The Banter Long Read: Objectively speaking, it could very well be that Donald Trump was elected due to the existence of voter ID laws. Let's take a look at Wisconsin, which miraculously flipped from blue to red for the first time since 1984. Hell, Mike Dukakis won Wisconsin in ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Creators, inventors, and CEOs often have a hard time understanding the consequences of their products when used for ill means, arguing that technology, when it first comes into existence, is a tabula rasa -- that is neither all good nor all bad.. To continue ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Somehow, this story involves yogurt. You might recall a sidebar during last year's election season about Chobani, the Greek yogurt people... To continue reading this MEMBERS ONLY article, please go here. You'll get unrestricted access to all our member's ...read more
You have to wonder whether Donald Trump is actively trying to get himself impeached. He clearly desperately wants out of the job he hates, and is doing everything in his power to isolate himself from his party and the entire US government. In response to a question about ...read more
When I heard the news that Donald Trump has been exploring ways to pardon himself related to any forthcoming charges stemming from the increasingly heated Trump-Russia investigations, I wasn't even close to being surprised. This is a chief executive who has no respect for the ...read more
Proving yet again that he is manifestly unfit to be the Commander in Chief, Donald Trump is now blaming President Obama for Russia hacking the 2016 election, and also calling it a Democratic "scam". He tweeted out the following salvo in response to the latest revelations from ...read more
Immediately following the November election, then FBI Director James Comey was on every Democrat’s hit list of people to blame for Hillary Clinton’s loss. Now, one month after President Trump fired him, Comey's been transformed into a political victim. Over the course of two and ...read more
The Trump administration has taken it’s first step in retaliating against leakers, showing that the President’s tirades on twitter are more than just rhetorical threats. Charges have been brought under the Espionage Act against a 25 year-old NSA contractor for allegedly ...read more
Let’s play a game. Imagine just for a moment what the front pages of newspapers or home pages of websites would look like if we removed articles about the hacking of emails in the 2016 election. Now go even further and imagine how a cable news hour and its line up of stories ...read more
If there’s one thing you can always rely on Senator John McCain for, it’s doing his best to scare the American public. The Arizona Republican’s penchant for supporting aggressive military action against a variety of menacing actors overseas, or at the very least, consistently ...read more
The news broke today that Donald Trump leaked highly sensitive and classified information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. The White House has denied the allegation, calling the story "false", but the astonishing ...read more
The Republicans lost their minds when they nominated a man who supported states’ rights, was endorsed by the KKK, and was accused of having his finger on the nuclear button. His convention was a disaster, with the moderates in his Party only endorsing him at metaphorical ...read more
Several weeks ago, I made the case that with the election of Donald Trump by way of overt interference by Russia, Putin had miscalculated. Injecting propaganda into the body politic to undermine democracy is dramatically less effective when everyone knows you're doing it. The ...read more
Because America is so far through the Looking Glass right now that Alice is living in fear of being moved on like a bitch, on Thursday, the Senate Intelligence Committee held a public hearing on its investigation into just how far Russia meddled with 2016 election. Not ...read more
There’s been an unfortunate trend lately where a member of the Bush administration comes out of the woodwork to criticize Donald Trump and the political clickosphere can’t trip over itself fast enough to point out that things are so bad even the Bush administration can’t believe ...read more
Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is in a bit of hot water after it was revealed that he had met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential campaign. Sessions had previously stated under oath that he "did not have communications with the ...read more
In this jam packed issue of Banter M: Donald Trump, Enemy Combatant - Russia is fighting and winning a cyber war against America, and Trump is an enemy combatant, explains Bob Cesca. Could this be any more serious? Bill Maher is Not The Enemy - Every year, the usual suspects ...read more
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Let's just dispense with the pleasantries and call Donald Trump what he is: a bourgeoning traitor to the United States of America. There's a very strong possibility he's been compromised by Vladimir Putin, so says a detailed report that our intelligence agencies had enough ...read more
Salon's conservative writer Carrie Sheffield has joined the chorus of outraged leftist and professional contrarians to denounce Buzzfeed's Russian dossier story, calling it "reckless" and a "disservice to the country". She writes: Publishing these unsubstantiated allegations in ...read more
As the Russian hacking story continues to unfold and the media goes to war with itself over what we can trust, it is becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction. With the latest revelation that the Russians may potentially have incredibly damaging intel on ...read more
“I approach my journalism as a litigator,” Glenn Greenwald once told the New York Times. “People say things, you assume they are lying, and dig for documents to prove it.” This of course is the exact opposite of what a journalist is supposed to do. Journalists are supposed to ...read more
In his never ending crusade to rid America of moderate liberals and anyone who doesn't believe Ed Snowden is the second coming of Jesus Christ, Glenn Greenwald has been doing the media rounds desperately attempting to prove that Obama and the Democrats have been lying about the ...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
NBC's bombshell report today is big -- very, very big. According to NBC, "U.S. intelligence officials now believe with "a high level of confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. ...read more
Early Monday morning, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted this: Clearly, Trump is operating under the Fox News rules for reporting, which includes blurting verifiably false information under the assumption that the target audience believes everything it hears from "friendly" ...read more
