Time to Stop Coddling the Children Of America?
As the grandfather of 12 grandchildren, I worry about their safety, health, and lives in this time of excessive gun violence, denial of history, and the life-destroying spread of the … Read More
Category: Devil
The Republican game of Three Card Monty
When former President Obama introduced the Affordable Care Act, he made the recurring mistake Democrats often commit; negotiating with Republicans in good faith. Mr. Obama took it a step further … Read More
John Oliver tricks three local TV stations into airing segments about fake Venus love blanket
I’ve spent some time in newsrooms, so I feel like I’m a savvier news consumer than most. While watching the local news, I’ve occasionally said to my wife, in reference to … Read More
McConnell is (not) a “Dumb Son of a Bitch”
OK, Moscow Mitch may have lost a bit of his edge lately, pulling lame stunts like biting the corporate hand that feeds him and then having to hunt for a … Read More
Minerva @ Midnight: “it works” a pragmatics of lived experience
We remain weary about the callow stupidity of the GOP/GQP but we must not patronize or condescend about how superfluous their grievances have been and continue to be. Now that … Read More
I am a proud member of the Devil's Army
Replying to Representative Adam Kinzinger’s family, what a sad letter diatribe to send to one of your own. I am a democratic socialist. I am an antifascist. I support gun … Read More
McConnell Caught on His Own Forked Tongue
This is a short diary written from having watched Moscow Mitch live a few minutes ago. He spoke for perhaps 15 minutes and spent most of it denouncing Trump for … Read More
Liz Cheney: 'We should not be embracing the former president.' No duh
Of all the depredations Donald Trump has exposed my tender, guileless soul to, making me feel warm fuzzies for a Cheney — however fleeting those feelings may have been — is … Read More
Trump’s trashing of the climate is more severe than previously thought, says Biden climate team.
A senior Biden climate team transition official alerted E&E News that the damage Trump and his fossil fuel grifters (that have held power over the agencies tasked with protecting the climate … Read More
'How much Trump stink is on my résumé right now?' WH staffers face uncertain job prospects
Before Sean Spicer was a fluorescent yellow canary-man who danced like a frog trying to escape from a bucket, he was Donald Trump’s press secretary. x x YouTube Video Remember? … Read More
'How much Trump stink is on my resume right now?' WH staffers face uncertain job prospects
Before Sean Spicer was a fluorescent yellow canary-man who danced like a frog trying to escape from a bucket, he was Donald Trump’s press secretary. x x YouTube Video Remember? … Read More
“Vote him out” Ginsburg death compels renunciation of faith
x WOW!!! The dictator went to the Supreme Court just now. Listen to the response as they shout. VOTE HIM OUT!!! VOTE HIM OUT!!! VOTE HIM OUT!!! pic.twitter.com/9AIcu4IcHg — Fred … Read More
People in the Villages are Dying from Covid, Scott wants seat filled & Desantis's bloody hands
http://www.villages-news.com/… This is just beyond brutal. I do not know how many were conservative but this is how it shaped up yesterday in central Florida. 2020 is beyond scary … Read More
AP poll: Biden leads by 12% but 21% are undecided (of which 32% are “independents”)
50 days and Biden still leads nationally but there are fewer undecideds than 2016 in the details when you get to registered and likely voters, even if they have been … Read More
Top medical expert: Trump's recent Nevada rally is 'negligent homicide'
Jonathan Reiner is a professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University and a medical analyst for CNN, and boy oh boy, he’s not a fan of Donald Trump’s … Read More
Trump is Failing His Latest Test: Hurricane Laura
Hurricane Laura is now a strong Cat 4, with winds up to 150 MPH (Cat 5 is 158 MPH, and it may get there). Storm surges are expected to push … Read More
Yadda—Yadda—Yadda
When Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, famously created the television sensation of the late 1980s Seinfeld, they hyped it as the show about nothing. The resulting enigma of laughter about … Read More
Democratic National Convention liveblogging Day 2, (“It's Shark Week, …”)
Putting this up for the second day in case folks want to share comments in real time. I will update as necessary. x YouTube Video x YouTube Video x Gov. Whitmer … Read More
Luring Evangelicals Away From Trump
It’s common on this site to bemoan, make fun of, scratch our heads in wonder, bewail the hypocrisy, and otherwise write off the large number of American evangelicals who voted … Read More
Trump's Thuggery Will Cost Him the Election
Mangoface clearly thinks sending armed anonymous federal agents dressed in military camouflage into America’s streets to beat up, snatch up, and generally fuck up American citizens exercising their Constitutional rights … Read More
Vanity Fair: Republicans To Cut Loose Trump By Labor Day? Don't You Believe It!
