by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 16, 2022 | • Politics, Donald Trump
I think the only policydecision or group of policy devcisions Trump made that I am okay with are the refocusing of the military budget towards the threats from Russia and China. …As a result, the military is changing how it trains personnel, which technologies...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 10, 2022 | • Politics, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Trump
Here’s how Fox and Newsmax tried to spin the January 6 committee’s first prime-time hearing A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources”...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 28, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon
REVEALED: Peter Navarro planned conspiracy with Steve Bannon by ‘lining up over 100 congressmen’ to overthrow the election Peter Navarro’s name hasn’t come up much when it comes to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the last-minute plot...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 10, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump
An Ex-KGB Agent Says Trump Was a Russian Asset Since 1987. Does it Matter? In 2018, I became either famous or notorious – depending on your point of view – for writing a story speculating that Russia had secret leverage over Trump (which turned out to be...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 5, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy
The US was not prepared for a pandemic – free market capitalism and government deregulation may be to blame It’s unclear when the pandemic will come to an end. What may be an even more important question is whether the U.S. will be prepared for the next...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 27, 2021 | • Politics, Characters on the Right, Donald Trump, Partisan Idiocy, The Republicans
America’s Worst Right-Wingers 79% Donald Trump Known for: fascism; racism; sexism; boredom with Constitution; old-white-man-from- Queens cultural rage. Staff pick: Donald Trump 9% Sean Hannity Known for: being pissed-off that we now hate Tucker more. Staff pick:...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 5, 2021 | • Politics, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Trump
The 147 Republicans Who Voted to Overturn Election Results Republican lawmakers raised objections to the official certification of electoral votes in a joint session of Congress that went into the wee hours of Thursday morning, in a futile effort to overturn the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 4, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Hungarian-Style Soft Fascism is the GOP’s Ruthless New Brand While it’s fashionable in some circles to compare Donald Trump and the modern-day GOP to Hitler or Mussolini and their fascist movements from the 1930s, what’s happening on the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 16, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The Sadness of Sharing a Country With Trump Supporters A similar thing happens to me on many mornings lately. My eyes open and I suddenly become aware that I’m awake. My mind quickly begins assembling the first few seconds of my day (making plans, organizing my...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 1, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Trumpists live in an alternate reality – but they believe in it, and that’s terrifying I had not seen my mother for two years, for reasons we all understand too well. Several weeks ago, I was finally able to journey home. It was wonderful to see my mother...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 5, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The Republicans
Occupy Democrats on FaceBook July 5th 2021 “A day in the life of Sue the Trump supporter… Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum...