Thoughts on Trump's "If we don't have a border, we don't have a country"...
I was just listening to a clip from one of Trump’s Arizona speeches yesterday, and something struck me. He was declaiming about how we need a wall along the Mexican border, because without a wall, “We...
View ArticleHillary vs. Trump: Within the margin of error
The George Washington University Battleground Poll, conducted jointly by Democratic and Republican polling firms, finds that in a matchup of Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, Hillary leads nationally...
View ArticleMany Trump expenditures going to Trump cos.
One reason Donald Trump has so little cash on hand may be the generosity with which he’s paying his own companies. For example, of the $838,774 the campaign spent on air charters, nearly $350,000 went...
View ArticleThe Big Lie about U.S. tax rates
Trump’s acceptance speech was full of lies and untruths, but one that drove me up the wall was when he said:America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world.The reason it drives me up the wall...
View ArticleWhat happened to the President forecast overnight?
Yesterday, the DKos President forecast was at an 82% likelihood of a Hillary victory. Today, it’s down to 74%. Yet I can find no new polls that would explain this sudden drop. What’s more, the 538...
View ArticleThe interesting background of Trump's defender
Late on Friday, the Trump campaign put forth the name of a supposed “witness” to the incident between Donald Trump and Jessica Leeds aboard a trans-continental flight out of New York City during 1980...
View ArticleHow to help in Philly?
I live in suburban Baltimore, where I have already voted. The fact that there is a transit strike going on in Philadelphia right now worries me. A lot of people in the city depend on public...
View ArticleIn honor of a very special veteran
Today is Veterans Day — a day to honor ALL veterans, and a day that is timed to remember Armistice Day in World War I. But in the midst of my profound depression about what happened to this country on...
View ArticleTrump's pick for Ambassador to Israel
It’s difficult to know which is the most horrendous pick of Donald Trump so far, but a good argument could be made that his nomination of David M. Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer, as Ambassador to...
View ArticleChaffetz going after head of OGE
Predictably, GOP Representative Jason Chaffetz, the head of the House Oversight Committee, is going after Walter Shaub, the head of the Office of Government Ethics. Chaffetz has invited Mr. Shaub to...
View ArticleTrump attacking intelligence community again!
Poor, pathetic little Donnie Trump is again taking to Twitter to attack our intelligence community and defend his BFF, Vladimir Putin. Here is today’s Twitterstorm from Hair Fuhrer:xIt now turns out...
View ArticleSean Spicer blatantly LIED about Metro ridership
Baghdad Bob Spicer, in his tirade today, told an easily verifiable LIE about Metro ridership yesterday and on President Obama’s last inauguration. He said that Metro ridership yesterday was 420,000,...
View ArticleTrump to refugees: So you risked your life for us? SCREW YOU!
It was monstrous enough that Trump issued his inhumane Executive Order on immigration yesterday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, when one of the things we should be remembering is our nation’s guilt in...
View ArticleTrump lies again
Our so-called President used Twitter to lie again last night. He Tweeted the following:xIt is a disgrace that my full Cabinet is still not in place, the longest such delay in the history of our...
View ArticleA Plea to the Ossoff campaign
There is a point of not only diminishing returns, but NEGATIVE returns, when your supporters’ email boxes are flooded with multiple pleading, begging, increasingly desperate pleas for funds EVERY...
View ArticleBREAKING: Trump asked Comey to end Flynn investigation
The New York Times is reporting that after a February meeting with Comey and other intelligence officials, Trump asked Comey to stay behind and asked him to end the Flynn investigation. They are also...
View ArticleTrump Jr.'s "modified limited hang-out"
Well, so much for the "there's no evidence of collusion" argument, since Donny, Jr. yesterday ADMITTED that they were trying to collude with the Russians. His first story was that the meeting with the...
View ArticleThis is what Christianity is all about to me
The pastor of my church has been doing a series of sermons this summer on compassion. Yesterday’s installment was on "Loving the Stranger" and focused on the responsibility of Christians to refugees...
View ArticleIs Trump trying to foment an anti-Muslim pogrom?
It’s difficult to come to any other conclusion after reading 3 tweets from far-right British politician Jayda Fransen, the acting leader of BritainFirst. Just how odious is Ms. Fransen? In 2016, she...
View ArticleGrassley and Graham recommend prosecution ... of Christopher Steele
Well, Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham recommend prosecution of somebody in connection with Russian attempts to subvert American democracy. The person they recommend be prosecuted is Christopher...
View ArticleThis is what speaking truth to power looks like!
During the campaign, Donald Trump claimed to be a Presbyterian, even though he is apparently not a member of any Presbyterian church and seems completely unfamiliar with his supposed faith. Here is a...
View ArticleJulian Assange: Trump's Defender
Donald Trump has an interesting new defender — Julian Assange. Yep, the same Julian Assange who has spent the past several years holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London hiding from the law.Today,...
View ArticleThe proposed new USDA "America's Harvest Box"
It’s been widely reported that Trump’s proposed budget would substitute a new USDA “America’s Harvest Box” of non-perishable food for a major portion of the SNAP (“food stamp”) benefits of any family...
View ArticleTrump attacks Sessions again on Twitter
Again this morning, the 3 year old in the White House took to Twitter to attack his own Attorney General. This time, it was the following:xWhy is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to...
View ArticleTrump declares trade war on our closest ally
Trump seems to think his steel and aluminum tariffs are going to harm China. The problem is that they will do even more harm to our neighbor to the north, and our closest ally, Canada. Does Trump...
