Ironically, Trump’s Coup Attempt is Uniting Americans to Fight for Their Common Good

Jim Hightower, Humor Times

The Trump-Musk administration thought their coup attempt could replace our democracy with a MAGA monarchy. The Trump-Musk administration thought their coup attempt could just stomp on us and … Read more

Going from Democracy … to Plutocracy … and Now to Kleptocracy

Jim Hightower, Humor Times

Oh, the tragic plight of our nation’s downtrodden multibillionaire class! They want their kleptocracy! One group of oppressed Americans has become especially outspoken this election year, contending that … Read more

Supreme Thieves Disguised in Robes of ‘Justice’

Jim Hightower, Humor Times

The Court’s six right-wing “Supreme Thieves” have turned what’s meant to be a citadel of democracy into a Republican rubber stamp for plutocracy. Barry Goldwater, considered a right-wing … Read more

Once Again Congress Exposes Its Butt-Ugly Morality

Jim Hightower, Humor Times

Chicken Little Democrats are a subset whose members call themselves moderates, but whose ethics are as butt-ugly as the Republicans’. Here they come again — the usual butt-ugly … Read more

Taking On Monopoly Power

Jim Hightower, Humor Times

“Free market” is just a rhetorical deceit that means monopoly power is free to lock down the market. From our school years forward, the Holy Keepers of the … Read more

Republican Supremes Defrocking Themselves

Jim Hightower, Humor Times

The extremist Republican Supremes now in control have been busy denying that they are a bunch of partisan hacks. Too bad they actually are! Ralph Waldo Emerson told … Read more

The Deadly Economic Disease Behind COVID-19

Jim Hightower, Humor Times

Our country’s present “economic disease” is not simply caused by a sudden viral outbreak but by severe, decades-long plutocratic policies. In this horrible time of economic collapse, it … Read more

Health Care for People… or for Corporate Profits?

Jim Hightower, Humor Times

The decades-long struggle to ensure decent health care as a human right is up against greed’s eternal struggle for ever-higher corporate profits. When grassroots groups rise up against … Read more

Where Trump’s Kakistocracy Can Find a Good Farm Policy

Jim Hightower, Humor Times

Trump is running a kakistocracy that can’t do anything right, and that includes farm policy. Government by the rich is called plutocracy. Government by police power is autocracy. … Read more

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