Clowns

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...

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  • May 28, 2021

Just wanted to share this: Texas Senator Ted Cruz was not a fan of a Tuesday Daily Show segment and he let host Trevor Noah know it. The bit was about Congressional reapportionment due to population shifts in the U.S. Those shifts are causing New York to lose a U.S. House seat while Texas picks up...

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  • April 29, 2021

Received this e-mail yesterday from former Presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), on behalf of his organization, Powered by People: Having these conversations now (and not in the weeks just before an election) shows our commitment to work with each other even when there’s not an election on the...

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  • April 15, 2021

Republicans are intimidated by the size of Joe Biden’s bills. Maine Sen. Susan Collins and a group of likeminded milquetoasts are balking at the $1.9 trillion COVID relief package Democrats appear determined to pass through budget reconciliation. Seems they’ve either noticed the giant deficit Donald Trump amassed both pre- and...

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  • January 31, 2021

During the 2012 election cycle I had a lot of fun with Mitt Romney before he eventually lost his presidential bid, strapped his dog to the roof of his car, and rode off into the sunset. I never hated Mitt. He just seemed kind of feckless, what with his binders full...

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  • January 28, 2021

Not since the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang have I been so freaked out by a creepy, middle-aged man offering candy to a bunch of wee-brained children. But that’s what’s happening now, as Ted Cruz leads his coup caucus into a doomed—and entirely performative—fight to appear to attempt...

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  • January 3, 2021

Congressional Republicans have savagely beclowned themselves throughout the Trump era. I thought the worst degradation would be their refusal to hold Trump accountable during the impeachment trials, but the lickspittles were far from done licking and spittling. According to CNN’s Jake Tapper, at least 140 reality-challenged cowards are planning to...

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  • December 31, 2020

Discovery and disinformation are ahead as RWNJs are looking for reasons to overturn the election, but are perhaps more about grifting. The reality remains that Trump tried to manipulate processing of ballots by installing a crony in USPS, among other things yet to be determined. Attempts to manipulate the system...

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  • November 9, 2020

Periodically, ACM readers might want an introduction to anticapitalism. This emerges because of the disinformation propagated by kakistocratic clowns like Trump, who enables neoliberal capitalism while pursuing kleptocracy and monopolizing violence. This is important as yesterday Trump signed an executive order that had no effect on big pharma, and endorsed extrajudicial killing...

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  • September 13, 2020

Kamala Harris: the first woman of color on a major party ticket. She is not only the first Black woman but the first candidate with South Asian heritage. She is also the first major candidate to have gone to a historically black college and university (HBCU). This daughter of immigrants has been a...

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  • August 12, 2020

 If as the Trump campaign says, “Joe Biden is an empty vessel for the radical left,” Trump’s septic tank overflows for the radical right. Needless to say, RWNJ’s will claim that Joe Biden is as much a tool for something something left-wing as Trump isn’t a dupe for all kinds...

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  • August 4, 2020

So much disinformation, so little disambiguation time. Enough gaslight to save the fossil-fuel industry. x Fox News peddled misinformation about the coronavirus 253 times in five days: study https://t.co/UZU4MbpdHt— Salon (@Salon) July 18, 2020 x I’m an ER doc treating #COVID19 and I want you to know that every second...

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  • July 19, 2020

Trump promises us “It will disappear — like a miracle, it will disappear.” but only after there are many more deaths filling Yankee stadium. On 4 May, CEA decided to tweet some nonsense about “curve-fitting” the latest COVID death projections, at which the Twitterverse was subsequently merciless. Some folks dragged the...

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  • May 7, 2020

Oh, hell no. Stephen Moore, the crank economist who thinks tax cuts are the medicine for whatever ails you, is planning a “drive-in” protest against Wisconsin’s Safer at Home policy, and he’s making a comparison that’s, well, pretty fucking offensive. Politico: “They’re going to shut down the Capitol — shh,...

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  • April 18, 2020

LIVE BLOG below Event lasted about one hour Every circus has its clowns and yet only one ringmaster. I wanted the CBS reporter to play into the microphone the tape of Trump lying about testing to governors. Not much news except some new questions about national stay-at-home policy, mask-wearing, and the usual corporate...

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  • March 30, 2020

What they do! They smilin' in your face All the time, they want to take your place The back stabbers Rudy Giuliani now calls John Bolton a “backstabber”. But McConnell thinks he’ll be able to “peel off” rebels by Friday to keep the Superbowl ball-spike acquittal on schedule. x Some Republican senators...

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  • January 29, 2020

IQ drop day .   I would really hate to be a republican legislator today.  When Fox trashes Bolton and calls him a tool of the left………When Trump’s defense team talks about religious freedom. ( whatever that was about).  When Ken Starr forgets he is Ken Starr …we are laughing because...

