Protecting America and Protecting the People
The straight news or punditry often starts with the premise of scaring the American people away with a price tag. From the Biden Build Back...
Frozen by Inaction
Yes, everyone has the right to swing their fist; but no one has the right to swing their fist at my nose. The previous statement...
The Personality of a Cult…?
I tried sitting through FOX News’ commentary/critique yesterday, following Joe Biden’s report on the status of the nation, and in particular the American troop withdrawal...
Being a Nice Liberal is Getting Harder
After being assailed by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, strictly for political trolling points, Dr. Anthony Fauci made it a point to praise the new attitudes...
Intemperate Liar?
There is a lot of media hand-wringing over a little mind with tiny thoughts who has been elevated into a big political voice by the...
The Threats to American Democracy
I don’t know if this statement has been diarized, my apologies, but it bears repeating often, so if anyone missed it. The Threats to American...
This is informative journalism: Ali Velshi torched Republicans with the inconvenient truth.
This journalist, Ali Velshi, goes where most won’t, the unadulterated truth without sugar coating. He appropriately torched insurrectionists supporting Republicans. Ali Velshi Torches insurrectionist-appeasing Republicans https://youtube.com/watch?v=cX6biPFqd_M...
Godwin’s Law, MTG and the GOP
The simplest explanation for lawyer Michael Godwin’s law is that the longer a debate or disagreement extends, it will eventually devolve into an unfounded comparison...
A millennial’s plea to Boomers and older GenXers.
A few years ago, I wrote the piece titled "Boomers Must Take Some Blame And Help Fix Generation Y Unhappy Problem" without any malintent. I...
Reagan Foundation warns 'Trump Train' to get the Gipper's mug off its bus
I've always wanted to slap the red Trump hats off all the Trumpy oafs’ heads, but that would be 1) illegal, 2) unduly disrespectful in...
My Race is an Issue
Most things in America are solved by either common sense, solemnity, or time. The one exception is race. Historically both the Democratic and Republican party...
Wow! Chuck Todd neuters Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, 'There is nothing lazier than that excuse.'
Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) appeared on Meet The Press to turn questions into talking points. He got a few out, but ultimately Chuck Todd neutered him....
What Irony: a Cheney being punished for the truth
The Republican members of the House of Representatives convened their star chamber this morning and ousted the most conservative member of their caucus. GOP House...
Trainer says Kentucky Derby winner who tested positive for drug is victim of 'cancel culture'
So the winner of the Kentucky Derby is a “junky” now, according to our clammy, languorous yam-in-exile. (I won’t link to the “statement,” but trust...
FL-Gov: “It's him and Casey. But everyone else is like a disposable piece of garbage.”
Not surprised by this: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party. But many of his former staffers told Politico they...
Bamboo, Watermelons, and Rainbows
Have you ever asked yourself, why are so many GOP political theories race and gender-based? The latest is that voter ballots in Arizona were smuggled...
A Morning Muse: Whatever happened to “liberal” Internationalism?
Now firstly it is important to define Internationalism since commonly it is divided into three different major categories. 1] Hegemonic Internationalism example: Globalization [Colonization]. Main...
Minerva @ Midnight: “Working towards the Previous Guy”, rolling up his lackeys
Fear and loathing rises in the land of previous guy. The raid on Giuliani’s apartment and office netted the Feds 10 devices, laptops and phones. According...
CA-Gov: Rep. Ted Lieu (D) Brilliantly Trolls Uninformed Idiot On Twitter With A Politics 101 Lesson
Fail: REALITY BITES: That didn’t take long. Reality TV star and political neophyte Caitlyn Jenner was about 24 hours into the rollout of her California gubernatorial...
Kevin McCarthy can't answer direct questions about Jan. 6 because the Eye of Sour-Don is watching
Republicans desperately want you to forget the events of Jan. 6 and their aftermath. Unfortunately, the guy who caused the riot (at least according to Mitch...
VA-Gov: GOP's Leading Candidate For Governor Says Derek Chauvin Verdict Makes Her “Sick”
Friendly reminder, there’s a big Governor’s race in Virginia this year: Virginia Republican state Sen. Amanda Chase is no stranger to making provocative statements, and...
If Republicans Tell you They are Cowards…
Americans should listen to the rational Republicans willing to publicly lift the scales from their eyes, who say their brethren are cowardly. Current and former...
Minerva at Midnight: better sex under (democratic) socialism
"As in the Times Op-Ed from which the book originated, the title refers to the results of studies conducted in Germany from the mid-nineteen-eighties onward,...
Reporter attempts to blame MLB economic impact to Georgia on Biden. Jen Psaki made her look silly
A mainstream media reporter asked a Fox News-like question by blaming Biden for the MLB boycott's economic impact. Jen Psaki responded well. Jen Psaki makes MLB...
Fox News joins the late night (culture) wars with a cancellable Greg Gutfeld
Fox News and Greg Gutfeld apparently believes he’s funny enough to go up against late night comedy programming. Because of the previous guy, the world...
Minerva @ Midnight: has the left been “tamed” by Biden
This is a bad place in history. Apparently half of the GQP thinks the 1/6 insurrection was left-wing activists trying to make Trump “look bad”,...
