Showing posts with label Democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democracy. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Ceding tariff authority to the executive was the Congress' way of escaping the political consequences of fulfilling their responsibilities under the constitution, but that may be changing

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 The phenomenon is mirrored in the states by the enthusiasm for referenda, aka ballot measures, which are promoted as democracy but are in f...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Some of what Dark Brandon said in 2022 is what some Democrats still want their leader to say today in 2025

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  ... Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic. ... there’s no quest...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Blogger Kevin Drum has passed away of bone marrow cancer at 66

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 Remembering Kevin Drum ... Kevin’s success was also a kind of victory of democracy over snobbery. It proved that you can write incisivel...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Andrew Sullivan throws the title of a recent book by Hillarycon Rod Dreher in his face, who is now at the heart of this new authoritarian Trump presidency through his friendship with J. D. Vance

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Dreher has succumbed to the abuse of Trump. He lives by lies. He thinks Zelenskyy was the bad guy in the Oval Office. Sullivan has not succ...
Monday, March 3, 2025

The Current Big Lie: There was an agreement in 1991 when the Soviet Union fell apart that prevented former Eastern bloc countries from joining NATO

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  ‘There was no promise not to enlarge NATO’ - Harvard Law School Mar 16, 2022 By Jeff Neal ...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

These ridiculous goofs, President Biden, VP Harris, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand should all be removed from office before Monday

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 The ERA was never ratified according to the rules. Pretending otherwise and using the power of the executive to assert otherwise is a viola...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

The Atlantic throws a Hail Mary to Adolph Hitler, gives Trump 100 days to end democracy in America or they're finished forever lol

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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
Monday, December 30, 2024

This tells you more about PolitiFacts' readers than it does about "The Lie of the Year"

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Trump Wins 'Lie of the Year' for 4th Straight Time Ellen Hine, PolitiFact    I thought the biggest lie of the year was Nancy Pelosi ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

To Mark Tooley a Protestant America means, among other things, the routinized revolution of periodic elections criticized by Oswald Spengler as a mark of the blindness and cowardice of Liberalism

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 Our democracy is a constant state of revolution, overthrowing incumbents in favor of successors who also will soon face revolution.  Here ...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

These people disgust me, portraying Pete Hegseth as a victim when he's a predator

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     While citizens and the Senate should vet Hegseth’s qualifications to be Secretary of Defense, among the issues assessed should not be ...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

WaPo defends rule of law in Pennsylvania, says Democrat defiance of judicial election rulings is corrosive to democracy

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 ... elected Democratic officials in Philadelphia and three other counties — Bucks, Centre and Montgomery — voted this week to defy these ...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

THE CHUTZPAH OF THE INGRATES!: Kamala Harris blew through $1 billion in 107 days and ended up $20 million in debt, DNC official echoes the new lie from Pelosi, BLAMES JOE BIDEN after THEY pushed him out

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 Just think what Kamala could have done for the whole country, and how quickly! And look how Nancy Pelosi's new lyin' narrative (he ...

Extremely amusing: Democrats tried to frighten the voters that Trump is a threat to democracy, so the voters voted for Trump

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Sunday, October 20, 2024

Democracy is an everlasting reproach to politicks

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  It would be an everlasting reproach to politicks, should such men overturn an establishment formed by the wisest laws, and supported by th...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Hoo boy, in a democracy a party's candidate ought to win in the primaries before she becomes the candidate

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Sunday, September 1, 2024

Harris-Walz campaign uses anti-democratic tactics against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the name of saving democracy

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 In Philadelphia on Aug. 6, an enormous crowd of supporters exulted in the announcement of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Vice President Kamala...

Democrat former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee says Harris cocooning herself is an affront to democracy

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  If the polling errors favoring Democrats in 2020 and 2016 persist, then Trump is probably still in the lead. Further, the focus of the fal...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Le Monde: Macron has spent the summer in denial of his defeat, the lumpen left has spent it failing to build a coalition to govern

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 The president's justification for this decision is that the other political groups consulted would have quickly overthrown the new go...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

LOL RFK Jr: Democrat Party dismantles democracy in order to save it

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  RFK Jr. Exits Race, Endorses Trump: In The Name Of Saving Democracy, The Democratic Party Is Dismantling It   Good one!
Friday, August 23, 2024

Ordinarily in a democracy the people get to vote for their candidate, but who needs votes when we've got military dictator General Harris?

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