Bob Cesca

For those of you too young to remember, Eddie Haskell was a character on the old Leave It To Beaver show. He was an adolescent pal of Wally, Beaver's older brother, and he was an unapologetic dick who routinely bullied "The Beav." But when Wally's and Beaver's parents were home, ...read more

By now it's an undeniable fact that Donald Trump's most reliable advisers are Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Lou Dobbs, and Sean Hannity. Maybe toss Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro into that basket as well. For quite some time, we've all hypothesized that Trump gets his twisted ...read more

Many of you know about a concept I've been pushing here and on social media. I've colloquially nicknamed it the "Coalition of Normals," a proposed alliance of Democrats and "Never Trump" Republicans tasked with mutually repairing the myriad damage from the Trump Crisis to make ...read more

An epidemic is plaguing the Republican Party these days. For some reason, perhaps it's their consciences or perhaps it's the pressure of backstopping an incompetent nincompoop in the White House, who knows, it could be anything. Whatever the root cause, it appears as if the ...read more

(Image source: The New York Times) We should probably brace ourselves for an extended Trump shutdown because there's ultimately no reason for the president to end his ongoing temper tantrum. He straight up needs this. Even though his poll numbers are crashing, the longer the ...read more

The most amazing and simultaneously frustrating thing about Donald Trump’s t-shirt cannon of lies, say nothing of the lies told by his subordinates, is that every once in a while they all end up accidentally blurting the truth. The word “accidentally” gets extra emphasis here ...read more

UPDATE: In an extremely rare move, the Special Counsel's office has disputed one of the details from the Buzzfeed story: “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, ...read more

Don't look now but a group of a-holes are busily destroying another retail product they've already purchased. You might recall the last time this happened when wizards in red hats were smashing their televisions, televisions they already paid for, in protest against ...read more

There's no way to know for sure, but it seems like Donald Trump is increasingly disconnected from reality. Specifically, I don't get the sense he fully understands how blindingly real his legal jeopardy is. In fact, around 35 percent of American voters are just as deluded as ...read more

The Daily Banter has a long history dealing with Sandy Hook Truthers, not to mention their Truther-in-chief, Alex Jones. At one point, a couple of us actually ended up getting one of these disgusting goblins tossed in prison for harassing the families of the victims as well as ...read more

There's one human being on this planet who I'd like to see locked up in federal prison more than Donald Trump. It turns out, the orange doesn't fall far from the orange tree. Specifically, Donald Trump Junior is someone who is both repulsive and dangerous -- perhaps more ...read more

To put it mildly, the Republican Party is explosively crapping its cage about Donald Trump's prospects for being re-nominated in 2020. The party establishment is so terrified, in fact, that its leadership is actively circling its orange wagons around its bloated chief executive ...read more

You might recall how Donald Trump mentioned that the reason the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan was because terrorists were crossing the border into Russia. And so, in 1979, the Soviets retaliated by invading.  While babbling incoherently, as he always does, Trump blurted, “The ...read more

This will be my final MEMBERS ONLY piece for 2018, so in the spirit of looking ahead to the New Year, I thought I'd take some time to consider Donald Trump's Christmas Future. Specifically, what are the chances Trump will remain the president or disappear in a puff of orange ...read more

The 2016 election exposed a deadly and dangerous glitch among American voters. We're apparently a nation of suckers and kneejerk social media users, and that's actually sugar-coating the diagnosis a little.  Russia's active measures worked only because gullible Trump voters and ...read more

Six years ago today, 20 children were gunned down in cold blood at Sandy Hook Elementary, while six educators were also killed trying to protect their students. All of this was perpetrated by a sociopath armed with an AR15 semi-automatic rifle, manufactured and sold for profit ...read more

Wednesday, December 12, was another historic day in the ongoing disintegration of both the Trump presidency and the Trump brand, with Trump the man-baby moving ever closer to impeachment and ignominy. We learned that Donald Trump's personal lawyer and bag-man, Michael Cohen, will ...read more

Donald Trump has to know. He has to know that he's in deep trouble. I mean, he can't really believe the court memos that dropped on Friday actually cleared him, can he? Between the time at which the explosive Michael Cohen sentencing memo went public and the time at which the ...read more

Donald Trump had yet another really bad day. It began with a series of ridiculously childish Twitter outburts, including one in which he accused Rex Tillerson of being "dumb as rocks" and another in which he screamed "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" possibly triggering a bomb threat called ...read more

Being a liberal Democrat, there are certain opinions that I have to either keep to myself or roll the dice and mention publicly at the risk of irritating people who might otherwise agree with me on...whatever. It's never a pleasant experience, but I've tended toward going public ...read more

I'd like to preface all of this with the caveat that we don't yet have hard evidence showing specific alterations in the midterm election results. And, with that in mind, I'd also like to suggest that, yes, Russia most likely played a part in changing the outcome in several key ...read more

In case you've been avoiding Fox News Channel and the Red Hats, here's what they're saying about this week's historic events. They're saying it's all a big nothingburger, just like always. Specifically, we learned this week that, yes, Donald Trump secretly worked on a deal to ...read more

While everything about the Trump Crisis is deeply abnormal and frustratingly opaque, we can often rest assured knowing that, no matter what, Trump always makes things worse for Trump. The closest thing to normalcy in this ongoing sack-full-of-monkeys is the predictability of ...read more

As if the tragedies and national indignities foisted upon the world by Donald Trump haven't been damaging enough, the president and his personal Wormtongue, the dead-eyed Stephen Miller, chose to allow the U.S. Border Patrol to launch tear gas at Central American refugees at the ...read more