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Whenever I feel compelled to freak myself out about the GOP’s seemingly ineluctable march toward cult-of-personality authoritarianism, I have to remind myself that Republicans might not be Hitler boof stormtroopers so much as they’re just lemmings. For the most part, rank-and-file Republicans still love the guy who tried to geld our democracy...

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  • May 8, 2021

In a perfect deconstruction of their bad acts, Chuck Todd decimated the Republican Party and then made a prescient statement. Chuck Todd surprisingly gets it here See full episodes here. Many give Chuck Todd a hard time because he gives too much deference to Republicans more often than not. He...

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  • May 7, 2021

Republican operative Miles Taylor came out swinging against the Republican Party on the Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross. He told the inconvenient truth, and one hopes Republicans are listening. Republican gets real with an inconvenient truth See full episodes here. Miles Taylor was a Republican government official who worked for both...

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  • May 2, 2021
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Most of my immigrant ancestors came here from Germany in the 1860s and 1870s. I have no idea why they came. They probably wanted to make sure their descendants were fully ensconced by the time Funyuns were invented. No doubt they also saw opportunity here, so they moved to Wisconsin (whose...

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  • April 26, 2021

Director/Producer Arthur Kanegis discusses his latest film, ‘The World Is My Country,’ Income/wealth inequality is even more obscene. Voter suppressing myths. Arthur Kanegis on his film “This World Is My Country” Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091...

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  • April 8, 2021

A listener challenged a few of the subjects we cover. Let’s discuss whether we had an insurrection and whether racism is endemic. Insurrection, racism, and more. Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091 This show belongs to all our...

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  • March 3, 2021

Angry Country. Ted Cruz lies as he gets caught taking a Cancun vacation while Texas freezes. And from Fox News hosts Harris Faulkner and Bill Hemmer…. crickets, as Trump uses the death of a supporter to continue to spread the big lie about the election he lost. "Rush thought we...

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  • February 18, 2021

Received this e-mail yesterday from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth’s (D. IL) re-election campaign: Put simply, our military is made stronger by our immigrant servicemembers. That’s why, for over 200 years, Congress has provided an expedited path to citizenship through service in our military. But under the Trump administration, many of...

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  • January 27, 2021

This post-election period has been like no other, for reasons I don’t need to restate. While every outgoing president and presidential challenger in my lifetime—even Nixon, FFS!—left the White House and/or relinquished claims to power more or less gracefully, putting country far above self and party, Donald Trump is a...

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  • January 18, 2021

We need to scream this from the Capitol. We are not a Democracy. This piece shows that one person, one vote does not exist in America. Democracy in name only x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. Does anyone realize that even as Joe Biden won by north of...

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  • December 23, 2020

Steve Schmidt as he always does hits the nail on the head. Even with a 7 million vote Biden lead, we almost lost our democracy. Steve Schmidt reveals an unfortunate truth x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. Steve Schmidt did not mince his words when as a former Republican...

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  • December 13, 2020

Among of the most predictable character traits of the Malignant Mangoface are these: He is petty, he hates being a loser, and he absolutely has to be the center of attention. All of these are prominent in his latest move against President-elect Joe Biden: Trump considering kicking off 2024 run...

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  • November 28, 2020

Little Lord Fauntleroy has stepped in it once again. The odious sparkly vampire born with a silver spoon in his head was at the vanguard of Donald Trump’s pandemic response — and, you guessed it, he fucked it up, big-league. Seems that Bob Woodward taped Boy Blunder as well as Trump and,...

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  • October 28, 2020

Senator Amy Klobuchar had an impressive closing to her opening statement that should empower Americans and scare every Republican. Amy Klobuchar speaks truth to Trump & Judge x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. The Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett is clear on her beliefs on the Affordable Care...

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  • October 12, 2020

The strident Trump defense is coding and awaiting burial beneath the freshly shoveled dirt of racism. Even the once exuberant Trump defenders such as Boris Epstein and Rick Santorum are offering meek defenses in attempts to avoid the flinging poo hurled by a flailing and scared president.  The desperation is...

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  • October 2, 2020

Fareed Zakaria interviewed former Taiwanese VP Chen Chien-Jen who laid out how they managed to fight the pandemic effectively. It starts with a “single-payer” system. Single-payer is part of the answer x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. America messed up its response to COVID-19. The reality is that it...

