“More than 205,000 Americans are dead. We need leadership. Not photo ops.” Trump gaslights again?

Jason Miller, ready to dose your smoothie with Plan B, now with miraculous Trump recovery. Trump may have only had a panic attack, given all that disinformation. x Jason Miller, … Read More

'Mitt Romney is the Lindsey Graham of Marco Rubios' as Putin 'discredits democracy' for Trump

Apparently there is a Trump-Orban-Putin authoritarian alliance as well as coordination and support for the Trump re-election campaign. It did seem more inevitable that Mitt Romney would choose party over … Read More

Rudy may go to prison despite all that Russian pandering

Rudy Giuliani hasn’t kept his gaslight under a bushel, but may get prosecuted, not for his quasi-espionage or actions supporting Trump’s re-election, but simply for defrauding the US Treasury. x To … Read More

Trump presser, more propaganda about the availability of COVID vaccine, contradicts CDC head

Another Trump presser today, there were more of the same lies especially about the availability of COVID vaccines. Trump furthermore went full disinformation about mask use. CNN’s Dana Bash referred to … Read More

Trump in ABC town hall, touts 'herd mentality' (or herd immunity) in ignoring pandemic threat

“Let's understand what this is: Donald Trump has confessed, on tape, to the greatest and most deadly lie in all the long history of the United States bar none.” — Steve … Read More

'How can Trump claim he’ll keep us safe as president when he hasn’t kept us safe as president?'

Still more contradictions, smoke, and mirrors. And then there’s the lies, as Trump tries to “get within cheating distance”. x Here’s a photo from Trump’s Henderson rally. This is a … Read More

Anticapitalist MeetUp 13 September – an Introduction to Anticapitalism

Periodically, ACM readers might want an introduction to anticapitalism. This emerges because of the disinformation propagated by kakistocratic clowns like Trump, who enables neoliberal capitalism while pursuing kleptocracy and monopolizing violence. This … Read More

'anyone supporting Trump is ignorant or deeply cynical & willfully destroying our democracy'

We need a more hinged POTUS, as Trump is now mongering actual violence rather than fear from the White House. Scorched earth on the path to the bunker is continuing. … Read More

Trump personally owes China $211 Million and 55 days at Beijing-Biden remain

There’s a BeijingBiden website, but Trump seems to have decided not to use this insult in speeches, leaving that meme to surrogates and media bottom-feeders. The meme was important to … Read More

The Would-be King

Only kings or potentates, dictators, and despots believe the propaganda of their own words. The worst of them, impose it by force and murder.  King Salman, President Erdogan, Supreme Leader Khamenei, … Read More

How would you know that Trump disrespects military service

Cadet Bone Spurs's campaign can't help itself, it is like the candidate, lewd and crude, but it looks like there’s more to the iceberg. What is obvious is Trump’s ultimate … Read More

Trump tweets attempt to distract us from his vulgarian reality, revealed by Michael Cohen

Trump’s desperation shows in attempting to try nearly anything, however inept he was in trying to confuse the public about voting by mail. Such wackiness is meant to avoid the … Read More

Trump's revisionist history and confirming mini-strokes by projection

Trump denies something that no one has actually reported – that he had a series of mini-strokes. Using Trumpian logic this could mean that he only had one or more mini-strokes, … Read More

Kyle Rittenhouse, junior patriot, brought a gun to a skateboard fight, and Mom helped

Trumpian legal defense logic would suggest that like the COVID toll, Wendy Rittenhouse helped her kid with his guns but she didn’t get killed, and the death toll from her son’s shooting … Read More

Anti-Capitalist MeetUp: Post-COVID's post-capitalism may create an International Green New Deal

“(T)erminating labour and share markets, along with the type of commercial banking taken for granted today, is a prerequisite for a post-capitalist society with functioning markets, authentic democracy and personal … Read More

“The RNC is Trump fan fiction”

