GA-Sen A & B: Joe Biden Is Coming Back To Georgia To Get His Senate Majority

I’m all in for this: President-elect Joe Biden will join the lineup of influential Democrats involved in Georgia's ongoing senatorial campaigns, according to his recently-named forthcoming chief of staff. Ron … Read More

Even Robert Jeffress now acknowledges a Trump loss and a bitter pill

A Trump win now has the odds of pitching a TV reality show remaking The Odd Couple with Jeffrey Toobin and Jon Meacham. Pastor Jeffress acknowledges that rubber meets the road … Read More

Evangelicals..What part do you not understand? Proverbs 12:16

If you are agruing or discussing the vote to a person who claims to be a Christian please ask them to explain this because they are going to have to … Read More

ME-Sen: Susan Collins (R) Is “Truly Grateful” For Endorsement From Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Abortion Group

From The Huffington Post: Though Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has lost several key endorsements to Democratic challenger Sara Gideon this election cycle, she received the full support last week of … Read More

Sorry, Republicans, but a majority of American Catholics are pro-choice

It is one of the GOP’s tried and untrue slanders, deployed every time a Republican President nominates an anti-abortion Catholic to the federal judiciary. The GOP and its amen corner … Read More

We'd Better Hope that Trump DOESN'T Die of Covid-19

Sorry, this is going to be quick, because it’s late even on the west coast, and I only stopped in for a minute to read the latest on Trump’s health. … Read More

The Atlantic: In private, Trump says all evangelical preachers are 'hustlers'

It doesn’t take preternatural insight to see Donald Trump isn’t a religious guy. “Two Corinthians” was a big tip-off, as is the fact that he’s the apotheosis of the Seven … Read More

Take heed. Agree or not.. We have to be careful on the nomination until AFTER the election.

Yes, this is wrong on so many levels to nominate a judge before RBG is warm in her resting place.    I said in another comment if Jane Fonda had … Read More

Oklahoma City threat legacy: there are no stochastic lone wolves

Other than Trump’s deliberate mass-casualty response to COVID-19, there was an earlier event that had similar malevolence. This is not about “antifa” as a threat, rather it is the continuing, intergenerational … Read More

what's good for the goose, Biden-Harris to troll Trump appearances next week

The Democratic vice presidential nominee is coming to Wisconsin the same day Vice President Mike Pence will be in La Crosse. Joe Biden will go to Michigan and Pennsylvania. Jill … Read More

SC-Sen: Jaime Harrison (D) Continues To Outraise Lindsey Graham (R) Going Into The General Election

Here’s some encouraging news out of South Carolina: Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jaime Harrison raised $10.6 million during the month of August in his bid to unseat three-term Republican incumbent … Read More

Want to know how sad this is? Worse than I thought. Trump followers show 5 traits.

I was reading another diary and I looked up something that caught my eye.   How sad it is that the people have become this mentally unstable.  People who have been … Read More

70 minutes of Trump RNC speech, more of the same lies, and a couple of new ones

The White House version of the Sturgis Smash Mouth concert is ready for its hydroxychloroquine treatments as one big Hatch Act violation. And for the umpteenth time he lies about Veterans … Read More

Trump is Failing His Latest Test: Hurricane Laura

Hurricane Laura is now a strong Cat 4, with winds up to 150 MPH (Cat 5 is 158 MPH, and it may get there). Storm surges are expected to push … Read More

GA-Sen B: The Atlantic, “Can the Religious Left Flip the Bible Belt?”

Emma Green at The Atlantic has a great piece out profiling U.S. Senate candidate, Reverend Raphael Warnock (D. GA) and how Warnock being a major voice of the Religious Left … Read More

Brat worst on tape: Trump's sister gives him up, cheated on SATs

Mary Trump audio-recorded her conversations with Maryanne Barry Trump a couple of years ago, and WaPo has a few more details beyond what’s in the new book. Maryanne Trump Barry, … Read More

WaPo has recording of Trump's sister saying Trump has 'no principles' and 'you can't trust him'

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy. Schaden-Friday came a day late this week. But Secret Recording Saturday works for me. Apparently, Too Much and Never Enough, the Mary … Read More

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I. VT) DNC Speech Endorsing Joe Biden Full Transcript

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I. VT): x YouTube Video Below is Bernie's speech from last night's Democratic National Convention. Our great nation … Read More

QAnuts

Remember when the Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party was the darling of conservatives. They elevated the profiles of people like Michele Bachmann, Sharron Angle, and Scott Brown.  The group of … Read More

Trump's Evangelicals and How to Woo Them

There’s a major story in the Sunday New York Times about Trump’s hold on evangelical Christians: ‘Christianity Will Have Power’ The headline is a quote from the same speech Trump … Read More

Rush Limbaugh questions Joe Biden's faith, says liberals worship trees

I’m not religious. You might say I’m an agnostic with Buddhist leanings — but most people would just call me a heathen. And that’s fine with me. I was raised Catholic, … Read More

Trump mocks Black Lives Matter protests and mask-wearing in one fell swoop

Jesus Christ, this asshole. At yesterday’s coronavirus presser/super-spreader event in Bedminster, New Jersey, Donald Trump sarcastically referred to the WASPy weirdos in attendance as “peaceful protesters.” It was his way … Read More

MI-Sen: GOPer Tried To Distance Himself From Betsy DeVos But $1 Million Later, He Hired Her Niece

Salon has a great piece out about how U.S. Senate candidate, John James (R. MI), has been trying to distance himself from the abysmal Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, as … Read More

Luring Evangelicals Away From Trump

It’s common on this site to bemoan, make fun of, scratch our heads in wonder, bewail the hypocrisy, and otherwise write off the large number of American evangelicals who voted … Read More

