As the 2022 election cycle unfolds, Donald Trump continues to demonstrate his fetid influence on the Republican Party. His relentless fixation on nonexistent election fraud that he pretends cost him the 2020 election supersedes every […]
Category: Breitbart
Where are you from? (The Coast) How long have you been here? (I look at my watch and say 50+ years)
More “bad days” ahead. We’re not going to throw up our hands even as social media now shifts to predictable Islamophobia. Notable is that the shooter in Boulder bought his gun on the evening of […]
Conservatism is greed and bigotry dressed up as moralistic “principles” like individualistic liberty
Steve Bannon’s path to a pardon included appeals to a range of RWNJ groups including some dangerous proto-fascist cults. “The Fourth Turning” by Strauss & Howe returns to our attention, because of Bannon. But are we shifting […]
not a lot of time but plenty of evidence, just like the last impeachment if 45 gets “more unstable”?
Worried about paying rent and eating? You'll be happy to know Trump is tackling much bigger problems
“Maybe the only thing that’s changed is the shape of propaganda, not the nature or goal”
What is propaganda? …The notion that propaganda is a technique for spreading a coherent ideology also feels a little anachronistic. Most of what we would call propaganda today, like much of the content on Fox […]
Musical Bag-holding: Pence, Sondland, and others don't want to be the scapegoat
Coming home to roost, no one wants to be caught being the scapegoat for the obvious movement toward impeachment. The music will stop, and there aren’t enough chairs. Neal Katyal says the House committees “have the […]
Facebook and the shameful media tradition of enabling Breitbart hate
Here we go again: Facebook just became the latest traditional media player to enable the right-wing hate of Breitbart News. Unveiling its news tab initiative last week, on which Facebook is partnering with outlets such as […]
It's about time: Biden, Democratic candidates punch back against shoddy press coverage
Democrats running for president have a new message for the news media: We’re not going to take it anymore. No longer willing to stoically suffer through bad, misleading press coverage, Democrats are borrowing a page from […]
It's about time: Biden, Democratic candidates punch back against shoddy press coverage
Democrats running for president have a new message for the news media: We’re not going to take it anymore. No longer willing to stoically suffer through bad, misleading press coverage, Democrats are borrowing a page from […]
Biden Comms Director Shreds NY Times for Op-Ed by “a “discredited right-wing polemicist.”
In a two page letter to NY Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet, Biden Campaign Comms Director Kate Bedingfield slammed the paper for amplifying Don the Con’s phony controversy against Joe Biden Op-Ed by running an Op-ed written by “discredited right-wing […]
Stupid man in White House thinks Breitbart impeachment poll matters somehow
I mean, sure, online polls are fun, but they’re almost always meaningless. Especially when an admittedly biased media outlet asks its readers a leading question worded like something William Wallace might say before the Battle […]
GOP congressional candidate once called Trump an unworthy 'a**hole'; now she loves him
At some point we have to start checking their basements for pods, right? Can they really be this empty and soulless? Republicans who were once on the right side of history have sworn fealty — […]
Milo Yiannopoulos is having a sad over his plunging popularity, savings account
Happy Monday! Here’s a bracing dose of schadenfreude to perk you up as you start your workweek. Right-wing troll asshole fuckface shit-for-brains intestinal fluke gutter weasel provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is whinging like a champ over his […]
Why it's okay for Democratic candidates to ban Breitbart News from campaign events
Beto O'Rourke's presidential campaign made some news this week when it evicted Breitbart News' Joel Pollack from a private event. The right-wing site with white nationalist loyalties hyped the kerfuffle as an attack on the […]
If conservative Christian theology is really true, abortion is the only moral choice
Those goofy bastards in Georgia have painted themselves into a lot of corners by declaring, through legislative fiat, that a very young fetus is actually a person who’s due all the same rights as any American. […]
AOC just keeps deflecting bullets — this time they went after her boyfriend
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight, you don’t ask Donald Trump a question whose answer requires linear thought, and you don’t challenge Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez via social media. […]
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 parole for 40 years for […]
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 said about Trump, it’s that […]
Comedy Award to Bill O'Reilly Spin On Trump Cave On Wall and Government Shutdown.
I freely admit to NOT looking at right wing propaganda outlets, but I got curious what others besides Ann Coulter were saying about Trump’s capitulation on the government shutdown and his precious fuckin’ wall. And […]
Sarah Kendzior -“This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”
Wow! More of this please! x “This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.” My interview today on #AMJoy: pic.twitter.com/NaMwqEJWFD — Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 19, 2019 x I just watched this for […]
Red to Blue in Rural Virginia?
By Alan Minsky for Mike F., Mike H., Deb, Janis, Dan, Kimberly, Bryan, Dr. Bill, and Shayna—Your PDA National Team Support Leslie Cockburn For Congress! Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) endorsed Leslie Cockburn for Congress. If […]
America 2018: GOP considers if rape is really a deal-breaker; Don Jr. mocks victim
I’m seething a little bit here, because I just listened to Karl Rove on Fox “News” smear the victim. Fox has been constantly reminding people that Brett Kavanuagh’s victim, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, is a registered Democrat. Breitbart […]
On this day in Trumptopia. August 19th, 2016 & 2017. (With a video)
Here we are again. Let’s hop on into the not-so-wayback machine, and take a quick look at the political stories and events we were obsessing over, and parsing importance as we went about our daily […]
On This Day In Trumptopia. August 18th, 2016 & 2017.
Welcome to what I hope will become a daily feature. This carnival we call the Trump Presidency is like an out of control merry-go-round, shit being thrown off in every direction at 100 mph. By […]
The media is finally catching on. Can we please call it what it IS now?
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, that took long enough! Since the days immediately following the election of the Clown Prince of Darkness, there have been suggestions and reports of possible questionable, unethical, and illegal contact and […]
Trump has done the impossible, he's left his propaganda machine speechless.
When a new blockbuster movie comes out, the producers know that they're in trouble when the rave reviews they can put on their ads are all about the scenery, the costumes, and the theme song. […]
GOP Holocaust analogists furious over Nazi border policy comparisons
It was a tough week for supporters of Donald Trump’s draconian policy of separating the families of undocumented immigrants at the border. (Those supporters are overwhelmingly Republican: a Quinnipiac University poll showed only 27 percent […]
The Reason Bill Maher's Latest Rant Went Viral
You know you hit a home run when Raw Story, Deadline, Mediate, HuffPo, and dozens of other lefty outlets featured your monologue. Even rightwing outlets, like Breitbart, featured it—for a different reason. Maher closed his […]
State block grants: The GOP’s worst health care idea of them all
Even as the U.S. Census reported that the percentage of Americans lacking health insurance dropped to a new record low of 8.8 percent, the past week was nevertheless a big one for health care reform […]