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  • September 16, 2020

You’ll enjoy this, folks. Former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill appeared on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace and, well, just watch … x oh @clairecmc just has no fucks left.pic.twitter.com/v7plxCNHop— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 9, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> McCASKILL: “Think about this for a minute; let’s dwell on this just for...

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  • September 10, 2020

DHS is drafting its annual threat assessment report, and Politico got hold of the draft: DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security. Two later draft versions...

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  • September 8, 2020

Reality is catching up with Donald Trump to the point that Chuck Todd and the media are getting emboldened as they critique him more accurately and completely. x x YouTube Video Watch the full episode here. Todd pointed out that the president is having a hard time landing a punch...

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  • August 24, 2020

Donald Trump won’t like this message from his former communication’s director. But Anthony Scaramucci did not mince his words. The revenge of Anthony Scaramucci Watch the full episode here. Anthony Scaramucci gave a fairly lengthy interview on MSNBC, where he was not too kind to Donald Trump or Fox News. He made...

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  • August 23, 2020

Other than Sean Spicer, who’s spent his post-White House years defending Donald Trump when not dancing like an elderly canary being sucked into a vacuum hose attachment, how many ex-Trump staffers have rushed into the fray to support the guy? “Yay, evil!” Where are the detailed books and articles about Trump’s...

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  • August 17, 2020

This is like telling Titanic passengers not to get on the lifeboats because someone thought he saw a spider in one of them. Apparently, our State Department has issued a travel advisory for New Zealand — because the country currently has 23 active coronavirus cases. And, well, New Zealand media are...

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  • August 7, 2020

Yesterday’s Trump presser only needed a whiteboard and a Sharpietm to draw the path to a quarter-million US deaths. x The U.S. has now confirmed 4 million coronavirus cases — just 15 days after hitting 3 million. Federal health officials have said the actual number of cases is likely 10 times higher...

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  • July 24, 2020

Hey, guess what! Mexican immigrants spread disease! That’s why we need a wall! Or so says this moist, donkey-brained twit who’s scarcely said a true thing in three and a half years. (Second tweet) x Imagine overseeing a coronavirus outbreak that has resulted in more than twice as many people...

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  • July 15, 2020

This illustrates how far we have fallen as a country. When a country's behavior reflects what we criticized for third world countries, one is in trouble. We have fallen this far. x x YouTube Video MSNBC Host Nicolle Wallace pointed out that the American government called out china for misinformation...

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  • July 14, 2020

Trump wanting to be so mask free and wanting his own way, Florida is going to be a nightmare I predict come August. Ron Desantis is so naive that he thinks the Republican Convention will bring prosperty and money into Florida’s economy at the risk of killing the state.   I...

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  • June 25, 2020

Jon Stewart reunited with his former Daily Show colleague and current Late Show host, Stephen Colbert tonight. Of course the big topic of discussion was the 2020 election. While Stewart admitted that Joe Biden was not his first choice in the Democratic primary, Stewart brought up something that I always...

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  • June 25, 2020

What did Donald Trump say? “What do you have to lose?” NBC News: Eight out of 10 voters believe that things are out of control in the United States, with majorities still concerned about the spread of the coronavirus, pessimistic about the economy's returning to normal before next year and down...

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  • June 7, 2020

That’s fighting words: x Donald trump is scum for fueling racist hate and violence in our country.— Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) June 1, 2020 Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) lashed out at President Trump on Monday, calling him “scum” and accusing him of “fueling” racism and hatred in America amid protests over the death of George Floyd....

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  • June 2, 2020

Kick him off.   We have placed a public interest notice on this Tweet from @realdonaldtrump. https://t.co/6RHX56G2zt — Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) May 29, 2020 THE SHOOTING STARTS?  Yeah that should calm the country in the middle of a pandemic when 4 thugs… The real thugs murdered a black man.  The orange brain...

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  • May 29, 2020

I clicked on the below Super Bowl halftime interview of frmr. President Obama by Bill O’Reilly because I remembered that it got some notice at the time for how often O’Reilly interrupted and talked over Pres. Obama.  But watching it is also both a time capsule and a time machine.  Particularly after the...

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  • May 24, 2020

Live Blog below 5:30* PM EDT (it rarely starts on time) Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing The White House   Texas Lt. Gov. @DanPatrick, defending reopening & risking more virus, said “There are more important things than living.” He did not specify exactly what things. When...

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  • April 21, 2020

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 chunk of the electorate whose only governing philosophy is basically social resentment. Income redistribution or a bigger social safety net...

