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THE BIGGEST LOSER in the McCarthy Mess is Donald Trump, Whose Endorsement Moved Zero Votes

The Republican Party appears to be hell bent on confirming all of the worst speculation that the American people had about how a GOP majority would govern if they were given the opportunity. The very first and most basic task of a new session in the House of Representatives is...

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January 4, 2023

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TRUMP DITCHES MCCARTHY to Obsess Over His 2020 Election Fraud Lies [UPDATE w/New, Crazy Trump Rant]

The Trump Republican Party is beginning the new year just as one would have expected: With the division, animosity, and chaotic incompetence that has been the hallmark of Donald Trump's brief and abhorrent political career. Click here to Tweet this article The election of the House Speaker is ordinarily a...

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January 3, 2023

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Because They Say it Doesn’t Mean it Counts

Civilized societies dictate that every opinion counts: but is that true? Put another way, yes, everyone is entitled to their opinion but the real question is; should every opinion count? Oh sure, there is value in hearing everyone out, but what happens once that opinion is given is what separates...

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September 1, 2021

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Enough is Enough…

When I was a boy and strayed way, way past the rules of behavior set by my great-grandmother, she would say, “ enough is enough, and too much (sic) stinks.” Well, we reached that point in Afghanistan on Sunday. From the time then-National Security Director Zbigniew Brzezinski convinced then-President Carter,...

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August 18, 2021

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Minerva @ Midnight: the MTG versus AOC debate on the GND likely will not happen

This proposed “debate” between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should generate plenty of charitable pay-per-view revenues. Enough to build a space laser. The outcome should also resemble Bambi meets Godzilla. There’s yet to be a response from AOC, and MTG is busy trying to expel Maxine Waters. Last week, Georgia GOP...

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April 22, 2021

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Minerva @ Midnight: don't defund police, reduce the domestic military force occupying our country

Structural change needs to happen, because in community policing, community should precede policing. The paramilitary trend should not be seen as a burgeoning conflict between armed militias, one more official than the other. We need a de-escalation whose goal is the diametric opposite of the 1/6 insurrection. The problem isn't...

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April 15, 2021

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MO-Sen: Another One Bites The Dust! Sen. Roy Blunt (R) Announces That He Won't Seek Re-Election

Big news today out of Missouri: Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO): "After 14 general election victories, three to county office, 7 to the US House of Representatives, and four statewide elections, I won't be a candidate for reelection to the United States Senate next year."https://t.co/6HOm3KamIL — Dylan Wells (@dylanewells) March 8,...

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March 8, 2021

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Impeachment shenanigans. Houston Peace & Justice Center President, Jeff Reese speaks.

Houston Peace & Justice Center President, Jeff Reese, visited to discuss that most important. Trump’s impeachment fiasco on display. Impeachment fiasco Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091 Topics: Former Congressman Denver Riggleman appeared on MSNBC. He showed his...

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February 12, 2021

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SAY WHAT: 1. Listen to this Republican 2. Futurist discusses what government must do for COVID econo

Futurist Rebecca Costa suggests measures the government must take for COVID relief. A Republican politician says this on conservatism. A Republican politician surprised me Chat – Join Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091 Topics: Former Congressman Denver Riggleman...

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February 11, 2021

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SAY WHAT? Politician embarrassed to be a Republican says impeachment managers are the conservatives

I had to do a double-take on this. As poor health & economic outcomes and tolerance for crooked politicians have become its signature, this Republican is trying to redefine conservatism. A republican redefining conservatism See full episodes here. For Congressman Denver Riggleman appeared on MSNBC. He showed his embarrassment for...

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February 11, 2021

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Rick Scott mailed me some dumb letter about the Covid money & I answered it. I usually delete.

Well, I will send one to old Rubio as well. Senator Scott, You are an embarrassment to the people of Florida and have been for a long time. I must congratulate you however, for being in the presence of likeminded company such as yourself in the Senate with bootlicking...

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February 9, 2021

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NC-Sen: Jeff Jackson (D) Hauls In Over $500K Just Two Days After Announcing U.S. Senate Bid

Some big news happened this week out of North Carolina: Less than 48 hours after announcing his campaign for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2022, N.C. Sen. Jeff Jackson raised more than $500,000, with 90% of donations from North Carolinians, 78% of contributions under $100, and no contributions from...

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January 31, 2021

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maskless Rand Paul sworn as juror, claims 45 GOP senators believe the trial is unconstitutional

Mitch McConnell’s mini-me does his usual reactionary foolishness as the Senators are sworn in for the second Trump trial. “In a 55 to 45 vote that strongly suggested that the Senate does not have the votes to convict Donald Trump, senators narrowly killed a Republican effort to dismiss the impeachment...

