When the good ship Cheney sank into the Green River last night, and for a moment, I regretted someone of flexible integrity losing a primary, at the same time, I grinned broadly. Undeniably, history will call Rep. Elizabeth Cheney a patriot. I hope that history and Democrats also do not...
Blaming Joe Biden for the coronavirus spread is like blaming the surgeon for not saving the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. American conservatives, and a willing press, have conveniently forgotten the former president told the country the virus would simply disappear. He said lights, bacterial spray, and...
On Friday night, a series of devastating tornadoes ripped through parts of six states, killing at least 79 Americans. Once again, COVID-19 shrugged and said, “Hold my beer” … before hastily interjecting, “Oh, shit, don’t drink it! I’ve got COVID-19!” Of course, no matter what disaster Republicans and the media tout...
Among the hundreds of lies told by the former president, one has proven to be particularly dangerous to public health. “That’s all I hear about now. That’s all I hear. Turn on television—'Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid.' A plane goes down. Five hundred people dead, they don’t talk about...
I had a spirited discussion a little over a week ago with a family member about getting vaccinated and the idea of a vaccine mandate. Both of us and our families are vaccinated. We agreed on the science and the necessity. The problem came when I ferociously stated I had...
When one speaks of the far-right-left, the obvious target for progressives would be Democratic Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Although they both are low-hanging fruit, the harvest is bountiful. Voices of the left, like comedic satirist Bill Maher, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville, and...
I grew up in northeast Wisconsin about 40 miles outside of Green Bay. So, naturally, I’m a Green Bay Packers fan. You might say Packers fandom is part of my DNA. So, in a way, anti-vaxxers are right. The vaccine—or at least one gormless Green Bay goober’s decision to reject it—has...
Either the political acumen of the voter is in dire need of reeducation, or Democrats need lessons in exploiting a golden opportunity. Republicans publicly pull off political tricks without recrimination. They manipulate the public with chicanery, walk away, and brag about it later. At the beginning of the Biden administration,...
“[The debt limit suspension] ensures our federal government will not approach any kind of short-term debt crisis in the coming weeks or months. It secures our nation’s full faith and credit and ensures that Congress will not throw this kind of unnecessary wrench into the gears of our job growth...
I tried sitting through FOX News’ commentary/critique yesterday, following Joe Biden’s report on the status of the nation, and in particular the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. After a few minutes, and when one of the conservative panelists had the temerity and amnesia to call Joe Biden a liar, I...
After being assailed by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, strictly for political trolling points, Dr. Anthony Fauci made it a point to praise the new attitudes of some Republicans endorsing the Covid-19 vaccines. Republican congressman Steve Scalise who has worked as hard as any conservative to destroy anything with the word...
Reminiscent of the unfounded fears spread around by conservatives about the Affordable Care Act and “death panels,” President Biden’s call for a door-to-door educational program about the coronavirus vaccine sent the GOP and conservatives into a paranoid tizzy. Republican members of Congress, fake news stations, and right-wing bloggers went into...
A couple of days ago, alleged congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene sent a letter to Joe Biden. I read it; you don’t have to. Unless you read at a third-grade level or worse, it might be hard for you to follow. It essentially boils down to “Wuhan lab … Chinese-made virus...
Let’s be clear. I don’t condone Rand Paul’s neighbor’s decision to beat the crap out of him, but I do condone (nay, applaud) everyone else’s decision to laugh at it. Rand Paul is a doctor … of sorts. He rather famously accredited himself through his own accrediting agency—an instance of self-gratifying...
I’m not sure if this is an indication that the COVID pandemic is winding down or that civilization is. It might be both, honestly, but that’s not for me to decide. Ricky Schroder first came to prominence as the kid on Silver Spoons. I tuned in once, because I just...
This is why you don’t take medical advice from failed meat-mongers who stare directly into the sun. As he was preparing to have his ass handed to him by Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (Uncle Joe presented said ass on a handcrafted olive-wood charcuterie board with a lovely selection of European artisanal cheeses, a...
Holy shit. This aged worse than the lost wedge of Camembert that’s more or less permanently ensconced in Donald Trump’s clammy, pendulous moob flaps. Yeah, that was gross, I grant you. But I figured you needed to tighten up your gag reflex before you watched this: ”We will not see diseases like the...
