Irony isn't just dead, now the Cheney family is spitting on its grave
As the GOP becomes more unhinged and terrified of the ideas of Elizabeth Warren and AOC it is becoming more we are in an irony blood bath. But the Cheney’s … Read More
Month: February 2019
Irony isn't just dead, now the Cheney family is spitting on its grave
As the GOP becomes more unhinged and terrified of the ideas of Elizabeth Warren and AOC it is becoming more we are in an irony blood bath. But the Cheney’s … Read More
Shutdown 2.0? Border wall talks reportedly stalled
It’s hard to imagine that Donald Trump would put the country through another shutdown given the political fallout from his previous unforced error, but then this guy is a special kind … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Will a small Buddha sit on the Lotus leaf?
On the Winter Solstice eight weeks ago, I planted five 15-year-old lotus seeds. They rapidly germinated and sprouted, filling a small aquarium. Now they are producing lovely circular leaves. In … Read More
Kim Jong-un is playing Trump; Stephen King shows us how
No one in the world other than Donald Trump and his Greek chorus of ass-kissers thinks this administration has accomplished anything on North Korea. Trump got Kim to sign a worthless … Read More
Canada's MAGA Killer Sentenced to Six Consecutive Life Terms, No Parole for 40 Years.
NY Times “Alexandre Bissonnette, a 29-year-old former politics student fixated on President Trump, the far right and Muslims, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of … Read More
Sen. Tom Cotton: Green New Deal will lead to 'the Gestapo'
First Ben Carson, who every day makes me believe I could have become a brain surgeon and had time left over to train for six Olympic sports, said Obamacare was the worst … Read More
GOP congressman forgets he's no longer in charge, throws tantrum after getting checked
Friendly reminder: Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, run the House. Sadly, GOP congressmen are having a hard time adjusting to this new reality. The latest GOP humiliation comes courtesy of … Read More
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x Frank Luntz: kids are using socialism to get sex pic.twitter.com/J8K47aNBr0 — John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) February 14, 2016 x @existentialfish @mmfa Sign me up and call me a Socialist! — … Read More
(D) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Claps Back at Smarta** Whitaker – “That was a statement, not a question.”
Apparently Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) didn’t take kindly to drumpf’s play acting AG Matthew Whitaker smarting off to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler earlier today, and made his displeasure known to Mr. Schweddy Bald quite clearly. … Read More
Vanity Fair: Everyone inside the White House hates Trump
Well, why should they be any different than the rest of us? From the redoubtable Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair: Morale inside the White House, never high to begin with, … Read More
You Got Shamed Yesterday. An Open Letter to FL-1
I’m not going to waste my time with Matt Gaetz. He’s not worth the keystrokes, and besides, my eyes only let me type for so long these days. They say … Read More
WaPo Reporter Says on “Last Word” That Bezos' Investigator Believes “Gov. Entity” Procured His Texts
We all know that when Dotard drumpf makes an accusation he is almost certainly engaging in Psychological projection — it is so common in his speech that when one hears it, one can, … Read More
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 107)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see … Read More
This Mitch McConnell tweet will make you spit coffee, nails, what-have-you
Mitch McConnell, ladies and gentlemen: x As I’ve said time and time again: Mindless obstruction is unacceptable. The only way this divided Congress will be able to choose greatness and … Read More
MA-Sen: DFA Continues To Help Build Support For AOC and Ed Markey's (D) Green New Deal Bill
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: Before she was walking the halls of Congress, throwing conservatives and Fox News into a tizzy, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez advocated for a Green New Deal to … Read More
Coming soon to a Trumper Tantrum near you
Well, the walls are closing in on Der Gropinfuror at long last. Which will put the Pampers President under even more pressure. But if there’s one thing that can be … Read More
The Fun House Mirror Show Continues: Tucker Carlson Says Abrams is “selling is bitter division.”
