The Dungeon Master

May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Peter Thiel is full of contradictions—a libertarian who founded a company that aids government surveillance, a critic of tech who supports Facebook’s mission for world domination, and a defender of free speech who helped to kill a media outlet.
The Dungeon Master

More Americans are blaming Biden for the state of the economy

May 10, 2022May 10, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Sometimes understanding political opinion is complicated. For example, electoral observers will be trying to comprehend the rise of Donald Trump in American politics for years to come.
The story of public opinion ahead of the 2022 midterms, on other hand, is, at this point, an easy one to understand: “It’s the economy, stupid,” and unless the economy improves, President Joe Biden and the Democrats are in major trouble.
More Americans are blaming Biden for the state of the economy

McCarthyism re-emerging stronger than ever in Ukraine policy debates

April 16, 2022April 16, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Ted Galen Carpenter, Responsible Statecraft, 4/11/22
A troubling pattern has developed over the decades in which foreign policy hawks smear their opponents and thereby seek to foreclose discussion of questionable U.S. policy initiatives.
McCarthyism re-emerging stronger than ever in Ukraine policy debates

Romney’s “Treason” Smear of Tulsi Gabbard is False and Noxious, But Now Typifies U.S. Discourse

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Founders limited “treason” in the Constitution due to grave concerns it would be weaponized to criminalize dissent: exactly how the term is now routinely used.
Romney’s “Treason” Smear of Tulsi Gabbard is False and Noxious, But Now Typifies U.S. Discourse

A Decade of War Lies Crescendo Amid the New ‘Red Scare’

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

by Josh Everson | March 11, 2022
It’s tragically comic, but the new wave of Americans’ interest in U.S. foreign policy, characterized by blue and yellow profile pics and bans of Russian vodka, cats, and Tchaikovsky, has this writer actually longing for Americans’ famously steadfast apathy of years gone by. Whereas, Americans once were unified in their utter disinterest bordering on discontent for the victims of its foreign policy, today Americans on both sides of the aisle are unified against “the Red Menace” and in the need for a humanitarian intervention to save Ukraine.
A Decade of War Lies Crescendo Amid the New ‘Red Scare’