View ArticleAt least they're not TRYING to blow up the world
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was, I guess, trying to be reassuring when he said, about Trump’s tariff decision, “We're not trying to blow up the world. There's no intention of...
View ArticleTrump "body man" must have some real dirt
According to an article on Politico, recently fired Trump personal aide and “body man” John McEntee may soon be rehired. According to reports from numerous news sources, he was fired because his...
View ArticleMark Penn must really hate Hillary!
I guess not being hired to run her 2016 campaign after he did such a wonderful job of getting her the nomination in 2008 must have left a bitter taste in his mouth. That’s the only explanation I can...
View ArticleBREAKING: Manafort jury has apparently reached verdict on 17 counts
The jury sent a question to the judge, which was how do they complete the verdict sheet if they’ve reached agreement on only 17 of the 18 counts. They also asked for a clean copy of the verdict sheet....
View ArticleTrump issues a revised Pledge of Allegiance
Here is the text of the Presidential proclamation issuing the new Pledge of Allegiance:I, Donald Trump, the greatest President in the history of the United States, the greatest leader in the history of...
View ArticleTrump's "Three Dog Defense"
Donald Trump’s explanation of payments on his behalf to silence women about his affairs with them reminds me of a story sometimes used to devastating effect by lawyers representing plaintiffs in...
View ArticleAccording to Trump, the U.S. has never been a country.
I just heard him say it again, and it drives me nuts. According to Donald Trump, if we don’t have a wall, we don’t have a border, and if we don’t have a border, we don’t have a country. There has never...
View ArticleTrump and an armed robbery
A number of years ago, my wife and I were driving through Washington, DC returning from vacation. We stopped at a combination convenience store/gas station operated by an immigrant couple. I stayed...
View ArticleTrump adds another area of claimed "expertise" about which he knows nothing.
Hilariously, in a since-deleted Tweet, Donald Trump has now proclaimed himself an expert on the rules of horse racing. He’s got complaints about the decision of the stewards to disqualify the apparent...
View ArticleA question for Elizabeth Warren supporters
As I understand it, Elizabeth Warren is proposing a 2% tax on wealth per household that exceeds $50 million. This seems to be pretty much based upon what Thomas Piketty proposed in his book, Wealth in...
View ArticleAbout that Proposed Citizenship Question on the Census
If Trump somehow succeeds in getting his precious citizenship question inserted into the 2020 Census, I think consideration should be given to a massive refusal to answer the question. After all, while...
View ArticleTrump does it again
We all know now that within 24 hours after Robert Mueller’s testimony to Congress, Donald Trump flexed his power by making the phone call to the President of Ukraine. Now, within 24 hours after...
View ArticleI don't understand why Congressional Republicans are still supporting Trump
Donald Trump’s many failures in handling this pandemic aren’t a matter of Republican vs. Democrat, or liberal vs. conservative. They’re a matter of Donald Trump having the emotional maturity of a...
View ArticleThe USNS Comfort apparently won't be ready for weeks, but there are alternatives
According to reports, the USNS Comfort, the hospital ship homeported in Norfolk and that Trump promised to send to NYC, is undergoing significant maintenance and won’t be able to deploy for several...
View ArticleWhen statistics are too exact, they're almost certainly lies
This morning, the head of FEMA couldn’t even give a rough estimate of how many masks, ventilators, or other supplies or equipment have been sent from the national stockpile. This afternoon, Donald...
View ArticleTrump has apparently managed to intimidate the FDA
In a letter dated Saturday, but only released late on Sunday, the FDA announced that it had issued an emergency use authorization to use chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate from the...
View ArticleTrump wants to bring back the business entertainment rip-off
In the guise of helping the restaurant industry recover, Donald Trump wants to restore the deductibility of business entertainment expenses. Until 2018, this may have been the biggest rip-off for the...
View ArticleTrump preparing to throw Modly under the bus
Poor, stupid Acting Navy Secretary Modly. He was too stupid to learn from the example of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions that the concept of loyalty down is utterly foreign to Donald Trump. And mark my...
View ArticleCovid-19 hits small town America hard
Try to watch Rachel Maddow’s show from earlier this evening. She describes what’s going on in Blackhawk County, Iowa (Waterloo/Cedar Falls), and includes footage from medical professionals there. I’ve...
View ArticleTara Reade's lawyer was a big Trump backer in 2016
The strange case of Tara Reade’s allegations against Joe Biden keeps getting curioser and curioser. AP reports that Tara Reade is being represented by attorney Douglas Wigdor, who just happens to have...
View ArticleBiden/Harris should turn the tables on Trump
Donald Trump has co-opted the White House Rose Garden for him and his wife to speak at a frankly and explicitly political event. Mike Pence is doing the same thing tomorrow night with Fort McHenry...
View ArticleTrump went to the Oval Office yesterday ... or not!
Once again demonstrating that they’re the gang who couldn’t even lie straight, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow went on CNBC this morning and said that Donald Trump was feeling so good that he...
View ArticleTrump personally called GOP members of the Wayne County canvassing board
Trump personally called GOP members of the Wayne County canvassing board after their meeting at which they first voted not to certify and then voted to certify. www.freep.com/… After Trump’s call,...
View ArticleCan Trump run out the clock on the stimulus bill?
Under Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law,...
View ArticleTrump extends Secret Service protection to his adult kids and top admin...
In a final “up yours” to the American taxpayer, supposed billionaire Donald Trump signed an order extending round-the-clock Secret Service Protection for an additional six months to Donald Trump, Jr,...
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