A short note on face masks [UPDATED]
I watched Mike Pence’s joint appearance today with TX Gov. Greg Abbott, and wanted to point out the latest, harmful and obfuscating dodge when it comes to wearing face masks. … Read More
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Trump Predicts “Big Win” But Admits He's Losing
Two stories picked up from Political Wire this morning: Trump predicts 'big' win in November, pointing to 'silent majority' Trump admits it: He's losing This is not quite the contradiction … Read More
Trump golfed today because of NJ rain, retweeted White Power cry, and turned into Sgt. Schultz
So two DNI directors are lying, because it looks like Trump continues to do Russia’s bidding, however badly. And Trump lies because that’s the default position, because like Sargent Schultz, … Read More
“The outrageousness of [Russia's] behavior is only matched by the outrageousness of…”Traitor Trump
It’s now been confirmed and it was in the Presidential Daily Brief: Trump and Pence knew of the Russian bounty on US troops and did nothing. The Lincoln Project has … Read More
'He would have been briefed instantaneously': WH veteran slams Trump's comical BountyGate denials
David Gergen, who you probably know as an analyst for CNN, also served as an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. So he knows … Read More
So Pence Doesn't Want To Stick His Head In COVID-19 Oven In FL and AZ Now.
It appears that Vice President “Lies His Ass Off For Trump” Pence is postponing his pro-COVID-19 “Faith in America” tour of Florida and Arizona. Vice President Mike Pence has postponed his “Faith … Read More
The West Wing's Bradley Whitford Refuses To Let Trump Win His Home State Of Wisconsin Again
Received this e-mail today from actor and activist, Bradley Whitford, on behalf of the Wisconsin Democratic Party: Hey there, Bradley Whitford here. You may know me from shows like the West … Read More
The Difference Between Old and Foolish
The 74-year-old current President of the United States, Donald Trump, has been telling us for days and affirmed by his Vice President, and COVID-19 task force leader Mike Pence, that … Read More
Reporter slams Pence at COVID-19 presser for admin's irresponsible rallies, Do as I say not as I do?
A reporter called out Pence at COVID-19 Press Conference at and he gives a rambling response. Reporter causes Pence to give rambling nonsensical response x x YouTube Video Please join our … Read More
Coronavirus Taskforce briefing: 1st one in 2 months
Live Stream at HHS x 12:30pm ET today (6/26/2020), there’ll be a Covid-19 Taskforce briefing, the 1st in ~2 months. Hope for more truth/facts from Dr. Fauci, but suspect Pence’ll … Read More
Trump goes to Wisconsin today behind 11 points: It's not 2016, rather it's more like 1992
Nine new polls find Trump consistently behind in polling. Trump is going to Wisconsin after Pence spoke to evangelical groups there yesterday. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump makes his second … Read More
Doctor slams President. Trump’s action ‘Criminal’ and is “public health malpractice.”
Dr. Vin Gupta was pulling no punches. He lit into President Trump calling his actions criminal and tantamount to public health malpractice. Dr. Vin Gupta castigates the president. x x … Read More
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 of disinformation that flows from … Read More
Tulsa is a BUST for Donald Trump’s first political rally. I guess a shrinking willfully ignorant.