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January 26, 2021

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West Virginia lawmaker who stormed Capitol with MAGAs resigns

Derrick Evans, the suuuper-genius who filmed himself participating in a violent insurrection, has resigned from the West Virginia House of Delegates. MetroNews: “I hereby resign as a member of the House of Delegates, effective immediately,” Evans said in a one-page letter submitted to Gov. Jim Justice and the House. The House...

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January 9, 2021

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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 is all a delusional branding exercise,.. again. The firehose of disinformation is dribbling again, alwaystm but it dependstm on the...

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December 19, 2020

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CNBC host comes to virtual video blows as Right-Wing host wants restaurants & churches wide open

CNBC Right-Wing hack Rick Santelli and Andrew Ross Sorkin engaged in a heated debate Friday over some of the restrictions placed on restaurants. A war at CNBC x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. This brawl on CNBC is an embarrassment for the network. It is time to consider Rick Santelli a...

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December 4, 2020

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Trump reportedly concerned his lawyers are 'fools that are making him look bad'

Noooooooooooo! That is some prodigious perspicacity on the part of BLOATUS. (Sorry, alliteration aficionados. I prefer “BLOATUS” to “POTUS.” So suck a sack of silly string.) NBC News: The president has been complaining to aides and allies about his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and recently-removed lawyer Sidney Powell’s over-the-top performances at a...

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November 23, 2020

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Report: Biden's widening lead has 'panicked' Republicans

I’m getting a real Custer at Little Bighorn vibe lately when it comes to the GOP. Donald Trump has very quickly become an albatross around Republicans’ necks. An albatross with COVID. Which is the worst kind of albatross, really. The Hill: Trump is struggling mightily with the groups that powered...

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October 6, 2020

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Community Live Bloggers: Joe Biden Town Hall (NBC) in Miami

Lots of social distancing and challenging sound with an outdoor setting bordering a highway. Biden did well in terms of relating to the questions and the questioners. Biden was not surprised by the news that President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19. What he's saying: “Quite frankly, I wasn't surprised,” Biden said when...

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October 6, 2020

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#Debate2020 deconstruction by Dr. David Campt & Steve Schmidt, Republicans flee, Russia

#Debate2020 was a train wreck, says Dr. David Campt. Several analysts are deconstructing the real meaning. Thinking Republicans are fleeing Trump. And Russia? David Campt & Steve Schmidt pierce Debate2020 x x YouTube Video Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254...

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September 30, 2020

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Jaime Harrison strips the bark off Trump and his woebegone ventriloquist dummy, Lindsey Graham

What’s the old saying? When you live in Donald Trump’s sigmoid colon, you shouldn’t throw stones? Something like that. Lindsey Graham insisted that his Democratic opponent, Jaime Harrison, release his tax returns. Harrison waited a few days and then delivered this zinger: x Done. Now do President Trump. https://t.co/dphjGfMY6R— Jaime Harrison...

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September 16, 2020

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Donald Trump's embarrassing comment to California scientist on Climate Change

Donald Trump shows why he is an all-around danger to all of the world. His response to the scientist on climate change and science is embarrassing. Trump, the anti-science president x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. The problem with Donald Trump is that he does not know how much...

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September 14, 2020

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AZ & CO-Sen: AlterNet Explains Why These Vulnerable GOPers Are “Ride Or Die” With Trump

AlterNet has a great piece about how vulnerable GOP U.S. Senators like Cory Gardner (R. CO) and Martha McSally (R. AZ) know that they are totally screwed in their re-election bids against John Hickenlooper (D. CO) and Mark Kelly (D. AZ). But they are sticking with Trump all the way....

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September 9, 2020

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Here is a message that all sides of the faux debate on vote-by-mail can understand

Brennan Center for Justice Michael Waldman gave the most compelling message for deconstructing how we should message vote-by-mail and voting to all. Vote-By-Mail message to heed x x YouTube Video Watch the full episode here. Donald Trump and his cabal are trying to prepare his folks for his significant loss....

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September 6, 2020

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In Formation: 70% of Trump followers could be “anakisks”

“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge,” and Donald Trump’s creativity, however limited, remains confined to cowardly name-calling. “Slow Joe” and “Phony Kamala” are weak sauce. x Trump only took questions from friendly reporters during today's short press conference. He offered up a few more smears of Kamala...

