Red Lodge used to have a welcoming display of all fifty state flags, now they’re using our national flag as a gimmick, since the local flag committee decided to use the flag as a gaudy marketing tool… #DisrespectingTheFlag
On top of everything else, some of the flags are not being cared for. Our national flag deserves better than to be plastered all over...
No thanks to right-wing extremist shills Justices Thomas and Alito, Supreme Court rejects anti-Constitutional “independent state legislature” theory embraced by some wacky Montana legislators…
From HuffPost: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-independent-state-legislature-election_n_6480ec03e4b027d92f8a4a3a Good read from the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/11/07/independent-state-legislature-theory-the-new-pitch-black/ And from Common Cause: https://www.commoncause.org/democracy-wire/6-reasons-the-far-rights-independent-state-legislature-theory-makes-no-sense/ Rosendale, far-right extremists, unAmerican, fascism, fascist, Christo-nationalism, MAGA cult, Trump,...
Let’s join the rest of the world and stop the unnecessary political charade that is having a debt ceiling and needing to raise it…
From the Council on Foreign Relations: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-happens-when-us-hits-its-debt-ceiling Thanks, also, to Nick Anderson. GOP hypocrisy, raised debt ceiling without question under Trump, Republicans responsible for debt
Nothing is more disturbing than fascism…
Thanks to Nick Anderson. MAGA, DeSantis, Trump, Hitler, Christo-fascism, Florida, pseudo-Christian
Two of these men are not like the others…
Thanks to Nick Anderson. murderous dictator Putin's lackey Trump, Zelensky, Biden, Ukraine, Russia was
From our History section: since no one knew when Jesus was born the Catholic Church decided to usurp a fun-sounding pagan festival as the time of year of Jesus’ birth, but Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays regardless…
From history.com: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/christ-is-born?
Elon Musk may be just another rich grifter, but at least he’s shining a light on the fact that WWII (and nearly half a million American dead) did not see the end of fascism and Nazis…
Thanks to Kevin KAL Kallaugher. Trump, GOP, right-wing extremism, Christo-nationalism, Fuentes, white supremacy, pseudo-Christian
Considering right-wing extremism in America, perhaps our second President, John Adams, was right: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
The complete quote: “I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy....
Fascism is pounding, like a Gestapo agent, on the door of American democracy. We put fascism in its place in WWII. We can do it again…
Thanks to Nick Anderson. Trump, pseudo-Christian, right-wing extremism, Christo-fascism, nationalism
From our History section: on this day in 1981 Ronald Reagan signed the “Economic Recovery Act,” signaling the beginning of “trickle-down” economics, the decimation of middle-class benefits and the staggering rise of income inequality in America…
From History: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-signs-economic-recovery-tax-act-erta? increased deficits, tax breaks for wealthy, rise of oligarchy, anti-union, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, reduced government services, infrastructure impacts, Kemp