Bang the Dumb Slowly
One of the cardinal sins of commentary writing is not to name-call or insult your readers with invectives. In this case, I am going to purposefully violate the rules, I … Read More
Category: Defense
Trump Vetoed the NDAA to Protect His Shell Companies
Taggan Goddard of Political Wire has an interesting theory about why Trump decided to veto the National Defense Appropriation Act (NDAA): Buried in its 4500+ pages is something called the … Read More
Chris Hayes exposes how the Trump machine is ripping off its Right Wing donors
Chris Hayes deconstructs the fraud that is the Donald Trump election and defense fundraising machine. He all but rips off his supporters. Chris Hayes enumerates the “fraud.” x x YouTube … Read More
GA-Sen A & B: Eric Holder Makes The Georgia Runoff Elections A Referendum On Voting Rights
Received this e-mail today from former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on behalf of his organization, All On The Line: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D GA) & Jon Ossoff (D. GA) … Read More
goodness gracious, great balls of autogolpe as Trump tries to blame China for the Russian Hack
If his puckered lips are moving, he’s lying, but the circular limit to that lie is that Ivanka has Chinese trademarks for, …. wait for it, voting machines. So this … Read More
Guilty plea for Boojahideen… from Red Dawn to Orange jumpsuits
“A 22-year-old self-proclaimed member of the “Boogaloo Bois” movement pleaded guilty on Wednesday to trying to sell weapon parts to Hamas after traveling to Minneapolis amid this summer’s George Floyd … Read More
Remember Trump's crime spree by the theft of information as tall as the Washington Memorial
There will be plenty of memorials to the Trump reign, but the most significant one will be the betrayal of democracy. It raises the matter of Washington Monument sized piles of … Read More
A Rachel Maddow public service announcement to Trumpsters sending him money to dispute the election.
One hopes Trump supporters tune in to Rachel Maddow who exposes how he is knowingly ripping them off of their hard-earned dollars. Rachel Maddow has a message to Trumpsters x x YouTube … Read More
America just dodged a GOP bullet from Trump's abuse of power as he does another PR stunt for COVID
The Biden-Harris pandemic team is introduced today, covered live by MSNBC and CNN, and no one is covering the Trump “vaccine summit” event at the White House. “100 million shots in … Read More
if “Defund the Police” makes you reach for your pistol, Cops are now bigger crooks than criminals
#PoliceThePolice Civil asset forfeiture is manifestly unfair, loaded with perverse incentives, based on a legal fallacy and opposed by an overwhelming majority of the public (once they know what it actually is). … Read More
Pentagon Now Says It Never Blocked Biden Access to Intelligence . . . Riiiight [Updated]
The Pentagon, and specifically Acting Defense Secretary and Permanent Obstructionist Christopher Miller, are now saying the Biden team was never denied access to NSA and Defense intelligence agencies — they … Read More
“Lord, would you allow Donald Trump to have a second term as president of the United States.”
God regrets that he took this Zoom call from Michele Bachmann, thinking it was Marsha Blackburn. x Former congresswoman Michele Bachmann has a personal request for God: “Lord, would you … Read More
Indigenous people and green activists defeat the GOP effort to seize refuge land for a bombing range
“When this campaign began, we said ‘not one acre.’ We meant it.” Patrick Donnelly, Center for Biological Diversity In early July of 2020, GOP Utah Congressional Representative Rob Bishop introduced an amendment to … Read More
Native people and green activists defeat the GOP effort to seize refuge land for a bombing range.
“When this campaign began, we said ‘not one acre.’ We meant it.” Patrick Donnelly, Center for Biological Diversity In early July of 2020, GOP Utah Congressional Representative Rob Bishop introduced an amendment to … Read More
John Brown's Body lies a-moldering in the grave
Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave, His soul is marching on. Abolitionist … Read More
Trump declares Twitter a national security threat because it's more important than Iran for 53 days
Trump’s doing nothing about the continuing rise in Covid cases, and is spending his time at golf and continuing to sow chaos on the path to the bunker. Meanwhile the … Read More
Trump freaks everyone out on his scorched earth farewell and provides comic relief while golfing.
