Trump says paintballs would be defensive
“Coming from out of town to drive through crowds of people, spraying mace, and shooting paintballs all falls under “self defense.” Interesting. So if BLM travels to the suburbs and … Read More
Category: Crime
White House presser: Trump defends 17 year old Kenosha killer
The summary of today's Trump presser: Trump defended Kyle Rittenhouse x Trump actually offers a defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, his right-wing supporter who killed two protesters. “I guess he was … Read More
the GOP has become a crime cartel ruled by a failed casino owner, and he's more unhinged today
Crime was at a 50 year low when Trump took office. Remember that Trump is all about declaring non-trump supporters (and voters) as “un-American”. x Hours after a man wearing … Read More
Troubling two months to go as Trump the arsonist claims he's a firefighter
The are numerous attempts to make the election closer, few credible. Trump’s accelerationism is like Emilio LIzardo hitting a wall with a faulty overthruster in the film Buckaroo Banzai. This remains … Read More
Amy Klobuchar: We are living in Trump’s America, the arbiter of hate, violence, & death
Amy Klobuchar did not allow Donald Trump's law and order narrative to be the message Americans heard. She accomplished her task. The former FBI leader gets it right x x … Read More
You are literally NOT safe in Donald Trump's America; we have to flip the script
Somehow I don’t remember the continual civil unrest when Joe Biden was vice president. I don’t remember a thousand people dying every day from a raging, out-of-control pandemic. JESUS POGO-HOPPING … Read More
Fmr. FBI Asst. Dir.: These young white gun touters are not troubled but radicalized
Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi appeared on MSNBC with Katy Tur and called out the mislabeling of young white gun touters. The former FBI leader gets it right x … Read More
Le Petomane Trump’s line between real and fake Americans excludes urban people of all sorts
“Work, work, work, work, work, work, work. (turns to the bosom of a female staffer) Hello boys! Have a good night's rest? I missed you! Gentlemen, affairs of state must take precedent over… affairs of state.” Trump is truly Le … Read More
Joe Biden hits back hard at Trump: This happens to be Trump's America
Joe Biden will not take it sitting down. He hits back. And when one hits fallacies with unabashed truthfulness, Americans will respond. Joe Biden hits back Our derelict president and … Read More
adding to Trump's 20,000 lies: the DNC omitted the 1954 “under God” part of the pledge of allegiance
Back to 1954 is the desperate place that Trump is going to spread disinformation. The GOP has tried to make Democrats “godless”, because how else could you win an election. Trump … Read More
Trumpian history at the Council for National Policy: “Two things don't change: walls and wheels.”
“I’m the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos.” Trump at the Council for National Policy Recalling that Mark Burnett wanted once to have … Read More
Trump's actual death toll is smaller yet larger and Don Junior speed-talks to Hannity
Trump demands a third presidential term as over 100,000 have no future, except as potential victims of a crime against humanity. The reality is that COVID-19 deaths are undercounted by … Read More
Bernie’s message to Progressives, New Progressive Organizing tool, Polls, Trump convert
Bernie Sanders’ message is one that all progressives should heed. We talk to the co-founder of Organiz. Trump beating Biden in polls on the economy, crime, & fortitude? Progressives need … Read More
Kentucky U.S. Senate Candidates Dragging Contest Down Rabbit Hole: China and Rioters Oh My!
No, I am NOT being Chuck “Bothsiderist” Todd, but I need to tell you all about the descent into the rabbit hole that the U.S. Senate race in Kentucky has … Read More
Trump blurts out his true motivation for kneecapping the Postal Service
It’s like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons is running for president. Or maybe Homer. Or some ungodly combination of the two. The Washington Post: Speaking with Maria Bartiromo on Fox … Read More
Is it time to publicly disclose classified intelligence on the Senate floor?
