To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Observercast

Sabotaging Democracy

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Little-known fact: In more and more races, the GOP doesn’t have broad enough appeal to fairly produce an election majority, so it has resorted to rigging the system so a minority prevails. As far-right tactician Paul Weyrich once bluntly put it: “I don’t want everybody to vote. … Our leverage in the elections quite candidly […]

Armies Of The Dysfunctional

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After his girlfriend booted him out of her place, Adam Fox found refuge in a storage space under a vacuum shop. There, he reportedly lived with an emotional support dog and smoked pot. Fox and six other men belonging to a militia group they call the Wolverine Watchmen were arrested for their alleged role in […]

The Stock Market Likes Biden

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Guess what. The stock market seems to like Joe Biden. More precisely, investors seem to like that his lead in the polls is solid enough to lessen the prospect of President Donald Trump setting off an explosion of doubt, anxiety and possible violence if Biden wins narrowly. “A Clear-Cut Biden Win Is Emerging as a […]

Formerly Bruised And Smokey, Pacific Northwest Endures

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It pleases me to report that I just visited Seattle’s Capitol Hill looking for anarchists, looters and the like and came up empty-handed. Despite one piece of anti-police graffiti I would like to unsee, the area that had suffered some violent demonstrations had been seized by brunchgoers chatting over their eggs Benedict. People lined up […]

Trump’s Rule Of Lies And Partisan Judges

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Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump puffed himself up in full Trumpian pomposity to proclaim to us rubes: “We will honor the American people with the truth, and nothing else.” Well, “nothing else” … unless you count a record-shattering number of more than 20,000 documented lies that this huckster has uttered in only 3½ […]