Pay no attention to another Trump attempt to violate the Constitution like a sex slave. The #TrumpVirus begat a #TrumpSlump. x It worked. Trump’s nonsense talk about delaying the election dominated the very few reporter questions Trump allowed at his briefing. That was exactly what Trump wanted. Nothing about the worst collapse of GNP in…
Category: 2016
Denial Don talks about a COVID “99% survival rate” as RWNJs worry about burning flags at Gettysburg
The problem of Trumpian logic and math is that epidemiology has too many syllables. A “99% US survival rate” for Trump is the rhetorical acceptability of a million deaths. The weeks have become even more absurd as the election approaches. That 99% meme accompanies attempts on Twitter to convince people that masks are a health risk, much…
“The 2016 campaign all over again, …the Muslim ban and the wall, just add Confederate statues”
The real question is whether Republicans are really the “unnerved who have long enabled him but now fear losing power and forever associating their party with his racial animus.” Leaning on a culture war requires the power of a reactionary populism that can keep intimidating and oppressing people on the basis of race, class, and gender…
Trump: “These aren't my voters”, this is not my beautiful border, this is not my beautiful COVID-19
The latest Trumpian trope could be that the second COVID wave is Mexicans! The latest WH trial balloon is that COVID-19’s second wave is actually coming over the border, because … NAFTA, or something, something. Wait for it to appear in his Tulsa speech. itsgoingdown.org/… It’s another round of caravan-scaring, rather than the going to Trump…
America's slide to authoritarianism continues with inviting Russia to the G-7
Month of disruption are ahead. and Putin possibly egging on Trump in the phone call on the same day as the St John’s photo-op does not bode well for life in the Drumpfbunker as November approaches. If the G-7 summit is held in the U.S. in September, and Russia is invited as a nonmember, prepare…
Bernie endorsed Biden, get over it, regardless of which side you were on
David Atkins attacks a “marxist” strawman in a Washington Monthly article, because moderates need to rationalize their reactionary acts. The after-action reports for 2020 should instead address the need to reconcile party unity even as it demonizes their respective biases. For example, “running against the Democratic party” was only a trope for those trying to defeat Sanders, especially in…
“no more 2016s” counter-revolution must not lapse into reactionary thinking, even if it has
Trump represents a vestigial Reagan revolution, if not a fascist revolt beyond St. Ronnie, moving the media frame closer to autocratic dictator now ready to manipulate a pandemic into a looming recession. It is time to end Trump’s reign of terror even if the standard bearer might not resemble the necessary structural changes that the nation…
#BlueNoMatterWho needs a 2008 GOTV turnout
The question is whether the Senate can be flipped, and it depends on the POTUS candidate while holding the House. Turn-out must be by proportion more than in 2016 since the Electoral College requires certain swing states to be won by much larger margins in 2020. Basically, the tipping point for Senate control shifts from North…
if Susan Sarandon is not the James Woods of the left, does that honor go to Dick van Dyke
The year-round Silly Season continues and apparently there is a primary insurgency against Nancy Pelosi, as if we could have imagined Steny Hoyer holding Trump’s tiny feet to the impeachment fire. Then there’s celebrity endorsers. Actress and activist Susan Sarandon hit back at 2020 Democrat Pete Buttigieg for claiming that front-runner Bernie Sanders could undermine…
Roger Stone gets 3.3 years. With IMPOTUS acquittal, Congress's GOP declared themselves “Trumpocrats”
Justice gets done, despite the tweet-bleating of Trump and the intervention of Barr. The Trumpocracy’s court jester is sentenced to 40 months in prison (three years, four months, $20,000 fine, two years probation, plus community service). There will be an appeal, as well as speculation about a Trump pardon/commutation, as the news cycle has featured a…
Trump: “As far as the cyber, …we should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we're not.”
The collusion of IMPOTUS and Russia continues while he waits for his trial. One area that will see greater problems as cybersecurity experts leave the federal government because of Trump, is the electronic vulnerability of the US. The new Russia adviser at the White House — the third in just six months — has no…
Russian oligarch money and the GOP: 2016 repeats itself as the receipts are finally arriving
The FBI has received Spanish wiretaps from an investigation of Russian money laundering through NRA that implicates Donald Trump Jr. Then there’s the money that GOP leadership received including the transfers made during the GOP convention. x Oligarch Len Blavatnik in 2016 gave Trumps pac $7.35 million. Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham, Scott Walker…
can Bloomberg's Hawkfish defeat GOP's 2020 Cambridge Analytica or will the Russians win again
Early in 2019 Bloomberg created a tech company / data operation hat now supports his campaign, although it could leverage the general election if he does not win the nomination. 2020 will more likely be worse than 2016 now that we know how the boffins helped Trump win. There is something like 2016’s Cambridge Analytica…
WaPo finds that untapped voting group: cynics
Philip Bump at WaPo decided to look at voters who disliked Trump and Clinton in 2016 and compared that group with those disliking Trump and Biden in 2020. Correlation remains not identical to causation yet again. The thing is, voters who don’t vote and those who seek other candidates is not identical at not only…
Defense officials concerned about growing support for Vladimir Putin by US Troops.
“People’s beliefs and perceptions are shaped more by whatever the leaders of their own political tribe say than by ideology, history, or even their own self-interest,” Paul Pillar, former senior CIA analyst. Putin can take over the world and Donald Trump will help him spread his propaganda wow ! I love to no what Trump…
'OPERATION DIVIDE THE LEFT': Recent assault on Democratic candidates traced to 200 suspect accounts
A team of analysts at Politico found a small group of 200 accounts—specifically these guys—drove a “disproportionate” amount of racist and negative disinformation, over a 30-day period, targeting four Democratic presidential candidates for 2020: Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke. In fact, between 2-15% of all Twitter mentions concerning these…
OK. I've ONLY Visited TX Three Times, So Someone in TX Please Verify My Read of the State in 2018.
I’m trying to look at the 2016 Election Results for TX and combine it with the the early voter turnout data in 2018 to get some idea of Beto O’Rourke’s strategy. Bear with me because I’m making some assumptions that probably will not hold up to the actual results. First, the blue areas of TX…
Reflections on Clinton’s historic achievement, superdelegates, and the fight against demagogue Trump
Originally posted at Eclectablog. On May 21st of this year, I was elected to be the male delegate pledged to Hillary Clinton for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. To say I’m proud to be supporting the first woman to receive the Democratic Party’s nomination for president is a bit of an understatement. I’m proud of her…
Donald Trump is playing the role of The Mule from Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy
Originally posted at Eclectablog.com. Anyone making predictions about the outcome of the 2016 presidential race is on a fool's errand. The existence of a Donald Trump candidacy is a disruptor. It creates such chaos and uncertainty that nothing about the race is predictable. Lately I've been thinking about the parallels between Donald Trump as a…
Bloomberg declines to run; aides essentially admit plan to sandbag Sanders
By now, many news-aware folks here have likely heard that Bloomberg is officially declining to enter the 2016 Presidential race as an independent. That’s good news for Team Blue; although Bloomberg’s been a member of both parties over the years, he’s a staunch supporter of gun control and would almost certainly have siphoned more Democratic…