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  • January 28, 2020

E. Howard Hunt’s storytelling could return as one can imagine Trump's last State of the Union speech (SOTU) as unhinged, the second SOTU in history to be delivered by an impeached POTUS. In the age of “threat imminence” new yet improbable CTs will emerge, as their narratives are now getting their trial...

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  • January 10, 2020

The Boeing 737 Max was grounded early last year after one of the planes crashed in October 2018 and another in March 2019. Now, a chilling series of internal Boeing emails has revealed that Boeing employees were pretty … let’s just say “flippant” about safety concerns surrounding the jetliner. Marketwatch: The emails...

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  • January 10, 2020

WaPo Politics has a new story out: GOP leaders spar over adding House members to Trump’s impeachment defense team A turf war over who should defend President Trump in a Senate impeachment trial is raging behind the scenes in Congress, as House Republicans push to join Trump’s legal team —...

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  • January 9, 2020

The primary is hard to forecast right now but it seems a bit ridiculous that PredictIt bettors think that Bloomberg is almost as likely to win the Democratic nomination as Bernie Sanders. pic.twitter.com/qX72JPcgWI — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 26, 2019 I could vote for Mike Bloomberg probably as much as...

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  • November 26, 2019

Tired of the home of Barnum Bailey Circus clowns holding Florida hostage as the Republicans today showed just how much they care about We the People?  I sure am. You eat an elephant one bite at at time.  You take seats away from elephants one vote at a time. We...

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  • October 23, 2019

So, in case you missed it yesterday, Hillary Clinton has been cleared of all wrongdoing in the “big” email controversy that sent both right-wing propagandists and the mainstream media into histrionics prior to the “Jesus Christ, I can’t believe this is even close” election of 2016. As fresh scandals popped...

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  • October 19, 2019

It’s hard for me not to picture him shuffling around the White House at night with Kleenex boxes on his feet, shouting guacamole recipes at Nixon’s ghost. Especially when he says stuff like this: x You would think there is NO WAY that any of the Democrat Candidates that we...

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  • October 16, 2019

How sad when the circus comes to town and nobody attends. Sad, sad clowns all around. White House officials are reportedly concerned that tomorrow’s Nuremberg Rally Salute to America event will turn out to be an embarrassment for the ocher arschloch, reminiscent of his inauguration, which was lightly attended compared...

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  • July 4, 2019

During their recent trip overseas, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. actually managed to find a small patch of land where they were welcome. According to The Irish Post, the two drew praise from at least one Irish pub owner, Caroline Kennedy (no, not that one), who described American Psycho and his...

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  • June 7, 2019

Gross: Governor Matt Bevin hosted a round table discussion on healthcare and Medicaid reform this afternoon. The discussion centered on a current proposal known as the Health Care Choices Act. Representatives from think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Pegasus Institute, joined Gov. Bevin and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick...

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  • February 20, 2019

Anybody who has ever thrown a birthday party for a kid knows that there are two basic forms of entertainment. There are clowns, and then there are magicians. Donald Trump is a true cross over, a magician clown. He lumbers around the yard with his big flopping feet, knocking over...

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  • February 14, 2019

Donald Trump’s official presidential statement honoring George H.W. Bush was pretty standard fare — meaning that it was respectful and somehow written above a third-grade level. Which is how I know Trump didn’t write it. Had he written it himself, it would have been something pithier like “George H.W. Bush IS...

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  • December 2, 2018
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Here’s another crucial fight to protect the right to vote: The Senate postponed to next week the confirmation vote on Raleigh attorney Thomas Farr to be a federal judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina. The vote was scheduled for noon Thursday, but shortly after 11 a.m. it was...

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  • November 29, 2018

Conservative columnist and Ethics and Public Policy Center  Judge Whisperer Ed Whelan posted a bizarre alt-reality Twitter thread yesterday positing that Brett Kavanaugh did not attempt to rape Christine Blasey Ford but that a prep school classmate of Kavanaugh who looked something nothing like him… oops, wrong photo… actual doppelganger.  ….did,...

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  • September 21, 2018

Well, well, well, isn't this special? Axios is reporting that GOP Ohio Representative, and all around piece of work Jim Jordan has sent a letter to his colleagues, officially advising them that he is in the running to be the next Speaker of the House. I can only hope and...

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  • July 26, 2018

Some say why are the campaigns/debates not talking about climate change? I reply looking at the bullshit going around here and elsewhere that climate change is of little or no import for those too busy having fun throwing the dirt. Why ask important questions when one can squabble about photographs?...

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