The Big Lie continues: “You don't know how angry this country is… We should have had it.”
Angry Country. Ted Cruz lies as he gets caught taking a Cancun vacation while Texas freezes. And from Fox News hosts Harris Faulkner and Bill...
Castor Oily: The Senate majority may vote to convict, yet Trump will be acquitted by supermajority
Disloyal opposition gets its 44 votes today.11 votes from the 67 votes needed to convict Trump. In this impeachment trial, Trump still needs to shoot...
House 'GQP' congeals around its leaders
The Trumpist GOP identifies its allegiances. Nice to see Philip Bump using DKos data. Eleven members of the House Republican caucus took the unusual step Thursday...
Trump's 'election fraud' claims now prove themselves to be quantitatively fraudulent
Researchers at Stanford and U. of Chicago, Eggers, Garro, and Grimmer, today demonstrated quantitatively how the election was never “stolen”, but rather framed by false...
1/6 evidence destruction as the Internet is forever
"Lies of a feather flock together" https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1355211783875788803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw In the days ahead of the January 6 Capitol riot, there were warnings, but no guarantee that the...
melting Rudy Giuliani explicitly says that Trump's goal is to “overturn the election”
Did Trump actually call the two Wayne County canvassers to try to reverse their reversal. Autogolpe Trump's widespread effort to delay or undermine certification includes no-take-backsies. ...
GOP folly: “Branding Trump as anything but a loser”
Trump has always been a loser, but is reaching the end even as he’s trying to keep the grift going. Remember that he began campaigning...
the 2000 Brooks Brothers Riot returns, GOP operatives protest at Michigan counting site
Brooks Brothers riot of intimidation returns from 2000: xWow. Actually identical now to the Bush 2000 playbook. https://t.co/zTtsayW1a4— Dan O'Sullivan (@Bro_Pair) November 4, 2020 GOP...
Trump says fuggetabout pandemic. In Montana he's so far ahead we “shouldn't even have the election”
Like a cartoon dog in a burning room or a river in Egypt, we know Trump will spend his post-presidency looking for the real reasons...
Is the Real a road too far, a zone flooded by disinformation.
There is a critical reality beyond the waiting for the “next two weeks” in which Trump has promised multiple times over the four years a...
Reminder: Trump impeached for his attempts to fabricate lies about Joe Biden and Ukraine
Nothingburger: but the latest attempt to vilify Hunter Biden does remind us that bad things could happen when you bring your computer in for repair....
we're not even near peak unhingery with Trump
We are simply at the moment where the accumulated stories of disrespect all get to be compared with the opposing candidate and his party. xEvery...
20th Amendment: Trump wants delay to drag him over the finish line, but for #President Pelosi
Fortunately, Trump has telegraphed one of his tactical options to remain in power. xFor nearly 90 years, the Constitution has contained a built-in safeguard against...
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,...
GA-Sen B: Some Major Corporate Donors Are Having Second Thoughts About Supporting Kelly Loeffler (R)
From CNN: x1. Technically, Senator Kelly Loeffler is running to keep her seat.But she has decided to campaign against Black Lives Matter.Loeffler highlights her opposition...
Nuts need numb-naming as Trump Tulsa rally is likely source of COVID-19 surge
So much complicity so little time left, the GOP seems ready to lose the Senate because they back-ended the wrong horse. xLearn. Their. Names. pic.twitter.com/lYzH8LIj6d—...
RW extremists find affinity in FB groups because Facebook helps them find each other
“...Facebook right now continues to host boogaloo groups who are getting around just the basic level of content moderation they’re doing for these groups….” — MSNBC...
Kudlow says we just have to “get used to” record COVID cases and deaths (as well as post-racism)
Also, Larry Ludlow says that the election of Obama proves there is no systemic racism, much like two-handing a glass of water and shuffling down...
Live Blog: COVID Taskforce “When somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total”
Live Blog below — it likely won’t start on time, pretty much the symbol of the WH. Today had 45 minutes of what likely will be peak Trumpiness,...
With America under siege, Trump picks the absolute worst time to suck up to North Korea
Yes, we are seriously going back to this again. I was really being tough and so was he. And we would go back and forth....
same tired Trump viral BS shtick: blaming someone else (foreigners, Dems, something-something)
Who pays $20,000 for a plane ticket, or a Final Four ticket, or an Inaugural ticket, and should you blame some other country for your...
