When you don't need the majority of the media companies in America to maintain your grip on power, you can say whatever you want to your base and know with absolute certainty they'll never find out you are lying.  Today, Donald Trump regurgitated the long-debunked claim that ...read more

I've argued for some time now that Tucker Carlson is one of the most dangerous figures in America today. The Fox News host is now the respectable face of the Alt Right movement in America, and provides Trump supporters with an intellectual framework for their bigotry and racism ...read more

In 2000, Al Gore beat George W. Bush by around 500,000 popular votes. But the Supreme Court decided that Bush should be president after ruling on the contentious vote count in Florida. There were lots of arguments about Florida and that state's electoral votes, but nobody, ...read more

There has always been a certain amount of stupid in politics. But nothing like the current situation, where Donald Trump, the current idiot in chief, and his loyal minions seem to be intent on raising stupidity to a fine art form. It was his complete stupidity, or his ...read more

Donald Trump won the election, thanks exclusively to our arcane Electoral College system. But he did't win the popular vote, and that is apparently driving him crazy. On Wednesday our new God-Emperor repeated his claim that millions of undocumented immigrants cast ballots and ...read more

With the entire world watching, it's hardly surprising yet perpetually frightening to observe how completely incompetent Donald Trump's transition has been so far. In addition to picking administration goons based on name recognition rather than policy expertise (for example: Dr. ...read more