The deaths of 11 mostly elderly Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh this weekend was the culmination of one of the worst weeks I can remember in America.  On top of the bombs sent to major Democrats by a psychopathic supporter of Donald Trump, the massacre of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Oct 29, 2018

If you want to understand why president Trump just burned down a carefully negotiated, internationally binding nuclear arms deal with Iran and put global stability in grave danger, look no further than his racism towards President Obama.  Today, Trump announced that he will ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  May 8, 2018

There are moments when I genuinely love the Second Amendment for the sole reason that it would allow me to end particularly miserable events in my life quickly and painlessly. This include going to the DMV, waiting in airport security lines, and witnessing a love fest on Twitter ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 25, 2018

America’s longstanding presidential tradition of the State of the Union address will showcase a president who will go down in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest liar in history. Donald Trump is a compulsive liar and he will lie repeatedly on Tuesday when he ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

There is a country that ranks 31st globally in life expectancy even though its healthcare costs per capita are by far the highest. This country has one of the lowest voter participation rates in the free world. It loses over a thousand people every week to misuse of ...read more

• By Rich Herschlag
  Jan 26, 2018

by Kate Harveston Just when you thought… ok well let's be honest, no one is surprised that Donald Trump just called several countries "shitholes" in a private meeting with several members of Congress. It's about as surprising as the fact that our Twitter-happy president took to ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

“Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out,” Donald Trump reportedly said in his famed meeting on immigration earlier this month. He also referred to the predominantly black nation and other African countries as "shitholes" and asked those present why America couldn't get more ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Calling Trump a racist for disparaging African and black nations as "shitholes" is, according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, "outrageous". Why, you might ask? Because Donald Trump had a television show for 10 years, so by definition cannot be a racist.   “I think that is an ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 16, 2018

by Michele Zipp I believe this will mark the first time I addressed Trump as “President Donald Trump.” I’ve used all the other monikers and they all seem wrong; even 45 feels too prestigious. But we have to look at those words put together closely and let it resonate deep within. ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

The Banter has long lauded Lawrence O'Donnell as one of the most important voices in the media during the Trump era. For almost two years now, O'Donnell has kept a laser like focus on the president and those complicit in allowing his rise to power. He has been utterly relentless ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 12, 2018

In the small minds of the Alt Right bros who write for Breitbart, Donald Trump cannot be a racist because he doesn't mind Asians coming to America to benefit the economy. After the shocking news broke about Trump decrying "shithole" nations like Haiti sending immigrants to the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 12, 2018

United States exists as a country due to the genocide of Native Americans and the theft of their land. It was built off of the labor of enslaved Africans who were never compensated for their appalling treatment or their centuries of free work.   America is also a nation of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 11, 2018

By now, you've probably heard Eminem's ruthless takedown of Donald Trump in a remarkably powerful hip hop video released before BET's Hip Hop awards. In it, the Detroit based rapper slammed Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric, blasted him for his ties to racists, and drew a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Oct 13, 2017

If you thought Donald Trump couldn't sink any lower after his atrocious response to the racist terrorism in Charlottesville earlier this month, think again. In a despicable move designed to appeal to his racist base, Trump pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Just when it seemed like Donald Trump was capable of passing the lowest bar ever, when he finally said "racism is evil" yesterday after three days of refusing to acknowledge that the events in Charlottesville were caused by white nationalist neo-Nazis, he did a press conference ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

So, in case you haven't been paying attention, the terrorists won. They've actually been winning for years, given that they knew exactly what to do to make the breathtakingly gullible United States freak the fuck out, change the name of French fries and eventually invade the ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

Over the weekend, businessman and flaming bag of dogcrap on the Republican Party's porch Donald Trump tweeted and deleted an attack on Jeb Bush and his wife, Columba Bush. He quoted a tweet that said "#JebBush has to like the Mexican Illegals because of his wife," and while ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Former TV host and current President of Racist America Donald Trump livened up the Fourth of July weekend when he posted a tweet that took a hard, racist shot at former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) and his wife, Columba Bush. The tweet, which was quickly screen-captured and preserved, ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018