Clinton

If nothing more than for the brilliant musical score, many of us have watched the biographical movie about the life of Ray Charles more than once. If you are like me, you are familiar with a line uttered by Jamie Foxx, portraying Charles early in the film. When Ray Charles...

More
  • January 13, 2023

Writer, activist, philosopher, and teacher Angela Davis said, “ I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. Her twist on the 12-step recovery mantra would be good advice for the would-be Speaker of the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy has...

More
  • January 4, 2023

Last month Donald Trump announced that he is running for the Republican Party's nomination for president in 2024. Since then a couple of dozen of his endorsed candidates lost their races, he has been convicted of tax fraud, he lashed out hysterically against the special counsel probing his criminal activities,...

More
  • December 14, 2022

The last piece I contributed to this forum was last Wednesday, November 16, 2022. It was entitled Mass Shootings: An American Institution. Admittedly it was a retelling—in part—of the mass shooting at the University of Virginia. Their football coach Tony Elliot said about the three young men who died in...

More
  • November 21, 2022

In the last days of campaigning, Republicans are narrowing their election focus to the so-called independent voter and conservative Democrats. Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz told his supporters their job is to talk to independent and conservative Democrat(sic) friends. They are to emphasize only three issues, economy, crime,...

More
  • November 2, 2022

While hyperventilating over imagined affronts such as kitty litter in schools to accommodate kids who believe they are animals or teaching courses that may offend little white kids with history, the hope of the greatest generation is now clouded in fear. When Franklin Roosevelt told America, “We have nothing to...

More
  • October 24, 2022

Now that Hunter’s laptop has replaced Hillary’s emails as the distraction topic déjouer, I need someone from the right wing to tell me how their transgressions make Donald Trump innocent. Reports of the younger Biden being videoed snorting cocaine or Hillary Clinton bleaching emails are now a part of the...

More
  • September 23, 2022

When a group of Islamic radicals terrorized the country on September 11, 2001, the resolve of Americans was mobilized, and the GOP doubled down on the hate. Despite the fact former President George W. Bush made it clear that Islam was not the culprit for the actions of a few...

More
  • September 12, 2022

I have been a registered Democrat since 1976. Over the years, I have had many verbal—but respectable—battles with Republicans, Libertarians, and the Green Party. Throughout all those sometimes contentious disagreements, the only group that consistently and derisively refers to me as a socialist has been Republicans. I bring that point...

More
  • August 31, 2022

In 2007 when former President Barack Obama announced for the presidency, Republicans immediately labeled him a celebrity candidate. Juxtaposed against shots of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears sauntering through crowds, a 2008 campaign ad for his opponent, John McCain, says of  Barack Obama, “He’s the biggest celebrity in the world,”...

More
  • August 22, 2022

The GOP keeps dropping their theocratic pants, and America gets mooned. Despite having no platform beyond trolling the Democratic party, and self-serving religious attacks disguised as culture clashes, America is sliding to the bottom of that shining city on the hill Republicans are so fond of talking about. Democrats have...

More
  • July 20, 2022

The war continues with Russian troops hiding among hospital facilities in the south using staff as cover or shields. They exhibit slow progress toward Kiev even as talks continue and the PR offensive remains solid with Zelensky speaking to the Canadian Parliament and the Prime Ministers of Czechia, Poland, and Slovenia....

More
  • March 16, 2022

Short, sweet, to the point and, above all, awesome. Today, Russia announced it was sanctioning President Biden and several other current and former U.S. officials—including, for some reason, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Shockingly, Donald Trump was not sanctioned. Possibly because withholding pallet shipments of 12-cheese blinis from noncombatants is...

More
  • March 16, 2022

Sometimes I wonder what might have happened had Jim Comey kept his mouth shut prior to the 2016 election, and if Hillary Clinton were now in the second year of her second term. The House hearings on Mr. Potato Head would have been something, I’m sure. That said, it’s hard...

More
  • March 1, 2022

Hillary Clinton admonished the Republicans with common sense. She wants them to get into the game to save our democracy. Hillary Clinton does it again x x YouTube Video Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Joe Scarborough pointed out that many Republicans are praising Putin. In a recent post, I wrote,...

More
  • February 26, 2022

Putin may win the initial overall battle, but he will lose the war. Malcolm Nance and Ben Rhodes agree. Hillary Clinton slams Trump’s complicity. Putin will ultimately lose. x YouTube Video Chat – Join In Historic First, NATO Activates Military ‘Response Force’: The move came as both Kyiv and Moscow voiced...

More
  • February 25, 2022

Many want the old guard to chill. But Hillary is on point here as she hits Republicans from a position of strength and not on the defensive. Hillary hits the nail on the head x x YouTube Video Hillary’s message at the New York Democratic convention was on point. It...