There is Russian interference in the 2020 election, likely not at the scale of 2016, since they’ve garnered numerous financial and political advantages from their many Congressional puppets. Remember when … Read More
Comandante en Jefe wanted the British Open golf tournament moved up in the queue d'état
Kayfabe becomes him. “Get the British Open for me”. Bring me the head of the secretary of state for Scotland. Turnberry had once been a site for The Open, but … Read More
“the greatest political crime of the century” ends in 2021, perhaps beginning with a bank fraud
Red Letter day tomorrow, especially in NY state, where the AG may indeed open the first step to ending one of the greatest political crimes. I guess Trump doesn't wish … Read More
Portland protests continue not because of “professional anarchists” but because there's no justice
In his presser, Trump blamed Portland violence on “professional anarchists” because of course they carry cards noting their memberships, rather than those awful amateur anarchists. There are so darn many … Read More
Is it rude to throw this quote from Trump's 2015 campaign launch back in his face?
I vividly remember Donald Trump’s campaign kickoff speech at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 — a day which will live in imbecility. I recall that Trump seemed congenitally incapable of … Read More
Joe Biden, “Trump’s failure to lead is responsible for historic economic slump”
I’m liking that Biden is hammering Trump hard on the economy: “The depth of economic devastation our nation is experiencing is not an act of God, it’s a failure of … Read More
Trump is fundraising in Texas as he continues to lose in Electoral College polling
Remember that his visit to a Texas oil-rig makes it an “official” trip. He’s whining about Fox News coverage, among other things. His fundraising shtick will have the usual things, although … Read More
bringing down a Columbus statue before Trump's protection squad arrives in Chicago
Considering the penchant for bored federal tactical teams to practice their snatch and grab techniques with their rental vehicles, it’s a good thing to take down that statue. Chicago will … Read More
LA-Sen: The DSCC Adds Another Senate Seat To Their Target List By Endorsing Mayor Adrian Perkins (D)
In case you haven’t heard: Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy drew the first high-profile challenger to his reelection bid Wednesday, when Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins announced his last-minute entrance into … Read More
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes to House floor and slams Ted Yoho's misogyny and false apology
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not mince her words as she completely annihilated Congressman Ted Yoho for his misogyny towards her at the step of the Capitol followed by a disingenuous attempt … Read More
“Person, woman, man, camera, TV.” This week we learned a lot about who's more fit for the job
Trust the plan. Enjoy the show. Nothing can stop what is coming. x From a WaPo editorial 4 years ago today: 'His politics of division could strain the bonds of … Read More
Philadelphia DA Says He Will Arrest Feds If They Commit a Crime in His City
Philadelphia is where the Founding Fathers met to write the Declaration of Independence from the tyranny of George III. The Philadelphia district attorney is continuing that tradition: He will defend … Read More
Albuquerque is Now On Trump's Hit List
The Mangled Mango Mussolini has now set his sights on Albuquerque, New Mexico: Trump: 35 agents coming to Albuquerque for Operation Legend President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr … Read More
what state-sponsored terror looks like: protection squads in Portland will spread to other cities
Chad Wolf confesses to committing a crime on national television. One person’s ‘proactive arresting’ is another’s extralegal detention and subsequent rendition. If you get scooped up, we wish you well. DHS … Read More
Liz Cheney finds your lack of faith disturbing while trying to save the GOP
GOP legislators let their misogyny-flag fly today. Yo-Ho-Ho. Cheney apparently has even deleted her favorable Fauci tweet. x I want to “you go girl†Liz Cheney. 2020 is never going to … Read More
Trump could send protection squads to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland
All power does derive from the bottom. The various “snatch” teams likely were training for such specialized operation in larger cities. All you have to add are extralegal renditions. x … Read More
Endless / End this Trump nonsense “Biden won’t keep you safe from the chaos I’ve caused”
The federal protection squads have now engaged in the second attempt to operate without accountability, this time in a state run by Democrats. we’ll see how it works in a … Read More
The Future Face of Evil In Kentucky: State Attorney General Daniel Cameron.