The RNC has become GOP meta, political fantasies laid upon an unintended sequence of failed actions in reality. What if Trump could ignore history, science, and rationality and yet remain IMPOTUS. … Read More

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 GOP is still entangled with … Read More

without public vigilance, Trump could actually nullify the 2020 election

As Election Day approaches, more articles warning of Trumpian chaos need exposure to blunt whatever pseudo-strongman shenanigans might emerge facilitated by 50,000 GOP “poll watchers”, among others. The Tom Rogers … Read More

Rudy Giuliani's pre-existing condition

Probably a response to Mary Trump but more revealing about what little the Trump campaign has left other than the strangeness of their RNC lineup. Irony is a pre-existing condition. … Read More

the last free election in US history… maybe, removing swing-state postal sorting machines?

He’s golfing again this weekend in Bedminster. Will he do more pseudo-pressers and populate the “press corps” with “reporters’ from Epoch Times, Gateway Pundit, and OAN. “The president is back … Read More

Trump would like nothing better to treat America like Belarus, with or without a COVID vaccine

Trump believes that delivery of a vaccine will alter the election results, a quarter-million people might agree if they were still alive by election day. A similar ignorance of COVID … Read More

Did an ex-military contractor throw IEDs at Portland protesters

Like the DHS and DoJ contractors deployed with the miscellaneous tactical units, a variety of former military are formally and informally at play during the Portland protests. In this case, … Read More

Will you quietly die for the 1%, because you can't be cooped up all your life or live in Belarus

Decisive winning and GOTV will be important now that we know many of the things that Trump is obviously trying to do to “rig” the election. Belarus shows us that … Read More

Trump announced plans to end Social Security if he’s re-elected: “the Lord created executive orders”

It is the GOP white whale, a continuing trope, to loot the social security system by eliminating it, and Trump wanted no defections in 2020. It is a sign of … Read More

Maureen Dowd is simply the Maggie Haberman of Chanel Rions.

Reminiscent of the Londo Cotton “send US troops” fiasco, the NY Times editorial folks need some staffing changes like the USPS. A vendetta is not a sports utility vehicle, MoDo really hates … Read More

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 fraud? Yes. Can he … Read More

Trump Presser: live from 19th tee at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster (play 'Hail to the Chief')

There’s a presser from the Trump golf club, because optics matter: “Congress needs to stay in Washington and work this out. Now watch this tee shot.” Undoubtedly pimpage of executive orders … Read More

We are not yet at the acme of the Trumpian disinformation campaign or that 'October Surprise'

Stuff is happening and it isn’t simply that Trump is trying to “win” in the worst way. Trump tells us that Biden is weak and yet Biden is more powerful than … Read More

malign disinformation/disruption mischief has been operating since 2016 and it's getting worse

Recall that the White House “over-classified” various documents to prevent Congressional investigation in the Trump impeachment. On the other side of the public sphere, websites like Global Research and Newsfront … Read More

Karl Rove tilts the Trump campaign: “We're an empire now and when we act we create our own reality.”

Eternal vigilance ahead for 90 days. Even with the 1968 noise Trump wants 2016 back because it may be the only real victory he’ll have. Rovian math 2012 comes back … Read More

George Soros's son speaks out forcefully

in an op ed piece at NBC titled My father, George Soros, is white supremacists' favorite target. But they won't stop us with the subtitle of “The surge in online … Read More

Portland protests continue not because of “professional anarchists” but because there's no justice

In his presser, Trump blamed Portland violence on “professional anarchists” because of course they carry cards noting their memberships, rather than those awful amateur anarchists. There are so darn many … Read More

Announcing a vaccine in October will not be surprising – surviving Trump after November will be

Peter Nicholas throws cold water on the gaslight that is building up, anticipating stunts galore before November’s election day. Jobless numbers, 151,000 dead, and basic incompetence could still be tolerable for … Read More

Trump, desperate for GOP GOTV, prevents his base from fracturing, and wards off RWNJ defectors

Trump might not the necessary evil that he claims to be, “mainlining from Fox a daily picture of the protests”, and cares about nothing other than keeping his base, assuming … Read More

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: is there a “fully unexploited luxury socialism”

This week I attended (remotely) the Rethinking Economics Festival and encountered challenging pluralist discourses like a platform economy (noting that most of such work is populated by women), decolonizing the … Read More

We need to find a new word for “Orwellian.”