Schaden-Friday never lets me down! SCOOP: Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, has coronavirus, sources tell me and @JenniferJJacobs. — Tyler Pager (@tylerpager) November 20, 2020 Tyler Pager is a national political reporter for Bloomberg News. Not OANN or Highlights for Children or Stormfront or anything. So I trust this...
Some big news today out of Texas: x Donations are still coming in, but we couldn't wait to share this with you. We've raised over $13.5 million this quarter — nearly 8 times what we raised in our last best fundraising quarter. The polls are neck and neck, and we're...
I’d assumed that Dr. Deborah Birx, a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force, had been co-opted by the otherworldly orange ooze, but if I’m reading the tea leaves (or, since we’re talking about the Trump administration, the Big Mac wrappers) correctly, it looks like she could be the...
Ricin attacks against the WH seem more routine rather than random and their origins do seem to follow ideologies more worried about the extremism within the White House, although why would Canadians want to harm POTUS. Darn that NAFTA 2.0. The most recent example just happened, when a ricin envelope was sent...
How many Trump administration officials have to tell us that Donald Trump is an incompetent, pudding-brained ghoul before his support falls below 5 percent … where it should (and deserves to) be? We’ve already heard from James Mattis, John Bolton, Miles Taylor, the Mooch, Anonymous — even Omarosa. Well, you can add one...
Trump is all about producing indeterminacy and uncertainty, probably because he doesn’t know very much, that stable genius. Not only about science or politics, Trump is all about chaos and confusion. Today he tried again to misinform voters and got sanctioned by Twitter. Because to Trump it’s always about public...
Recent Trump appearances have revealed that his giving lip service to vaccines has remained secondary to a continuing belief in herd immunity as if death would be a luck of the draw, or just bad luck, perhaps sacrifices rationalized by some religion. The vaccine is a panacea in terms of any pre-November announcement...
Sure pal: x 🐘MEET THE CANDIDATE: John Cornyn🐘 —Served as Justice on Texas Supreme Court, Fmr. AG of Texas, and Current U.S. Senator for Texas —@TeamCornyn is the Republican Nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas #TXSen #txpol #RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/XT5aLlXaBX— GOP (@GOP) August 28, 2020 “But I didn’t come here to...
Trump as usual tried another bait and switch claiming another therapeutic emergency authorization was a “cure” for COVID. The announcement was designed to get amplified during the RNC. They’re counting that there’s enough people who will want to play the odds, free-riding off others wearing masks. x 57 percent of Republicans...
MSNBC showed anecdotal evidence (no link for now) of one — dare I say it? — emerging theme of denial from Trump supporters about his failure on handling the coronavirus pandemic: it’s just a “snapshot” of Trump’s performance. He has done many great things for this nation, and like some kid with one...
Oh, check out the above photo. Mitt Romney looks like such a lapdog you might be justifiably worried that Mitt Romney is about to strap Mitt Romney to the roof of Mitt Romney’s car. But sometime after Donald Trump invited Romney to dinner so he could humiliate him by scuttling his bid for...
MJ Hegar (D. TX) Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D. NJ), in support of MJ Hegar’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign: MJ Hegar is Texas tough: she's a U.S. Air Force veteran, a mother, a teacher, a fighter for the people in every...
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D. MT) in support of MJ Hegar’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign: MJ Hegar (D. TX) We can take back the Senate this year. And it starts with flipping Texas — yup, Texas. MJ Hegar is a combat veteran and working mom...
The Huffington Post has a good piece about how Governor Steve Bullock’s (D. MT) handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the role it will play in his bid to unseat U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R. MT): Republicans, who hold a slim three-seat majority in the Senate, considered Montana a safe...
Received this e-mail yesterday from former presidential candidate, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D. IN), in support of MJ Hegar’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign: MJ Hegar (D. TX) COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing in our country because so many of our leaders have failed to put Americans’ health first. Like...
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D. OH) in support of MJ Hegar’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign: I have great news: MJ Hegar won her primary election in Texas earlier this week and we have an opportunity to make her the next senator from the Lone Star...
