E. Howard Hunt’s storytelling could return as one can imagine Trump's last State of the Union speech (SOTU) as unhinged, the second SOTU in history to be delivered by an impeached POTUS. In the age of “threat imminence” new yet improbable CTs will emerge, as their narratives are now getting their trial ballooning, like “Obama killed Gaddafi”….
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A telling response from a Facebook Evangelical friend makes Pastor John Pavlovitz words prescient
An evangelical friend on Facebook shocked me. I posted a message about Trump’s latest disaster, Iran. Ultimately she said it was God’s will for him to be president and implied that it is in the Bible’s word. I woke up with that on my mind and recalled an interview I recently did with Pastor John Pavlovitz….
Will Iran help Trump get re-elected because that would do the worst possible damage to the US
Keeping Trump in power might be the best Iranian revenge for the assassination of Qasem Suliemani. One view could be that Trump, as a natural coward will ultimately reduce US forces and cede Middle East political influence to his masters in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Russia, despite his preference for empty posturing and protecting his personal economic…
Prof. Eddie Glaude schools Biden-pandering MSNBC host on choosing Republican VP
Professor Eddie Glaude did not allow a Biden-Pandering MSNBC Host to get away with a “far-left” narrative on those who found Biden flirting with choosing a Republican VP obscene. Eddie Glaude schools MSNBC Host The MSNBC host did not hide both his pandering and the attempt to justify the words of a candidate that was best suited…
Half a billion animals incinerated in Australia
“The anger is real. The anger is justified. Because this disaster was all foreseen and predicted. For decades the link between a hotter, drier climate, land-clearing, excessive irrigation and increased fire risk have all been attested in scientific papers.” Carol Sparks, Mayor of Glenn Innes Severn Council My view on Australia burning: that human-caused global…
MoveOn members in 2019: Putting our people power to work
MoveOn members began 2019 with new hope for our future as a new Congress was sworn in—the most diverse House of Representatives in history, with many progressive champions MoveOn members played pivotal roles in electing. And we ended the year with the impeachment of Donald Trump—a critical achievement to help check his administration’s rampant abuses…
Thousands celebrating New Years Eve in Australia flee into the ocean to escape raging bushfires.
Climate change, it’s here. Perhaps it is time that the world helps Australia in their moment of need. It is like Armageddon in many areas of the continent. Yesterday, over 30,000 people were ordered to evacuate a huge swath of land in Victoria state, known as Gippsland, as soaring temperatures sparked lightening creating apocalyptic wildfires….
How Rudy helped impeach Trump in the 84 days of Arms for Dirt
A new article provides a narrative that while explaining the story of the Arms for Dirt scandal, that there’s a timeline for several parallel activities. It also shows that there are more than a few strands of related activity at work, especially since running in the background of Arms for Dirt was an investment scandal…
Democrats need to prepare Americans for a Trump-induced financial meltdown
History has clearly shown that Democrats are continuously left to clean up the economic mess of Republican administrations. And in the process, like President Obama in 2010, Democrats pay the price for the pain as they rebuild from the latest financial meltdown. While Republicans will lie about supposed consequences of Democratic policies (death panels, throwing grandma over the…
Dean Obeidallah: Democrats ceding 'good economy' talking point is a loser
Dean Obeidallah appeared on MSNBC’s AM Joy and made a very important critique on Democrats ceding the economic narrative to Donald Trump. Dean Obeidallah correct on not ceding economic message A few weeks ago I wrote a piece titled “Make the stock market record highs and low unemployment Trump’s failure.” A meme about the stock…
context begins to catch up to the Giuliani propaganda
Politicians thinking of entering the recent Giuliani Ukraine “documentary” piece into trial evidence, need to first read this WaPo article by Ian Bateson. x Opinion: What Rudy Giuliani’s version of reality looks like from Ukraine https://t.co/pz3iyiY5CT— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 27, 2019 Earlier this month, Rudolph W. Giuliani made an unexpected trip to Ukraine, accompanied…
Journalist David Cay Johnston: Why Trump tax cut is really a tax increase with interest.
The report is out on Donald Trump’s tax cut and it is not pretty. Just as we expected it helped corporations and not the people. David Cay Johnston said the tax cut scam was nothing but a future tax increase with interest. He was unequivocal in the clip below as he slammed the tax cut. David Cay…
Donald Trump was impeached. Where do we go from here?