More
  • February 20, 2022

So now we know why Sen. Ted Cruz was able to mend fences with Donald Trump so soon after the ocher abomination suggested Ted’s dad may have been involved in the JFK assassination. Ted must have thought it was a really funny “joke” and nothing more. Fox News has forced...

More
  • February 20, 2022

The most shocking part about this story isn’t Marco Rubio’s hypocrisy. That’s a given, like Donald Trump’s slovenly ineptitude or early summer squalls that drop hailstones the size of Louie Gohmert’s head. No, the truly surprising part is that his hypocrisy was so incandescent it actually drew flak from Fox News. Donald...

More
  • February 15, 2022

Could Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin be plotting their version of saving the world? No, I do not believe in lizard people, or that Hillary Clinton orders baby toppings on her pepperoni pizza? It is not far-fetched to think that the Russian autocrat and murderer was so comfortable with his...

More
  • January 26, 2022

Apparently, Rudy Giuliani just discovered video filters. Specifically, he found the Planet of the Apes Cornelius filter and added a stovepipe hat. Or maybe it’s Abraham Lincoln. I don’t know. The last thing I want to do is try to get into Rudy’s head. I imagine it’s a little like visiting a...

More
  • October 19, 2021

Hours and hours of television was dedicated to a sermon delivered by former Obama preacher Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The public was subjected to months and months, of the media’s fixation on Hillary Clinton’s emails. The revealing upshot of which was that she loved her grandchild and that John Podesta has...

More
  • September 22, 2021

Not since, Tuco, Blondie, and Angel Eyes formed a triangle, within a circle, has greed, corruption, and self-interest intersected so destructively. Politics in America, for nearly 250 years has boiled down to money, policy, and humanitarianism in that order. Now it is strictly a good, bad, or ugly proposition. In...

More
  • August 30, 2021

When I was a boy and strayed way, way past the rules of behavior set by my great-grandmother, she would say, “ enough is enough, and too much (sic) stinks.” Well, we reached that point in Afghanistan on Sunday. From the time then-National Security Director Zbigniew Brzezinski convinced then-President Carter,...

More
  • August 18, 2021

Republicans swing the word freedom over the heads of their voters like the Sword of Damocles. It has become a meaningless mantra, cutting away real freedoms like affordable housing, healthcare, pay equity, and a clean environment. Freedom for a majority of Republicans has translated into the freedom to kill their...

More
  • August 11, 2021

Most of us saw or heard the campaign ads for the gubernatorial race for Florida. Ron DeSantis, dressing his infant daughter in MAGA motif pajamas, helping her with border wall building blocks, and reading her a faux bedtime story about the fanciful mind of Donald Trump. Unfortunately, the internal xenophobic...

More
  • August 4, 2021

Layaway, on-time, and paying-something-down-on-it have been very familiar phrases in black, brown, and poor neighborhoods for generations; credit was for the people who did not need it. Financial freedom because of race, religion, and status was prohibitive for countless numbers of Americans and immigrants. The constant pressure of having to...

More
  • July 14, 2021

Aside from advocating mass killing, Lara Trump agrees with VP Harris that migrants should not undertake a journey to the US southern border even as full consular service has not been restored to all US embassies since the end of the Trump regime. (2020) Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...

More
  • June 13, 2021

There is no doubt that the year 2020 has been tumultuous, to say the least. With a global pandemic, nationwide protests against police brutality, and a presidential election to top it all off, the year will definitely go down in history. But the history making did not end with 2020....

More
  • June 11, 2021

So I may be burying the lede on this one—on purpose for once. The buried bit involves a bit of classic Trumpian projection that, sadly and predictably, ventures into the offensive. (Skip ahead if you want to see it. I’ll never know.) But first, let’s take a look at the most...

More
  • June 7, 2021

More gaslight: Trump’s speech Saturday in North Carolina was one being delivered by the person who incited an act of terrorism designed to overturn the 2020 election. Lapsing into irrelevance, Trump says the same lies: “The 2020 election was definitely the most corrupt election in our history,” Trump claims after...

More
  • June 6, 2021

The predictability of the Republican party is as thinly veiled as the Trump presidency, made of tissue paper, and lies. The tissue, because the former President was full of it and flush with lies. At the height of Hillary Clinton’s popularity, flip-flopping Kevin McCarthy, the now House minority leader, said...

