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There is no doubt that the year 2020 has been tumultuous, to say the least. With a global pandemic, nationwide protests against police brutality, and a presidential election to top it all off, the year will definitely go down in history. But the history making did not end with 2020....

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  • June 11, 2021

Here’s the latest news today out of Pennsylvania: Lou Barletta, the Republican Party’s Donald Trump-endorsed nominee for U.S. Senate in 2018, is running for governor of Pennsylvania. Barletta, 65, becomes the most prominent figure to enter a 2022 governor’s race that Republicans have won every time in the past half-century...

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  • May 17, 2021

I could spend a lot of time making statistical comparisons about the influx of immigrants at the border starting with the George W. Bush administration through the Trump administration. If that were the real issue, Joe Biden’s current border dilemma numbers would compare favorably. Now that human decency has become solely...

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  • March 22, 2021

Without the strange speculation about how Trump is in decline, it is reasonable to think that Trump is consistently inconsistent in not being able to assemble a successful policy or even a political apparatus to execute policy. For example his insistence on claiming credit for COVID vaccine development also comes with...

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  • March 15, 2021

A political economy of signs would be both qualitative and quantitative, not purely “cultural”, because there will always be “last instances”. Those last instances will be sufficiently determinative, even over-determined, complete with multiple entry points. http://www.behance.net/… ​ What causes a mirage? – ScientificAmerican https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-causes-a-mirage/ Mirages are a direct result of photons taking the path of...

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  • March 6, 2021

Kristi Noem, the GOP superstar governor who took one of the least densely populated states in the nation and turned it into a big-city-style COVID cluster*, appears to be Republicaning in other ways, too. In other words, she’s following in the feculent footsteps of her ocher overlord by engaging in...

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  • February 15, 2021

Chris Hayes told former Fox News Political Director Chris Stirewalt that his network fed lies to Americans’ detriment in no uncertain terms. Pastor makes the moral case. See full episodes here. Chris Hayes did not hold back in the manner that he described Fox News when the former political director...

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  • January 29, 2021

He Who Shall Not Be Named (aka Chester Cheat-oh, aka the Abominable Showman, aka Fuckface McFuckington) now feels compelled to punish everyone, including the phalanx of toadies (aka the Republican Party) who failed to bend abjectly to his will in his final days. The Wall Street Journal: President [He Who...

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  • January 20, 2021

As Steve Bannon is pardoned for scamming border wall money, he’s likely the new operative for a Trump political party to promote neo-fascism. Trump has trial ballooned it prior to leaving DC and its site of a recent insurrection. Bannon has been speaking with Trump in recent weeks. x Trump pardons Stephen...

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  • January 20, 2021

You want to hear Political Analyst Atiba Madyun on the seditious insurrection on the Capitol. Thomas Friedman is wrong. Political Analyst Atiba Madyun & Thomas Friedman speak Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091 Topics: Thomas Friedman’s recipe for...

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  • January 14, 2021

Trump puts out a gaslight video that leaves him blameless – who knew? True Scotsmen everywhere. Trump tries to lead your attention away from the homicidal intent of the insurrectionists. .@SpeakerPelosi announces the House Impeachment Vote. Full video here: https://t.co/0bDUMcCPoD pic.twitter.com/SwngWQtsFw — CSPAN (@cspan) January 13, 2021 Yes, Trump, has...

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  • January 14, 2021

David Plouffe did not mince his words as he pointed out that Trump and his enablers likely sped up a Blue Georgia by a few election cycles. With the events that occurred right after Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock’s epic wins in Georgia, this story was temporarily placed on ice....

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  • January 9, 2021

The 2020 election was a mess created by a losing Donald Trump that continues to subvert Democracy. Most are now pushing back. Loser Trump is about to be neutered x x YouTube Video Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0...

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  • January 4, 2021

Whhhyyyyy are they always Republicans? Just two days after Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, a Republican, died of COVID, yet another GOPster has announced her own run-in with the virus. Weird, huh? CNN: Florida Congresswoman-elect María Elvira Salazar said Thursday that she has tested positive for Covid-19 and will be unable to...