The suspense is over: Donald J. Trump is impeached. The question is, now what? It is unlikely that the Senate will remove Donald Trump from the office of the presidency. There are those who are not politically savvy, who do not stay informed, and who are likely expecting something substantive to happen out of this impeachment….
Romney campaign adviser: Republicans now intent on extinguishing the very concept of truth
When the history obscene bathroom-stall doodles of this presidency are finally written, they will note that Donald Trump was an impeached president. And you’ll be able to find GOP Congress members’ souls for sale at deep discounts in St. Vinnie’s bargain bins across the country — because having sold them to shield the most egregious…
KY-Sen: Kamala Harris (D. CA), “McConnell doesn’t want a Senate trial. He wants a Senate cover-up.”
Former Presidential candidate and current U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D. CA) has a blistering op-ed piece out in the New York Times and it royally calls out Moscow Mitch from trying to rig Trump’s impeachment trial: As a former prosecutor, I understand the importance of holding powerful people accountable. I know that every trial requires…
Media fail: The press keeps covering impeachment through the eyes of the Republican Party
The political press corps may have hit peak impeachment failure on Sunday when Meet the Press host Chuck Todd introduced a segment in which voters from a toss-up district in Michigan were interviewed about the House proceedings against Donald Trump. Touted as a way to take the temperature of everyday voters outside of the “Beltway,”…
Russian support for Rudy's “investigations” in Ukraine also included disinformation
A new Washington Post article describes the mechanics of disinformation underlying portions of the smear campaign to which Rudy Giuliani claimed credit as a private citizen working for Trump. Colludy or Conspiry? 'I needed #Yovanovitch out of the way' so malign actors in Arms for Dirt created fake lists The story that appeared on The Hill website…
Employer or private based insurance? Here’s proof you can only rely on Medicare for All.
Employer or private based insurance’s consistency is at best unreliable. Here’s proof of why Medicare for All is the only practical solution to dependable and reliable healthcare. Medicare for All, the solution to the current healthcare con As I am going through my emails I came across a “breaking news” email blast from the Houston Chronicle —…
The New York Times' impeachment coverage devolves into Republican talking points
Firmly adopting Republican spin as the best way to view the House impeachment of Donald Trump, The New York Times in recent days appears to have forfeited much of its news coverage to the GOP. Adopting Republican talking points that impeachment is “a political plus” for Trump; “risky” for Democrats; that the White House’s impeachment war room is…
New York Times aids GOP's cynical 'partisan witch hunt' narrative on impeachment
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Republicans have had less than nothing (or nothing real, anyway) to fall back on in their defense of Donald Trump during the recent impeachment imbroglio. What they do have amounts to repeating Hunter Biden’s name into a mirror over and over again and hoping he magically appears. But…
Clear and Present Danger will gaslight in Pennsylvania tonight at 7pm ET
One anticipates that Trump flushes “10 to 15 times” down the Hershey highway (HersheyPark Drive) in tonight’s 7pm ET Hershey PA speech. Pence will also be there so expect something slightly longer and with above average lies/falsehoods. It’s a 10,500 seat venue. Trump supporters “from all parts of Pennsylvania to Florida, Wyoming and North Carolina”…
Leader Perfecto only gets two articles of impeachment: Abuse of Power & Obstruction of Congress
One guesses that omitting Obstruction of Justice leaves it to be pursued later, in the criminal indictments elsewhere and after the 2020 election. The facts are overwhelming, regardless. This is a streamlined impeachment with a narrow focus to ensure impeachment (regardless of the GOP Senate majority). What remained from the House hearings was GOP process whining…
Is the DNC stunting what should be a huge Progressive Democratic win? Why?
Why would the DNC cede the narrative on impeachment to the Republicans by not matching their ad campaign with our own truth campaign? It is mind-bogging. Those of us in the independent media and blogosphere do it ad nauseam but sometimes find divergent narratives or are simply ignored instead of amplified. Recently, Stephanie Ruhle asked…
Rahm Emmanuel decimated GOP Trump-Hate impeachment talking point.
