This week, long shot Republican congressional candidate Jazmina Saavedra broadcast a Facebook live video from a Denny's in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she stalked a trans woman into the ladies' room and harassed her until she left. Saavedra, a Trump ...read more
Since the election of Donald Trump, Maxine Waters has become one of the most visible icons of the Resistance. Whether she's "shoving" TYT correspondent Michael Tracey, appearing on t-shirts with her catchphrase "reclaiming my time," or openly calling for impeachment following ...read more
Yesterday, Reuters/IPSOS released a new poll that, if you believe the headlines, could mean trouble for Democrats in the 2018 midterms. The poll is accompanied by a look into the primary for New Hampshire's First District, where millennials appear wishy-washy as to which ...read more
This week, to the shock of absolutely no one, former BernieBro extraordinaire H.A. Goodman, who built his brand on mindless, conspiracy-laden hatred of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, has come out as a Trump supporter. In a tweet to his followers released Friday, April 20th, ...read more
In the year since Donald Trump's election, former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau has become an important voice for the Resistance. With his White House colleagues Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, he started Crooked Media, which produces the popular podcast Pod Save ...read more
There are few politicians more widely disliked than Ted Cruz, the junior Republican Senator from Texas. Former House Speaker John Boehner said he's "never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life." Senator Lindsey Graham joked that "if you killed Ted Cruz on the ...read more
With all the news this week over the Nunes Memo and the resignation of Andrew McCabe, it's easy to forget that the Trump Administration isn't America's only enemy. The Russians, who aided and abetted him in stealing our election, have not been duly punished, and show no signs of ...read more
One year after the first Women's March, we marched again. Up to 2.5 million people marched in the United States this year and many more took part in sister marches worldwide. We hit the streets with signs and missions to protest this administration and the injustices happening ...read more
The Banter Long Read: The current common wisdom is that the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything other than running against Trump. The right wing says it. The Purity Left says it. The "liberal" media says it. So many people say it just has to be true. Except for ...read more
Today, Donald Trump endorsed Republican Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore – religious fanatic, anti-gay marriage, Islamophobic, pedophiliac Roy Moore, the most dangerous Senate candidate since David Duke. For the past few weeks, the President has soft-pedaled around a firm ...read more
“What I use in the battle for the mind Hit it hard like it supposed Pulling no blows to the nose” ...read more
(WARNING: SATIRE! Eh, maybe...) In the first year of the Trump Presidency there hasn't been much in the way of compromise or even to be thankful about. But Republicans are trying to remain positive that bipartisanship is possible. And the issue of Democratic sexual harassment is ...read more
The American Women's Party is a new group that should be on your radar for 2018 and beyond. Differing from groups like She Should Run, which encourage women to run for office, The AWP is dedicated to empower the voices of voters, educate them on their rights, and encouraging ...read more
This last year has been hard for anyone with a working brain, given how every day under our Russian stooge of a President and the hypocrites in his party produces some new nightmare. But hope is not lost, as several organizations have risen to prominence to help us take back ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Yesterday, Miramax/The Weinstein Company co-founder Harvey Weinstein was fired effective immediately following the New York Times' report documenting the multiple allegations of sexual harassment against women and the years of cover-ups... To continue ...read more
One of the best commentators today, MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid is not afraid to tell the truth to the people who think that Democrats will win if they just offer white working class voters single-payer healthcare. In her appearance on The Daily Show this week, she explained to Trevor ...read more
Perhaps you've heard of Nina Turner, one of the few notable women of color to endorse Bernie Sanders, and one of the only women in politics the alt-left doesn't have a problem with. Find something in Kamala Harris's record that they don't like and they'll gleefully try to tear ...read more
Note: This is the third part in a series of articles analyzing the problem of sexism on the left. This article was written as a follow-up to the first in this series, which you can read here. One of the reasons I wanted Jon Ossoff to win his special election last June is because ...read more
It has been happening, regular as clockwork, for over 30 years now: Democrats lose an election, the media asks "What's wrong with Democrats?", and there is a rush to reinvent the party. That reinvention always involves moving the party to the right, to fill the void left by the ...read more
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s magnificent new film that opened this weekend, is both the best World War Two film in years and a moment for the Democrats and 'The Resistance'.. To continue reading this article, please go here. A Banter Membership gets you access to the magazine ...read more
I know you are but what am I? It's a classic come back for kids who want to turn the table on name callers, or who just don’t have anything better to say. And for kids, it often works! When grown adults lean on similar rhetorical devices to redirect, however, it's not funny or ...read more
Fox News is many things, but “Fair and Balanced” has never been one of them. I used to find it bewildering that a cable news channel that so obviously plays the role of Republican mouthpiece had the gall to pretend to be unbiased - and that viewers bought it. Eventually I ...read more
As the party newly in power, Republicans have the Senate, the House, the White House and a very compliant Supreme Court. They have everything they need to pass their first budget. Well, almost everything. One of the most important things necessary to pass a budget and have it ...read more
Ten years ago, I bought my first satellite radio for all of the usual reasons. Commercial terrestrial radio had become a torturous hellscape of 10-minute ad blocks, and, myself, having departed radio for the internet, it just seemed like a dying format. Along with the industry's ...read more
Bernie Sanders isn't going to win the Democratic nomination and he isn't going to win the presidency. Short of a bolt of lightning coming out of the sky and striking her dead, Hillary Clinton is going to get the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. ...read more
