GA Run-offs: A Rebuke of the Southern Strategy
SIMPLE & QUICK: Georgia senatorial run-off advances public rebuke of the GOP Southern Strategy, forever changing American politics In case you missed it, Georgia Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Jon Ossoff, really embarrassed the Peach State’s sitting Senator, David Perdue. So much so the prospective…
99 Problems and Polling is 1
SIMPLE & QUICK: There is digging a political hole and then there is burying your own incumbency The President has a lot of problems. But a lot of people are saying The Donald is at his best when he is cornered. In case no one is…
The Catherine Herridge Interview
SIMPLE & QUICK: POTUS 45 has many complaints, offers no solutions Always gregarious, the President is especially verbose today. It is apparent that the 45th Commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces is rattled by his own campaign’s internal polling. This agitation is no doubt…
Monumental Nonsense
SIMPLE & QUICK: It is not about the statues, but it is about the statutes. White supremacy relies on symbolism to sustain its systemic spread Human beings are fallible. American exceptionalism, perhaps especially, makes no difference. Most of America’s original white male land owners, known as…
On Policing
SIMPLE & QUICK: There may never be a better time to reimagine policing and defund the police Recent darling and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said last week during one of his daily Covid-19 briefings, that “unprovoked police brutality just does not happen.” Peaceful protestors in…
America in Carotid Restraint
SIMPLE & QUICK: Fascism takes advantage of The Donald’s cult of personality and engages embedded white supremacists in its on-going war on democracy and desire to dissolve America’s social contract Until last week, most Americans did not know what a carotid restraint is. If they did…
Jumping the Shark
SIMPLE & QUICK: In his speech to drink bleach, the POTUS 45 show joins a history of high-ratings TV writing itself right off of the screen When the fandom of Happy Days faded and the 50s-based American sitcom began to lose viewers, the show’s creators came…
Stacey & the Dems
SIMPLE & QUICK: Stacey Abrams is a one-women redemption of Southern Democratic politics, and quite possibly too the for DNC Stacey Abrams is taking command of Democratic politics. The gubernatorial-hopeful may not have seen her lifework and accomplishments seize the Peach State’s governor’s mansion, but she…