Former President Obama Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, snuffs out Republican talking points about Trump hate being responsible for Trump’s impeachment. He did not lose his cool as he listened to the misinformation. Republican strategist Alice Stewart attempted to give Trump’s impeachment a Trump-hate narrative. Emanuel systematically deconstructed the trope. Impeachment Trump-hate trope snuffed “What we…
Make no mistake, centrism is an ideology and it has consequences
I don’t play chess but if I did, I am sure I would equate today’s politics with three-dimensional chess. And in the game, the middle class and the poor are likely to be ill-prepared to win. Centrism has powerful allies. It must be repeated ad-nauseam, the American political game is played between two rails both…
David Dennison reminds us about disinformation as Rudy Colludy manufactures some
Greg Sargent has an excellent piece on disinformation in WaPo, reminding us how the GOP continues to traffic in disinformation as the Senate impeachment trial approaches. Two new developments attest to this point: a remarkable pair of revelatory tweets from Giuliani, and a tour de force of reporting in The Post, which reveals that Trump routinely communicated throughout…
One America News Network promotes Rudy Colludy's propaganda work in Ukraine
Disinformation in plain sight now includes a series of stunts, supported by OAN and apparently pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians as Rudy Giuliani tries to spin more mischief for Trump. Coincidentally a Sinclair reporter asked Speaker Pelosi the “hate” question today. Giuliani’s trips were organized around filming of a multipart television series produced/aired by conservative One America…
Dispatches from Trumpland: 'Lincoln only freed the slaves … what Trump is doing is far greater'
Forget about Kool-Aid. These idiots would swallow battery acid if Dear Leader told them to. And, you know, in a way they kind of are. You may have seen the recent Economist/YouGov poll in which 53 percent of Republicans claimed that Donald Trump is a better president than Abraham Lincoln. Yes, that is some shart-gargling, barking-mad…
Half of America wants Trump removed from office. Why does the press keep shrugging that off?
With the House Judiciary Committee poised to take up the impeachment baton and hold a new round of public hearings this month, the Beltway press continues to absorb and echo Republican talking points that claim the inquiry isn’t resonating with Americans. Because impeachments aren’t legal proceedings, the messaging wars that surround them take on added importance. And…
The GOP is now the party of Russian disinformation; Sen. John Kennedy is the latest dupe
During the impeachment hearings last week, I kind of wanted Fiona Hill to float down from the ceiling after the lunch break like Mary Poppins and spank the ever-living crap out of Gym Jordan and Devin Nunes. Or maybe give them a royal death glare and intone, “We are not amused.” Or morph into the first…
Many on the right are yearning for a dialogue. They are the real silent majority
I talk directly and indirectly to hundreds of people every week. Right wingers troll me ad nauseam. Recently, something strange has begun; I find conservatives trolling my trolls in my defense as I continue to expound our progressive mantra. It is clear to me from my experience in my own community, people who stumble onto my…
could Trump testify before the Senate, because that's who he is….
Because at this point, Individual-1 knows he has the impeachment acquittal votes, could Trump come before the Senate to make what would be a campaign speech. Trump doesn’t have to appear, but it seems more likely that with a GOP majority unwilling to have defections, Trump would try to spike the ball in must-see TV ratings…
Just when you thought things could not get any worse in Australia, Sydney might run out of water.
The largest city in Australia, Sydney, is set to run out of water by 2022 warned a CNN affiliate which was confirmed by the Water Minister of New South Wales (NSW), Melinda Pavey. It is only Spring in NSW and already the region suffers from a crippling, according to CNN, drought and ferocious bushfires that…
President Obama is wrong. Progressives are the ones rooted in the reality of middle-class & poor
President Obama recently in a room of wealthy Liberal donors called out Progressives for wanting transformational change. He implied it was unrealistic. Thus far, Obama had stayed out of the Democratic Primary Process. He should consider continuing said refrain as coming out as an anti-progressive will activate many progressives, who out of necessary pragmatism then,…
another slow news day that needs retroactive continuity, so Matt Gaetz is not a witch
Some civil disobedience acts are better than others, like storming a SCIF, because to Gaetz, some kayfabe stunts are more legal than others during an impeachment inquiry. On the bright side, at least Gaetz didn’t melt or burst into flames. x Gaetz wants women who threw drink at him to serve time https://t.co/kzqhYrioRB — #TuckFrump…
Don Jr: “How can Democrats beat Trump if they can't boot Sean Spicer from DWTS?”
For some Trumpers, not even the spawn is racist enough for some of its followers in 2020. Still early days, but Trumpism may be in the beginning stages of base fracturing among its Christian nationalists and its GOP conservatives primarily on how racist they should be. No Night of the Long Knives yet, but popcorn futures look…
Laura Cooper Deposition Transcript Available
Recall that this was the day the GOP stormed the SCIF. This fact-witness nails down the issues holding up military aid and the elements of the narrative that is not simply about one conversation but a parallel, insurgent process to abet bribery and extortion. Laura Cooper's testimony reveals how Trump froze Congressionally-approved aid to Ukraine. Cooper…
Deputy Assistant DoD Secretary Laura Cooper Deposition Transcript Available
Recall that this was the day the GOP stormed the SCIF. This DoD fact-witness nails down the issues holding up military aid and the elements of the narrative that is not simply about one conversation but a parallel, insurgent process to abet bribery and extortion. The testimony of Deputy Assistant Secretary Laura Cooper can be found here….