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August 12, 2020

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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 of them, so many moms and vets. Too many pro-tips for Trump, because when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro....

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July 31, 2020

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Federalist Society bigwig says Trump's election-delay tweet is grounds for immediate impeachment

Steven Calabresi is a Northwestern University law professor and co-founder of the uber-conservative Federalist Society. And he thinks Donald Trump’s latest fascist tweet is, well, fascist. x The co-founder of the Federalist Society, who voted for Trump and opposed both the Mueller probe and Ukraine impeachment, says the presidentÃ¢Â€Â™s tweet about...

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July 30, 2020

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Inside the Walls of America

If you feel as though you are trying to get a sip from a fire hose and are drowning in orange spray tan, here is another dribble of information. Among the frenzied and perpetual fantasies, promises and dreams of President Trump were that Mexico would pay for his Wall to...

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July 15, 2020

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Justin Trudeau turns down Trump's invite to bathe in our COVID filth

Would you want to visit the United States these days? That is, if you weren’t already here? We’re like the sketchy truck stop toilet stall of the world right now. Well, you’re not the only one who’d like to avoid our country like the plague. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...

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July 7, 2020

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It’s Showtime!

A lot was made of our commander-in-show holding up a Bible, a little over a week ago, with the St. John’s Episcopal Church as a backdrop. The orchestrated show of strength was preceded by shoving, tear-gassing, and strong-arm tactics of armed troops against peaceful protesters. Trump had been sheltered in...

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June 10, 2020

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WTF is wrong with the White House press corps?

On the one hand, this is a bizarre, inexplicable story. On the other hand, it is probably the most revealing story about the failure and obsequiousness of the White House press. In short, looking to fuel their fantasy propaganda that the Covid pandemic is over, White House aides at Trump’s Rose...

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June 5, 2020

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New Idea for the Lincoln Project: Question Bunker Baby's Manhood

Two op-eds in the New York Times caught my attention this morning. First up is Gail Collins — Trump’s Magic Word — because of what she wrote at the end: This could be a great protest theme. Fill the street with banners saying, “Mr. President, we’re not really questioning your...

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June 4, 2020

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agents provocateurs: because only antifa could pre-position construction debris to throw at cops

So much disinformation, so little time left to election day. Malign forces are at work, not always interested in things like equal rights under the law. Which side are they on. Who are they, considering the media manipulation at work. On Wednesday morning, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea posted a video on...

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June 4, 2020

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Trump is a dumpster fire. But have any of your Republican friends admitted that to you?

Trump’s unfitness for office, and his destruction of government institutions and norms, is positively cartoonish in its obviousness and threat. But — three years in — have any of your Republican friends admitted that to you? It is a really important question because as bad as Trump is, the long term threat...

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May 25, 2020

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For Memorial Day: The Highest and Purest Democracy

A submission for Memorial Day weekend: The Highest and Purest Democracy: Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn’s Iwo Jima Eulogy to his Fallen Comrades Roland Gittelsohn was a Marine Corps chaplain in World War II, and he was on Iwo Jima just after the battle. One of the other chaplains, who was organizing...

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May 23, 2020

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Trump campaign statement on Obama's Biden endorsement shows how terrified they are

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump looks on during a rally at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida to officially launch his 2020 campaign on June 18, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Okay, so this is childish: .⁦@parscale⁩ on Obama endorsement of Biden pic.twitter.com/junTANcAYu — Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) April 14, 2020 “Barack Obama spent much of the last five years urging Joe Biden not to run for president out of fear that he would embarrass himself. Now that Biden is the only...

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April 14, 2020

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Trump wanted German company to produce coronavirus vaccine 'only for the United States'

I thought my embarrassment over Donald Trump being president had reached a state of supersaturation. But it turns out there’s plenty of room for more shock and shame. According to a FAKE NEWS! Reuters story, the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag is reporting that Trump tried to convince the German...

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March 15, 2020

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Former Sen. McCaskill on Ron Johnson: 'What an embarrassing tool!'

I’m a Wisconsin native who moved to the West Coast nearly five years ago, so I have some thoughts on Ron Johnson. I’ve always said that my fellow Wisconsinites’ rejecting the dedicated and brilliant Russ Feingold for Johnson felt a little like your mom divorcing your dad so she could date...

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March 11, 2020

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Warren & Castro Call Out Bloomberg's Redlining Lies About Democrats Causing The 2008 Crash

First off, this is bull shit: Michael Bloomberg said at the height of the housing crisis in 2008 that getting rid of “redlining,” the biased housing practice that stopped banks from providing mortgages in low-income, largely minority neighborhoods, was to blame for the collapse. Bloomberg's presidential campaign said Thursday the former New...