More
  • June 4, 2021
/ 2016 / 2020 / 2021 / Access / Administration / Advice / Alabama / Amazon / America / Americans / Apology / Asia / Assault / Attacks / Australia / Authoritarians / Bail / Baltimore / Barack Obama / BatShit / Belief / Bible / biden / Black / Black Lives Matter / Bleach / Blue / books / Boom / Boycott / Bush / businesses / Cabinet / cameo / Campaign / Canada / Canadian / Cancer / Caravans / caught / CDC / Census / Change / Children / China / Christmas / CIA / Cities / Clearances / Climate / Climate Change / Clinton / Coal / Community / Confederate / Congress / Congressional / Congressman / Conservation / Conspiracy / Constitution / CoronaVirus / Corrupt / Court / COVID / Crazy / Cult / Culture / dangerous / Dead / Death / Debate / Debt / Defense / Deficits / Democrats / Dictators / Doctors / Dog / Dog Whistle / Donald / Donald Trump / Dreamers / Drugs / Education / Election / email / Emoluments / Energy / EPA / Europe / Evidence / Facts / FAIR / Fake / Families / Family / Farmers / Fauci / FBI / Federal / Fight / Financial / Fine / Flags / Florida / Flying / Ford / Fox / France / Fraud / Freedom / friends / Funding / G7 / Gender / General / Georgia / Germany / Giuliani / give / Golf / Goodyear / Government / Governor / Greenland / Hack / Hate / Health / Health Insurance / HealthCare / Help / Helping / Hero / HHS / Hillary / Hillary Clinton / History / Hoax / Hollywood / House / HuffPost / Hurricane / Hurricanes / impeached / Inauguration / Information / Infrastructure / Insurance / Insurrection / Intelligence / Interior / Internet / Interview / Investigations / Iran / Isis / Islam / Ivanka / Jews / Jobs / Joe / John / John McCain / Judges / Killed / Kurds / Law / Leaders / lockdown / London / Loser / Losers / Losing / Love / Loyalty / Lying / Mail / Mar-a-Lago / March / masks / Massacre / Mayor / McCain / McConnell / Media / members / Men / Merchandise / Mexico / Migrants / Military / Miller / Montenegro / Moving / Mueller / Muslims / MyPillow / National Security / NATO / Navy / Nazis / negative / Neo-Nazis / News / Newsweek / nicknames / Nobel / Nuclear / Obama / October / Oil / Opinion / p / Pacific / Pandemic / Pardons / Paris / Parkland / Partisan / Party / Peace / Pedophiles / Pennsylvania / Pentagon / plans / Police / policies / Poll / Power / Presidency / President / Presidential / Press / Propaganda / Protest / Protesters / Protestors / Public / pulse / Questions / Racist / Rally / Ratcliffe / REAL / Real Estate / Reality / Refugees / Reopening / Republican / Response / Revolution / rudy / Russia / Russian / Saudi Arabia / School / Science / Security / Senate / Service / Sharpie / Shooting / Shutdown / Soldiers / Speech / State / Stop / Students / Style / subpoenas / suburbs / supporters / Sweden / Syria / Tax / Terror / Testimony / Time / Trade / Trans / Transgender / Transition / Travel / Treason / Troops / Trump / Truth / Turkey / Tweet / Twitter / UFO / Ukraine / UN / Undocumented / Union / USDA / Vaccine / Vaccines / Veterans / Vice President / Video / Virus / Vote / Voting / Wall / War / Washington / Washington Post / White House / Wife / Wind / Women / Woodward / World

Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill in December 2020. More inexplicable sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) will be released for public scrutiny in June — including a UFO that broke...

More
  • May 29, 2021

Once Senator Mitch McConnell staked out the politically uncompromising GOP opposition to ‘everything’ Democrats proffered, during the Obama administration, the redline was drawn. Slowly but surely, the so-called moderate Republicans like; Susan Collins, Rob Portman, and John Thune have repeatedly torn their knickers on the fence. Collins, for example, agreed...

More
  • May 28, 2021

Meandering nonsense highlighted by searches for bamboo fibers, and official lies issued from Mar-a Lago, are exactly what Donald Trump expected to be doing in 2016. The 2020 election with Joe Biden as his opponent was what he expected the first time around with Hillary Clinton; a loss. I am...

