On Tuesday, Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth backed down from a threat to delay approving Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominees because of a lack of high-level Asian American representation among the president’s brain trust. She made the announcement after receiving assurances from the Biden administration that it would strive for greater AAPI representation...
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To be fair, practically everyone’s opinion about the royal family is worthless, because the royal family itself is a pointless anachronism. And now that it’s clearly both racist and pointless, the world is piling on. Enter Meghan McCain. Now, admittedly, I have mixed feelings about McCain. I tend to like...
Posted an hour ago on their Youtube Channel It goes for two minutes It lambasts Trump on so many levels comparisons with John McCain and PRESIDENT George H W Bush It uses some of the gross words and actions of Trump as part of its presentation It calls Trump a...
Looks like someone forgot to scrub his Twitter account. x I was never a big fan of John McCain, disagreed with him on many things including ridiculous endless wars and the lack of success he had in dealing with the VA and our great Vets, but the lowering of our...
takes us through what happened with captured Americans in Europe and the Pacific during WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan it has a picture of John McCainand then cuts to Trump saying of McCain “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” then responds:...
I don’t know why this hasn’t been happening for five years now, but thank you, thank you, thank you Paula Reid. I’m sure you’ve heard the one about Donald Trump passing the Veterans Choice Act, which no other president could do for 50 years except, it turns out, Barack Obama, who...
Yes, he foisted Sarah Palin on our national politics, which was a little like bringing an uncooked moose to a dinner party instead of a nice insouciant, oaky cabernet. But Steve Schmidt, the veteran Republican campaign strategist who guided John McCain’s 2008 presidential run, now speaks the truth. And he’s not pulling...
We’ve all puzzled and puzzled till our puzzlers were sore about what the hell happened to Lindsey Graham. The guy who used to kind of make sense (at least compared to the other troglo-dipshits in the GOP) appears to have made a complete 180 from the lofty, rarefied principles of his longtime...
Apparently people don’t. Nor do they remember that his actual response was half hearted, strangely worded, and McCain and his campaign immediately backtracked to excuse McCain’s supporters for their flagrant bigotry. So let’s back up a bit to give some context. The news cycle in recent days has been dominated by stories...
Am I reading too much into this? Here’s Trump’s quote from earlier today. It doesn’t quite capture the vitriol, so feel free to watch the clip for yourself. But take your Dramamine first. (Second tweet) “… both houses where we had Congress, where we had the Senate, and we had wonderful congressmen. We...
It has become a defining feature, perhaps the defining feature of the m(or)onarchy of King Schitwitz the First. And the longer we live under the thumb of Fumbles the Clown, the more pronounced it gets. I’m talking about the phenomena of “Hey, remember when this shit was funny?” They came out of...
I never watched Donald Trump’s inauguration. Couldn’t do it. I think I spent the day flossing my perineum with concertina wire, because that seemed far, far less demoralizing. But Minnesota senator and presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar was there, and during a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, she...
Well, Trump has gone out of his way to repeatedly mock a long-dead John McCain, so why should this matter? (Remember when stuff mattered? Back in the before-times? Those were the days.) CNN: Kelly Sadler, the former White House aide who was let go after she mocked the late Sen. John...
Needless to say, there’s a big difference between this: “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” And this: x On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, we honor the Americans captured and imprisoned by foreign powers...
I don’t know for sure that this woman is a Trump supporter, but come on, how could she not be? Glad to see our pr*sident’s sterling example continues to make our world a kinder, gentler place. (Click on the tweet to see the whole thing.) x I want to make...
She could have probably just stopped before the “the way they loved my father” bit, but point taken. Yesterday, proving he’s very, very stable, if not a bona fide genius, the actual president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, went out of his way to smear a dead U.S....
I figured I’d skip tonight’s State of the Union address, for the same reason I’m not driving to the local tavern to watch drunk idiots order hardboiled eggs floating in brine: I don’t need to hear what they have to say, and I’d prefer not to vomit if I can...
I’ll tell you what kind of duck. A lame duck — who is hemorrhaging influence and political capital by the day. (Okay, so he’s not technically a lame duck by the standard political definition, but he’s decidedly à l’orange, and no one is lamer.) So you’d think if you were banned...
I’m not the biggest fan of Meghan McCain or her father but watching her tear into Trump was a thing of beauty. Make no mistake: the applause ringing out at the Cathedral when Meghan McCain says 'America has no need to be made great again because America was always great'...
I have the TV on in the background, and I have been listening to MSNBC’s coverage of “Celebrating Aretha Franklin” in Detroit. I always enjoyed listening to Aretha’s music when I was growing up. I think my favorite song of her’s is “Until You Come Back to Me.” And I...
Many have remarked that there simply is no bottom to this president. Well, there is, and it’s covered with poopy diapers and baby powder. From The Wall Street Journal via Talking Points Memo: While he eventually agreed to lower the White House flag in honor of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) passing...
No one would ever confuse Brit Hume with David Hume (people used to ask me all the time how I would ever use philosophy in the real world — asked and answered, motherfuckers). But ol’ Brit is the latest Fox News pundit to cast a jaundiced eye in King Carotene’s direction....
Every time I think Trump’s GOP couldn’t possibly sink into depravity any further, I get another reminder of just how far they’ve fallen. An Arizona TV reporter shared a social media post between one of Kelli Ward’s staffers and Kelli Ward herself: x WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?@kelliwardaz staffer: I wonder if...
“The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” With that phrase, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States ensures civilian control over—and accountability for—the American military. While the power to declare war rests with Congress, responsibility for America’s...
Hey, why not DKOS ??? Take it to the bank! We got contacts at the White House. They want to elect their favorite presidential candidate. Why not cut a deal like Halliburton in the 00's ? Sure thing: we back off a skosh on pushing Bernie Sanders, they give us...
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