Washington Post “It was a line in Stacey Abrams’s recent writing that irked Fox News host Tucker Carlson more than anything she said in the Democratic response to Tuesday’s State … Read More
Jill Abramson presents a big test for the mainstream media and for the New York Times
I admit I am no fan of the New York Times. I did respect Jill Abramson however as the first woman editor of the Times. I have to be honest … Read More
Parkland Father Fred Guttenberg Replies to drumpf's SOTU – “his made up version of an emergency.”
Fred Guttenberg, who lost his fourteen year old daughter Jaime in the horrific Stoneman-Douglas shooting last year, was Nancy Pelosi’s guest at Tuesday’s State of the Union speech and I … Read More
Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson: Jesus is my health care
Let’s just take a step back and marvel at what we’ve become. A guy in a Methuselah beard and camo headband who claims he didn’t have health insurance for 50 … Read More
An “A” For Effort
Ya know, ever since the Democrats regained control in the House last November, I’ve noticed that national media reporting on the newly emboldened Democratic House has gone chugging down two … Read More
Steve Mnuchin wins prize for dumbest post-SOTU response … maybe ever
Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, Dwight David Eisenhower. One of these kids is doing his own thing. Or maybe not, if you’re Treasury Secretary Steve Mental Munchkin. After Donald … Read More
Stacey Abrams is A Tough Act to Follow, but Pet Shop Boys Try: – “Give Stupidity a Chance.”
No one in their right minds would attempt to top the excellent performance by Stacey Abrams delivered with her SOTU response last night, but in an awesomely timed release yesterday … Read More
The Biggest “Loser”
I am not going to rehash the insipid intellectual wasteland that was the Trump State Of The Union speech last night. Since I quit drinking a couple of years ago, … Read More
Before his fake 'call for unity,' Trump viciously trashed Dems at lunch with media
I figured I’d skip tonight’s State of the Union address, for the same reason I’m not driving to the local tavern to watch drunk idiots order hardboiled eggs floating in … Read More
Shultz on the Road to Damascus
Howard Schultz swore as he wrenched the steering wheel on his rented car, barely making the freeway on-ramp. His floundering presidential campaign had him so distracted he could barely focus on driving. … Read More
Kabuki Theater On the Subject of Rape In the U.S. Senate Again.
Kate Riga of TPM showed some video of Republican Senator Joni Ernst questioning another fine Trump judicial nominee Neomi Rao about her stance on rape. While in college, Rao wrote … Read More
When it comes to racism, Detroit cops have a real issue—and not just on Snapchat
In September 2018, Detroit policeman Sean Bostwick, while in uniform, took a selfie in his patrol car and posted it to his Snapchat account with a blatantly racist caption: “Another night to Rangel … Read More
Hoo-boy! Lots of people are really unhappy with their tax refunds this year
They’re just waking up, I know just what they’ll do. Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, then the boobs down in Trumpville will all cry boo-hoo. Below … Read More
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x Pretty sure we've learned not to trust Trump or this Administration when it comes to numbers. Or, really, anything at all.https://t.co/8Ahx6t4deK — Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) February 4, 2019 x … Read More
Memo for National Security: Time to grow a spine.
To say that I’m “alarmed,: or “concerned,” or “fearful,” or “dismayed,” or any of those other standard goo-goo noises that the media regularly makes to describe feelings to another blazing … Read More
White House insiders are freaking out over leak of Trump's schedules
Hey, we all pretty much knew Donald Trump spends his days watching the teevee, tweeting gauche non sequiturs, and endlessly funneling beef and carbs into his tender baby-robin maw. But to … Read More
drumpf Jr. Rips WaPo's Superbowl Ad on Twitter; Twitter Users Unload.
drumpf Jr. must have gotten bored with worst Superbowl ever, so he decided to start a TwitStorm by taking issue with The Washington Post’s ad honoring journalism and journalists that … Read More
DFA Reminds You To Tune In For Stacey Abrams' (D. GA) SOTU Response On Tuesday, February 5th
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: Stacey Abrams made history with her historic 2018 campaign for Governor of Georgia, a race she narrowly lost to a Trump-supporting opponent … Read More
Do me a favor. STOP with the comparisons already!