More
  • May 21, 2021
2016 / 2016 Election / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / Administration / anniversary / Arizona / Barack Obama / Barrett / biden / Bipartisan / Border / Budget / Campaign / Candidates / Capitol / Census / Challenge / Cheney / China / Clinton / Coalition / Congress / CoronaVirus / Court / COVID / Covid-19 / Crisis / dangerous / Data / Death / Debate / Debt / Democrats / Donald / Donald Trump / Duck / effort / Election / Emergency / Evidence / Facts / Fauci / FBI / Federal / Fight / Filibuster / Fine / Fox / Fraud / Garland / General / give / GOP / governing / Government / Governor / Hearing / Help / Hillary / Hillary Clinton / House / Immigrants / Impeachment / Insurance / Insurrection / interference / International / Joe / JoeBiden / Judges / Justice / legislators / letter / Lies / Liz Cheney / Lying / March / McConnell / members / Men / Michigan / Military / Militia / misconduct / Mother / Mother Jones / new york / New York Times / News / Nominee / Nov / Obama / October / Pandemic / Party / Paul / Pennsylvania / Power / President / Presidential / principle / Protest / Public / RAND / reading / REAL / Registration / Representation / Republican / Republican Party / Republicans / Respect / Response / Right / Russian / Safety / Security / Senate / Senators / September / Shutdown / State / State House / supporters / Suppression / Texas / Threat / Time / Timeline / Transition / Travel / Trial / Trump / Trust / Truth / Tweet / tweets / Undocumented / Vaccines / Veto / Violence / Virus / Vote / Voter / Voter ID / Voters / Voting / Wall / Wisconsin / witnesses / World / WTF

It depresses me to acknowledge this, but the Republicans’ commitment to blatant and serial lying, and Orwellian “make believe” governing, pose a real threat by overwhelming the public debate and individual’s efforts to stay grounded.  While a bit well-worn (and of uncertain provenance), this quote is fundamentally true: “A lie can travel halfway around...

More
  • May 15, 2021

As Liz Cheney faces the near certain guillotine, she gave a defiant speech today (with all the points you would expect).  What I noticed was this bit of reporting: As Cheney spoke, the Republican lawmakers mostly cleared out of the chamber, with Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado the sole...

More
  • May 12, 2021

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...

More
  • May 7, 2021

Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) did not expect the pushback he got from Chuck Todd so he died and then changed the subject. The damage was already done. Chuck Todd challenges the lying Rep. Kevin Brady See full episodes here. Chuck Todd surprised many once again as he challenged Texas Republican Congressman Kevin...

More
  • May 1, 2021

A little over a year ago, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham postured that helping out hungry Americans would make them lazy. “Very few people would choose work over unemployment benefits that provided moderately more money,” said Graham. Not only was this an attack on those in need but their work ethic...

More
  • April 30, 2021

Remember when Trump said: “I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery”. Maybe we can finally get to that obstruction of justice because the former United States President tried to blackmail Ukraine into helping him cheat in our 2020 election. We’ll have more chances...

More
  • April 29, 2021

After all the excitement surrounding the launch of Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell’s Frank Speech vanity project, things appear to have died down quickly. Earlier in the week, the site at least featured the collected works of the biggest ‘lection loons in the U.S., and there appeared to be a sign-up screen...

More
  • April 24, 2021

“A man responsible for Republican vaccine hesitancy wonders why he's being asked to promote getting vaccinated….. It is April 19, 2021, and Trump is still talking about Hillary Clinton and Christopher Steele on Fox News….  says he’s ‘beyond seriously’ considering a 2024 presidential bid” Fox News personality Sean Hannity asked Trump what...

More
  • April 20, 2021

So much still unresolved from the Trump era installed in 2016, and continued through 2020, a Russian intelligence operation. Hard to tell whether it ranks with Robert Hanssen, Aldrich Ames, or even Operation Pandora, the plan to foment a US race war in the 1960s, although the Trump win could...

More
  • April 17, 2021

Obviously, I’m no fan of Pat Robertson, and it’s a rare occasion indeed when I agree with him. After all, he’s basically a workaday evangelical Nutter Butter, and evangelicals gave us the prank gift of Donald Trump. It was sort of like giving us all ugly Christmas sweaters as a...

More
  • April 15, 2021

As much as I would like to take credit for the fitting title of this piece, I cannot. I heard it for the first time yesterday afternoon (April 8th) on the Randi Rhodes radio broadcast. A caller from Philadelphia used the two-word descriptor, and I found it apropos to the...

More
  • April 9, 2021

Trump posted an Easter message — it’s the same, but at least MSM isn’t holding back on framing the idiocy as biographer Michael D’Antonio notes the post-president’s continued grifting, and CNN’s Jim Acosta weighs in. “Yep. It’s Sally Field. You love me. You really love me,” D’Antonio said, referring back to the 1980s...

More
  • April 4, 2021

The week has started badly and tragically. Even the Suez Canal got blocked. but we should at least think about Spring Cleaning, even if we never get it completed. It’s enough to make you nuke a space hurricane, eat a pie under the covers, or buy a QAnon Sudoku decoder...

More
  • March 24, 2021

Back on March 2, President Joe Biden implored the states of Mississippi and Texas not to jump the gun by lifting their mask mandates. “I hope everyone's realized by now these masks make a difference,” Biden told reporters in the Oval Office. “The last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking...

More
  • March 12, 2021