The Roots of White Male Rage Lie In The Irresponsible Defense of Brett Kavanaugh
Salon's Lili LoofBourow has a particularly brutal takedown of the ongoing hysteria overtaking men during the Kavanaugh rape scandal. In it, she marvels to see men move beyond just pretending rape culture isn't real to flat out saying we should accept it as perfectly normal:We ...read more
Trump's Declassification Rampage Is Making Things Worse For Trump
No matter what happens, we can always count on Donald Trump to make things worse for Donald Trump. In the ongoing effort to simultaneously brand himself as the Greatest Great Person Of Greatness while also desperately squirming out of legal jeopardy, Trump, like a doofus Walter ...read more
Last-Ditch Conspiracy to Save Brett Kavanaugh Goes Down in Flames
Over the past few days, Republicans have tied themselves in knots to defend Brett Kavanaugh from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who accused him of attempting to rape her when they were in high school. The GOP has trotted out all kinds of excuses, from the letter signed by 65 of ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: The Collapsing Hope Of White America
White people, particularly white men, have been sold the myth that if you work hard, you can have the American Dream. This dream is collapsing, exposing not only white fragility, but something far more frightening to Americans who overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump...To ...read more
Dinesh D'Souza: Christine Ford Involved In "Binge Drinking", So Rape Was OK
Dinesh D'Souza, the convicted criminal and hard right's favorite token minority, has been doing his part to smear Christine Ford ahead of the Brett Kavanaugh hearing. He is now blaming her for being sexually assaulted, because she was potentially involved in "hookups and binge ...read more
DeSantis Backer Uses N-Word, Then Asks Why Whites Can't Use It
Since he became the Republican nominee for governor of Florida last month, Ron DeSantis has made no secret of his racism, from his "monkey it up" crack regarding his opponent, African-American Andrew Gillum, on Fox News, to suggesting that immigrants are child molesters. In ...read more
Michael Bloomberg Begins and Ends His Run for President in the Same Interview
Billionaire playboy of New York City, Bruce Wayne, errrr....Michael Bloomberg has decided that, yes, he might just indeed run for president as a Democrat because the Republican Party is fucking insane. The problem with that is that Michael Bloomberg is, shall we say....not a good ...read more
Brett Kavanaugh, Trayvon Martin, And Conservative Double Standards On Teenage Crime
According to editor of The American Conservative, Rod Dreher, Brett Kavanaugh should not be judged for his alleged predatory behavior as a 17 year old. "I do not understand why the loutish drunken behavior of a 17 year old high school boy has anything to tell us about the ...read more
Florida Is Going to Have Its First Black Governor Because Republican Ron DeSantis Is Dumb
I had never heard the name Ron DeSantis until a little over a month ago when Andrew Gillum won the Democratic nomination to run for Governor of Florida. DeSantis, Gillum's Republican opponent, decided it would be a good idea to go on national TV and say, out loud, that Florida ...read more
I Am Resisting the Resistance:An Anonymous Essay by the Commander-in-Chief
The Daily Banter is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous OP-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, whose identity is known to us but who identifies himself only as “a former or current President of the United States.” We believe publishing this essay ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Minorities Are Skeptical Of The Hard Left, And For One Very Good Reason
It took a number of years for me to figure out why none of my minority friends saw things the same why I did. Over time, I began to see that because I was so enamored with my own brilliance, I could not see that my own experience of life had colored the way I thought politics in ...read more
The Rehabilitation Of George W. Bush Is Over
Having endured some of the most harrowing downsides from the Great Recession, there's no reason I should ever give George W. Bush the benefit of the doubt, especially when we fold into the mix the disastrous Iraq War, his torture policy and all the rest of it. But I'll be the ...read more