As the GOP is trying to pass a budget where we won’t find out how ultimately destructive it is until it actually passes, the media would much rather talk about something that isn’t on the minds of most people: President Biden. A lot has clearly been riding on Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s upcoming book…

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“He’s finished, done, gone. He polls terrible. People hate him.” These are things people tend to say about their consultants or weak incumbents behind closed doors – typically on the condition of anonymity, not someone who outright owned their party just a month before. The GOP operative going on record to Politico was saying this…

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One of the issues that’s very much front and center (though the media acts as if it’s not) is Medicaid, which Republicans are determined to destroy one way or the other, even if they won’t use the words: “Repeal Obamacare” or “Repeal the ACA.” This is pretty much the only issue right now – and…

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DOGE has been a substantial failure that caused a great deal of damage and suffering as people learned the hard way of the good things the federal government offers just as Elon Musk and his foot soldiers empty out offices without a second thought. While the Trump administration liked to boast about the organization being…

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While the GOP has Congress – an inevitable truth we may have to deal with until the 2026 midterms, there isn’t much that Democrats can do to obstruct right-wing legislation – particularly when it comes to passing the GOP’s budget that disproportionately hurts everyone who wasn’t able to donate millions of dollars to their political…

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catastrophic for the country, with considerable chaos unleashed by this administration. Rather than win the hearts of the American public, Donald Trump did what he does best and doubled down on his recklessness, resulting in the worst 100-days approval rating since…well, eight years ago, the last time he held office. These ratings have actually managed…

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While Donald Trump is desperately trying to spin trade deals that are largely non-existent and push his biggest diversion yet on the American people in the form of a luxury plane that pretty clearly looks like a bribe from Qatar, what’s going unnoticed is an issue that the GOP is desperate to keep under the…

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It was bad enough that Donald Trump got steamrolled by the Prime Minister of Canada on Tuesday when his administration badly needed that country to cave and make any sort of a trade deal on the tariffs that are going as poorly as anyone would imagine. Things got considerably worse later on in the day…

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For decades, the GOP has maintained a facade of being the party of national defense – particularly when it comes to patriotism and “supporting our troops.” Of course, it’s never really been much more than a facade, as the emphasis was played up most memorably during the Iraq War, which the Bush administration paid for…

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