To be honest, I’m not all that concerned that the COVID vaccine I took last Friday might have a tracking device in it. For one thing, it doesn’t, because that would be bonkers. For another, I can’t fathom who the hell would want to track me. I can just imagine...
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Wow: Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R) was caught on tape making cracks about physical violence against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), who last year was the target of a kidnapping plot by right-wing militia extremists. He was also recorded spreading lies about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S....
Oh, gee, you mean when a sitting pr*sident denies reality and deliberately undermines the legitimacy of our democracy, his supporters are apt to follow suit? Of all the things Trump has fucked up — and they are legion — his cancerous influence on our democratic norms and values may be...
Michele Bachmann bellowing about delusion is close to all the irony you’ll be able to digest today. I don’t know what’s inside the former congresswoman’s head, but if it’s not Styrofoam packing peanuts I stand to lose a pretty sizable bet. We’ll have to wait a few decades or so for...
Donald Trump has violated Twitter’s terms of service God knows how many times. He glorifies violence, makes unhinged threats, spreads disinformation (including bizarre and dangerous conspiracy theories), and generally acts like a raging asshole festooned with a magician’s array of aloe and Sriracha wet wipes. On the other hand, Twitter is his lifeline. It’s...
Along with Trump, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R. IA), and U.S. Senate candidate, Roger Marshall (R. KS), you can now add U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R. NC) to the list: Tillis, who like Ernst and Marshall is facing a tight reelection race, told a caller in a virtual town hall...
A lot has been going on in the news this past week but it’s important to know that this happened: An organization that represents 6,000 physicians, residents and medical students in Iowa discussed with U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst her recent questioning of the legitimacy of how hospitals are reporting COVID-19...
So this happened earlier this week: Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported. As the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier wrote, Ernst said she was “so skeptical” of the official death...
Uh … really bad taste, dude. x HereâÂÂs video of Scottsdale City Councilman Guy Phillips shouting “I Can't Breathe” before removing his mask at today's Anti-Mask Rally in Arizona: Mocking Eric Garner & George Floyd and many others in this moment is something I feel compelled to expose…pic.twitter.com/4drg23zWUD— Rex ChapmanðÂÂÂð¼ (@RexChapman)...
I wondered what all that BS was about Trump wanting the Senate Republicans to fight. Trump wants the Senate Republicans to basically throw show trials about Democratic wrongdoings in order to defend Trump from impeachment. “Senate Republicans don't have to defend Trump on everything, they just have to do their...
I should have seen this coming, but I don’t live in a rural community. Many U.S. farmers fume at Washington, not Trump, over biofuel, trade policies Instead of directing their anger at Trump, dozens of farmers interviewed by Reuters blasted the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other Washington institutions...
Donald Trump could end up getting Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar killed. That’s not hyperbole. That’s a potentially foreseeable outcome of the libels and slanders he continually spreads about her. Today, he was at it again, retweeting online gutter troll Terrence Williams, who had suggested (falsely, of course) that Omar had “partied”...
The Truth Is Out There The X-Files Did anybody here ever see that 1997 movie “Conspiracy Theory?” In short, it’s about a cab driver (Mel Gibson), who believes that basically everything that happens in the world is a part of a vast conspiracy, most specifically about him. And then it...
You may remember Lynne Patton from the Michael Cohen hearings, when she attempted to refute Cohen’s (rather obvious) assertion that Donald Trump is a racist. Well, now the regional HUD administrator for the Trump administration is stepping into the fray again to (naturally!) accuse Bill and Hillary Clinton of killing Jeffrey...