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Thomas Friedman Speaks The Forbidden Truth About The GOP
There's an entire industry based of pumping out columns blaming "both sides" for the state of America's descent in fascism. David Brooks, Chris Cillizza, David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, David Fucking Brooks, and, at least until Trump, Thomas Friedman. All of them make a very fine ...read more
Newt Gingrich's Crazed Attack On CBO Shows Conservative Movement Is Terminal
We already knew the conservative movement was in a lot of trouble but we're starting to get a clear picture of just how broken it is. Even before the Congressional Budget Office scored the Republican atrocity masquerading as a "healthcare" bill, the Trump administration was ...read more
Tyranny Alert: The U.K.'s Right Wing Government Begins Widespread Voter Suppression
Three weeks ago, we here at the Banter wrote an article about what it would mean if (when) Republicans force through a series of laws designed to "protect the integrity of the ballot" by making it more difficult for people to vote. The bottom line was that this would be the ...read more
GOP Senators Are Vowing To Cripple Supreme Court if Hillary is Elected
With the presidential election just a week away and polls showing their nominee, Donald Trump losing bigly, GOP senators are walking back their promise to let the next president pick a new Supreme Court Justice. Shortly after Justice Antonin Scalia died early this year, ...read more
Paul Krugman: Donald Trump Is The Bleak And Horrible Future Of The Republican Party
Paul Krugman gives voice to a nagging fear a lot of people have had: Even after he loses and loses badly, Donald Trump will continue to be the guiding light of the Republican Party. After explaining that Republicans knew damn well who they were endorsing and that it's ridiculous ...read more
Donald Trump Deserves The Republican Nomination
Donald Trump continues to outpace his competitors with more votes, delegates and primary victories during the 2016 election season. And if the pattern holds, Donald Trump has a very good chance of becoming the Republican nominee for President of the United States. Yet the ...read more
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Former Florida GOP Chair: Republicans Deliberately Suppressed Voting Rights
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From Huff Post: Jim Greer, the former head of the Florida Republican Party, recently claimed that a law shortening the early voting period in the state was deliberately designed to suppress voting among groups that tend to support Democratic ...read more