Pixels Chester

Fear is at the core of the political divide, e.g., the attack on democracy. Republicans are clinging – with oppression, suppression, deceit, violence, insurrection, and every other nondemocratic means – to what America has been (a mostly white, Christian, and heavily rural nation) to what it is inexorably becoming: urbanized and racially and religiously diverse.…

The ex-president wants more armed insurrection, encouraging the forcible suppression of opposition at the hands of his paramilitary and, if he had been able to ‘drain the swamp’, at the hands of the military. A sitting US Senator and wannabe POTUS spreads misogyny and preaches reverse discrimination at efforts to align SCOTUS with the diversity…

DC usually smells of manure, but what the GOP is feeding its Trump worshipers is vintage, grade A bullshit. Yep, Republican Congressmen said the following. Gaslighting 101. There was no insurrection, and to call it an insurrection in my opinion is a bold faced lie. Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol…

“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said. So I’m not sending help or calling for my proud buddies to stand down. Go out and introduce yourself. Good people on both sides. Introduce them to Mike Pence for me.

Trump’s cultists claim it is 1776 all over again. I’d say it’s 1919 Germany and they are doing their damnedest to push it to 1933.

Trump and 68% of Republicans deny the election results because Trump says so and his GOP apologists are too chicken shit to hold him accountable for misleading the American people about something besides Covid. Look at the faces of his claim: on the legal side you got Rudy, Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Jenna Ellis, Cleta…

Hmm, let’s compare events. The fight against systemic racism vs.: sedition, premeditated violent insurrection in support of baseless claims made by a morally bankrupt leader in psychosis, chants of ‘hang Mike Pence’ with a gallows erected, zip cuffs for taking prisoners, pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, flash-bang grenades, pepper spray, riot gear, onions to offset deterrent…

Sadly, at least 70 million Americans learned nothing from The Boy Who Cried Wolf fable. The moral stated at the end of the Greek version is, “this shows how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them”. Check the timeline for Trump’s Coronavirus responses. Misinformation and ‘playing it down’ (deceit)…

Socialism is a misnomer for the progressive preferences of the American majority. 63% of U.S. adults say the government has the responsibility to provide health care coverage for all. The Republicans mistakenly call that socialism and offer no plan, except to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. 67% of U.S. adults say the federal government is…

Man uses tools to build and shape his world. As a wordsmith who grew up in an illiterate and indigent family in the rural South, my tool of necessity was and remains language. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. – Mark…