At an event in Houston at Rice University’s Baker Institute, President Obama hammered Donald Trump, accusing him of “capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years”. Obama also warned Americans that the current White House is creating global ...read more
Finally, President Obama has come out and delivered a stinging critique of president Trump and his repellant political movement. Perhaps more tellingly, for the first time since the 2016 election, Obama called Trump out by name. "You happen to be coming of age" amid backlash to ...read more
Bill Maher shared this video of President Obama laying into the Republicans and Donald Trump to his facebook page today. The video was from the campaign trail in late 2016, and shows Obama in his element -- eloquent, impassioned, and angry about the terrifying political ...read more
It's hard to tell whether Donald Trump's shock that the majority of Americans detest him is real, but it reveals at the very least his astonishing incompetence and total lack of awareness. Speaking at a rally for the Democratic candidate Ralph Northam in a gubernatorial election ...read more
Breitbart.com doe not publish overtly racist or misogynistic content. Its staff of Alt-Right 'journalists' are too clever to get caught blatantly insulting women or black people. But they know exactly how to cater to the audience of the white supremacist bros who log on and read ...read more
Modern Republicanism will go down as one of the most cynical, lazy political ideologies in modern history. It is built almost entirely on a religious belief in the power of free markets, and the vilification of immigrants, women, and minority communities. If Donald Trump can be ...read more
Trump is moving to end DACA, Obama's law that shielded young immigrants from deportation, and Jeff Sessions made the announcement today with a grin on his face that suggests a kid sneaking a cookie out of the jar, except in this case, the cookie is legalized racism. We know the ...read more
Even though it seems like we've been hearing about it forever, we are still in the very early stages of the investigation about what exactly happened between Trump campaign officials and members of the Russian government. But there is at least one clear signal that the story is ...read more
American workers have been getting the shaft for years when it comes to retirement benefits. Defined benefit pensions (which provide a guaranteed amount regardless of market conditions) have largely gone the way of the dinosaurs, and many workers, especially those in low-paid ...read more
A privileged white male born into wealth, Donald Trump appears to have lived a life without ever feeling as though he could ever be loved. His deep insecurities and inferiority complex manifested itself through ostentatious cravings for the excessive and opulent. Gold plated ...read more
Barack Obama was and remains the hero America doesn't deserve. He was handed a giant, steaming turd by George W. Bush the second he took the oath of office and somehow, miraculously, managed to turn it all around, bringing the country back from the brink of economic collapse and ...read more
For those with a solid grounding in 20th century history, the rise of Donald Trump has been extremely worrying. From the very beginning of his dramatic journey to the White House, it was clear that Trump was no normal Republican. He was an egotistical showman with a flair for ...read more
While Republicans and Trump supporters are busy denying the obvious, President Obama came out and said what everyone with a functioning brain understands: The Russian hacking of the DNC directly impacted the 2016 presidential election and helped Donald Trump beat Hillary ...read more
In a truly extraordinary article by The New Yorker editor David Remnick, the veteran journalist recounts the time he spent with President Obama in the lead up to election night and in the days after. Remnick, who authored the 2010 biography The Bridge - The Life and Rise of ...read more
With the relentlessly bad news about Donald Trump's election victory and the team he is compiling to run the country, I must confess to feeling completely overwhelmed by it all. Trump's cabinet picks are so genuinely terrifying that trying to comprehend the new America we will ...read more
One of the most irritating aspects of the corporate news media in America is the almost total banalization of anything remotely interesting. A war with Syria? Let's roll out the fancy map graphics and throw softball questions at the military generals. Why is there a madman ...read more
President Obama visited Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday evening in what will probably be his last time on the show before he leaves office. During his appearance on the show he participated in Kimmel's "Mean Tweets" where guests read the awful things people say about them on Twitter. ...read more
One of the major reasons Donald Trump has parlayed his success as a real estate mogul into politics is the pervasive myth in America that being a good business person makes one qualified to run a government. This myth is particularly prevalent in America -- a country that ...read more
On Monday morning, President Obama was served a blow by the Supreme Court when it rejected the administration's request to rehear a case about his immigration executive orders. The policy in question would have granted millions of immigrants relief from deportation and allowed ...read more
Speaking to a crowd in Philadelphia, President Obama took the media to task for its ludicrous coverage of so-called Hillary Clinton scandals in the most withering fashion. "I sure do get frustrated with the way this campaign is covered," said Obama. "I’m just telling the truth. ...read more
One of the most irritating things about discussing Obama's presidency with a Republican is their complete denial of the almighty mess George W. Bush left the country in after his departure in 2008. According to your average conservative, Obama should have been able to restore ...read more
There is no doubt for anyone who has followed Barack Obama's presidency that, in years to come, he should be looked upon with great, great regard. He was the first African American president, a phenomenal speaker and one of the most cerebral politicians America has ever ...read more
Richard Wolffe has a fascinating take on the 8 year Republican led campaign to destroy President Obama that, he claims, has had the complete opposite effect. Pointing to Obama's approval ratings (52%) that are "almost identical to Reagan’s in August 1988 (53%) and a dramatic ...read more
You caught me at an odd time in my political writing career. Early in 2007, I resigned myself to believing that Hillary Clinton would easily march to the nomination the following year since no one really had the machine nor the charisma to upend her campaign, save for one guy and ...read more
This was without a doubt one of President Obama's finest speeches, and a serious boon to Hillary Clinton's election campaign. Obama hit it out of the park on all levels -- blasting Trump in almost every conceivable way, reminding Americans of the stark choices they face this ...read more