President Donald Trump faced a very small crowd in Tulsa after promising a full venue with large overflows. He got neither. BIG FAIL! Tulsa proves Trump's falling polls are accurate … Read More
Quinnipiac's New National Poll Has Joe Biden Beating Trump 49-41
Here’s the latest news courtesy of Qunnipiac University’s latest poll: If the election for president were being held today, former Vice President Joe Biden would receive 49percent of the vote … Read More
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 rally “criminal endangerment”. “In a … Read More
Stephen Miller to write Trump's speech on race relations; no, seriously
Trump adviser, virulent racist, and bleach-damaged gimp costume Stephen Miller is preparing a White House speech on … oh, just read the tweet. x Stephen Miller, who crafted @realDonaldTrump immigration policy at … Read More
10,000 Soldiers On the Streets of DC – Almost Happened [Update: Why Milley Wore Fatigues]
Several stories have been appearing in the media in the past few days about how Trump really wanted to put active-duty soldiers, lots of them, on the streets of the … Read More
Trump's cosplay fascism continues as Dems fight back, because #BunkerBoy's “bums” battlespace
While national polling continues against Trump, trailing Biden by 17%, his frantic fascist cosplay is playing out in ways reminiscent to Nixon’s reaction to antiwar protests. President Trump came closer to … Read More
Slate Magazine's The Surge Lists These 7 States That Could Be The Path For Joe Biden's Victory
Received an e-mail update from Slate Magazine’s The Surge and they have released the top seven states that are now the most competitive for Joe Biden to reach electoral victory. … Read More
That time Donald Trump tweeted about 'weak leadership' leading to riots
The Trump Twitter Archive is a beautiful thing. Want to find a treasure trove of Trump hypocrisy? It’s all here. And as we all know, there’s a tweet for simply every … Read More
NC-Sen: NYT, “Money Pours Into North Carolina as Battle for U.S. Senate Heats Up”
The New York Times has a good piece out about how heated and expensive the North Carolina U.S. Senate race is becoming: Republican U.S. Senator Thom Tillis is used to … Read More
more plague spreading: Trump demands a contagious arena in North Carolina for the RNC
Trump needs/wants the big crowds, because he doesn’t care about the chaos of infection spread, especially if he will appear to be in a downward spiral approaching November Third. Do Republicans … Read More
“we have to choose hope over fear, unity over division and, maybe most importantly, truth over lies”
Pence: ‘“I think honestly, if you look at the trends today, that I think by Memorial Day weekend we will have this coronavirus epidemic behind us.”‘ BECAUSE HAPPY TALK! Pence … Read More
Karl Rove's “political drive-by shooting” brings his Ohio math to a propaganda fight
A reminder that Rove is advising IMPOTUS*’ or his campaign of death. More “flooding the zone” so we ignore the cray-cray at the White House. x So Mitch McConnell said Pres. … Read More
GOP expecting 50,000 bipedal disease vectors at August convention
Seeding 50,000 enthusiastic Republican voters with coronavirus and then sending them home to their Republican friends and loved ones sounds like a diabolical Democratic plan, but no. It’s the current … Read More
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 17, 2017 It has been … Read More
Trump in Allentown: “if we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases”
Trump seems to have decided to stray even farther from message on COVID-19 and concentrate on all the diversions and distractions. He’s never really cared about tests and testing, he’s … Read More
IA-Sen: PPP Has Theresa Greenfield (D) With A Big Lead In The Democratic Primary
Here’s the latest news out of Iowa courtesy of PPP: Theresa Greenfield holds a significant lead in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, a new poll out today finds. With … Read More
“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, complete with the exit of … Read More
CEOs were told to remove masks before meeting with Pence
The White House could not be more contaminated right now if it were a pig feces lagoon. Everyone from Mike Pence’s press secretary to one of Donald Trump’s personal valets … Read More
another Rose Garden presser at 4pm EDT today… more of the same or Moron, the same
Trump will present another WH stunt-presser today at 4pm EDT that won’t start on time. It’s meant to divert attention from the now burgeoning COVID-19 contagion within the WH, and … Read More
White House as 'hot zone' … tots and pears as Typhoid Mike returns to work Monday
“Pence will not self-quarantine and plans to be at the White House Monday ” because that’s what leadership looks like. I’m hearing on good authority that #coronavirus is more rampant in … Read More
Trump is Going to Show the US How to Open Up Even if it Kills Him
Political Wire posted one story at the top of its front page and another to the side: the first says Pence Self-Isolating After Aide Tests Positive for Coronavirus, while the … Read More
As Trump urges reopening, White House adviser admits, 'It’s scary to go to work'
The White House is now a chunky COVID cluster, chock-full of nuts, cotton-candy hair, and curdled brain nougat. Katie Miller, Mike Pence’s press secretary and wife of bleach-damaged gimp costume Stephen … Read More
ME-Sen: Maine Women, “Susan Collins (R) ‘right’ and our ‘right’ aren’t the same thing anymore”
From Salon: Women voters who propelled Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, to wins in four consecutive Senate races have increasingly soured on the so-called “centrist” Republican as her record has drifted farther right … Read More
Typhoid Donny's “lava level mad” but still spewing sputum, says virus will “go away without vaccine”
The new death toll cited by Trump is now 95,000, up from zero, then 50-60,000, then 60-70,000. x President Trump: “This is going to go away without a vaccine.” pic.twitter.com/EKcZENl4rS— … Read More
Pence staffer tests positive Covid19 while Trump is parading around 90 year olds at WWII memorial
I just saw where Pence’s staffer has tested positive for Coronovirus while Trump is parading around the WWII Memorial around 90 year old veterans. Oh he loves vets. Sure he … Read More
We will NEVER know if Trump and Pence are positive or negative because…Pelosi next in line.
