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Bedloe: A True Fable by Tony Powers is a dystopian novel set in the year 2040 in a bleak version of New York. The protagonist, John Bedloe, and his son James live under the oppressive rule of a totalitarian regime, a direct result of the 2016 election of Ransom B. Conover as president. While John reflects on his past freedoms and mourns the loss of his wife Jane, his son remains hopeful for a…

Always refer to the Democratic Party as The “Democrat” Party. Always mispronounce Kamala Harris’ first name as Ka-MAH-la. Put best minds to work creating good insults when referring to Ka-MAH-la. Create new insults for all Democrats. Create insults for all her possible Veep picks. Create insulting nicknames for her Veep picks. Put best minds to work creating insults about…

For the life of me I am puzzled by much of the media’s discussions about the July 12th attempt on Donald Trump’s life. I keep hearing things like, “the motive is unclear.” I also hear, “this is not who we are.” All of it delivered in somber tones. Are the people uttering this drivel suffering from some kind of collective amnesia? Have they forgotten who Donald Trump is? Forgotten the…

Along with the pundits and TV news people, I too am mystified as why anyone would want to do such a thing to such a lovely person. © tony powers and Barking in the Dark, 2024. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit…

My friends, you all know that with age comes wisdom. Yes, I’m old and my body isn’t as strong as it once was, and I may stutter. I stutter…So what? I stuttered when I was a young man in the Senate. The things I think, and say, stutter or not, are borne out of many years of experience in trying to make things better for us. For all of us. And I’m gonna have a young, smart, vital bunch of advisors…

The twin facts that almost half of adult Americans have the attention span of an avocado, and opinions that are buffeted to and fro by the slightest breeze, are now on glaring display. How convenient for the members of the hoped for autocracy. The left, of which I am a proud member, is now in full panic over one debate, choosing to completely forget four stellar years of a Presidency. I can see…

Good evening America. Folks, you know me. You can look up my record. I’ll stand on it…I’m proud of it. Proud of what I’ve done for the working people of this country. But, tonight I’m gonna talk about this country’s biggest clown, and biggest loser. I wanna talk about this loser Trump. This guy who I beat like a drum once, and who I’ll beat again. This punk who called G.I’s who gave their lives…

When Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, Donald Trump said there were some “very fine people on both sides.” And Republicans stood with him! When he was shown on video saying of women, “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything…Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything,” Republicans stood by him! Of war hero John McCain, Trump said, “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero…

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With the clear understanding that the Republican minions of the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and the six conservative justices of the Supreme court, do not give a damn about us, or care what we think, because we ordinary citizens of this country do not matter to them in the least, we must now finish wringing our hands and clutching our pearls, and we must take matters into our own…

In light of the recent decisions handed down by the supreme court, we are only one election away from becoming the mirror image of Putin’s Russia – where a dictator goes unchecked, dissent means jail, and “elections” mean nothing. © tony powers and Barking in the Dark, 2024.

Unless you want more mass shootings, more rights stripped, more bigots in office, more environmental rape, more embracing of hate-speech and violence and a continued concerted attack on basic democratic principles, which has caused The Global Party Survey to conclude that the “Republican Party is one of the most anti-democratic political parties in the developed world” **… Unless you actually…

Acknowledgements: the lead investigator on this Global Witness report was Ken Silverstein. Global Witness is grateful to NBC News for making available to us material from an NBC and Reuters interview with Alexandre Henrique Ventura Nogueira. Unless otherwise indicated, this material is referenced in the text as (NBC/Reuters). An exerpt: “What is clear is that proceeds from Colombian cartels’…