To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Observercast

Over Congressional Republicans, Putin Casts His Dark Shadow

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If you believed that the Republicans in Congress couldn’t sink any lower, recent events have proved you sadly mistaken. House Speaker Mike Johnson, in his latest displays of subservience to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, has made his most wretched predecessors seem like statesmen and patriots. For the first time ever in America, a branch […]

Clickbait Fuels Obsession On Biden’s Age

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The special counsel report claiming that Joe Biden’s memory had seriously declined stinks to high political heaven. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe saw “nauseating similarities” to the agency’s investigation of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. To recap, 11 days before the 2016 election, then-FBI director James Comey said that the investigation of Clinton’s handling of […]

A Supreme Compromise

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If there was one lesson to be learned from Bush v. Gore, and its impact on the Supreme Court’s credibility, it is that the court should not decide presidential elections. That job belongs to the people: in the case of Donald Trump, to voters and juries. What that means in practice is that the court […]

High Court’s Corporate Supremacists Ride Again

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Heeere they come again: The wrecking crew of Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts and Thomas – the six plutocratic judicial supremacists determined to force their personal political biases on all of us. The latest ploy of this right-wing cabal is to gut the ability of public agencies to issue regulations protecting people from health care […]

A False And Unfair Confusion

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One of them confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi – both are, after all, women, whose first initial begins with an “N.” One of them confused the president of Mexico with the president of Egypt, while the other confused the leaders of Hungary and Turkey. What does it prove? Basically, nothing. Certainly nothing about who […]