CA-Gov: Mother Jones Exposes Caitlyn Jenner's (R) Hypocritical Flip Flop On Trans Athletes
Can’t say that I’m surprised by this: Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic champion and reality TV personality now running for governor in California, said she...
CA-Gov: Buckle Up Buckaroos! The Recall Election Is Peak Trump/GOP “Own The Libs” Culture
Here’s the latest news today out of California: At a time when transgender rights have become the new culture war in American politics, Republican Olympian-turned-celebrity...
Newsom and Novelty: Caitlyn Jenner joins in the recall effort
GOP consultant Tim Miller weighs in on the Newsom recall effort in California. Someday the political status quo will be disrupted in the Golden State—politics...
Brad Parscale claims Trump the Martyr will gain ‘Super Powers’ after 2nd impeachment trial
It must be the bubble-living swamp rats who will determine the badge of honor for Trump, a candidate who’s had at least five campaign managers....
Pardoning Trumpers is like curing ballots without sodium nitrite or Brad Parscale's suicide vesting
xBiden: "We both know tensions are high. They can be high after a tough election...But remember, we have to remain calm, patient. Let the process...
“This is what Trump is like in the Oval Office every day.”
Red-faced. Shouting. Interrupting. Ignoring. That describes Trump at last night’s debate. Turns out it also describes what he’s like in the Oval Office: Trump doesn’t...
Trump campaign reportedly worried that Brad Parscale will start squealing
Let me bury the lede for the moment to point out that Donald Trump almost certainly thinks he won last night’s debate. Why wouldn’t he? He...
because the Second Amendment covers shooting out your window, accelerating after road rage
More Florida men-a-tee, standing their ground even as it moves beneath them at 101 mph, hot brass flying around the cabin of the pickup truck. Shooter appears...
They won't shake hands at Tuesday's debate due to COVID. Biden's already released his tax returns
What a week ahead. Chris Wallace’s questions for Tuesday night’s debate might get a little tweaking, after the NY Times story about Trump’s alleged tax fraud....
NYT details how Trump campaign ineptly blew $800 million to trail Joe Biden
Kos has noted that Donald Trump’s campaign appears to be out of money — or close to it, anyway. It’s been hemorrhaging cash faster than a...
TX-Sen: Beto O'Rourke, “Cornyn (R) is the single greatest enabler of Donald Trump in the Senate”
Loving this: Joining forces with MJ Hegar, Beto O’Rourke blasted Sen. John Cornyn Thursday night as “the single greatest enabler of Donald Trump in the...
Collusion between Trump campaign and Russia never ended
As we begin a week of pure GOP propaganda, it’s time to remind ourselves how we got here as well as remind ourselves that the...
GOTV: unpleasant, sad, and absolutely necessary
Voting for anyone other than Biden and not doing all the responsible down-ballot voting will bring not a revolution, but more likely accelerates the scientific...
Platform objections at the DNC, because delegates are serious about their candidate
A twitter pie-fight is currently simmering but it’s unclear whether people/bots are doing it for the lulz. It appears that Bernie delegates will still vote to...
Russia, Facebook, and Trump: Facebook still eased fact-checking rules for conservative pages
So much for having things both ways. Disinformation flooding continues. x“Can Trump place Facebook ads that feature Nazi symbols? Yes… Can he spread lies about mail-in...
advisor Steve Cortes wants a “bit more of a fascist Trump”
Could we use a bit more of a fascist Trump? Imagine some of us saying we wish for more of a tankie Biden? President Donald Trump’s...
Trump on school supplies: “We don't need 57 pencils for every kid. You can have two.”
Trump apparently believes that science should not stand in the way of full schools, because his truism is that the economy must turn around for...
Brad Parscale out as Trump campaign manager (Remember the Manafort!)
Today in disinformation: the plan continues to be no plan, increasing our information search-costs. The best example of that is removing as campaign manager, Brad...
Trump as IMPOTUS*-for-life could still happen
Another election could be stolen, but only if the results are close. GOTV. x#BenedictDonald, #MoscowMitch & GOP #GroupiesofPutin decide to legalize election cheating & working...
Trump 'furious' at Kushner over polling; Republicans giving Trump till Labor Day to right the ship
The redoubtable Gabriel Sherman has a new dispatch from the Land of Make-Believe (née the White House). Seems the current occupant, Donald John Trump, is feeling...
US still leads in COVID deaths, as Trump slows testing, visits Arizona today
Trump’s going to visit the three miles of new fence (197 miles are replacement fencing), and do undoubtedly another youth rally, remembering that the last one featured...
'Brad really sh*t the bed': Trump may be prepping to give Parscale the sack
Personally, I’d rather spend an Arizona summer canvassing for Joe Biden in a wetsuit made of beached squids and mayonnaise than work a single day...
NYT Trump Whisperers: Tulsa Rally Disaster Threw Facts Into Trump's Orange Face.
The only good thing with NYT’s access journalists like Maggie Haberman and Annie Karnie is they sometimes pan one golden nut of truth from the cesspool...
Trump golfing again in a pandemic, preparing for the 23 June “Students for Trump” event in Phoenix
488 of his Marine One flights were transport to a Trump brand golf course or a rally. xPres Trump has arrived at his golf club...
Safe Bets About Trump's Twitter Rampage Tomorrow.
To be a fly on the wall on Air Force one tonight. We already had the lies tonight about the Trump Coronavirus Fest in Tulsa from...
