Wannabe felons crowded around the US Postal Service after Reagan’s 1980 election. They claimed that “privatizing” the mail would increase efficiency and lower costs. The trucking industry tried to pack the Postal Board with appointees in their thrall. James Bovard and other dependable conservative lackeys wrote op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, urging…
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Today Trump tried killing Social Security with another Executive Order stunt
Deranged Trump syndrome: a dictatorial Trump now confronts his losing with even more autocratic attempts to consolidate power. Sabotaging the postal service to thwart voting…plus another attempt to loot social security. Republican scorched earth on the way to the bunker. This defunds Medicare. This defunds Social Security. Tax collection is just deferred. You’ll still owe…
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 he tries to unseat U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D. MI). Except that James can’t stop taking her family’s money and doing them favors: The Senate…
Pelosi schools ABC host as she tried to slam Democratic governor on COVID-19 resurgence
ABC Host Martha Raddatz asked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a charged and rather silly question with a partisan twist. Speaker Nancy Pelosi never gets caught off guard Watch the full episode here. Nancy Pelosi appeared on This Week today. She was interviewed by Martha Raddatz. The ABC Host asked her a rather charge question in…
More grotesque corruption: Trump tried to steer British Open to his resort
More disgusting corruption, a la Donald Trump’s attempt to host the G-7 summit at his golf resort/bedbug hatchery in Florida. According to The New York Times, in 2018, Trump asked the U.S. ambassador to Britain, Robert Wood Johnson IV, to try to convince the British government to “steer” the British Open golf tournament to his…
Trump said he tried out face mask and 'looked like the Lone Ranger'; uh …
Can this dude go five minutes without making me want to crawl into a spiderhole with a VW Minibus-sized chunk of whale blubber and a straw? Wha … the … fuk …? The Washington Post: Face masks do not need to be made mandatory, Trump said. Although he has previously declined to wear one in public or…
Trump again tried for free live campaign coverage – Media didn't take the bait
The recession has begun, and happy talk continues with the “Mission Accomplished” statement by Kushner to Fox and Friends. There was another WH pseudo-event with the third straight day of business frottage, self-congratulating companies, and happy talk. They called it a roundtable because unlike yesterday it was in a different WH room, sitting around a…
TX-Sen: “Coronavirus Cornyn (R)” Tried To Spread False Hope On Twitter & It Did Not Go Well
Kudos to Brad Reed at Raw Story for bringing this to our attention: x #CoronavirusCornyn doesn't mention 26,211 Americans are dead. I guess that's not important. He also doesn't mention https://t.co/7WKPbPKSIE— xxxJDxxx (@xxxJDxxx3) April 15, 2020 Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Wednesday tried to spread some purportedly encouraging news about the COVID-19 pandemic — but…
ME-Sen: Collins (R) Tried To Rally Maine With A Hopeful COVID-19 Message & It Didn't Go Well
From AlterNet: x The Paycheck Protection Program I co-authored went live 8 days ago. In those 8 days, 8,400 Maine small businesses have been approved for $1.5 billion in forgivable loans. This relief will help keep workers’ paychecks coming & small businesses afloat.— Sen. Susan Collins (@SenatorCollins) April 11, 2020 Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) claimed…
Ted Cruz tried to explain science to AOC, but he inconveniently forgot he's dumb
Oh, it’s like shooting transitional fish fossils in a barrel. First, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rightly pointed out that Mike Pence is to science as Donald Trump is to leafy green vegetables: x Mike Pence literally does not believe in science. It is utterly irresponsible to put him in charge of US coronavirus response as the…
2019, the year the press tried—and failed—to stand up to Trump
With Donald Trump becoming the first American president to be impeached in his first term, while holed up in the White House tweeting endless attacks around the clock like some internet troll, 2019 should have been the year the Beltway media finally shed its signature timidity and forcefully stood up to him. This should have been…
Elder at anti-LGBTQ church allegedly tried to pay for gay sex with Arby's food
I honestly thought we’d reached peak absurdity three years ago, but here you go. Barry Poyner, an elder with the Kirksville Church of Christ in Kirksville, Missouri, has been arrested for soliciting sex from male college students. And offering to pay with an Arby’s card — which, frankly, is the most appalling part of this…
Emails show Trump administration tried to justify withholding Ukraine aid after the fact
Wait, you mean Donald Trump’s decision to withhold vital aid from Ukraine wasn’t based on any sort of meticulous review? And so they had to create an ad hoc justification for … whatever the fuck he was doing? According to The Washington Post, a review of Trump’s decision to withhold aid from Ukraine unearthed documents revealing “an…