Russians and Retaliation at the White House
Individual-1 continues to not work in the interest of the US, as Vindman gets reassigned, and what was suspected becomes more evident. As expected, retaliation.Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who gave a bombshell testimony in the House impeachment investigation last month on President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme, will be removed from his post at the White House…
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 is clear that the tepidity…
Michael Bennet gives bumbling answer to MSNBC Host call-out on his Medicare for All dis.
MSNBC host Katy Tur allowed Michael Bennet to hang himself as he tried to dis Medicare for All and still call himself a transformational leader, a progressive leader. He became a bumbling politician whose narrative was severely flawed. Michael Bennet has been one of the major hitmen for Medicare for All for some time. He evangelizes his…
one Amigo, Rudy, and Mick walk into a trap…
A new article describes the trial ballooning of GOP narratives that would try to divert the impeachment and pin the crime on someone, anyone else. No one seems to fit even as Sondland, Mulvaney, and Giuliani appear on a short list to not make Trump guilty of bribery, extortion, or abuse of power for personal…
Pundit Zerlina Maxwell poses an important question to Democrats they better heed
MSNBC Pundit Zerlina Maxwell admonishes the Democratic Party and the corporate mainstream media for positing the wrong question about who will bring victory to the party. She has been pushing the narrative for a long time and one hopes the party will take heed sooner than later. Maxwell points out a flaw in the thinking of the…
According To Tiger Beat On The Potomac, Buttigieg Is Coming For Joe Biden.
That is when Buttigieg is not punching at Warren. Buttigieg won’t have to show his distaste for Beto O’Rourke any more though. But Tiger Beat has Buttigieg going after Biden supporters in Iowa. And as any good media outlet that loves Republicans and centrists, Tiger Beat on the Potomac (Politico) is enjoying the spectacle of…
Will Joe Manchin (D-WV) vote for Trump if Bernie is the nominee? To some loyalty goes one way.
Senator Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News and said that if Bernie Sanders is the nominee of the Democratic Party, Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, will not vote for him. Centrist Democrats are always expressing concerns about whether Progressives would show up for their less than progressive candidates in the general election. They always bite…
Democrats need a Stars and Stripes Case for Impeachment
The question on whether or not Donald John Trump is convicted and removed from office by virtue of a Senate Conviction will come down not to loyalty or the current makeup of that body. The fate of President Trump will lie with what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expects to happen on January 3rd, 2021,…
Current Media Narrative On Status of Democratic Presidential Race.
Actually, there isn’t just one Media narrative on the Democratic presidential race, but I want to focus on this one story from CNBC. It certainly encapsulates the narrative on Joe Biden. Yes, I do not support Joe Biden, BUT I do not think that the data presented supports the narrative. Spoiler Alert: Biden’s campaign is…
rMoney plays it safe, he won't run against Trump but he could call for an impeachment conviction
Other than the possibility that he could vote to convict Trump, Mitt seems to have a Twitter sockpuppet named Twitter user @qaws9876, otherwise known as Pierre Delecto. Sen. Mitt Romney, in an interview with “Axios on HBO,” outlined a broad indictment of President Trump, criticizing his rhetoric, his abandonment of the Kurds, his plea to Ukraine and…
Chuck Todd on Hillary’s attack on Tulsi: “A Trumpian move” as Buttigieg wimps out.
I was concerned that the corporate mainstream media would adopt Hillary Clinton’s narrative of Tulsi Gabbard being a Russian asset. Chuck Todd, the MSM standard-bearer and others have not. Chuck Todd gets this one right Anyone who read or heard Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Secretary Hillary Clinton’s statement smearing Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard should have been appalled. Accusing…
The 2019 “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done” 3rd Quarter Report
Since the Trump Presidency began back in January 2017, we have endeavored to maintain a comprehensive listing of all the administrations misdeeds in the Everything Awful The Trump Administration Has Done Omnibus (full list here), and have attempted to categorize and score them accordingly. Today is October 20th, which means that as of noon today we are now…