Minerva @ Midnight: moderates are merely indecisive liberals/conservatives
Is US progressive politics, especially in cultural issues, incapable of attracting majority support. Not so much in terms of the usual self-fulfilling marginalization, but there...
“Politics is downstream from culture”
Who knew, Big Tech is corporate communism, which may explain why there should be a Magnitsky law for the US. A Ghislaine Maxwell pardon could...
Boyz Out the Hood(s)
Yesterday the state of Georgia defined election integrity as—black people not voting. Republicans love to throw around the image of liberal politicians in hemp-filled rooms...
Conservatives have some really dumb new reasons for opposing D.C. statehood
It always seemed absurd to me that hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens have no effective representation in Congress. And I’m not just talking about...
the Grand Hotel Abyss defunded and canceled by Trump's GQP culture war on massage spas
The Atlanta spree killings are unfortunately a story with structural similarity to events elsewhere. How do we know that Robert Long wasn’t on his way to...
Mitch McConnell scaring Democrats from killing filibuster with threats they'll affect anyway.
Mitch McConnell is threatening Democrats with scorched-earth GOP policies they have already done if they kill the filibuster. Mitch McConnell threatened Democrats on killing the...
Liberal economists Krugman & Summers battle on the American Rescue Plan. One belongs in GOP?
On this panel, Paul Krugman gets it right as Larry Summers continues his attack on the American Rescue Plan. He complains about workers getting a...
Conservatism is greed and bigotry dressed up as moralistic “principles” like individualistic liberty
Steve Bannon’s path to a pardon included appeals to a range of RWNJ groups including some dangerous proto-fascist cults. "The Fourth Turning" by Strauss & Howe...
Stephanopoulos should have responded this way to American Rescue Plan GOP Sen. John Barrasso lies.
Republican Senator John Barrasso appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, very prepared to lie with abandon. Unfortunately, Stephanopoulos made many of them slide. John...
Radicals or Game Changers?
The country needs to take a second look at the meaning of radical and change. Since January of 2019, the Republican party has drawn from...
M T Greene is Seriously in Trouble – with Republicans
Marjorie Taylor Greene (I refuse to dignify her with an affectionate abbreviation) has not exactly followed Speaker Sam Rayburn's classic advice: “to get along, go...
Ben Shapiro's attempt to create a 'conservative Hollywood' will fail, like those that came before it
Every year, there’s an anti-Hollywood screed from the right that bemoans the plethora of late-night comics, movies, and television series that have a “liberal” slant....
After explaining Medicare-For-All to Right-Winger w/o using its name, she blurted: You are so nice!
I often get scolded by my Progressive brethren because they believe I should put no effort trying to bring in those on the Right into the...
Gov. Cuomo's Struggles Show the Democrat's Strength
The Democratic Party is once again proving that integrity matters. In recent days, the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has had too very credible charges...
A 'second gilded age'? Maybe, but only because recycling ideas is an academic genre
Darn those class commitments, aligning us to our political choices in a democracy, made worse by all those folks who knew they were in that...
meanwhile in Bizarro World, Alabama GOP Passes Resolution to Remove the USA from the UN
State level GOP parties are doing all kinds of stupidity, censuring its US senators, and following on the usual RW craziness, resorting to the pre-GQP...
Ba'al comes to CPAC, Ted Cruz jokes about his Cancun trip
Statue of the “other guy” arrives at CPAC, the annual owning the libs festival and meat market. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is underway in Orlando, Florida,...
PA-Sen: John Fetterman (D) Keeps Up The Momentum To Legalize Marijuana In Pennsylvania
Received this e-mail from Lt. Governor John Fetterman’s (D. PA) U.S. Senate campaign: Pennsylvania is *clearly superior* to New Jersey: In NFL teams, cheesesteaks, and...
TX-Gov: Beto O'Rourke (D), “We are nearing a failed state in Texas due to Republican leaders”
Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) had some harsh words yesterday: x“We are nearing a failed state in Texas. And it has nothing to do with God,...
If You Want Us to Believe You've Been Silenced, Then SHUT UP ALREADY!
Every time someone objects to the right-wing nonsense, they respond by whining we’re trying to censor them. Marjorie Taylor Greene of QAnon asshole fame even...
virtue/vice signaling: 1/6/2021 as the GOP LARP of the Trump era
Democracy is an afterthought for Trumpists. Whether it’s the “sense of style” or “good men knowing their limitations” the movie character of Dirty Harry played...
Rand Paul: “They won’t even admit there is election fraud and want to pretend nothing happened”
The alternative reality persists and MSM is only interested in the 2024 race. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1353361034753548292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Rand kept saying: hear the other side! https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1353364617876168704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw A clip of...
George Stephanopoulos grills hyperventilating Rand Paul into a frenzy about GOP election lies
This is what journalism is supposed to look like. George Stephanopoulos grilled Rand Paul into a hyperventilating frenzied state. George Stephanopoulos dings Rand Paul https://youtube.com/watch?v=N9WyDsDPawM...
Texas Activists carrying symbolic coffins marched at the home of Ted Cruz demanding his resignation.
Ted Cruz lied and violated constitutional order, which fed extremists' fire. On January 6th, they attacked the Capitol, an effort to steal the election. Ted...
