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Trust me, Donald Trump, Howard Stern, and Vince McMahon have nothing on Joe Rogan when it comes to rich, savvy guys peddling raw and (often) reckless entertainment to ordinary people. And, notwithstanding giving performer Neil Young top billing, I used to like propagandist Joe Rogan. Granted, my affinity stems from his relatively wholesome days hosting… Read more.
To his victims and their sympathizers, teenager Kyle Rittenhouse is a White vigilante who committed double murder. To his defenders, he’s a folk hero who lived out their gun-rights fantasies. Rittenhouse acquitted Gun violence has become such a feature of American life that no one should be surprised that a jury acquitted Rittenhouse. But the following from a CNN… Read more.
There seems no denying that, the more Donald Trump humiliates Republican men, the more they seem to want to kiss his ass. This has been the most stupefying feature of American politics since 2016. Senator Ted Cruz infamously put a fetishistic twist on cuckoldry in this regard that is just too perverse for words. Of… Read more.
America is experiencing the spasms of an increasingly kinetic (second) civil war. So think whatever you will of Russian ransomware attacks and Chinese rhetorical bullying. The only things Americans have to fear are Americans themselves. And “the culture wars” now raging over things like Critical Race Theory and the National Anthem should be far from… Read more.
President Trump reportedly thought his MAGA insurrectionists looked too much like a motley crew of rowdy rednecks. He was pissed. He wanted them to look more organized and uniform, you know, like Hitler’s Brownshirts (aka Storm Troopers). Trump’s disdain for his Rednecks Never before in the history of politics has a leader shown such overt disdain for… Read more.
Christie, the commentator Chris Christie, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, is a regular commentator on the top-rated Sunday talk show This Week. On today’s episode, he and fellow commentators discussed Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the presidential election to Joe Biden. Here’s the indignant way Christie chimed in: The conduct of the president’s… Read more.
Pence projecting disappointment Vice President Mike Pence says Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment to conservatives. ‘Look, we have great respect for the institution of the Supreme Court of the United States,’ [Vice President Mike] Pence told the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody on Wednesday. ‘But Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment… Read more.
Cohen free to unleash on Trump Michael Cohen walked into his apartment building on the Upper East Side Friday evening to begin his home confinement term, ending a weeks-long fiasco that saw him arrested and returned to federal prison for refusing terms of his confinement. … [Judge Alvin Hellerstein] on Thursday ordered Cohen’s release from… Read more.
Kudos to Gerber for featuring and celebrating an adopted baby. But why dress her up to look a little Aunt Jemima? And don’t get me started on her (adoptive) parents being White! Black Gerber Baby Magnolia Earl, who recently celebrated her first birthday, just made history as the first adopted baby to be the Gerber company’s spokesbaby,… Read more.
There’s no denying that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign to help Donald Trump. Only that explains why Trump keeps acting like Putin’s useful idiot. And yes, Trump is really that stupid and transparent. Trump is Putin’s useful idiot Of course, Putin keeps playing the coy mastermind who pulled off that electoral feat. He started mere days… Read more.