Horrid numbers of new cases of covid infections and deaths, economic turmoil, racial injustice, foreign policy, and the climate catastrophe are bearing down on us. Trump golfs and plots ways … Read More
Winking and Nod: Tony Blinken may be the Biden Secretary of State
Nearly anyone would be better than the Dominionist nutlog, Mike Pompeo. Robert Wright (New Republic) and Connor Echols wrote an article last week grading Tony Blinken, the apparent choice by Joe … Read More
'The transition jokes will continue until morale improves', as Trump now invites PA to another stunt
Failing in Michigan, Trump seems to have moved on to Pennsylvania with the same stunt, meant largely to excite state-level resistance by RWNJs pressuring political institutions in the hope of … Read More
250,000 dead since “Trump's a tenant pouring cement down the toilets because his lease is expiring”
Trump doesn’t care whether he loses his security deposit. He just wants the chaos of dying meat processors, conspiracy-driven ICU trespassers, and a quarter-million dead Americans from COVID-19. And in … Read More
Trump's end-game prompts a ruling class survivalism, worrying us looters about possible end-times
Trumpist anti-certifying efforts for the remaining states seem a fools’ errand but Trump and Giuliani seem to be the best fools for it. Regardless, they are chasing some version of an apocalyptic … Read More
GA-Sen A & B: Joe Biden Is Coming Back To Georgia To Get His Senate Majority
I’m all in for this: President-elect Joe Biden will join the lineup of influential Democrats involved in Georgia's ongoing senatorial campaigns, according to his recently-named forthcoming chief of staff. Ron … Read More
Ivanka scolds media for ignoring 'left-wing' violence as Trump supporters chant 'break out Kyle'
The Trump family is to irony as Lennie from Of Mice and Men is to puppies. They’ve killed it more often than Donald Trump’s masturbating-hyena voice has killed my will … Read More
“It’s so sad that we are at the 'Whew! It might only be a coverup” stage…'”
Delaying the transition seems now to be more sinister, even as the eventual discovery of Trumpian crimes could extend into his “second” term. Mike Pompeo is workshopping stand-up material for his 2024 … Read More
A childlike privileged Trump, Attacks on Progressives, Fox News, cuts a lying administration.
A childlike Trump continues to pout about his loss damaging his image as Biden’s calm excels. Progressives attacked. Really Fox News? Progressives help bring down the pouting Toddler-In-Chief x x … Read More
“Growing Discomfort” as Obamacare faces Supreme Court remade by Trump
The lawfare against the ACA now being heard in SCOTUS now resembles the attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 election. Scorched earth and total lawfare, total landscaping. Schrödinger's … Read More
Fmr. Congressman Alan Grayson challenges progressive attacks, AOC slaps back, Van Jones, & more
Former Congressman Alan Grayson challenges those who attempt to blame progressives for subpar Democratic performance. AOC, Van Jones, & more. Alan Grayson sets the record straight. Politics Done Right Live … Read More
Trump again ignored the order of succession in firing Mark Esper and replacing him with Chris Miller
Angry baby strikes again, ignoring the rules to exact revenge on those who did their duty. Mark Esper will probably not be the last firing, but for today this will … Read More
BREAKING: Trump Fires SecDef Esper
Trump has just fired Esper. By tweet, of course. x I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (unanimously confirmed … Read More
“…democracies suffer from post-electoral violence due to the delay in the publishing of results”
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 … Read More
AOC slams back in defense of progressives against a centrist attack with the inconvenient truth
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) responsibly hit hard on the current attempt to blame Democratic underperformance on Progressives. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) defends Progressives x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. It … Read More
Philly police make arrest in potential attack on Pennsylvania vote counting center
Are we yet ready to reassure folks that DHS/FBI/BATFE are taking the election even more seriously. x Here. We. Go https://t.co/EwRQeEk7RY— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) November 6, 2020 x When Trump … Read More
the Coup that couldn't shoot down Fifth Avenue
CNN is now framing a narrative that Biden’s victory is inevitable, with “gap-closing” in several states perhaps to be resolved by tomorrow because of trending in PA and GA. Trump did … Read More
MT-Sen: ABC News, “Trump noticeably absent from key US Senate race in Montana”
