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Macron fending off National Rally offers a lifeline for Biden Sunday’s French election results had the world all atwitter. Polls had predicted Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally would win an “absolute majority.” That would’ve humiliated President Macron’s centrist alliance and a mishmash of leftist parties. Instead, the New Popular Front, a rebranded leftist coalition,… Read more.
Presidents causing national anxiety The world spent much of Trump’s presidency in suspended anxiety over his unhinged tweets. That’s why Biden’s presidency provided such a collective sigh of relief. But Biden now seems hell-bent on inflicting more anxiety over his cognitive decline. That was all I felt watching this interview. I kept waiting for him… Read more.
The Founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves, while King George III enjoys the last laugh… Read more.
Biden has immunity to end Trump’s campaign Biden and the Democrats should stop worrying and scaremongering about what a reelected Trump might do. Instead, they should realize that the Supreme Court just ruled Biden can use the DOJ, FBI, or even Seal Team 6 to ensure Trump never sets foot in the White House again.… Read more.
Trump is immune Former presidents are immune from prosecution for official actions taken while in the White House, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, but do not have immunity for unofficial acts. The 6-3 ruling along ideological lines appears to mean that parts of Donald Trump’s federal election-interference trial could proceed in D.C., but only… Read more.
Democrats in panic Mere seconds after last night’s debate, every reporter and pundit on CNN shared how their phones were “blowing up” with messages from Democratic politicians, donors, and organizers. They were all panicking, bemoaning their party’s fate if Joe Biden remained at the top of their ticket for the November General Election. Thomas Friedman… Read more.
The debate of the century Tonight’s debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden was pure entertainment. It was the kind of performative spectacle Americans now expect from political leaders. That’s why the news media hyped this debate as if it were a boxing match between two geriatric heavyweights. News anchors made famed… Read more.
Trumpism rules conservative justices Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she often cries over how conservative justices are trashing the Constitution. But their willful delay in ruling on Trump’s frivolous immunity claim is enough to make any patriotic American cry. Of course, there should be no crying at the Supreme Court. After all, its proceedings are as… Read more.
MAGA-Republican fear-mongering MAGA-Republican fear-mongering has Democrats wetting their beds. In fact, with their talk of revenge, “I-am-your-retribution” Trump and his bullying MAGA propagandists are fiendishly instilling fear in everyone. ‘Of course we aren’t fucking bluffing.’ That’s the message one close Trump adviser and former administration official to speak…wants to get across to the press and… Read more.
Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. It freed all enslaved people in the Southern States. But Union soldiers took two-and-a-half years to inform Galveston, Texas, of the Proclamation. Enslaved Blacks there finally heard the news of their freedom on June 19, 1865. Juneteenth commemorates this unconscionable delay. Yet, that… Read more.