I don’t know how else to describe someone who is pro-coronavirus as anything but evil, or as The Louisville Courier-Journal columnist Joseph Gerth calls Kentucky State Attorney General as “bidding to become Kentucky’s … Read More
Trump's Rose Garden presser turns into campaign speech with more lies and few questions
Today’s Trump WH presser apparently repurposed his canceled NH campaign speech of 50 minutes, and took 10 minutes of questions. Waste not, want not. Who wants that hour back: Trump produced … Read More
GA-Sen A: Ossoff (D) Calls For Law Requiring All Federal Officials Put Their Stocks In Blind Trusts
I like where’s going with this: A few days before she showed up at the state capitol on March 2 to qualify to run in a special election this year, … Read More
cancel culture is like cultural marxism: nonsense, but Trump will sell you their snake oil
Trump’s tweeting more gibberish replete with nonsense and continues to tank the economy built by the previous administration. Ever the opportunist, Trump would have signed off on the recent “Justice and … Read More
Mueller says Stone's still convicted, and Trump's campaign thinks 45* wearing a mask defeats Biden
The Trump crime spree continues and the carnage cannot be commuted because Roger Stone remains a convicted felon. Trump’s minions have all but declared victory now that Trump put on … Read More
Punk Plutocrat sprung a stooge, but like gaslight under a bushel, Stone cannot hide under a rock
“Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.” — Mitt Romney x “The president may have … Read More
hate charges for CA couple who defaced a Black Lives Matter street mural
Reactionaries just do their Chad/Karen thing, believing that their speech rights trump others. In this case municipally sanctioned street murals do have some protections. x A Martinez, California couple defaced … Read More
Trump Once Again Lets Dictators Silence Their Critics in the US
We are still carrying the raw wound of the brazen Saudi dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post correspondent — and lawful permanent resident of the United States — who … Read More
Lt. Col. Vindman announces he's retiring in wake of 'retaliation' and 'bullying'
This is what happens to patriots in Donald J. Trump’s America. They’re browbeaten into surrender. The Washington Post: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served as a national security aide at … Read More
Cheat or Bail, Trump is still losing
Trump will do anything to win, but when he loses, more likely will spend the time between election day and inauguration day on revenge and pardons. x Trump's Presidency Is About … Read More
Trump tries to save the confederacy using QAnon because it fits his dominionist pandering
Trump wants Confederate spectacles, why else try to attack NASCAR because of its flag ban. The ultimate Confederate spectacle is the resilience of the lost cause narrative perhaps reinforced by the Jim … Read More
Trump was worried about the SCOTUS decision on his financial records. Not today, Don, …soon
Trump did tread water today because it now appears that the last instance for SCOTUS will be a ruling on his financial records. In the same context the looting continues from … Read More
Cast your Lot
At the end of the movie Cast Away starring Tom Hanks, in the final scene he is left contemplating his next move after reaching a literal fork in the road. … Read More
Trump defending racist statues is not a hill on which to die, not even a suburban one
It is more of a comment on Trump’s “cancel culture” that the Aurora, Colorado police would bust up a crowd of violinists peacefully demonstrating a bias death. x Police showed up in … Read More
“The 2016 campaign all over again, …the Muslim ban and the wall, just add Confederate statues”
The real question is whether Republicans are really the “unnerved who have long enabled him but now fear losing power and forever associating their party with his racial animus.” Leaning on … Read More
The game-show presidency continues at 530pm ET with more patriotic(sic) displays in DC
After yesterday’s screed on the leftist boogeymen, tonight should lean toward jingoism with the Trumpian cultural economy of bread and circuses. IMPOTUS* claims that he will speak at 7pm ET. … Read More
Judge refuses to block Mary Trump's tell-all book about the ocher abomination
I would gouge my own eyes out with a Swiss Army knife corkscrew, have new eyes surgically implanted in my head, and then gouge those out with an ice auger … Read More
Republican Convention planners, so naive or really want to destroy the country.
Trump wanting to be so mask free and wanting his own way, Florida is going to be a nightmare I predict come August. Ron Desantis is so naive that he … Read More