We will never ever know if Trump or Pence has tested positive or negative regarding Covid19. They lie about everything and unless they both end up hospitalized in ICU and … Read More
Bay of (split) Wigs: what a service contract to perform a coup d'etat looks like
Jordan Goudreau’s Silvercorp is a US mercenary corporation based in Florida. Two of their American operatives were arrested in Venezuela. WaPo got a copy of a coup d’etat contract. The video begins with … Read More
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* of the not-so-deep, shallow state. “Jared … Read More
189 days to election day as Trump declares “worst of pandemic is behind us” by lying again
Even without the daily COVID Taskforce presser, we get notable pieces of disinformation, such as VP Pence not wearing a mask at the Mayo Clinic, and Trump trying to bypass … Read More
IA-Sen: Ernst (R) Says IA Doing “Pretty Well” During COVID-19 Pandemic, Data Proves Her Wrong
Kudos to Elizabeth Meyer at Iowa Starting Line for capturing this: Iowa has the fourth-highest growth rate of coronavirus in the country and some of the nation’s largest numbers of cases per capita, … Read More
LIVE BLOG: Trump “news conference” same bleachy whitewash, different day
Live Blog below. Summary: any attempt to “change” the pattern for these events was lost today. It had no different structure than other COVID taskforce briefings. It was the same as before. Trump … Read More
LIVE BLOG – daily COVID Taskforce briefing – Trump took no questions today!
LIVE BLOG below 5:30* PM EDT *(rarely starts on time) Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing The White House Trump may try to double down today, … Read More
“There are more important things than living.” There's Trumpian feds hijacking the supply chain
Shakedowns of materiel like PPEs that demonstrate abuses of federal power are now de rigueur and should not be confused with fiscal policy or even neoliberal austerity. Disaster hides much venality. It’s … Read More
Trump: “I hope we can do rallies. It's great for the country.”
We have reached some strange place but it’s on the path to the bunker and it’s a scorched earth. x Even the most stable democracy is threatened by having a sizable … Read More
LIVE BLOG: COVID Taskforce briefing – why isn't testing at 1 M/day rather than 1 M/week?
Live blog below (yes, it is a pseudo-campaign rally, but the various Trumpian errors often make it worth it, also some folks like watching trainwrecks) 5:00* PM EDT (*it rarely … Read More
Trump still wants COVID-19 to “wash over the country”
Trump has never wavered from a belief that denial is his best COVID-19 policy as his indecisiveness born of insecurity around experts drives the White House dysfunctional chaos. His inability … Read More
Trump ignored the smoke detector and waited until the (white) house was on fire
Aside from sinophobia rather than russophobia, The NY Times has documented more of the details for the 70-days of denial/delay/dysfunction in the Trump White House. Aside from the framing of … Read More
