When a patient enters a hospital, sick with COVID symptoms, no one asks their political persuasion. While the goal is to treat patients with every possible advantage to keep them from dying, the elephant in the room is that a majority of these patients are unvaccinated and conservative/Republican. …
If you aren’t familiar with the Nextdoor app, it is “supposed” to be designed so that neighbors in close proximity can share all kinds of things, ask questions, join like-minded people in groups, and is presented as a generally “polyanna” kind of social media platform. It is far from that…
Conservatives have long held the understanding that branding is everything. They know that their followers love “bumper sticker” style chants and words and they use them to create weapons of destruction at every turn. One of their most early successes in the last decades has been to demonize the word…
If you haven’t heard of “Nextdoor” you should really pay attention. The people that decided to create this harmless-sounding platform used the same naivety as the original founders of other platforms. Under a heading of “sounding” like it was a friendly place for neighbors to be in contact with other…
One of the most used comments regarding trump and GOP supporters is that so many of them are well-known neighbors, friends and even relatives that are really just “nice people.” They quote how they help out animals causes, attend church, and have often helped each other out when there was…
This is not your daily dose of hyperbole, or a statement that one would expect from the shock jocks on…well…you know the stations and networks. This is a condition that has been bubbling up for a number of decades while everyone was just too busy to notice. …
It has become very obvious that there is something intrinsically wrong with many of those that align themselves with today’s GQP. Psychologists have battled with diagnoses that include cult mentality, while the rest of us look at them as downright stupid. We see them in stores, on airflights, and especially…
Almost every politician is associated with some form of lying; that is typically the nature of the beast. As we saw during the last administration, the orange guy and his sycophants took lying to levels never seen before. They know that no matter how strange or bizarre, their followers will…
A majority of Americans have never even heard the term “gerrymandering” and typically have no idea how it can reshape voting abilities and results. While both of the major parties have had their hand in gerrymandering, Republicans have devoted decades to this ideology, because of one thing — they know…
While many of us kind of knew that there were a lot of stupid Americans, the last five years have proven it. The sheer volume of insanity that has poured from the mouths of right wing pundits, the former guy and his administration, and those that blindly believe anything that…
