Have you ever asked yourself, why are so many GOP political theories race and gender-based? The latest is that voter ballots in Arizona were smuggled in from China. The GOP has decided the best way to expose this absurd idea is to exploit a silly stereotype and check the ballots...
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The Black Codes of the late 1800s are making a comeback in America. These ordinances were meant to control the free movement of people of color using minor infractions as the reasoning, which was a literal attempt to keep black people in their place. The beginnings of policing in America...
During last year’s second presidential debate, Donald Trump made certain to note how horribly things were going on his watch: “We have to open our country,” the big, dumb adobe mud hut brayed. “We’re not going to have a country. You can’t do this, we can’t keep this country closed. It is a...
Dr. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician turned member of Congress who once told reporters that Donald Trump could live to age 200 if he would just eat a vegetable, is under intense scrutiny following a new government report on his White House tenure. A new Department of Defense inspector...
Today will feature questioning of Christopher Wray about the intelligence on the Insurrection of 1/6. It’s true that not ACAB, but an armed bunch of them showed up to foment sedition on 1/6. Accordingly, some GOP members of the judiciary committee will likely proclaim that they were shocked, shocked that anyone would...
Jo Biden had offered 20 billion to preserve the Amazon. It was ridiculed denied by the Trump of the Tropics, Jair Bolsonaro. Perhaps a similar offer to the nations involved in Africa would be a rational response and likely considered. It’s worth a try. I highly suspect this diary will...
Some very big news today out of Texas: TEXASBiden 49% (+4)Trump 45%Jorgensen 1%Hawkins 0%.#TXsen:Cornyn (R-inc) 41%Hegar (D) 41%@CitizenData, LV, 10/17-20https://t.co/RrsmYd418b — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 29, 2020 From the results: Click here for the full results. Now of course, that’s not the only Texas poll to come out today: #TXsen:Cornyn...
From Westword: During recent interviews, Gardner has said positive things about the way Colorado has conducted mail-in voting, and he did so again, more or less, during a forum not meant for public consumption: an August 5 telephone fundraiser. But in a transcript from the event obtained by Westword, he also sought to...
From High Times Magazine: The Yale-educated former aide to Rep. James Clyburn, Jaime Harrison, is challenging Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham for a US Senate seat in South Carolina. Harrison is a vocal supporter of cannabis legalization, and recently highlighted the disproportionate way that cannabis laws are enforced upon black...
U.S. Senate candidate, Jaime Harrison (D. SC), did an interview CNBC this week where he mainly discussed issues younger voters cared about. One of the biggest issues he discussed was legalizing marijuana: I think we should legalize, regulate and tax marijuana like we do alcohol and tobacco. There is simply...
Rick Wilson is correct that “Everything Trump touches dies,” but Trump has little helpers — call them Trump Mini-Mees — who assist him in dealing out death to Americans with COVID-19. And those Trump Mini-Mees are commonly referred to as “Republican Governors.” They really are a rouges gallery, and it is truly...
One of the biggest mysteries in the universe — more vexing than the search for a unified field theory — is how in the hell Donald Trump got into Wharton, one of the most prestigious business schools in the world. Well, Mary Trump’s upcoming book, Too Much and Never Enough, about her...
Texas Governor Greg “We Cannot Go Backwards!” Abbott announced today that they are closing the bars and imiting restaurant capacity in Texas: One day after pausing additional efforts to reopen Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday announced another round of restrictions, including closing bars and limiting restaurant occupancy. The executive order...
that I have not seen mentioned in the press. First officer on scene woke Brooks, then told him to move car out of lane he was blocking while asleep. That action should invalidate any possible arrest for DUI or DWI, because the only evidence the officers had of Brooks illegally...
Show of Farce. Peaceful protest in the day, now earlier curfews. x JUST CONFIRMED: Denver Police seized these guns and tactical gear from two men who showed up to the protest on Friday. One of them, Chevy McGee, tells me he didn't break any laws. McGee is part of the...
We are at an interesting point, the necessity for socially distanced behavior and the imposition of De Facto martial law. Even as there is peaceful protest during the day time, there will be problematic police behavior in the evening. Remember that Trump needs martial law or at least its quasi-military manifestation to...
I reached for the grimy tumbler. It was empty. Not even any ice. I reached for the whiskey bottle. It was empty too. This was the night the bottle let me down, and a savagely bright dawn poured through the dirty windows in my Private Investigator’s office. I stared at...
I agree: Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday condemned the “horrific killing” of George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man who died in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department earlier this week, demanding a civil rights investigation by the Department of Justice. “George Floyd’s life mattered. It mattered as...
Seems that Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and the Kentucky State Police earned the ire of Jeremiah “Protect Going To Church During a Pandemic” Wooley. Seems that Wooley made threats about killing Gov. Beshear and Kentucky State Troopers. And it appears those threats were not idle. CNN)A 25-year-old man is facing...
Under Donald Trump, the Republican Party is racing toward a transformation that mimics the greatest evil of the 20th century. Long before the Nazis fully engaged with genocidal murder against the Jews, there were persecutions of people deemed “unfit.” These were people whom Adolf Hitler’s extremists arbitrarily deemed insufficiently able to...