I think highly of Vanity Fair’s Gabe Sherman, but his latest piece with the information that Moscow MItch is giving Trump until Labor Day to turn things around or he … 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
Arizona anti-masker says 'I can't breathe!' before removing mask at protest
Uh … really bad taste, dude. x Here’s 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 … Read More
The Emperor's birthday suit searches for an invisible antifa empire in #CHAZ
Antifa still hasn’t taken over Seattle as much as Trump might wish it, since Boeing is still not the #CHAZ state airplane company, nor has Amazon been nationalized. Trump’s alternate reality … Read More
New Der Spiegel cover tells you exactly what the world thinks of Trump
Hoo-boy. Guess Germans think things have gotten a little out of hand over here in Universal Studios’ Cautionary Tale Land. Der Feuerteufel – Ein Präsident setzt sein Land in Brand. … Read More
Slate Magazine's The Surge Lists These 7 States That Could Be The Path For Joe Biden's Victory
Received an e-mail update from Slate Magazine’s The Surge and they have released the top seven states that are now the most competitive for Joe Biden to reach electoral victory. … Read More
Ex-CoS Kelly Agrees with Mattis on Trump
Yesterday, former WH chief of state John Kelly contradicted Trump’s story about firing SecDec Jim Mattis, reminding the world that Mattis had resigned in protest after Trump ordered our troops … Read More
Joe Biden Vows To Create A DOJ Police Oversight Board Within The First 100 Days Of His Presidency
Good: In a meeting with black Wilmington leaders Monday, Joe Biden said he will create a police oversight board in the first 100 days of his presidency. The former … Read More
paramilitary haircuts and threats against Governor Whitmer in Michigan
COVID-19 case and death rates are high enough but not high enough to stop RWNJs from threatening public officials. “The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Michigan is now over 50,000.” And … Read More
Biden Calls For A Progressive Stimulus Package That's “A Hell Of A Lot Bigger” Than $2 Trillion
I’m liking this: Joe Biden wants a more progressive approach to economic stimulus legislation than Washington has taken so far, including much stricter oversight of the Trump Administration, much tougher … Read More
#WhenThisIsAllOver we will have a new, smarter POTUS and a democratic government
Trump’s first instinct was to delay addressing the spread. Trump kept the numbers down by suppressing information and testing. He tried to reward profiteering rather than meet needs. And then there’s the kind … Read More
Uh, Bernie Bros and the OK Bloomers?
Chest thumpers and embarrassing belligerents are how the followers of Bernie Sanders are being described. The Michael Bloomberg crowd who I suppose are Bloomers, who find themselves in the unenviable position … Read More
'Asking Trump to understand morality is like asking a person born blind to understand color'
With all due respect to Pete Wehner, an evangelical Christian, former George W. Bush White House aide, and the author of the above quote, this analogy undersells Donald Trump’s depravity by a … Read More
Death of a nation..Who is running this country? The Mob or Russia or both?
There is a dark cloud over this country. A deep sinking sense of doom and that comes from fear and uncertainity. Am I trying to be fatalistic. NO. I am … Read More
The Devil Can Quote Scripture – But Don Jr. Can't
HuffPo found a tweet from the Hair Apparent trying to take a swipe at the Speaker: Likelihood of Nancy Pelosi praying for Trump is about the same as the likelihood … Read More
Trump Don't Know Much About Geography
On the eve of Trump’s State of the Union paean to himself, it may help to be reminded of all the ways in which the Guy Who Knows Everything doesn’t … Read More
KY & ME-Sen: SNL Sends Moscow Mitch, Susan Collins (R) & Alan Dershowitz Straight To Hell
Brilliant: x Straight to hell, Dershowitz. #SNL pic.twitter.com/9MMHAfj0Yu — Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) January 26, 2020 The first show of the year for “Saturday Night Live” went to … Read More
What people may be misunderstanding about second choice at the Iowa caucuses
Years ago I worked as an organizer in Iowa. I went to college there but it was a bubble and did not understand the state. I worked inside the caucus … Read More
Trumpian military end-games before the November election are about nukes
Threats against 52 Iranian “cultural sites” are more Trumpian gaslighting and a projection of hope that Iran will reciprocate by attacking the US in a way that galvanizes national support … Read More
Rick Wilson Levels His Word Cannon at Bloomberg and Steyer.
Never Trump Republican Rick Wilson has a way with words (especially salty ones) and he let some fly at the vanity campaigns of Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer and their … Read More
Jennifer Rubin Lays Out a Possible Trump Removal Avenue for Senate Republicans.
There are some flaws to what Jennifer Rubin lays out as a way for Senate Republicans to vote to convict Trump and remove him from office, but I want to … Read More
Erdogan threatens Trump over the 'lack of respect' shown in his crazy, splenetic letter
Jon Sopel, the BBC’s North America editor, is reporting that Donald Trump’s second-grade playground letter to Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan isn’t having the effect Trump had hoped. Which is hard to … Read More
Check out the kookaburra letter Trump sent to Erdogan after giving him green light to invade Syria
This comes courtesy of Trish Regan at — oh, here it is — Fox Business. Other reporters have followed up on this and confirmed it’s real. Yes, 100 percent real. … Read More
Breaking: McConnell Tells Trump: Don't Pull Out of Syria
WaPo: McConnell joins other Republicans in rebuking Trump’s Syria withdrawal Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell publicly rebuked President Trump’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from northeast Syria, saying that a … Read More
Barr, Pompeo, and Giuliani: “They've gone where subpoenas can lacerate their hearts no more.”
Fatalism at the fore. Virginia Heffernan in the LA Times suggests that there may be no country for old men. x I have a theory: some old white men in … Read More
as if David Brooks couldn't get worse
David Brooks latest experiment in detoxified masculinity is called: Why Trump Voters Stick With Him: An imagined conversation with Flyover Man. Unfortunately, like most of his columns, the vague generalizations of non-coastal … Read More
Trump did Putin's bidding and sold out Ukraine for “a favor, though”
Like the tool he is, Trump favored Putin’s interests, squeezed Ukraine on military aid and tried to get dirt on the Bidens. Meanwhile an already weakened Ukrainian domestic politics began … Read More
I'm so grateful, for the Grateful Dead.
By the last 60’s and early 70’s, I was a pot-smoking acid dropping anti war hippy with hair down to the crack of my ass. I wanted to spend most … Read More
Record high temperatures as candidates and media descend on Miami for the first Democratic debate
Miami’s hot today. Hotter than the Devil’s balls even hotter than a Lanbi Pike Nan Ji Sitwon in a sweltering Little Haiti cafe. Of course, Miami is either pleasantly warm … Read More
20,000 petition Netflix to cancel 'offensive' Good Omens; it's on Amazon
Now that’s swift action. More than 20,000 television viewers have petitioned Netflix to cancel Good Omens, a comic miniseries based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same … Read More