Just a short note on Trump’s latest threat to veto a defense spending bill because it calls for renaming certain military bases named after Confederate Civil War generals.  The White … Read More

is Ron Johnson's Senate probe “laundering” a foreign operation to damage Joe Biden

More scorched earth, this time from another GOP politician among the many who have gotten something, something from the Russians. x NEWS: Among intel that prompted Schumer/Schiff/Pelosi/Warner letter to FBI is … Read More

Ok, I’ve had It…

Fox News reporter Chris Wallace followed in his father’s footsteps yesterday, accountability framed by hard questions; or were they? Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday, did what every other … Read More

TX-Sen: MJ Hegar (D) Vows That Unlike Ted Cruz (R), “Spineless Bootlicker” Cornyn (R) Will Lose

Fresh off her recent primary win, U.S. Senate candidate, MJ Hegar (D. TX), is ready to attack in her upcoming race against U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R. TX): x YouTube … Read More

so much Trumpian misinformation and disinformation, also HUD DragRace

So much disinformation, so little disambiguation time. Enough gaslight to save the fossil-fuel industry. x Fox News peddled misinformation about the coronavirus 253 times in five days: study https://t.co/UZU4MbpdHt— Salon … Read More

New record high in US COVID cases, Trump administration tries to divert CDC data

Trump continues to ignore the COVID-19 crisis, trying pathetically to divert attention with cranes, weights reminding us of the Python 16 tons, and trucks. because this is what deregulation does not … Read More

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 him to be reelected. Also … Read More

NC-Sen: NC's Chief Voter Suppression Architect Is Now Feeling The Heat On Expanding Vote By Mail

As Democrats continue to push for national vote-by-mail, especially while our country is going through a pandemic, Republicans of course find themselves in quite a pickle. Vote-by-mail would make it … Read More

Trout Mask Replica Carlson takes “long-planned (4-day) vacation” – may it be like Bill-O's

Blake Neff, who bragged that he authored the first draft of Tucker Carlson’s programs, is gone and one can only hope that the reader of the final drafts goes as well. … Read More

J. Rubin Is Moving Away from Conservatism

I used to avoid Jennifer Rubin back in the Obama days, when she could find nothing good to say about the President and nothing bad to say about Romney, as … Read More

Thirty Year Old Texan Dies From Coronavirus That He Got While Attending A “COVID Party.”

Doctor Jane Appleby, Chief Medical Officer of Methodist Healthcare, announced a 30 year old Texas man died from the coronavirus that he got from attending a “COVID Party.”  This what News … Read More

Sensing Americans are not yet dumb enough, Trump threatens university funding

Yes, I remember the field trip we all took to Weather Underground HQ. It was eye-opening, and some of us got ice cream afterwards as a reward for making the … Read More

Trump cancels New Hampshire rally because he couldn't Alabama-sharpie the weather

Apparently Trump originally wanted to do a rally to support Tommy Tuberville against Jeff Sessions, but no one in Alabama wanted it. Then the campaign wanted to use that slot … Read More

Today, Unca Donald may get the Money Bin opened-up without the Beagle Boys.

Cartoon characters without pants might have to drop drawers as SCOTUS finally rules on Trump’s financial records today. There will be an over/under and perhaps even a split difference, but … Read More

Denial Don says that Joe Biden is the harbinger of far-left fascism, what? Next Superspread in NH

Next Saturday will feature an outdoor rally in Portsmouth New Hampshire to re-infect the northeast. x Trump has visited his properties 366 times since becoming president and today is the … Read More