Remember when a dyspeptic, misspelled, barely comprehensible tweet sent GOPsters near and far scurrying for cover? Are those days over? Because Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan sure doesn’t sound like he’s scared of the ocher abomination. In a new Washington Post op-ed, Hogan blasts Trump and his administration over our nation’s...
It’s official: MJ Hegar will go up against Sen. John Cornyn and attempt to win Texas Democrats their first Senate seat in decades after winning a contentious runoff election on Tuesday. Hegar, an air force veteran and former healthcare worker, garnered national Democratic support early on in the primary race from groups like the...
Turns out George Orwell lacked imagination. Donald Trump has already decried our robust (er, 23rd-ranked by number of tests per capita, but who’s counting?) testing regime because it makes him look bad. He’s said that if we didn’t test we’d have very few cases. Which sort of makes sense if...
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 4 San Antonio reported about this death: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (WOAI/KABB) – A patient in their 30s died from the...
Ask Donald Trump how effective his maladministration’s coronavirus response has been and he’ll tell you it’s fantastic. The best. We test a lot of people, you know. And, anyway, he’s more focused on the real crisis facing America — the health and security of our nation’s most racially offensive statues. But...
Probably the most dangerous thing Trump said this weekend, a 99% meme of harmlessness that will get amplified because even at its minimum, it means a “free fall” to a much higher death toll. 131,000 have died. Expect more spin as his denial continues. x President Trump claimed that 99%...
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 ‘happytalk’ it instead. I trust Dr. Fauci, less so Dr. Birx & CDC’s Dr. Redfield (think CDC’s been muzzled by...
US record for new COVID cases yesterday: 42,158 x New daily coronavirus cases are rising in 27 states, an NPR analysis shows. Here's the percent change compared to 2 weeks ago: Oklahoma: +255%Idaho: +176%Florida: +173%Arizona: +173%Texas: +169%https://t.co/EnrxwdSqtO— NPR (@NPR) June 25, 2020 x The pandemic is accelerating and is being...
The Wall Street Journal has a good piece out about the Montana U.S. Senate race and how an effective governor’s response to a pandemic can make a great candidate for the U.S. Senate: Three days after Montana Gov. Steve Bullock announced his Senate bid, he declared a statewide emergency. That...
Shout out to Dan Desai Martin at The American Independent for bringing this to our attention: Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) is planning to hold an in-person book signing and campaign fundraiser in here state on Friday, even as coronavirus cases are reaching record levels there. “Join us on June 12th for a...
It would be nice if the coronavirus pandemic were over. I want to leave the house without a mask. I want to go to the movies. I want to make out with people I just met at Dave & Buster’s. I want the church people to go back to church...
The redoubtable Gabe Sherman has another missive from the bottomless bowl of Kooky Krunch that is the White House. As you probably guessed, Donald Trump thinks the coronavirus that’s circled the globe and killed 100,000 Americans and counting has been totally unfair … to His Majesty. Vanity Fair: As he headed...
From the San Antonio Current: believe this is @JohnCornyn's most explicit email yet on this: "CHINA is to blame, NOT President Trump" #TXSEN pic.twitter.com/kw6nptYB9I — Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) May 16, 2020 A new fundraising email from Sen. John Cornyn confirms that the Texas Republican’s 2020 reelection strategy can be summed...
Oh really? When asked how President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic might impact her reelection race, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst was confident his response to the public health crisis will help her secure a second term. “I think the president has actually handled it quite well, so I...
Really, snowflakes? Really? First people march on state capitols because — well, not because children are being tossed in cages or the president thinks he’s above the law. No, they’ve gone ape shit because Perkins is closed, and where the fuck else can you get a muffin that big? And now? Yes,...
The best I can say about Mitt Romney is that he ran for president as a Republican and somehow isn’t a garbage heap of hate and willful stupidity. The second best thing I can say about him is Donald Trump despises him, which means he must be doing something right....
Boo. Fucking. Hoo. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that former President Obama should have held back from criticizing President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, calling Obama's critique “a little bit classless.” President Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, during an online Trump campaign event, told McConnell that Obama “slammed” President Trump over...