In a perfect world, we shouldn't need to be "inspired" in order to vote. But no matter how zealous we are about political revolutions or sticking it to the establishment during presidential election years -- presidential election years like this one, for example -- our enthusiasm ...read more
After lambasting Marco Rubio's atrocious debate performance where he regurgitated a canned response to Chris Christie about how awful President Obama was three times, Paul Krugman accused the entire Republican party of existing in a "time loop" due to their complete inability to ...read more
Throughout the 2016 presidential race, the predominant narrative surrounding the Donald Trump campaign has been this: he is a bigoted, inarticulate blowhard whose every statement is somehow more outrageous than the one that preceded it. His platform has invited comparisons to ...read more
On Thursday, the New York Times published a potentially bombshell exposé about financial ties that the Clinton family has to the Russian uranium industry. Over the past decade, the Clinton Foundation and family appeared to be primary players and beneficiaries in a multi-billion ...read more
When people talk about Bill Clinton, I'm reminded of a common joke I've heard in Democratic circles: "He was the best damn Republican president we ever had." I can't help but feel the same suspicion as Hillary Clinton's all-but-certain 2016 presidential run looms ever closer, ...read more
The big news around the Beltway on Monday is that NBC is pulling the plug on David Gregory as host of Meet the Press, and will likely replace him with the equally hacktacular Chuck Todd, who hosts The Daily Rundown on MSNBC. That's according to Mike Allen's Playbook, so if ...read more
During a comprehensive interview with The New York Times, President Obama attacked modern conservatism and the GOP for being too ideological and extremist. He continued by describing the Democratic Party like so: And by the way, it generally is fact-based and reason-based. You ...read more
Conservative S.E. Cupp of CNN makes for one terrible atheist. In 2009, she gave an interview on C-SPAN that would befuddle the finest team of doctors the field of psychoanalysis could offer. During one exchange, she claimed she'd never want an atheist president because such a ...read more
When House Majority Leader Eric Cantor unexpectedly lost his midterm primary to a little-known Tea Party candidate named Dave Brat on Tuesday night, liberals around the country cackled and rejoiced, even as journalists scrambled to figure out who, exactly, Brat is. ...read more
"To govern means to rectify. If you set an example by being correct, who will dare to remain incorrect?" – Confucius, The Analects, Book 12 There’s weariness in repetition, especially if it’s a task full of negative emotion. It breaks one down mentally, physically, and ...read more
Newark Mayor Cory Booker sailed to victory in the Democratic primary last week, which surprised no one though about four people voted and that's always a bit sad so now he is on to the general which will be on October 16, 2013. So who is his GOP opponent? So glad you asked! I ...read more
Bill O'Reilly has not shied away from calling Congresswoman Michele Bachmann out when he sees fit. This week he was at it again after her CPAC speech in which she bashed the Obama White House for the president's lavish lifestyle (the gardiner walks the dog!). If you missed this, ...read more
It wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last time, but yesterday I was ashamed to be a registered member of the Democratic Party. Not only was it the tenth anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, which more than half of all Senate Democrats along with 81 House ...read more
Gawker's mysteriously anonymous 'Mobutu Sese Seko' reminds jubilant Democrats and the liberal media not to proclaim the GOP dead just yet: There's a time for champagne, though, and that's election night. After that, reality sticks its head in the tent, and there's no bigger or ...read more
A bit late posting today as I've been traveling, but wanted to weigh in on Bill Clinton's speech last night at the Democratic convention. As cynical as I am about politics, there's always a part of me that respects the all time greats - the politicians with a God given talent ...read more
I watched as much of the first day of the Democratic Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina as I could stomach, and was left with the following thoughts. The negative: 1. As always, it was a slick marketing campaign under the guise of a political convention. We heard sound ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via Yahoo News!): CHARLOTTE, N.C.—In a speech that instantly invoked comparisons to Barack Obama's star-making turn at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro invoked his personal story as the descendent of ...read more
By Bob Cesca: I've been following politics for most of my life, and while I've always felt energized by the potential and history of liberal policy-making, I've never felt like my chosen party reflected that energy or lived up to my expectations for it. Frankly, the Democrats ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via The Huffington Post): CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Democratic Party unveiled its formal 2012 platform on Monday night. And like its Republican counterpart, it is heavy on broad philosophical strokes about the direction in which the party wants to ...read more
James Kwak laments the ever rightwards shifting debate on economics in America: The fact that Simpson-Bowles—which uses its mandate of deficit reduction to call for . . . lower tax rates?—has become widely perceived as a centrist starting-point for discussion is clear evidence of ...read more
Welcome to this week's edition of The Daily Banter Mail Bag!! Today, Bob, Ben and Chez answer reader's questions on Obama's chances of re-election during bad economic times, the recall fiasco in Wisconsin, and whether we'd vote for a third party candidate. The questions: I'm ...read more
Americans have become more politically polarized than at any time in the past 25 years, according to a major survey released Monday by the Pew Research Center. Pew measured partisan differences on 48 areas that it has tracked since 1987, and the average partisan gap has nearly ...read more
By Robert Parry: Over the past four-plus decades, one of the biggest differences between the two major American parties has been how they have approached the practice of politics. Democrats have mostly played nice and Republicans have played rough, which is why the pugnacious ...read more
Welcome to this weeks edition of The Daily Banter Mail Bag where Bob Cesca, Chez Pazienza and Ben Cohen answer questions from our readers! Today, we discuss the reasons behind the Right's denial of climate change, whether the Democrats would ever recover from a Republican ...read more
In this week's mailbag we discuss whether the media should apologize for subjecting us to a 24/7 GOP primary circus, Jon Stewart's continued assertion that there is equivalency between Democrats and Republicans, and whether we miss Rick Santorum or not! The questions: Would you ...read more