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  • April 18, 2020

I have been a veterans advocate for years.   I never ever heard one say that when at war they whined and complained about sleeping in the rain and mud while taking a crap holding on to a tree with people shooting at them, I have never heard them say they...

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  • April 18, 2020

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 to consider the discourse revealed in the Red Dawn emails is no different than the paths chosen for resisting the...

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  • April 13, 2020

Yesterday, The Washington Post published another story recounting how the federal government’s official COVID-19 response has slowly devolved into a drunken mosh pit at a Tijuana donkey show, and among the jaw-dropping excerpts was this little number: It was the day the administration was adding Ireland and the United Kingdom...

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  • April 12, 2020

We. Are. Fucked. Question: What metrics will you use to make that decision? Trump while pointing to his head: The metrics right here. That’s my metrics. pic.twitter.com/SIbO5N6Bqx — Acyn (@Acyn) April 10, 2020 REPORTER: “Can you say, sir, what metrics you will use to make that decision?” TRUMP: “The metrics...

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  • April 10, 2020

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) in support of former  Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: Donald Trump is a coward, a pathological liar, and an existential threat to this country. If you agree, I’m going to ask you to make a contribution of $25, $50,...

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  • April 10, 2020

The lingering insult considering the number of fatalities is the willingness of people to capitalize on the necessity of PPEs. The biggest insult is Trump assuming that profit always trumps people. x Thankfully @jonkarl pressed him again. Trump said the supplies are being saved for surges, and ultimately said yes,...

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  • April 4, 2020

Like Trump’s toughness, pretending you’re using the Defense Production Act of 1950 and hoping for corporate volunteerism is not the same thing especially if you claim you’re in “wartime”. WWII was won with national production planning that overwhelmed the enemy. Trump’s enemy is as he says “invisible”, much like his...

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  • March 25, 2020

First of all, you’d have to have a head full of sawdust to buy into this market right now.  Secondly, the only reason the stock market rose by nearly 2,000 points yesterday is that it fell by more the previous day after getting pummeled half to death all week. In...

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  • March 14, 2020

There is a dark cloud over this country.   A deep sinking sense of doom and that comes from fear and uncertainity.  Am I trying to be fatalistic.  NO.  I am trying to wake you up and see the writing on the wall.   He is one dictator with a bunch of...

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  • February 8, 2020

I don’t even know where to begin with this: x I’ve got white people and Diamond and Silk.— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 7, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> REPORTER: “How do you unify the country …” TRUMP: “Do you know what’s going to unify the country, and it’s already unified in a...

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  • February 7, 2020

Because “enemies of the people” like the press should roam free. And even the US Secretary of Defense knows nothing about the “four embassies” supposedly targeted by Soleimani. “The only problem is he doesn’t want them to roam free in the U.S., because he says to us a free press...

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  • January 13, 2020

Progressives around the country strongly urge the 2020 candidates to take bold and fearless stances on several policy issues from immigration to a Green New Deal to Medicare for All. The results are in!  In recent weeks, MoveOn sent a 2020 National Presidential Survey to tens of thousands of MoveOn...

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  • January 10, 2020

This has been clear for some time. In the hierarchy of things Donald Trump cares about, No. 1 is Donald Trump. Way, way down the list somewhere at No. 2 is Chicken McNuggets. Light-years beyond that, somewhere in the far reaches of inky-black space, is Ivanka Trump. After that, it’s just a...

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  • December 6, 2019

There’s something very much like the Tiananmin protest of 1989 happening in Hong Kong right now, but it’s not 1989 anymore, so you wouldn’t necessarily know it—even if you dutifully watch the news. The news media has laid off thousands of journalists for the bottom line, finding it cheaper to...

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  • November 18, 2019

That great Republican sage from Utah — Mitt Romney — gave an interview in which he basically said that conservative Republicans think that a President Elizabeth Warren would hurt the country more so than Donald Trump.  I wanted to let that sink in for several moments. Republican Sen. Mitt Romney told Axios’...

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  • October 21, 2019

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were nabbed at Dulles airport (perhaps) “trying to flee the country” and have been indicted for financial violations but more importantly in connection to Rudy Giuliani’s role in the Arms for Dirt scandal. Former Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) is mentioned as ‘Congressman-1’, one of their...

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  • October 10, 2019

According to Dave Wasserman, who is a right-leaning election analyst, Steve King, the purveyor of an international white nationalist agenda who is seeking re-election as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 4th Congressional District of Iowa, is running this television ad, which King ran in his...

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  • November 2, 2018