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February 13, 2020

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Coronavirus and Hurricane Dorian

There are two stories out this weekend that have more in common than first meets the eye: Newly-Released NOAA Emails Show Anger and Confusion Around Trump’s ‘Doctored’ Hurricane Dorian Map As New Coronavirus Spread, China’s Old Habits Delayed Fight In both cases, the leaders of the country spread false information...

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February 2, 2020

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Trump appears to believe the wheel was an American invention

Am I baked?* Can this shit be real? THIS. IS. THE. ACTUAL. PRESIDENT. OF. THE. UNITED. STATES! x In one minute today Trump managed to: – Say Elon Musk Ã¢Â€Âœdoes very good at rocketsÃ¢Â€Â – Imply Thomas Edinson is alive – Say the wheel was invented in America Such a...

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January 23, 2020

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What an embarrassment – Putin and Assad mock Donald Trump in Damascus ( video).

This is beyond delicious. Proof that Vlad plays the tangerine dingleberry like a cheap fiddle. Are we tired of all the winning yet? H/T to Raw story “If Trump arrives along this road [to Damascus], everything will become normal with him too,” Assad said, according to a translation of the...

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January 14, 2020

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Political CessPool Report From KY: Payoff to Pardon Sodomizer and Thomas Massie Has Primary Fight.

Another day, another Kentucky criminal’s family pays to have them pardoned from prison. GOP prosecutor took donations from sex offender's family, then pressed Bevin for a pardon The elected Republican commonwealth’s attorney in Christian County wrote to Gov. Matt Bevin last month seeking a pardon on behalf of a prominent...

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January 10, 2020

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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – James Bond's Skyfall: the DB5 and battleship island

Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...

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December 21, 2019

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Lawrence O’Donnell on Trump: ‘Stranded as America’s clown on the international stage’

I watched the interview between Trump and Macron today and felt a deep sense of embarrassment. But it was not for Trump. Do you know who I really feel for? Trump’s a “clown on the international stage” “There are a few intersecting factors that leave Donald Trump stranded as America’s clown on...

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December 4, 2019

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Chuck Todd gets owned by Rand Paul then scolded by Congressman for incompetence

Rand Paul took such command of the interview with Chuck Todd that Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT) had to scold Todd after saying he needed to “de-combust” his head after listening. Chuck Todd‘s interview with Rand Paul was an embarrassment not only for Todd but for the corporate mainstream media. It...

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November 10, 2019

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RWNJs are having trouble defending Individual-1 in the #Trumpeachment

Other than a rhetorical diversion into the use of “lynching”, Lindsey Graham is one of a few Senate Republicans unencumbered by the possibility of sitting as an impeachment juror. RWNJ pundits have taken to attacking Graham to fill the space of media reaction and in the absence of many Trump...

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October 23, 2019

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GOP Panic: Graham challenger broke a fundraising record, and new poll shows 7-point gap.

CORRECTS TO ALMOST A YEAR, NOT THE ANNIVERSARY, IN FIRST SENTENCE - South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jamie Harrison speaks with reporters in downtown Charleston, S.C., on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, about a year after the announcement of the hacking of the tax returns of millions of South Carolinians. Harrison called the handling of the situation a failure of leadership by Republican Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley spokesman Doug Mayer responded that the governor's focus from the start has been on tracking down the hacker and that while technology always evolves, South Carolinians are far safer from such attacks than they were a year ago. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

Maybe Lindsey’s idea to convert himself into Trump’s boot licker wasn’t such a hot idea idea after all. Although Lindsey Graham is still currently the favorite to win in this safe Trump state, he is trending downward after several major embarrassments. On the flip side, Democratic challenger Jamie Harrison has been steadily...

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October 19, 2019

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Trump throws Hail Mary pass in desperate attempt to save pathetic KY governor from defeat

Just how bad do you have to be to lose re-election as the right-wing conservative incumbent in one of the reddest states in the union? I ask because that’s exactly what is happening right now in Kentucky. The election is less than a month away, and Matt Bevin is ranked the most unpopular...

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October 13, 2019

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Fact-checking Democrats in the age of chronic Trump lies

At the outset of his presidency, several major news outlets eagerly and proudly announced that they were going to fact-check Donald Trump's every utterance and document all the misinformation he was spreading. To their credit, news organizations set aside considerable resources to dutifully unpack Trump's “falsehoods,” as the press preferred...

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October 12, 2019