Florida: America’s Fascist Future

On May 18, 2023 By Mark PerigardIn Politics2 Comments

If you ever wonder what this country will look like if Republicans win the White House in 2024, look no further than Florida.

Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, the “Sunshine State” has earned a new nickname: “The Hate State.”

DeSantis, trying to pave the way for his own presidential run and backed by a Republican supermajority that knows no shame, has passed a series of measures more befitting a banana republic.

He’s banned abortion, books, and health care for trans people.

He even approved a bill in which health care workers can now refuse care to patients whose lives violate their beliefs.

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The Supreme Court is Coming for Gays Next

On June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 By Mark PerigardIn Politics2 Comments

As if the Supreme Court’s historic reversal of Roe v. Wade wasn’t enough today, Judge Clarence Thomas, husband of insurrectionist Ginni “Release the Kraken” Thomas, announced in his opinion that the Court should target gays next.

The Supreme Court should revisit such historic decisions as the ones that established the right of gays to privacy in their own homes (Lawrence v. Texas, 2003) and the right to marry (Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015), he stated.

Those rulings “were demonstrably erroneous decisions,” he wrote.

That’s not some careless aside.

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TFG is Having a Bad Month. Why That’s Great for the Country.

On February 7, 2022 By Mark PerigardIn Politics2 Comments

We’re in Year Two of Joe Biden’s presidency, but TFG (The Former Guy) can’t let that election go.

In a recent statement, TFG actually said the quiet, traitorous part aloud:

While repeating his lies about widespread voter fraud, he said that … ‘Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome … Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power. He could have overturned the election!”

You don’t need to be Perry Mason to see this as a confession.

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The insurrection never ended

On January 2, 2022 By Mark PerigardIn PoliticsLeave a comment

As we mark the one-year anniversary of the assault on our nation’s Capitol, it’s important to note how much has changed – for the worse.

While law enforcement filed charges against over 700 members of the mob, the people who instigated, funded, and organized the insurrection to overturn the 2020 presidential election have not been held accountable.

The Department of Justice has been astonishingly mute. If the FBI is investigating, officials are saying nothing.

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Trump is gone, but his damage will linger for decades

On January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 By Mark PerigardIn Politics1 Comment

The New Yorker celebrates the last of Trump.

There’s a lot to celebrate this week.

For starters, the country is still here. The United States is still a democratic republic.

There seemed to be some doubt that might continue when an angry mob invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6, only the second time it has been breached in 200 years.

Then, it was the British; this time, our fellow Americans.

These white supremacists, incited by the president, tried to overturn a lawful election.

They were halted. We got lucky.

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