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AP Tweet Blames Democrats For The #TrumpShutdown
After last night's ten minute waste of time masquerading as an Oval Office address, news sites put out fact check after fact check. Considering that Trump delivered his usual stump speech filled with the usual lies, this wasn't that hard to do. And yet, the Associated Press ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Actually, Yes, Republican Voters Are Racist Misogynists
In an attempt to maintain the peace around the Thanksgiving table last week, the Kansas City Star recirculated a column by the Washington Post's Republican opinion writer Marc Thiessen. I stumbled across it on Facebook and the title alone told me exactly what the column would ...read more
Words Matter: Stop Blaming "Congress" When the GOP is the Problem
There's an annoying habit among people to bitch and moan about "Congress" as if everything that's going wrong in our government is somehow the fault of all 100 Senators and all 435 congresspeople. People love to joke about how great it would be to just get rid of all of them. ...read more
Trump's Secret War On Marijuana Proves (Again) He Is Way Worse Than Clinton
Buzzfeed broke the story today that the Trump administration has been waging a secret war on marijuana, aiming to "portray the drug as a national threat," regardless of what the amassing scientific evidence shows about the plant's medicinal qualities: The White House has ...read more
Chris Cillizza: There's No Real Difference Between Trump and Obama
Chris Cillizza has one job and one job only: Blame both sides for the rapidly declining state of American politics. No matter what the GOP does or how horrible they are, Chris Cillizza finds a way to wring his hands over how both the left and the right brought us to this point. ...read more
What We Must Fight For: The Total And Utter Destruction Of Trumpism
If you've spent enough time watching the likes of Tucker Carlson and other ostensibly reasonable Trump apologists, you'll notice a pervasive theme. It's one of pretend civility and the notion that the left is to blame for the toxic discourse in America. Carlson routinely tweets ...read more
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The New York Times Is Pretending That Trump Is The Source Of American Incivility. That's Bullsh*t
There is an astonishing article about incivility in the New York Times by Peter Baker and Katie Rogers: In Trump’s America, the Conversation Turns Ugly and Angry, Starting at the Top. The premise is that Donald Trump is an asshole and because he's getting away with being an ...read more
Rick Santorum Blames Obama And Dead Black People For Racism In America
It took me a moment to digest Rick Santorum's disgraceful comments on CNN yesterday, because they were so appalling, so detached from reality, and so nakedly racist that I had a hard time believing he could say this out loud. On a panel discussion on State Of The Union, former ...read more
Everyone Who Works In The Trump Administration Is A Feckless C*nt
Samantha Bee is being raked over the coals by the White House for calling Ivanka Trump a "feckless c*nt" for one reason: to distract America from Trump supporting Roseanne Barr's grotesque racism towards Valerie Jarrett. The outrage on display from fellow feckless c*nt Sarah ...read more