Posts by Bill Palmer

Yesterday I wrote that we were having a “stupid news day.” That was because the headlines and conversations were being dominated by the ill fated legal effort to remove Donald Trump from the ballot, and the fake scandal involving Joe Biden and classified documents. Neither of these stories was ever going anywhere, and in spite…

This afternoon I wrote that rather than today being a big news day or slow news day, it was a stupid news day. Today’s news cycle has been dominated by a number of storylines that are getting a lot of attention but ultimately aren’t going anywhere and won’t have any real impact. President Joe Biden…

Now that a trial jury has ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll, Trump’s money and assets don’t just fall through an instant trap door and land in Carroll’s front yard. There’s a legal process involved. At the same time, Trump isn’t going to be able to just avoid paying up.…

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Quick, try to come up with the name of the person in the photo attached to this article. Many of you have no idea who he is. And yet he may be about to single handedly determine which side holds the House majority. The person in the photo is Tom Suozzi, the Democratic candidate in…

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It’s been a recurring theme for a few years now. The Democratic Party and its candidates have outperformed their poll numbers in the 2022 midterm election cycle, the 2023 off-year election cycle, and every special election that’s in the meantime. Now that President Joe Biden is seeking reelection in a 2024 Democratic primary race where…

No one would ever accuse Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel of being good at her job. She’s overseen one underperforming election cycle after another. And the RNC’s fundraising numbers keep getting uglier. But while she’s bad at her job, she’s not the real problem; Donald Trump is. He’s toxically unpopular, and he keeps forcing…

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It’s far too early for poll numbers to tell us much about what the 2024 election will end up looking like. But there is some data within the current polling that appears absolutely disastrous for Donald Trump. 2024 polling, on the average, pretty much shows Joe Biden and Donald Trump tied. The media (on both…

Donald Trump is a severely psychotic individual who’s now suffering from worsening senility on top of it. The result is almost comically sad. Trump keeps taking swings that alternate between nasty and narcissistic, and he keeps missing in every instance. Trump just lost $83 million, he’s days away from losing another $370 million or so,…

Last month, in a New Hampshire Democratic primary that didn’t officially count for anything, President Joe Biden won in a landslide despite not being on the ballot. Biden’s ability to dominate as a write-in candidate was a solid reminder of how popular he is with voters. It was also a reminder that candidates like Dean…

Over the past several days I’ve been getting more and more messages from alarmed readers, asking if it’s true that Donald Trump’s criminal trials are being pushed past the 2024 election. The answer is very simple: no, it’s not true. What is alarming is that even as we get closer to the start of Trump’s…

Being friends with a bad person doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re guilty of whatever they turn out to be guilty of. For instance, a number of public figures who used to be social friends or acquaintances with Donald Trump are now quite apologetic about it, and disturbed at what a monster he turned out to…

For all the buzz right now about the November 2024 election, there has been alarmingly little coverage of a 2024 election that’s taking place in just ten days. Perhaps that’s because while the election is being held to replace the headline-friendly George Santos, neither candidate in the race is making national headlines. But it’s still…

The question keeps being asked: is Donald Trump crazy or senile? The answer is “both.” He’s been derangedly, violently, malevolently unhinged for a very long time. And in recent years his worsening senility has gotten so severe that it’s finally starting to get serious attention. Of course terms like “crazy” are non-medical-professional descriptions of actual…

Now that there’s an alleged scandal involving Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ personal life, we’re hearing a lot of silly doomsday takes about how this is somehow going to derail Willis’ criminal case against Donald Trump. Nothing works that way, but we’re nonetheless going to be subjected to a lot of fear and hysteria about…

Donald Trump is a sociopath and a bully who likes to torture people. But he’s also an increasingly senile clown who has no idea what’s going on. This is resulting in a number of witless swings and misses on his part, including a failed attempt at intimidating E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer which made Trump look…