Trump claimed cases would go from fifteen to zero on 28 February. Cases are over a million and he keeps raising his prideful death total now to 60-70,000, Today’s US death total is 63,000. I’m not sure what a “very, very strong” death total means, But over 60,000 lives lost is...
Wait. You mean there are actually times when he’s not drunk? I’d think you could pull him over at any given moment and charge him with some form of intoxication. So, anyway, right-wing Mallo-Nut Bar Alex Jones was arrested early Tuesday morning for driving under the influence. The Daily Beast:...
This is a Public Service Announcement courtesy of one of the few officials in this administration that knows what he’s talking about: The surgeon general wants Americans to stop buying face masks Most face masks do NOT protect you from getting sick. They protect others from getting sick from you. ...
The CDC has been monitoring the coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China since August of 2019. The virus did not make the news until December of 2019. The virus causes respiratory illness. Virus can only live outside of the body anywhere from seconds to 48 hours. The Mayo Clinic describes on...
Another day, another Kentucky criminal’s family pays to have them pardoned from prison. GOP prosecutor took donations from sex offender's family, then pressed Bevin for a pardon The elected Republican commonwealth’s attorney in Christian County wrote to Gov. Matt Bevin last month seeking a pardon on behalf of a prominent...
I don’t want to bury the lede, so … Back in my drinkin’ days in Wisconsin, they used to say that if you woke up with a hangover you had a “big head.” I never took it literally. Until now, I guess. So during the House Judiciary impeachment meeting yesterday,...
http://www.nytimes.com/… jamanetwork.com/… The New York Times reports that life expectancy, especially for Americans between the ages of 25 to 64, is declining despite the highest per capita spending in the world on health care, according to a study newly published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. According to the new...
A troubling element of the murder-suicide in Saugus is that the firearm used was a “homemade” or rather home-assembled gun, put together with a parts kit. This subset of the firearms industry has little regulation for such “kit guns”. Unlike home manufacture using 3-d printers, the individual components are available from a variety...
I am in the wrong business—I should have become a lawyer. The top attorney for the United States of America not only gets a parking pass in one of the most exclusive lots in Washington, D.C., but he also got a taxpayer-paid tour of western and maybe eastern Europe. Attorney...
Received this e-mail today from Lt. Governor John Fetterman (D. PA): Last November, Pennsylvania voters put progressive leaders in office at all levels of government — leaders who fight every day for Pennsylvania’s working families. We’re making great strides in Pennsylvania, but we’ve got to keep up the momentum and...
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 last Friday, Trump quietly rolled back 50 years of women’s protection in one fell swoop by significantly altering the Department...
Oh, Tucker. Turns out women’s 70 cents on the dollar (or whatever the latest figure might be) is just way, way too much. Because when women make more money than men, it upsets the cosmos’ natural order, and men resort to huffing paint thinner and obsessively watching first-season reruns of Saved...
WREG 3 Memphis “On Thursday, Regional One Health in Memphis confirmed the man in the photo was an employee at the hospital and that he had been fired after a thorough investigation. The hospital released a statement saying: “As of today, November 8, 2018, we have completed our investigation and...
Most people are already pretty indignant about Republican senators putting a supervillain from a raunchy ‘80s campus comedy on the Supreme Court, so maybe you don’t need more evidence that the process was rigged. (And it was, despite what our gaslighter-in-chief may have said.) Then again, maybe Republicans think judicial temperament...
Here’s a little-known fact. It is technically possible to get drunk on so-called “nonalcoholic” beers like O’Doul’s or Sharp’s, because they both contain a trace amount of alcohol. The calculus is something like 10 cans of Sharp’s delivers the same buzz as one can of Miller High Life. So you’d...
It’s difficult to see unless you click on the tweet below, but the entry the little yellow hand is pointing to says “Killer Qs and 151.” It’s from the Georgetown Prep yearbook entry of Brett Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate Donald Urgo. Seems pretty cryptic, but there’s a possible (and surprisingly...
Some dare call it perjury. I went to the University of Wisconsin in the early ‘80s, around the same time the famously weak-stomached Brett Kavanaugh was painting New Haven orange with his vomit, and if there had been a popular drinking game called the Devil’s Triangle, I would have known...
NBC News “WASHINGTON —The Senate Judiciary Committee is inquiring about at least one additional allegation of misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to a letter obtained by NBC News and multiple people familiar with the process. Republican Senate investigators asked Kavanaugh about the new complaint, NBC News has...
This shit is going to put me out of business. The best description of the job of a comedian is “One who finds and exposes the absurdity in the mundane.” But what happens to guys like me when what should be mundane is by itself completely ridiculous? I remember the...
This has bearing on the witness/participant in the sexual assault on Christine Balsy Ford: Mark Judge. According to Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker article: Ford’s allegation has made Judge a potentially pivotal witness for Kavanaugh. Judge told The New Yorker that he had “no recollection” of such an incident. Judge, who is a...