You’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe it…And you’re killing yourself if you don’t believe it Styx Same shit, different day. As far as I’m concerned, Ralph Northam fucked up, … Read More
Fund the wall or we kill the economy: GOP debt ceiling extortion returns
“Both sides do it” may well be the most dangerous and deceitful phrase in U.S. politics. The lazy analyst’s substitute for actual journalism doesn’t merely misdiagnose what plagues the American … Read More
Time: U.S. intelligence officials scared sh*tless over Trump's 'willful ignorance'
It’s Sunday, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your espresso, croissant, and crossword puzzle in the fetal position, clinging to your very last soupçon of vanishing hope. Oh, Time … Read More
PCCC Goes After Virginia Senate Democratic Leader Who Keeps Defending Ralph Northam (D. VA)
Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: x Democrats can do so much better than callously defending this blackface and Klan picture, Dick Saslaw. This kind of … Read More
Adm. Ronny Jackson Tapped for Promotion, Brought Back to W.H. Just in Time For drumpf's Physical.
x Look at page 3. Ronny Jackson’s back just in time to do the physical?!?!? https://t.co/Bm7YPaGnWt — Bradley Whitford (@WhitfordBradley) February 2, 2019 x Adderall doesn’t prescribe itself. Trump writes … Read More
DFA Keeps Up The Call For Gov. Ralph Northam's (D. VA) Resignation
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: Ralph Northam has to go. Will you sign our emergency petition calling on him to step down immediately? On Friday, the Governor of Virginia … Read More
Why Trump likely erased protections from the legal definitions of domestic violence/sexual assault
It appears that the man who brags about assaulting women and jails children to act as a “deterrent” might actually be a monster. Surprise? In a stunning abuse of power … Read More
My wrong assumptions about the person who gave 100+ homeless people hotel rooms during Polar Vortex
When news stories picked up that some lovely, anonymous Samaritan was able to put dozens of homeless in hotels around Chicago while the record polar vortex dropped temperatures to -39 degrees … Read More
The “hidden” dynamic in the 2020 Democratic primaries that I'm going to be watching closely.
I’ll be the first one to admit it, I can’t wait for the Democratic 2020 primaries to begin in earnest. While it will be a huge starting day lineup, unlike … Read More
Why does Trump look so … orange? White House official claims it's 'good genes'
I swear to you I’m not making this up. The New York Times has the scoop: The official line from the White House, as with other matters surrounding the president’s … Read More
So, what's up with stupid?
I’m with stupid>» T-shirt slogan I have yet to meet a person who doesn’t love the Allstate commercial where “Mayhem” opens a Port-o-San door at a college football game and … Read More
Why Bloomberg and that Other Billionaire Are Such Punching Bags Now.
Looks like it is beat on billionaire time! And it is easy enough to do when you have billionaire Michael Bloomberg say this about Medicare for All: “I think we … Read More
Four critics of U.S. immigration policy denied entry to Mexico, passports flagged
If you didn’t think Donald Trump’s dyspeptic pettiness and despotic daydreams could seep into the real world, well, you haven’t paid attention to history. Or to Donald Trump. Two immigration … Read More
Speaker Pelosi owns GOP (again): 'Seldom-used' law will force Mitch to take disaster vote.
This is too delicious. I’ll begin by stressing how much of a disaster the Trump shutdown has been for the GOP. Donald Trump has achieved a record low approval rating, and has managed … Read More
Elie Mystal of Above The Law Sounds Off on Ralph Northam. He is Exactly Right. Update.
Elie Mystal, editor of Above The Law and clear thinker has something to say on Twitter about the Virginia Governor Ralph Northam sh*t storm that Northam’s few remaining apologists aren’t gonna … Read More