If being gay were a choice, I might just have to go gay for Obama right now, because he just did three of my most favoritest things at once, those being owning Republicans with facts, humiliating Donald Trump, and shitting all over Saint Ronald Reagan, Trump's racist stepdad: ...read more
Believe it or not, I would be extremely happy if, over the past 8 years, we could have spent a good deal of time on this site going after the Obama administration for its various sins. Obama's drone policy, his legally questionable crackdown on whistle blowers and his signature ...read more
Given John McCain recently blamed Obama for the massacre in Orlando, I thought it would be a good time to reminisce about the time the president bitch slapped the Arizona Senator on live television. Because, well, what is better than watching a right wing blowhard getting their ...read more
In the latest installment of "What dumb f*cking thing did Sarah Palin say now?", we have a statement from the moose huntin' former Vice Presidential candidate that really is a special kind of stupid. In a post on facebook titled "OBAMA IS A SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID" (yes, she ...read more
UPDATE: In light of the white supremacist attacks in Charlottesville and Donald Trump's initial refusal to denounce it, this skit is more relevant now than ever. After expressing his own sentiments about the awful tragedy in Orlando, Stephen Colbert took on Donald Trump last ...read more
Looks like President Obama is finally done pussyfooting with Republican idiots who insist that if he would just say "Radical Islam," the whole ISIS nut would crack. During remarks at the White House Tuesday, the President was like "Fuck that!" This isn't the first time Obama has ...read more
Spectacular failure of a presidential candidate Jeb Bush has much to despise his own brother for -- the primary being the toxic name he has been burdened with given his elder brother is synonymous with disaster at every level of government. So when Jeb decided to go on the ...read more
After his humiliating exit from the presidential race, Marco Rubio has slowly crept back into the news cycle. In a Politico story, Rubio stated a new found love of the Senate, and said this when asked about being considered for Vice President by Donald Trump: I have no ...read more
Poor Tucker Carlson was highly offended by President Obama's riff on blackness during his commencement address at Howard University, specifically the part where the President told students to “Be confident in your blackness.” Carlson had a very important question for the ...read more
In an extremely interesting interview with New York Times Magazine about his economic legacy, President Obama delivered a stinging assessment of current conservative economic ideology and trashed the economic platforms of the Republican candidates running for president. After ...read more
When President Obama named Merrick Garland as his nominee to replace influential racist Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, it's likely the last thing he concerned himself with was whether his choice would appeal to identity politics-obsessed millennial Tumblr-users. Not only ...read more
There was a great moment at President Obama's Tuesday mini-presser that made news, but the significance of which may have been lost on everyone but me and Fox News reporter Shannon Bream. At what was supposed to just be a statement about the economy, the President took two ...read more
With President Obama's Supreme Court Justice pick of Merrick Garland, we can assume that given his deliberative tendencies, he took many factors into account in reaching his decision. Today’s toxic political climate forced him to become far more tactical than he’d like to have ...read more
While Hillary Clinton remains the strong favorite to win the Democratic nomination, it looks likely that she and Bernie Sanders will slug it out to the very end, despite Sanders' increasing difficult path to victory. This is no bad thing given Sanders' ability to pull Clinton ...read more
Yesterday, the White House published a letter that long time Republican and Wisconsin resident Brent Nathan Brown wrote to president Barack Obama back in June of last year. Brown, who says he has voted Republican his entire life, was extremely critical of President Obama, and ...read more
Once a brief contender for the Republican presidential primary lead, Dr. Ben Carson has settled into a glorified book tour/Fox News audition/consultant gravy train masquerading as a presidential campaign, but he's still a reliable source for premium shit-talking. On MSNBC today, ...read more
On Sunday, the White House shared a wonderful video of the President's meeting with an incredibly energetic African American lady named Virginia McLaurin. McLaurin, who is 106, was invited to take part in Black History Month celebrations -- fulfilling a long held dream of hers ...read more
Bernie Sanders has an Obama problem. While Sanders has parsed his opposition to the President as one of loyal, but well meaning critique it’s clear the purpose is to play to his current political strategy. Sen. Sanders’ schtick, or theme is one of the political outsider, the ...read more
There was a time when refusing to say whether President Obama is a Christian or not was considered scummy and kinda racist, but now, that's the comparatively classy move in Republican politics. Back in September, when Ted Cruz was asked if he believed that the President is a ...read more
It has always been my personal policy to do my best to refrain from speaking ill of the dead, even on a substantive basis, for at least a day or two following an untimely death, and if possible, to find something nice to say. In Justice Scalia's case, I recounted my lone meeting ...read more
On Saturday night, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio unwittingly revealed the default Republican position on every policy ranging from healthcare to taxes and the environment. What is that response? In one word: Obama In a surprisingly brutal takedown, Chris Christie called Rubio ...read more
The leading voies who are trashing President Obama securing the freedom of four U.S. prisoners from Iran this weekend, including former Marine Amir Hekmati, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, and Pastor Saeed Abedin have tied themselves in knots expressing happiness at the ...read more
President Obama's final State Of The Union speech last night was thoughtful, passionate, and powerful. More than that, it was hopeful and defiant, echoing the theme that got him elected as the first African American President back in 2008 and the attitude that got him re-elected ...read more
Ben Carson laid out his 6 point plan for America's foreign policy under his leadership on his facebook page today, and unsurprisingly it makes no sense whatsoever. Here is Carson's foreign policy plan that will apparently "restore America’s role as the world’s preeminent ...read more
In response to conservatives questioning the authenticity of Obama's tears over the death of thousands of Americans killed by guns this week, Trevor Noah delivered a blistering, angry attack on their astonishing assholishness. "See that thing you're feeling right now, that pain ...read more