“Pschitt” … fizzling Tulsa Trump Rally response turned into BLM block party
The response to the Trump rally in Tulsa was peaceful as only 6,611 Trumpists showed up to a 19,000 seat venue. Protesters circled the BOK venue...
as COVID-19 ravages, Trump's Tulsa ‘criminal endangerment’ couldn't possibly be a bioweapon attack
Pence lies about curve flattening and Trumpists are so enamored of IMPOTUS* that they might sacrifice themselves without voting. Dick Cheney’s cardiologist calls Trump’s Tulsa...
Trump Campaign Says 300,000 Signed Up to Get Covid-19 – I Mean, Registered for the Tulsa Rally
The population of Tulsa OK is around 402,000. The population of the whole state of Oklahoma is just under 4 million. Yet, somehow, 80% of...
Tucker Carlson just said black people are coming for you (whoever that privileged “You” is)
What a frightened bunch, that Fox News audience, so sensitive to racist dog whistles, because the GOP is apparently blameless for racist policies. More frightening...
Trump will resume MAGA rallies 'in the next two weeks'
The MAGA rallies will resume until morale improves … or MAGAs start dropping like flies. Donald Trump has lately been jonesing for his rallies because 1)...
Kushner Going Under the Bus?
Jared Kushner, wonder boy, prince of darkness, the “jar” part of Jarvanka, is getting some really bad press right now. Not about his many failures...
Trump has reportedly turned on Lindsey Graham over Obama-bashing strategy
The redoubtable Gabe Sherman has another dispatch from the land of cray-cray kookaburras. And in this episode of the Fluorescent Lipo-Fat Golem Show, our intrepid protagonist...
Trump only needs to turn enough voters against authorities in enough swing states to get re-elected
How strange will it be that Trump will do things to attract reactionaries regardless of age grouping especially white ones at least until he can...
Dispatches From Behind Enemy Lines (Covid-19 edition)
“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” Donald Trump, February...
“There’s massive anxiety in the GOP that he’s gonna take them all down with him.”
The GOP and the Trump campaign are running out of time — remember how in 2016 these months were crucial for turning the Trump campaign around,...
Trump campaign compares itself to the Death Star (because it's evil and destined for destruction)
Uh, the Death Star was blown up, geniuses. The second Death Star? Yup. Also destroyed. What is it these fools don’t get about pop culture?...
The Daily Beast, “Twitter Loophole Allows Biden Rumors To Spread Like Wildfire”
So this photo has been circulating on Twitter: https://twitter.com/prettyjanice888/status/1256411621536215040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Scott Bixby at The Daily Beast highlights why I can’t go on Twitter: But the woman...
rule by Slender Man: the de facto POTUS* rules
Waiting for de jure to be impaneled in a time of tactical chaos, free of strategic thinking, Jared Kushner is Slender Man, de facto POTUS*...
Trump Threatens to Sue His Own Campaign Manager Over Bad Poll Numbers
CNN just posted a story about yet another Trumpertantrum, as the Great Orange Shitgibbet goes increasingly and noisily and totally insane: Trump erupts at campaign...
Trump campaign statement on Obama's Biden endorsement shows how terrified they are
Okay, so this is childish: https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1250081929245995009? “Barack Obama spent much of the last five years urging Joe Biden not to run for president out of...
Joe Biden Warned Us Back In January That Trump Would Fail On Responding To The Coronavirus Outbreak
Just going to leave this here: President Trump, having stopped dismissing the threat of the coronavirus and calling criticism of his laggard response “their new...
Trump campaign tweets 2004 picture of Air Force One at Daytona because they simply don't care
GOP political figures and organizations tend to be the ones caught using stock photographs because their grifting doesn’t respect its marks. It happened again yesterday with...
#VoteBlueWhateverYouDo … How valuable are the Low-Information Voters in 2020
The Iowa caucus was informative in terms of the current status of low information voting, no different than Rush LImbaugh expressing his horror at Buttigieg...
Trump's disinformation in local media this year may deploy Potemkin local news sites
The Trump campaign’s media strategy will more directly address “local news” that at some moment might trade on the same model of Sinclair Broadcasting. Brad...
“Trump is the war room”
DUI poster-child and WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham declared that the reason that Florida Man didn’t need an impeachment War Room was because he was one....
Trump tries to flip Minnesota with yet another campaign rally
Trump is at the Minneapolis Target Center tonight for yet another campaign rally. Below is the Daniel Dale tweet thread in anticipation of another even...
Trump Campaign Mgr. Brad Parscale Opines on Impeachment History. Historian Kevin Kruse Schools Him.
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale sounded off about the history of impeachment today, insinuating that only democrats had availed themselves of this constitutional remedy, and further opining...
Greg Sargent: RNC Withholding Data Showing Trump's Unpopularity from Down Ballot Candidates.
Columnist Greg Sargent, in his Plum Line blog at the Washington Post cites a Pro Publica piece of Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale to show...
How Trump's new, racist campaign manager found millions to blow on lavish spending sprees
Brad Parscale is Paul Manafort’s successor as Donald Trump’s campaign manager. In case you were wondering how he compares to the convicted felon, I would...
Can the press atone for its Mueller coverage this week?
Former special counsel Robert Mueller's upcoming public testimony before Congress Wednesday not only provides a key opportunity to educate the public on his investigation into Russian interference in...
