Failed Pols

03/07/2025

Congress caves on EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA; OBBB), or the Big Beautiful Bill, is a proposed budget reconciliation bill[1] in the 119th United States Congress.

25/06/2025

I guess that settles it.

* Iran's Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated - And Suggestions Otherwise Are Fake News (2025-06-25)

The world is far safer after President Donald J. Trump’s highly successful, decisive precision strikes against the Iranian regime’s key nuclear

20/05/2025

* Statement From The Social Justice Task Force Of Acton Congregational Church (ACC) On The Treatment Of Immigrants (2025-05-17)

Social Justice Task Force statement on immigration

12/05/2025

Well done, The Onion, well done.

* Trump Administration Offers Free At-Home Loyalty Tests

07/05/2025

FACT:

* The Washington Post: Tracking Trump’s Progress On His Campaign Promises
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/trump-campaign-promises/

FICTION:

* "News" From POTUS
https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/

The latest transcripts, proclamations, executive orders, and press releases from The White House.

05/04/2025

* Hands Off Protest

The Hands Off protests are a group of ongoing protests[1] that started the morning of April 5, 2025.[2][3][4][5] Approximately 1,200 demonstrations are planned by approximately 150 groups in the United States.[6] The protesters aim to show their displeasure of the second Trump administration, which....

18/12/2024

U.S. Counties with Populations Larger Than Wyoming

13/09/2024

The United States of America ranks 89th (of 179 ranked countries) on the Egalitarian Democracy Index (the level of equal access to resources, power, and freedoms across various groups within a society, in addition to the level of electoral democracy). Seems like we could do better.

The Democracy Indices by V-Dem are democracy indices published by the V-Dem Institute that describe qualities of different democracies. This dataset is published on an annual basis and is publicly available and free.[1] In particular, the V-Dem dataset is popular among political scientists and descr...

21/07/2024

Kamala!

01/07/2024

SCOTUS has officially jumped the shark:

* Supreme Court Rules That Presidents Have Absolute Immunity for "Core Constitutional Powers" (2024-07-01)
Quoting dissenting Justice Sotomayor: "With fear for our democracy, I dissent."
https://kottke.org/24/07/supreme-court-rules-that-presidents-have-absolute-immunity-for-core-constitutional-powers

* Justices Rule Trump Has Some Immunity From Prosecution (2024-07-01)
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/07/justices-rule-trump-has-some-immunity-from-prosecution/

* The Supreme Court Puts Trump Above the Law (2024-07-01)
And gives him permission for a despotic second term.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/supreme-court-donald-trump-immunity-decision/678859/

As I wrote in the context of another poorly-reasoned SCOTUS case in 2010 (https://www.clocktowerlaw.com/3079.html): "As the only unelected branch of government, the judicial branch derives its legitimacy and authority from and in proportion to its ability to do its job well: to explain the law. The Supreme Court MUST explain its decisions or it is not the supreme court anymore."

Today, The US Supreme Court is no longer supreme; it is corrupt. Corrupt like states with gerrymandered districts, corrupt like those "elected" from those districts, corrupt like a convicted felon.

And so my documentation of the debacle of Trump must and shall continue (https://www.failblog.com/).

It is a dark day in America, a day that will live in infamy. Democracy in the USA had a pretty good run, but I'm pretty sure that it's over. R.I.P. U.S.A.

And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

05/06/2024

2003 - Martha Stewart (female) convicted of 4 felony counts, served 5 months in prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Stewart

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2024 - Donald Trump (male) convicted of 34 felony counts, served BLANK months in prison.

Fill in the BLANK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York

The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump is an ongoing criminal trial against Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States. Trump faces 34 felony charges of falsifying business records with the intent to commit or conceal other crimes relating to payments made to pornographic....