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JD Vance is fulfilling his Republican duty by questioning the valor of Kamala’s VP pick, Tim Walz. It might seem like a symptom of the congenital imposter syndrome Vance suffers. But it’s actually a manifestation of the smear campaign Republicans execute as an article of faith. Tim Walz, a retired National Guard Command Sergeant Major,… Read more.
Republicans want Cheatle’s head on a platter House Speaker Mike Johnson and other top Republicans are calling for the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle. They’re demanding her professional head as political compensation for allowing an assassin to come within a whisker of taking former President Donald Trump out during a rally in Pennsylvania… Read more.
‘King Charles’ Charles Barkley is both informative and entertaining when discussing basketball. Clearly, CNN assumed he’d be equally so when debating politics and social issues. Spoiler alert: CNN couldn’t have been more wrong. I’ve watched several episodes of his show, King Charles. Suffice it to know that it came across as the most cringeworthy attempt by a sports star to host… Read more.
GOP ousts McCarthy as speaker Kevin McCarthy struck a notorious Faustian bargain with MAGA Republicans to become House speaker. It required him to give them the power to gun him down. And that could happen on a whim. Yet McCarthy was all too willing to pay that price. Everyone knew it was only a matter of time before a… Read more.
Republicans banning books The Nazis burned books. But the Republicans are more civilized; they’re just banning them. Republicans claim they’re preventing the kind of fascistic indoctrination the Nazis practiced. They insist they’re only helping parents protect their kids. On Morning Edition last month, NPR featured the crusade that one parent, Katie Gates, launched to ban Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, And You. Her daughter’s teacher assigned this book for… Read more.
In Trump Republicans trust Trump voters are more likely to believe the former president is telling them the truth than their friends and family or religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll. (Axios, August 21, 2023) That, of course, is the very definition of cult worship. After all, nobody in their right mind is… Read more.
Hunter Biden plea deal Donald Trump pressured the Georgia secretary of state to find 11,780 votes. He needed those votes to help him steal the 2020 presidential election. He failed. But there’s an audio recording of him applying that pressure attempt. So the whole world knows about it. Trump also pressured his attorney general to investigate Hunter Biden. He wanted… Read more.
Donald Trump had the media all atwitter on Saturday. He “truthed” (on his Truth Social) that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will arrest him today. But Trump was trying to intimidate the prosecutor. You know, the way he intimidated special prosecutor Robert Mueller. And that was no different from him blurting out that the FBI was… Read more.
President Biden is redoubling efforts to enact his student loan forgiveness plan. It promises to forgive $400 million in debt for tens of millions of Americans. So it enjoys popular support. But Republicans oppose it as much as they opposed President Obama’s healthcare plan. Student loan forgiveness Biden’s debt forgiveness plan delivers on a campaign… Read more.
US midterms 2022 Elon Musk is using Twitter to help Republicans turn America into a MAGA dystopia. And he is being as discreet about it as Donald Trump has been about running for president again. Trump’s narcissism has him angling to steal all the glory Republicans presume will be theirs tomorrow. He will steal their thunder by announcing his 2024 presidential… Read more.