From ABC News: As Republican leaders fearful of losing the majority in the U.S. Senate parade through Montana to rally behind embattled incumbent Steve Daines, one has been conspicuously absent: … Read More
More Dicks vote GOP, as it claims it will outnumber Dems' election day votes
“Hostility to the opposition party and its candidates has now reached a level where loathing motivates voters more than loyalty.” It’s one thing for Trump supporters to block highways and … Read More
Woodward taped Kushner boasting about taking the country 'back from the doctors'
Little Lord Fauntleroy has stepped in it once again. The odious sparkly vampire born with a silver spoon in his head was at the vanguard of Donald Trump’s pandemic response — and, … Read More
De-Trumpification programs could be ahead, regardless of the election outcome
Reminding myself that during nearly two decades of my life, racial segregation dominated some states, and that in 2020 we are still battling some of the same issues preventing people from … Read More
Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
The term “vast right-wing conspiracy” is not an original quote from the then First Lady Hillary Clinton, but in 1998 her use of the phrase baked it into the political … Read More
Trump once ordered milkshakes during a highly classified intel meeting
Spin the wheel of presidential absurdity! Where will it land today? Let’s see. Nukin’ hurricanes, border moat, injecting disinfectant, dry-humping the flag, windmill cancer, invisible planes … and today it’s … ordering … Read More
CO-Sen: Cory Gardner (R) Says President “Grab 'Em By The P@#$%” Is “An Ethical & Moral Man”
What a fucking clown: Asked if he thinks President Donald Trump ― who disdains notions of virtue on a near daily basis ― is an ethical and moral man, Sen. … Read More
Ah . . . too late I guess and I should have written this before about Nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
I have written two posts about suggested questions for Nominee Barrett — here and here. But watching a good deal of today’s confirmation hearing, and listening to her dodge way too … Read More
Party snubs Democratic Candidate, Al Franken slams Lowry, Trump Petri dish, Lindsey blues
Why did the Party snub State Senate Democratic Candidate Kathy Lewis? Al Franken still has a punch. They scolded Lindsey Graham. Petri dish prez? A Democratic Candidate should never go … Read More
Trump Ad Uses Gen. Milley Without His Consent
It’s common courtesy, not to mention common sense, to ask someone’s permission before using them in an advertisement. The Trump campaign has no interest in courtesy, sense, or for that … Read More
“We're not learning to live with the virus Larry…the death rate is the highest in the world.”
In an interview on CBS Face the Nation Scott Gottlieb affirmed the position that the Trump administration erred in not directing national drug production of antibody drugs like Regeneron’s. x And … Read More
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D. MI) Is All In To Punish The MI GOP By Helping Flip The State House Blue
Sorry I missed this. Received this e-mail yesterday from Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D. MI): Leadership matters. Since the beginning, I’ve had to make tough decisions that took us from the … Read More
Frontier gibberish: “I’m back because I’m a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young”
The stupid is always stronger with these people (John Fugelsang) The president is outright lying right now on Rush’s show, saying we have a cure for COVID. x Trump starts … Read More
The Michigan State Supreme Court Just Reminded Us We Need A Second Huge Blue Wave To Hit Michigan
So this bull shit just happened: The Michigan Supreme Court issued a split decision late Friday that ruled against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a battle over her power to extend … Read More
Stand By Your Country
The strident Trump defense is coding and awaiting burial beneath the freshly shoveled dirt of racism. Even the once exuberant Trump defenders such as Boris Epstein and Rick Santorum are … Read More
TX-Sen: Cornyn (R), “Getting rid of health care for preexisting conditions is not that big a deal”
From Emily Singer at The American Independent: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said Thursday that preexisting health conditions are not as big a deal as Democrats are making them seem, using … Read More
ME-Sen: Susan Collins' (R) Defense Contractor Donor Busted For Defrauding Her Business Loan Program
From The Bangor Daily News: A Hawaii defense contractor who has donated to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and whose business operates in Maine faces federal charges alleging he defrauded the … Read More
