The Media Yawns At Political Assassination Attempts Now?
I'm old enough to remember just a few months ago when the political media came to a screeching standstill because the left was rude to high profile people on the right. People yelling at Mitch McConnell, asking Sarah Sanders to leave their restaurant, flipping Steve Miller the ...read more
Ted Cruz Embraces Donald Trump – And His Own Public Humiliation
The Donald Trump/Ted Cruz rally we saw on Monday night in Houston would have been inconceivable two years ago. But it happened, and so did the apex of Ted Cruz’s agonizingly long public humiliation.At the 2016 Republican National Convention, Cruz took a gamble. Like Mitt Romney, ...read more
NBC News Report On Early Voting Is Seriously Flawed
Yesterday, NBC News ran a story that threatened to send fervent election-watchers into a downward spiral. Using data provided by TargetSmart, reporter Adam Edelman and the NBC News Data Analytics Lab said that Republicans were outpacing Democrats in early voting, which is now ...read more
Fox News Contributor: "Almost No Way" For Republicans To Hold The House
Fox News contributor Juan Williams has a very good piece out this week that spells out very clearly why Republicans are privately (and in some cases publicly) extremely worried about what is going to happen on November 6th during the midterms. Williams, a 40 year veteran observer ...read more
Right-Wing Violence And The Scapegoating Of The So-Called 'Angry Mob'
In a head-to-head competition over who can be the bigger assholes, liberal activists or Trump supporters, the Red Hats will win every time. As the War Games computer simulation "Joshua" said, "The only winning move is not to play."The anti-Trump protesters who've been verbally ...read more
White Power Social Media Platforms Are Growing and It's Going to Get Ugly
A few years ago, the right tried to make its own version of Twitter and Facebook. They were tired of having to talk to all of those pesky liberals and really just wanted to be able to share racist memes with each other and talk about the good ol' days where the darkies knew their ...read more
Joe Biden Is Right, Democrats Must Not Impeach Trump If They Win The House
Former Vice President Joe Biden told "CBS This Morning" that he hopes Democrats do not try to impeach Donald Trump if they retake the House of Representatives after the midterm elections in November."I hope they don't. I don't think there's a basis for doing that right now," ...read more
Mitt Romney Is A Traitor To His Country By Helping Republicans In The Midterms
Mitt Romney has been a firm critic of president Trump since the reality tv show host declared his candidacy for president. He was the danger Trump represented and did his best to speak out about it. "There's plenty of evidence that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake," Romney said in ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Incivility And Violent Rhetoric Begins And Ends With Trump's GOP
Apparently, it's okay to use violent, eliminationist rhetoric if you're Donald Trump or a pack of fascist incels who call themselves "Proud Boys." For everyone else, especially liberal activists, petitioning our government is the act of a ruthless mob of screaming thugs...To ...read more
Republicans Blames Poor For Trump's Huge Deficit, Plan To Destroy Social Security, Medicare
Republicans insisted that Trump's $1.5 trillion tax aimed almost entirely at giant corporations and the ultra rich would not only pay for itself, but create a substantial windfall that would benefit all Americans. In fact, the entire reason the GOP has stood behind Trump despite ...read more
Georgia Just Turned into a GOP 4-Alarm Fire as Early Voting More than Triples
Monday was the first day of early voting in Georgia and it's...not going well for Republicans.Voters across Georgia rushed to the polls on the first day of in-person early voting Monday, with 69,049 people casting their ballots.That’s a sharp increase from the last midterm ...read more
Trump: 'My Uncle Was An MIT Scientist, I Didn't Talk To Him, But I Have Natural Instinct For Science'
In an interview published with the Associated Press today, Donald Trump claimed he has a "natural instinct for science" that allows him to discern what is true and what is false when it comes to climate change. According to Trump, these supernatural instincts developed outside ...read more