MEMBERS ONLY: Nancy Pelosi Has Checkmated Trump
(Image via AP) In a matter of weeks on the job, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to checkmate Trump over his government shutdown in spectacular fashion. Not only has Pelosi refused to back down from Trump's childish threats over his border wall, she has managed bullied the ...read more
Let’s Take the “Partial” out of “Partial Government Shutdown"
We are exactly where we belong. Not necessarily as individuals, but collectively for sure. The extended partial shutdown of the federal government is the logical conclusion not just to the first (and hopefully only) half of the Trump presidency, but to the past several decades ...read more
With A Few Tweets, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Changed Everything
It's no secret that the right-wing media hates newly sworn in congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Not just run of the mill, "I hate the left" kind of hate but with the power of a thousand exploding stars kind of hate. This is the kind of hate they reserve for Hillary Clinton ...read more
Sean Hannity Hates America
In a deranged rant on his show last night, Sean Hannity went to war with the FBI over the revelation that it investigated president Trump for being a potential Russian asset. The conspiracy theory fueled monologue consisted of familiar themes bandied about in far right (and far ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: I Stood On Line At A Food Bank For The First Time. Why Should I Feel Humiliated?
This past Saturday, my wife Deb and I drove out to the Giant supermarket in Groveton, a neighborhood in the southeastern part of my hometown of Alexandria, Virginia. We were not going to go food shopping. We were going to stand on line at a food bank for federal workers who are ...read more
The "Death Logic" Behind Trumpism That Will Turn The Right Into Domestic Terrorists
Over the last three years, we as a country have been struggling to understand exactly what is driving the rage of white Republican voters. The press tried to explain it away as "economic anxiety" and blamed Hillary Clinton for being Hillary Clinton. But Trump's cult continued to ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: American Capitalism Is Making You Sick And Destroying Itself
(Image via Business Insider) Capitalism as an economic model for society is basically an untouchable concept in America. Anyone who disagrees with this is a socialist, or worse, a communist who doesn't understand "how things work". And by "work", this means making as many people ...read more
Cowardly Republican Mark Harris Trips Fire Alarm Fleeing From Reporters
Last month, the North Carolina Board of Elections unanimously refused to certify the election of Republican Congressman-elect Mark Harris, who beat his Democratic opponent, Dan McCready, by about 900 votes. Harris, the only representative not to be seated when the new Congress ...read more
Mitt Romney Hopes People Don’t See That He’s Just Like Trump
Mitt Romney has crept back into the national headlines again due to a highly critical op-ed piece in the Washington Post about Donald Trump. In typical fashion, we’ve had media types like Joe Scarborough, Ezra Klein, #NeverTrumpers like Max Boot and historians like Walter ...read more
Major Networks Shamefully Agree To Give Trump Free PR On Shutdown Address
The government shutdown over president Trump's border wall is a crisis manufactured by one person: Donald Trump. Outside of his rabid base, literally no one wants the giant concrete wall he has been promising, including most of the GOP. Unfortunately for the rest of the nation, ...read more
Trump's Fake "National Emergency" Is His Only Way Out Of The #TrumpShutdown
Tuesday night, Trump may or may not try to declare a "national emergency" at the southern border in order to get around Congress and start the construction of his useless wall. If not Tuesday, then it's more likely than not he'll do it in the next week or two because he'll have ...read more
Trump Brags That Former Presidents Agree With Him On Border Wall. They Don't.
Last Friday, president Trump claimed that some former Presidents of the United States told him they agreed with building a wall along the US border with Mexico. “This should have been done by all of the presidents that preceded me," said Trump. "And they all know it. Some of ...read more