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
For just a moment, try to ignore the fact that the following allegedly independent voters made colossal errors in judgment by voting for Donald Trump in the first place. Yes, they were successfully duped by a despot whose entire career, reaching back to the 1970s, has been all ...read more
I'll confess here at the outset: my tolerance for Donald Trump and all of his accompanying cruel whimsy has reached an all new low. Chiefly, the shit flinging, without any real accountability for it, is overloading my logic circuits to the point of seizing up -- to the point ...read more
As a student of the presidency, I thoroughly resent someone of such low class occupying that heretofore sacred office. But, regardless, he's still the president, though I won't go so far as to claim ownership. He's not "mine," he's our president, whether we think he won ...read more
With the battle over the Kavanaugh confirmation in the rearview mirror, we turn now to the midterms and the low frequency stress we're all experiencing in the face of another Election Day that could be hijacked by Russian military intelligence operatives. So far, there hasn't ...read more
Today, it appears as if the Kremlin will be installing yet another justice on the Supreme Court through its proxy in the Oval Office. This result comes as a key vote in support of Brett Kavanaugh, that of Susan Collins, was announced a short time ago. Conspicuous in its absence ...read more
The gaslighting of America by Donald Trump and his moronic fanboys continues to worsen. I didn't think it was possible for it to get suckier with time, but here we are. To briefly recap: gaslighting is a psychological trick, exploited by villains, that makes us feel like we're ...read more
The lack of self-awareness among Donald Trump’s Red Hats is staggering. The other night, Trump held another one of his codependent cocaine rants in West Virginia during which the president scolded the “Democrat Party” (there’s no such party) for being “angry and mean and nasty ...read more
Ever since Brett Kavanaugh first stepped up to the microphone to publicly accept Donald Trump's offer to become the next associate justice of the Supreme Court, I've been screaming to anyone who'll listen about the obvious, observable fact that Kavanaugh is being puppeteered by ...read more
“I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway's last and perhaps greatest story, The Old Man And The Sea keeps popping into my head as I watch Donald Trump and the congressional ...read more
It's been one of those harrowing days so far. In addition to the nonstop horror show circulating around Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation process, it appears as if Donald Trump's Mr. Wizard-like strategy in dealing with the Kavanaugh debacle is to distract the news media with a big, ...read more
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
It was just over a week ago when we received further confirmation of Donald Trump's total lack of mental fitness for the presidency. We didn't necessarily require confirmation since we've all witnessed it firsthand, but there it was anyway in horrifyingly reliable detail... To ...read more
I suppose it was inevitable that during an era in which Donald Trump is perpetually flooding the zone with madness that we'd also get a Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, who brings with him a seemingly endless syllabus of baggage. Now, after weeks of speculation as well as ...read more
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
For the last 50-plus years, the conservative movement has been busily working on developing just the right conditions that've led to the rise of, first, Dan Quayle, then George W. Bush, then Sarah Palin, and now, Donald Trump.... To continue reading this article, please go here. ...read more
Back in May, the "failing" New York Times published an article profiling the existence of various bloggers and talkers collectively known as the "intellectual dark web." The Times described the IDW as: ...a collection of iconoclastic thinkers, academic renegades and media ...read more
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
Donald Trump is a fucking baby. Actually, strike that. Babies don't know any better -- Trump does. Due to a series of pervasive glitches in Trump's personality, he thinks he's punishing John McCain and McCain's family by, until just now, refusing to offer anything more than a ...read more
Let's start with two general observations about Trump and his character. First, Trump always makes things worse for Trump. Always. And second, he tends to confess to horrible things without realizing he's confessing. Both glitches were on display Friday when the president, now in ...read more
Donald Trump knows nothing. He's clueless about the content and history of the U.S. Constitution. He knows nothing about international diplomacy. He's an expert at one thing: promoting Trump. Beyond that, zero. A big nothing. Anything of substance you might overhear him blurt or ...read more
August politics are like holiday politics. No one's really paying much attention so the "silly season" takes over. Today, for example, we're talking about Omarosa's tapes and Donald Trump's worsening dementia. About the latter, apparently during an event for Vietnam veterans in ...read more
As a general rule, I try to avoid making political predictions. I can't always resist the urge to do so, and my track record along those lines is about average, especially now that we've slipped into an alternate universe in which a tabloid clown, complete with garish clown hair ...read more
"We've got serious problems, and we need serious people. And if you want to talk about character, Bob, you'd better come at me with more than a burning flag and a membership card. If you want to talk about character and American values, fine. Just tell me where and when, and I'll ...read more
