Category Archives: We’re Really Fucked

Will Republicans Denounce Mastriano’s Anti-Semitic Consultant?

Posted on July 29, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

A consultant for Republican Pennsylvanian gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano sure seems nice (boldface mine): Andrew Torba, Gab CEO and consultant to Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, responded to criticism of Mastriano using his antisemitic platform by telling Jews that … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on the Current Horror

Posted on May 27, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Of course, we’ll likely have a new horror in a few days: I have to admit–and I’m not proud of this–I’m suffering from ‘horror fatigue.’ Over the last two years, in the U.S., we’ve had hundreds of thousands of people … Continue reading →

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SCOTUS’ Inchoate Anti-Vaccinationism

Posted on January 21, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court’s decision to prevent OSHA from enacting a mask mandate with a vaccination opt-out (it’s not a vaccination mandate) isn’t surprising. This is the sort of half-assed jurisprudence the radical Republicans on the Court regularly engage in, … Continue reading →

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Manchin Was Negotiating in Bad Faith All Along

Posted on December 21, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

So this came across the transom–and most establishment Democrats belatedly agree with it: Manchin on WV radio saying he knew from the beginning he wouldn't support BBB, but let Democrats negotiate. That he got to his "wits end" after staff … Continue reading →

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Blaming Everyone but Themselves

Posted on December 14, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

Have no doubt that, if (and that’s a very likely if) Democrats lose the Senate or the House, moderate Democrats will blame the left for their failures. There’s just one problem with that (boldface mine): It is true that some … Continue reading →

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Over 750,000 Dead and Most of Our Elected Leaders Will Pay No Price for It

Posted on November 10, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

In a very good piece, Brian Beutler makes an excellent observation (boldface mine): What troubles me even more than the governing errors, though, is the fact that Republicans were able to become competitive anywhere in any blue territory in the … Continue reading →

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Narcissism in the Senate

Posted on May 18, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

Admittedly, describing a senator as a narcissist is a relative term: none of them are possessed of low self-regard to say the least. But Ed Burmilla raises a good point about what two narcissists, West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin … Continue reading →

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Legalizing Undemocracy

Posted on March 30, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

With hundreds of thousands needlessly dead from COVID-19, it’s hard to say we got lucky with Trump. But when it comes to authoritarianism, we were fortunate in that he is lazy, impulsive, and ignorant. But this is the 2024 scenario … Continue reading →

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My HAWT TAEK on Last Night’s Debate

Posted on September 30, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

As Eddie Pepitone has said previously about Trump, “We’ve been fucked before. But not like this. This is not subtle.” When the president concludes by asking right wing paramilitaries to disrupt voting and intimidate voters, it makes everything else seem … Continue reading →

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Public Health Big Data: The Wages of Privatization

Posted on May 20, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

I spent a significant part of my career in and around these kinds of data, and I think the article below, while very good in terms of description of the failures of COVID-19 data collection, misses the larger picture: this … Continue reading →

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