For decades, western leaders have struggled to develop an effective strategy for countering Russia. A recurring theme in the diplomatic world seems to be attempts by the west to “reset” relations with Russia. Every time an effort is made, however, Russia engages in some type of bellicose behavior that derails,...
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Letting a cabal like Council for National Policies choose the tropes: “Buy Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head because it’s the end of an era. It is the end of freedom in America”. Because of course you learn gender roles from potatoes, your ideology from conservative lobbying groups, and then there’s...
OANN is Donald Trump’s new favorite teevee network, and that makes a ton of sense — because it’s basically Fox News on bath salts, chewing away at America’s jowly face until we’re all too confused and exasperated to fight back. Its White House reporter, Chanel Rion, has tossed Trump a...
“I’m the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos.” Trump at the Council for National Policy Recalling that Mark Burnett wanted once to have Trump arrive at an event like Hitler at the Nuremburg rallies, next week’s GOP convention should have bombast to compensate...
So many things to clean up starting January. A Josh Rogin piece at WaPo suggests that progressives will be sidelined in a Biden-Harris foreign policy. ‘Democratic muscular liberalism’ is more rebranding for the same centrism that often supported making wars last longer and often with less satisfying outcomes, despite multilateralism and...
That is a new Twitter thread by Seth Abramson, drawing on the research he did for his 3 books on Trump. That’s one tweet per scandal. There are 20 Tweets covering issues with the EU and some 2 dozen plus individual nations. If you want to read the original in...
From Dean M. Harris at NC Policy Watch: In 2015, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina argued that we don’t need government rules for public health in the food service industry, because the free market would protect public health and safety. As an example, he said that the government...
Likely Trump tweeted because of the haircut protest, much like his comment yesterday that Virginia needed to use the Second Amendment to protect its potatoes. https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1263087238876889090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
MSNBC's Katy Tur interviewed Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman, who wants the city and the strip to open with no real plan other than survival of the fittest. Katy Tur scolds Las Vegas mayor x x YouTube Video Watch the entire episode here. Katy Tur has been doing some great journalistic work....
There's been a complete transformation in how the campaign press covers elections in the last decade, and it's a defining change that's benefiting Republicans, and specifically Donald Trump. The change is in the way the press has dramatically curtailed its coverage of policy and of what candidate agendas look like....
I interviewed Andrea Fernandez with her friend Jasmarie Hernandez before she went on stage at the Unlock the Future rally in Houston sponsored by the National Organization for Women (NOW) on immigration policy. The two got up early that Sunday to drive the 180-mile trek from Austin to Houston for the rally. I asked...
Consider this little CYA item meant to distance VP Pence from Ukraine-gate that could mean a readiness to cut Trump loose. x WSJ: VP Pence advised against releasing notes of President Trump's call with the president of Ukraine. https://t.co/6dCprfgsH6— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 28, 2019 many of those anti-LGBTQ policies come...