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  • December 31, 2020

Mehdi Hasan exposed the GOP for what it has become. But Jennifer Rubin most clearly defines them as the authoritarian band of thugs they are. Authoritarian band of thugs x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. Mehdi Hasan had a warning for Joe Biden, hoping he would not succumb to...

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  • November 15, 2020

Trump is trying to instill fear in Americans. 'Remember the 2016 polls! I will win.' Hogwash. Political Analyst Cornell Belcher understands it all. Given recent polls, if we do out the job, it is a landslide. 2016 polls were right and so are the 2020 polls. x x YouTube Video See full...

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  • September 28, 2020

40,000 cases a day and 1,000 deaths a day but this is altered?  I just saw this on CNN.  Is this not criminal? http://www.cnn.com/… (CNN)Trump-appointed communications officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services pushed to change language to weekly science reports released by the US Centers for...

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  • September 12, 2020

The Denver Post has a great piece out about many of the U.S. Senators from the class of 2014, including Cory Gardner (R. CO), were elected in a very good year for the GOP when the Affordable Care Act wasn’t popular. But in 2020, the tables have turned: Public sentiment...

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  • August 29, 2020

Imagine the moment you become a U.S. citizen being tarnished — and exploited — by Donald John Trump. And imagine you had no idea that was going to happen. I feel lucky. When I became a citizen all they did was slap me really hard on the ass and lop...

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  • August 27, 2020

Some big news today out of South Carolina: The Cook Political Report on Monday moved its forecast of South Carolina's Senate race, which features Lindsey Graham (R) seeking re-election, from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican.” The state of play: The race has tightened as Jaime Harrison, Graham's Democratic challenger, has proven himself to be...

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  • August 18, 2020

Red Letter day tomorrow, especially in NY state, where the AG may indeed open the first step to ending one of the greatest political crimes. I guess Trump doesn't wish her (27 year DOJ veteran Sally Yates) well. https://t.co/foBQlBwOuF — Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) August 5, 2020 NY AG Letitia James...

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  • August 6, 2020

cookpolitical.com/… Cook Political Report has shifted six US Houses, five in the direction of the Democratic candidates. A week ago Cook changed ratings on five Senate seats all in the direction of the Democratic candidate, and said the Democrats are now favored to take control of the upper house this fall....

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  • July 31, 2020

Bobby Rodrigo visited the Portland protest at ground zero during the day and night. He clearly reveals the untold truth. Bobby Rodrigo put himself at risk to bring us the real Portland story. x x YouTube Video Watch the full episode here. According to Rodrigo, Less than one city block...

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  • July 30, 2020

President Donald Trump faced a very small crowd in Tulsa after promising a full venue with large overflows. He got neither. BIG FAIL! Tulsa proves Trump's falling polls are accurate x x YouTube Video Watch the episodes here. Trump is conducting an experiment on his own supporters by gathering them in...

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  • June 21, 2020

Some very good news today out of Montana courtesy of the Cook Political Report regarding the upcoming U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R. MT) and current Governor Steve Bullock (D. MT): After serving for the state's at-large congressman for a term, Daines won this Senate seat...

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  • June 18, 2020

Here’s the latest news regarding the U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R. AK) and his challenger, Dr. Al Gross (I. AK), courtesy of the Cook Political Report: Sullivan, 55, grew up in Ohio — a refrain against him in his 2014 race and one that Gross...

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  • June 13, 2020

We are verging into serious unhingery with 147 days left. x You should be all for it then, Donnie. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/E9h4zc9dmk — NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) June 9, 2020 x Trump's deranged conspiracy theory about an elderly man brutalized by police shows he cannot fathom the possibility that his depraved lies are...

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  • June 9, 2020

The Atlantic has a great piece about how U.S. Senator Cory Gardner’s (R. CO) loyalty to Trump is going to cost him big time this year: These days, Trump’s hold on the GOP base is so total that Republican incumbents around the country cross him at their peril. Tribal loyalty...

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  • May 26, 2020

Politico has a great piece out about U.S. Senate candidate, Theresa Greenfield (D.IA), and how Democrats are spending big to not only win back Iowa but also to flip this seat to win back the U.S. Senate: The party is placing a surprisingly large bet on the real estate executive...

