Over the five weeks of Trump's idiotic shutdown over a wall he will never build, my wife and I discovered just how much support we had from our friends and family. It was a humbling experience and one we were not expecting.   To continue reading this article, please go to our ...read more

(Image source: The New York Times) We should probably brace ourselves for an extended Trump shutdown because there's ultimately no reason for the president to end his ongoing temper tantrum. He straight up needs this. Even though his poll numbers are crashing, the longer the ...read more

Over the last few days, the QAnon crowd has been super excited over a new theory that's risen from the fever swamp of stupiditiy that is the right wing fringe: Donald Trump engineered the shutdown so he could fire hundreds of thousands of government workers using something ...read more

(Image via AP) In a matter of weeks on the job, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to checkmate Trump over his government shutdown in spectacular fashion. Not only has Pelosi refused to back down from Trump's childish threats over his border wall, she has managed bullied the ...read more

We are exactly where we belong. Not necessarily as individuals, but collectively for sure. The extended partial shutdown of the federal government is the logical conclusion not just to the first (and hopefully only) half of the Trump presidency, but to the past several decades ...read more

This past Saturday, my wife Deb and I drove out to the Giant supermarket in Groveton, a neighborhood in the southeastern part of my hometown of Alexandria, Virginia. We were not going to go food shopping. We were going to stand on line at a food bank for federal workers who are ...read more

Donald Trump is a buffoon but he is incredibly useful for one thing so far: Exposing the worthlessness of right wing economic ideology. He's done such a good job at it that Republicans are going to spend decades rebuilding their facade that tax cuts for billionaires are great ...read more

After last night's ten minute waste of time masquerading as an Oval Office address, news sites put out fact check after fact check. Considering that Trump delivered his usual stump speech filled with the usual lies, this wasn't that hard to do. And yet, the Associated Press ...read more

Tuesday night, Trump may or may not try to declare a "national emergency" at the southern border in order to get around Congress and start the construction of his useless wall. If not Tuesday, then it's more likely than not he'll do it in the next week or two because he'll have ...read more

In 2019, president Trump appears to be working extremely hard to make the Democrats'  job of opposing him as easy as humanly possible. Facing a career defining stand off with the House, Trump is laying it all on the line in order to get his infamous border wall. And the ...read more

This is week two of Donald Trump's stupid partial government shutdown and my wife is still working. For free. Yeah, she's one of the exempt employees which means that she has keep working no matter how long this goes on. Without pay. And since she's the primary breadwinner, ...read more

When Trump was first elected, he listened to the GOP and hired a lot of people who were, if not particularly honest, more or less capable of doing their jobs. Since then, like most autocrats, he's winnowed out the competent in favor of those most likely to kiss his ass and ...read more