In the dark days following the 2016 election, after the initial shockwave of fear, dread and more fear subsided, I began to spitball various ways the emerging Resistance could successfully slow or stop the worst of the damage from the then-forthcoming Trump presidency. Based on ...read more
Not that facts matter anymore, but in the off chance there are some Red Hats stopping by today, it's time to bring some truth in response to Donald Trump's ongoing lies about the alleged political motives of Robert Mueller's team.For several months now, Trump has been hurling ...read more
The dark ride around the ceaseless Möbius strip of gun massacres, debate, ignorance, inaction and more gun massacres rolls on. Ten people -- nine students and a teacher are dead -- after a student armed with several weapons including an AR-15, the weapon of choice for mass ...read more
Days like these, I often stare at my blank computer screen, unable to zero-in on a topic to cover. Clearly there are way too many tantalizing bombshells bursting forth from the ongoing fire-hose of news. As a political writer, I'll never complain about an overly abundant news ...read more
(Photo: Trump with the project's CEO Hary Tanoesoedibjo. Richard Drew/Associated Press) On the topic of unemployment, pardon the sports metaphor but Rachel Maddow likes to say Donald Trump was born on third base while insisting he hit a triple. We all know the truth: the steady ...read more
Thursday evening, Donald Trump delivered another of his screech regattas, this time in Mike Pence's home state of Indiana. We're all familiar with his rallies as well as the all-too-familiar urge to hurl our televisions out the nearest window by the time he blurts the first of a ...read more
Donald Trump made perhaps his most fatal foreign policy blunder so far this week by signing a memorandum authorizing the U.S.'s resumption of sanctions against Iran, violating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known colloquially as the Iran Deal. Trump's ...read more
My personal rule for evaluating Donald Trump's presidency continues to be: Trump always makes things worse for Trump. No matter which way the president zigs or zags, every decision somehow worsens Trump's peril, be it legal or political or miscellaneous. It's kind of a miracle ...read more
Neil Cavuto is no hero. The Fox News Channel host has always been a team player, dutifully cheerleading first for George W. Bush and now for Donald Trump. We've seen Fox News people occasionally criticize Trump and, before him, Bush, but we've never quite seen a non-Shepard-Smith ...read more
Rarely do I ever complain about my work. Frankly, I feel quite lucky that I get to do what I love every day. However, sometimes it's a lonely job, observing American politics and reporting back to you about what I'm seeing. The specific downside is that I'll occasionally sift ...read more
If you've been following social media today, you probably have no idea that Donald Trump held another one of his possibly drug-assisted motormouthed shitgasms in Michigan Saturday night. The reason you might not know about it is because both Trumpers and the Beltway hoity-toities ...read more
One of the many supremely stressful aspects of the Trump era is the very real danger that President Trump's style of erratic, racist, bullying, misinformed politics will continue beyond Trump, further eroding institutions and obliterating the functioning of government as we know ...read more
There was a time when the Republican Party fancied itself the party of personal responsibility. Of course it was aimed directly at welfare recipients -- the "takers" -- and was never intended to trigger blowback. The party's use of racist "Southern Strategy" dog whistles has ...read more
If you follow me on Twitter, you probably caught a series of rather fire-and-brimstone tweets I posted Thursday afternoon. Turns out, an article in Bloomberg set me off this time and here's why. In it, we learned that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recently told Donald ...read more
For some time now, there have been random stories and more than a few rumors about the Republican Party's links to Russian money and, more importantly, Russia's attack on our democratic institutions. We generally know the extent of what the head of the party, President David ...read more
Ann Coulter and Alex Jones are pissed off. They're not pissed at the usual gallery of enemies: the globalists, the alleged "liberal fascists," or the perennial threat called "knowledge." Today, Jones and Coulter have had it up to here with Donald Trump.In case you missed it, ...read more
We're coming to it now. As I write this, America is speeding uncontrollably toward a constitutional crisis. The Mad King, today, is perched on the edge of his authority under Article II, shoving chocolate cake down his chubby piehole, wondering what it'll be like if he takes the ...read more
We could probably spend weeks listing all of the reasons why Trump voters ultimately cast their ballots for the Mad King. What's truly baffling to me, even more than the reasons for their votes, is how they can continue to celebrate their guy while their tiny brains are routinely ...read more
If any of your Trump-supporting friends or relatives get their news from FoxNews.com, they won't know anything about this story because Fox News isn't covering it, so perhaps forwarding this article might help keep them updated on an issue they care deeply about. After all, for ...read more
They should've known. Inside Donald Trump's orbit, there are dozens of sycophants and stupids who, by now, should know exactly what their boss is all about. They should know that the only reasons he keeps them close is to one day betray them -- hurling them overboard like chum ...read more
A while back, I coined my very own rule about the corruption and despotism of Donald Trump. If you're at all familiar with my work, you likely recognize this: "Trump always makes things worse for Trump." Ninety-nine percent of the time, it absolutely applies to every Trump ...read more
(Full disclosure: a portion of my income is derived from Amazon's Associates program.)It's fair to say we all have a love/hate relationship with Amazon. On one hand, it entirely changed the retail landscape, making virtually every product imaginable available for overnight ...read more
(PHOTO: Kricfalusi and a 15-year-old Byrd in 1996. Via Buzzfeed.) Many of you might not know this about me, but between 1999 and 2009, I ran my own animation studio called "Camp Chaos." Our first breakout cartoon, "Napster Bad," was a crude satire of Metallica's lawsuit against ...read more
In the debate about gun control, everything comes back to the validity and applicability of the Second Amendment in a modern context. What's its purpose? Why is it still necessary? Honestly, while I understand the arguments of the gun culture, I don't grasp why, in a modern ...read more