Even erstwhile sensible Republicans like Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire are coming across like those useful idiots on Fox News – who propagate Russian propaganda as readily as they do Trumpian lies. Only that explains Republicans all over TV these days carping about Hillary Clinton setting up a private email server at her home,… Read more.
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Forget Nuclear Documents. Reports are that the FBI Found Republican Spines in Trump’s Safe…
And so we all wait with bated breath to know not when Trump will be arrested, but when Republicans will get their spines back. Because the fate of American democracy depends on it. But leave it to Trump for this FBI search to give even graver meaning to hiding skeletons in one’s closet.. Read more.
Guns? Republicans Blame Uvalde Shooting on Mental Illness
Unsurprisingly, Republicans are blaming this school shooting in Uvalde Texas not just on mental illness but on everything else except the most obvious culprit: guns. Beto O’Rourke, the former Democratic presidential white knight and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate, threw this into righteous relief on Wednesday. He crashed a press conference Texas Republicans were holding, and… Read more.
Uvalde School Shooting – Just Groundhog Day in Gun-Crazy USA
Yesterday a mass shooter opened fire in a classroom at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. He killed 19 children and 2 teachers. This comes just 10 days after a mass shooter opened fire at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. He killed 10 Blacks and injured 3. But here is why this shooting… Read more.
Buffalo Mass Shooting Shows a Nation Divided Against Itself
Podcast Episode 77 We always express thoughts and prayers for those affected by these shootings. And some of us really mean it. But, mass shootings in America have become so commonplace, the most noteworthy thing about this one might be that it interrupted the media’s saturation coverage of the war in Ukraine. And yes, I… Listen.
Podcast: Online Comments and the Fate of Democracy
Episode 36: Yale Prof Timothy Snyder Predicts a Republican Electoral Coup. I Disagree. Related commentaries: tribalism… Listen.
Trump Wanted His Rednecks to Look Like Brownshirts
President Trump reportedly thought his MAGA insurrectionists looked too much like a motley crew of rowdy rednecks. He was pissed. He wanted them to look more organized and uniform, you know, like Hitler’s Brownshirts (aka Storm Troopers). Trump’s disdain for his Rednecks Never before in the history of politics has a leader shown such overt disdain for… Read more.
Hey, Democrats, Time’s Up to Out Republicans!
There’s virtually no end to the things that disgust me about politics in America these days. And I trust it will surprise nobody that creatures from the Trumpian cult – masquerading as the Republican Party – feature in most of them. Democrats have been all over TV lately regaling viewers with tales about how their… Read more.
Trump Is Putin’s ‘Useful Idiot,’ and He Keeps Showing Why
There’s no denying that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign to help Donald Trump. And that explains why Trump keeps acting like Putin’s useful idiot. Trump is really that stupid and transparent. Trump is Putin’s useful idiot Of course, Putin keeps playing the coy mastermind who pulled off that electoral feat. He began doing so mere days… Read more.
Impeachment Vote Is as Much About Tribalism as Trumpism
Mitt Romney is a former Republican presidential nominee. As such he commands considerable respect in political and media circles. This is why many “Never Trumpers” are looking to him to take up the mantle of the late Republican Senator John McCain, namely as President Trump’s most credible and indignant critic in Congress. Arguably, Romney has… Read more.