“Trump's Katrina” continues as experts step in despite IMPOTUS calling COVID-19 “a hoax”
We remain ready for Trump’s “Way-to-go Brownie” moment, although that may remain the cipher for his entire presidency, having failed the tests of leadership by...
Facebook made The Daily Caller an official fact-checker; here are the results
This is pretty chilling. x2. On Friday, Politico published an article headlined "Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax.’"The Daily Caller declared...
VP Pence in presser continues to disinform on COVID-19, complimenting Dear Leader
Referring to a Trumpian “(w)hole of government approach” Pence is using the WH briefing room to dispense some disinformation where there are now 100 cases...
Second US death. Inoculating against pathological viroTrumpism requires testimony under oath
As a second US citizen (also in Washington State) dies from COVID-19, the Trump lies continue. A reminder that actual Trumpian truth happens only under...
Trump says COVID-19 is like “the flu” and Mike Pence believes “smoking doesn't kill”
Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms, in which case it...
is there a bubble for responding to a pandemic
Like financial bubbles, health epidemics also appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future. Trump could double-down on his inaction and use...
Roger Stone gets 3.3 years. With IMPOTUS acquittal, Congress's GOP declared themselves “Trumpocrats”
Justice gets done, despite the tweet-bleating of Trump and the intervention of Barr. The Trumpocracy’s court jester is sentenced to 40 months in prison (three...
All is well! “You can't remove me with an impeachment trial, I'm (still) the Commander-in-Chief”
The dog wagged once. Did the WH dodge a ballistic missile since apparently there were no casualties in the several Iranian missile strikes in Iraq....
Republican congressman tweets out fake photo of Obama and Iranian president
Let us count the ways in which this tweet — from Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) — is bullshit. Oh, never mind. Journalist Judd Legum already...
The Two Shreks need a shout-out tomorrow during the hearings
Ranking member Devin Nunes (CA-R) needs some side-eye or at least more help traveling to his farm in Iowa, because of those Russia-related junkets Lev...
How Mob Bossiness works: “Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret.” … Is Sondland no snitch
Today’s bombshell had a considerable blast radius. Sondland affirms, “yes” there was a “quid pro quo.” After a first deposition, a revised addendum, and today another...
Ukraine was so corrupt, Trump wanted to build two resorts there
Kiev and Yalta, in the latter case at least Trump’s golf resort would be in the Russian zone. “The Trumps were looking to erect luxury...
SCIF Squad: GOP dead-enders crash closed House committee session
The protest is over, after delaying the hearing for five hours. Laura Cooper of the DoD is testifying. The sit-in was held by GOP House members...
Path to the bunker: “he's in the hospitality business”
Because someone in the hospitality business would want to jail and relocate the homeless away from hotels, put refugees in detention camps, and separate children from...
Facebook might be a GOP media organ … surprise, surprise
New Popular Info article describes how completely the post-2016 use of Facebook for political purposes has been compromised beyond foreign ad buys and manipulation by...
Trump Presser: gaslight released by 45* just as the whistle-blower's complaint arrives at Congress
It’s a fast-moving day and a press conference was scheduled for 4pm. Trump’s last such presser at the UNGA was “free-wheeling” so the cray-cray might...
#KremlinAnnex Thursday protest week 63
x@KremlinAnnex WOW- You made it to https://t.co/iEGiwwO1Ah pic.twitter.com/51fBeBNAuB — Individual 1 is A traitor (@SwampIsFULL) September 26, 2019 xHey Trump, resign! #KremlinAnnex pic.twitter.com/qNZuhrD6Vj — Melissa...
Treasonous Trump helps release 10,000 ISIS fighters by green-lighting Turkish incursion
Individual-1's tough day of unhingery continues, as a new book describes more Trump sexual predation. Many moving parts in today’s media as the Turkish offensive...
Facebook Has Changed Its Rules to Allow Trump to Outright Lie in 2020.
x2. The new ad policy "prohibits ads that include claims debunked by third-party fact checkers"So you would think that would prohibit political ads that are...
So Trump just retweeted an account that makes fun of his hatred of sharks
For my money, this is still the greatest paragraph ever written in the English — or likely any other — language. And, as you’ve probably already...
Two tweets, one from Adam Schiff, show just how dangerously unstable Trump is
Good God. Trump’s peppy tweet-party over the weekend made his bonkers CPAC speech look like the Sermon on the Mount. If you’re thinking of crashing the...