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  • May 25, 2020

A reminder that Rove is advising IMPOTUS*’ or his campaign of death. More “flooding the zone” so we ignore the cray-cray at the White House. x So Mitch McConnell said Pres. Obama “should have kept his mouth shut” and now Karl Rove called his commencement talk a “political drive-by shooting” and...

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  • May 18, 2020

Karl Rove is back! And in related news … what the hell is this wart on my asshole? I should get that checked. Anyway, George W. Bush’s Svengali, whom the second-worst president in our history affectionately referred to as “Turd Blossom,” is back to take thinly veiled racist swipes at our...

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  • May 18, 2020

Moscow Mitch is willing to risk the lives of his fellow senators in order to force a vote on one of his political toadies to the Court of Appeals to D.C.   The toadie in question: Only 161 days after he took his seat on the U.S. District Court in Louisville,...

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  • May 3, 2020

Do political decisions by Trump allies, protesters, and red state governors like Brian Kemp of Georgia and Ron DeSantis of Florida negate the IHME model for the coronavirus?  For those not into the weeds of coronavirus modeling, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington produced...

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  • April 21, 2020

Today was the first time in the COVID daily briefings that Trump has mentioned the 2018 “Right to Try” as the reason for insistence on untested treatments, confabulating them with cures and vaccines. It is an extension of the RW deregulatory discourse that when it comes to the desperate time...

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  • April 6, 2020

We’re at a crucial point, with the Coronavirus, with the economy collapsing and America’s political future hanging in the balance. At this time, Joe Biden seems poised to the Democratic nomination. To this I have to warn: do NOT nominate Joe Biden. It would be an absolute disaster, not just in 2020...

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  • March 13, 2020

For the past four days, I have heard Trump loyalists like Wilbur Ross and Larry Kudlow, disaffected Republicans like Megan McCain and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas, ‘woke’ or former  Republicans like Nicolle Wallace and David Jolly use the phrase, “ this is not political.” What they all have been talking about is...

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  • February 28, 2020

When asked about the legitimate criticism directed toward the DNC debate rule change that will now allow Michael Bloomberg to grace us with his divine presence on a debate stage, MSNBC political analyst Beth Fouhy thought the DNC made the correct decision.  Her argument is that Bloomberg is being allowed...

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  • February 1, 2020

Dead Man Walking: Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) doesn’t want to hear from witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Gardner confirmed his stance in a statement to Colorado Politics on Wednesday. The electorally vulnerable senator, who is up for reelection in 2020, had been viewed as a potential “yes” vote...

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  • January 30, 2020

Another day, another Kentucky criminal’s family pays to have them pardoned from prison.   GOP prosecutor took donations from sex offender's family, then pressed Bevin for a pardon The elected Republican commonwealth’s attorney in Christian County wrote to Gov. Matt Bevin last month seeking a pardon on behalf of a prominent...

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  • January 10, 2020

cookpolitical.com/… With Secretary of State and former Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo declining to run for the Kansas Senate seat being vacated by Pat Roberts, Democrats may have their best chance to win in the Sunflower state since 1932. Cook’s Political Report has accordingly moved the race from likely Republican to lean...

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  • January 10, 2020

I sense a disturbance in the Media’s Force, and according to Jehdi Mind Trick Master Mark Penn, Speaker Pelosi should send the articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate ASAP. Lord, where to begin to unpack all this BS? First up, it’s a poll only released to The Hill. A majority...

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  • January 4, 2020

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  • January 3, 2020

I should stress the possible — it is total speculation on the part of Kentucky Democrats — good political news from Kentucky, but there is “the pouring liquid nitrogen on my groin type” of news as well. Let’s get to the good news.  And it’s good news but based on something truly horrific:  Matt...

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  • December 19, 2019

Received this e-mail today from American Bridge: We just launched a scathing new ad against Sen. Joni Ernst in Iowa. Ernst is one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the Senate, and we need to keep this ad going for as long as possible if we’re going to defeat her in 2020. Watch our new...

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  • December 13, 2019