During the Sad Man Rambles Show yesterday, Donald Trump brain-farted out something about his vanity wall, which has evoked a steady stream of lies and misinformation since he first claimed Mexico would pay for it. At around minute 37 of his speech — while most of the White House press corps was thinking about the leftover…
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Trump in a Panic on All Fronts
Trump has been counting on four things to get him re-elected: The economy Winning the trade war he started with China Building the wall he promised his base Russian hacking and GOP voter suppression Right now he's panicking on all 4. The economy is heading toward a recession. Trump and his echo chamber are denying…
BREAKING: Supreme Court OK's Trump Theft of Funds for Border Wall (Updated with Ruling)
The Washington Post is reporting this as breaking news a few minutes ago: The Trump administration moved to reallocate the money earlier this year, after Congress denied the president’s full request for border wall construction funds. The Sierra Club and a coalition of border communities sued, arguing that President Trump had violated federal law. I…
One of the idiots behind the GoFundMe border wall could be going to jail
Oh, schadenfreude, you are my very favorite of all the freudes. So you may have heard that those guys who raised money on GoFundMe for a small chunk of easily passable wall actually started building said chunk on Memorial Day weekend. Thing is, they didn’t get the permits they needed and were eventually shut down….
GoFundMe border wall project hits another snag
At this point, Trump and his cultists might as well wait for continental drift to separate the U.S. from Mexico. ‘Cause that wall ain’t getting built anytime soon. Now, the group that famously raised $20 million to build a tiny portion of Trump’s giant border wall has run into more problems — other than the…
Trump Tries to Steer Border Wall Contracts to Major Republican Donor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/… The Washington Post is reporting that Donald Trump has repeated and personally tried to have the US Corps of Engineers award contracts to build his southern border wall to a major Republican donor. In phone calls, White House meetings and conversations aboard Air Force One during the past several months, Trump has aggressively pushed…
The 'GoFundMe Wall' guy who raised millions from Trump supporters? See his new yacht
Remember that GoFundMe page to raise money to build Trump his wall? Well, this just got interesting: x Trump supporters are stupid #MAGAmorons https://t.co/IjhLFRaJ5K — TheSeminoleDemocrat (@TheSemDem) May 13, 2019 Brian Kolfage is supposed to be helping Donald Trump build a wall with the 22 million raised. No construction has begun, even after multiple promises to break ground. However, Brian does…
Ohio is being destroyed under Trump, and it's about to get a lot worse
While a lot of states are turning blue, Ohio is one of the few states getting redder—but that is only because so many people are leaving. With the exception of Columbus, the cities in Ohio are suffering from an exodus due to a sluggish economy. Cleveland, Toledo, and Youngstown have been hit especially hard, and have…
Donald Trump’s 10 most pathetically predictable broken promises
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Republican Donald Trump presented a unique conundrum for the public and pundits alike. Simply put, Trump lied at a rate never before seen in modern American politics. No candidate in the 21st century, from either party, even came close. Writing in The Atlantic that September, Salena Zito offered this warning…
Trump to request $8.6 billion more for wall, cuts to domestic spending
Can we just dose Donald Trump with acid, buy a laser pen, and watch him chase the little red dot around the Oval Office for the next two years? Our country would get a lot more accomplished. And think of the money we’d save. Are you still exhausted from the last wall battle? Well, here…
Lindsey Graham says Kentucky students are better off with a border wall than a new school
Sen. Graham, whatever Donald Trump has on you, it can’t possibly be more embarrassing than the stuff you’ve been saying on TV. Just let the photos of you wearing a gimp suit while slathered in Crisco and vanilla sprinkles get uploaded to your Facebook account. Who cares at this point? I’d much rather look at…
Eric Idle Wants to Contribute to Trump's Wall…with a Shrubbery. Twitter Chimes In.
Eric Idle thinks the border could use some landscaping… x Maybe a Border fence with a shrubbery? — Eric Idle (@EricIdle) February 12, 2019 Maybe a nice shrubbery – x x YouTube Video Twitter agrees… x Mr Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS SHRUBBERY — SASSO (@HBC4MAYOR) February 12, 2019 x Trumps gone from saying it’s a…
Trump accidentally gets it right on expanding legal immigration
Even a broken clock, the old saying goes, is right twice a day. So it was for Donald Trump during his 2019 State of the Union address on Tuesday night. During perhaps the most backward-looking presidential message in memory, the president thundered about a mythical national crisis of undocumented immigration putting America and Americans at risk….
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 of stupid. If no agreement is reached on the border wall by Friday’s deadline, it seems likely that he’ll declare a state of emergency and…
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 body politic, but fails to correctly identify the source of the disease. As Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein put it in their 2012 book, It’s…
Former Trump campaign official: 'Democrats have Trump by the b*lls'
Can you write “balls” in a headline if it refers to, you know, theoretical POTUS gonads? Is there official DKos guidance on this? I think this is a gray area. Anyway, many in Donald Trump’s orbit are, let’s just say, disappointed in their ocher overlord’s capitulation to newly inaugurated de facto president Nancy Pelosi, and they’re…
Air traffic controllers: 'We cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play'
This is not … er … comforting. What is it about Republicans and screwing with our air traffic control system? In a joint statement, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, Air Line Pilots Association International, and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA is warning of the increasing danger posed by the partial government shutdown, currently in its 33rd day. Is…
Tulsi Gabbard claims Dems partially to blame for shutdown
Thanks for playing, Tulsi. You were already dangling by the most gossamer of threads. And now your failure is complete. From Politico: Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard said Sunday that her party’s leadership was not blameless for the partial government shutdown that is now approaching a month, accusing both sides of…
Judge convicts women who entered wildlife refuge to bring water to immigrants
What the hell is wrong with us? On Friday, a federal judge found four women guilty of illegally entering a national wildlife refuge. Why were they there? To place food and water in the desert for the benefit of hungry migrants. Maybe this is one of those times we shouldn’t adhere to the letter of the…
Steve King broke the first rule of White Club
When Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King lamented that language like “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization” had “become offensive,” GOP leaders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appeared horrified. But if they were shocked—SHOCKED!—to find Steve King’s racism going on in their Republican Party, they shouldn’t have been. King, after all,…
