our top brass dopes, babies and losers as revealed in a new book “A Very Stable Genius” by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. This…
Confusion and brazen lie on Prexisting conditions
Trump has stated that he “saved” pre-existing conditions. His confused mind has it backward. We want protection from pre-existing conditions. That’s what he means, but he has it confused. It’s a lie anyway. He has done much to do away…
War by dictatorial decree
“There were a series of imminent attacks that were being plotted by Qassem Soleimani. We don’t know precisely when and we don’t know precisely where.” — Pompeo, on Fox News With this kind of reasoning, Trump can attack any country…
Trump claims a Nobel Prize for Ethiopia that he had nothing to do with.
Trump told his cult that he deserved the Nobel Prize for a peace negotiation in Ethiopia that he had nothing to do with. Reality means nothing to him or his cult. Read.
American Cancer Society exposes Trump’s lying
Although he took office in January, 2017, Trump took credit for contributing to the 30-year drop in Cancer death rates that had its best drop in 2016 according to the American Cancer Society. Trump did not say he tried to…
More blood on Trump’s hands
Since his tearing up of the Iran Nuclear Agreement and the assassination of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani 56 Iranians were killed in a stampede of mourners massed around the coffin of Soleimani. Now we have what is almost certainly an…
Extending the lives of old dirty coal burning plants
The Trump administration has acted to scrap the Clean Power Plan-which would, for the first time, place binding limits on greenhouse emissions from existing power plants, the nations’ single biggest source of climate-destroying pollution. This innovative plan has been replaced…
Trump lacks human compassion
The Trump Cult
“Only God could deliver such a savior to our nation,” Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale has said. “This is the fellow that God has made our president.”“He is, without a doubt, the most biblical president I have ever seen.” Michelle…