Horseshoe ideology riots: RCP endorses Biden, a jealous QAnon claims Trump as its own

 If as the Trump campaign says, “Joe Biden is an empty vessel for the radical left,” Trump’s septic tank overflows for the radical right. Needless to say, RWNJ’s will claim … Read More

GA-Sen B: Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) Goes On White Supremacist's Talk Show To Trash BLM

Wow: x I joined @JackPosobiec on @OANN to discuss why I had to call out the BLM political organization — and why the woke mob is trying to cancel me. … Read More

SC-Sen: One Two The Lincoln Project's Coming For You

For those of familiar with the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, I hope you appreciated the reference in my title. Any way, here’s some big news out of South Carolina … Read More

IA-Sen: Joni Ernst (R) Wants To Defund Democratic Cities Because Of Protests

This is her priority: Iowa (R) Sen. Joni Ernst wrote a letter Tuesday to Director Russell Vought with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget asking that investigation be conducted … Read More

after Trump's 145 retweets: Trust the plan. Enjoy the show. Expect more mischief

Fortunately Twitter decided to rein in QAnon, one of many cults projecting both the main tenets of Trumpism but also serving as a channel for non-domestic malign actors to invest … Read More

Tie or Toss-Up? The GOP wishes it were, after possibly 224,000 deaths by Election Day

Trump said if there were 100,000 deaths, “then we’ll have done a good job”. Low-Information Individualism may continue among the Trumpist population to November. There will be more conflicts on … Read More

cancel culture is like cultural marxism: nonsense, but Trump will sell you their snake oil

Trump’s tweeting more gibberish replete with nonsense and continues to tank the economy built by the previous administration. Ever the opportunist, Trump would have signed off on the recent “Justice and … Read More

Thoughts on “opening” schools

from the perspective of someone who has taught every grade from 7 through 12, in public, charter, and private (both religious and secular) schools.  CLASSROOMS —  It is impossible in … Read More

Trump defending racist statues is not a hill on which to die, not even a suburban one

It is more of a comment on Trump’s “cancel culture” that the Aurora, Colorado police would bust up a crowd of violinists peacefully demonstrating a bias death. x Police showed up in … Read More

The Mutiny Of “The Bounty”

When the history of the 2020 election is written, it is the story broken by the New York Times, chronicling the scheme hatched by Vlad the Imp to pay a … Read More

The “Negro National Hymn” to be sung before the first NFL games – reactionaries haz a sad

It is a surprise to some who haven’t spent time in African-American cultural institutions that Lift Every Voice and Sing is a standard for many events. It never substitutes for … Read More

so many Masks and Beards, Lies and Retaliation in the Trump era

So much more than meets the eye, and then there’s stupid fruit of the loins. So much lying and falsehoods in a masque of masks. x Kellyanne Conway: “People are … Read More

Trump claims some state, local governments have “surrendered to mob rule”, signs statue safety order

Nothing about right-wing extremists and their boogaloos. The Albert Pike Confederate Statue protection order now begins. “Many of the rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists…have explicitly identified themselves with ideologies — … Read More

Florida Republicans still encourage LGBTQ hatred four years after Pulse

 A few blocks from my home is the site of the Pulse massacre. We just passed the 4-year anniversary. In the six months that led up to the massacre, Florida … Read More

NJ-Sen: Cory Booker (D) Builds Momentum For Congress To Pass The Justice In Policing Act Of 2020

Received this e-mail yesterday from U.S. Senator Cory Booker’s (D. NJ) re-election campaign: Since the tragic murder of George Floyd at the hands of police, the calls for justice have … Read More

Best ad against Trump “written” by Republican who supports him like white on rice

When Donald Trump got up this morning I wonder if he expected this ad from “Lindsey Graham.” Will they still be good friends like white on rice? Republican Lindsey Graham … Read More

“American Taliban” trends again because Ted Cruz thinks Columbus is a religious icon

We are in some strange space where to Ted Cruz, those people taking down monuments to genocidal explorers are like fundamentalist religious fanatics practicing iconoclasm.  Ted doesn’t understand iconoclasm nor has he … Read More

Ex-CoS Kelly Agrees with Mattis on Trump

Yesterday, former WH chief of state John Kelly contradicted Trump’s story about firing SecDec Jim Mattis, reminding the world that Mattis had resigned in protest after Trump ordered our troops … Read More

Texas lieutenant governor: Liberal godlessness to blame for racism

Sure, why not? Let’s just throw this at the wall, too, shall we? Gotta admit, it makes slightly more sense than saying atheism and gay pride parades cause earthquakes. Huffington Post: … Read More

Trump went to another photo-op at Catholic shrine because empty threats

Will Trump also call the Catholic archbishop a “leftist media pawn”? There was no need for crowd-clearing teargas because this was a trip to signal to conservative Catholics (see Steve … Read More

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: boogaloos have their Horst Wessel. #BreonnaTaylor is different

(Originally, I had done something on a MMT podcast with some of its major luminaries, but I’ll save it for a future AC chat diary, since Historical events seem more important … Read More

Trump demands churches open because they're essential services, The FSM disagrees…

Darn those 9th and 10th Amendments, Trump declared that he will override governors to allow places of worship to reopen this weekend. Because they are essential businesses. “We need more … Read More

The Donald, Death, and Disinformation

Recent attempts to distort COVID information in Florida are only a symptom of how GOP states will be undercounting or suppressing data. This is only part of the larger GOP … Read More

Live 10am ET SCOTUS arguments in the Trump financial records case

NPR and Instagram coverage of the oral arguments for Trump’s financial records, explaining why Trump’s been a bit more unhinged than usual. The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments remotely … Read More