We're coming to it now. As I write this, America is speeding uncontrollably toward a constitutional crisis. The Mad King, today, is perched on the edge of his authority under Article II, shoving chocolate cake down his chubby piehole, wondering what it'll be like if he takes the ...read more

According to birther advocate and notorious racist Lou Dobbs, Donald Trump is "the most accomplished presidency in modern American history." Why? Because Trump has laid waste to the federal government, trashed the deal to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon, hiked up health ...read more

Speaking on Fox News today, Tom Fitton, the head of a conservative watchdog group stated that not only does the Mueller investigation need to be "shutdown", but the entire FBI too: "I think the FBI's been compromised," said Fitton. "Forget about shutting down Mr. Mueller. Do we ...read more

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

by Kate Harveston Americans are no strangers to complications in the White House. Andrew Jackson wed a married woman during his time in office, Grover Cleveland had an illegitimate child during an election year and won anyway, Richard Nixon rang in the modern era of ...read more

After beating up on Jeff Sessions at the Senate testimony today, Sen. Kamala Harris took to twitter to continue roasting him for his maddening performance that consisted of him apparently not recalling or remembering anything. Harris also took exception to senators attempting to ...read more

By now you've likely heard about the bombshell article from The Washington Post revealing that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy blabbed out loud that "Putin pays Trump." He added, "Swear to God."... To continue reading this article, please go here. A Banter Membership gets ...read more

As if politics in America couldn't get any crazier, Donald Trump just fired director of the F.B.I James Comey, citing  his inability to "effectively lead the bureau". Reported the NY Times:  President Trump has dismissed the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, on the ...read more

UPDATE: Late word from The New York Times. Intercepted phone calls indicate that senior Trump campaign officials had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence. Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump ...read more

It's difficult to discuss these things without sounding conspiratorial and more than a little paranoid, but the facts are the facts. Based on volumes of published reports so far, and on top of warnings from lawmakers with a heavy presence in national security (McCain, Graham, ...read more

2016 may have taken Bowie, Prince and Carrie Fisher, among others, but this morning 2017 killed irony. In his highly anticipated, absolutely inevitable tweet-storm in response to last night's release of the details of an intel dossier on Trump that included claims he had paid ...read more

UPDATE: Buzzfeed published a pdf (download) of the report, indicating, among other things, that Putin has been helping Trump for at least "five years." The report, which Buzzfeed warned is "unverified," also notes that the "FSB has compromised TRUMP through his activities in ...read more