Politics

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…

Writers often write about what they know, offering occasional personal antidotes, so please allow me to offer one of mine. Back in my childhood, I had a hobby that I felt was — rather magical, a dream come to life, a living, breathing process of finding beauty in extraordinary places. I love the beach, as…

Donald Trump is the most brazenly corrupt career criminal in American history, and yet morons voted him back into power anyway. This has given Trump a clear green light to ramp up his corruption, and he of course has jumped at the opportunity. Trump isn’t just openly accepting foreign bribes such as his free airplane…

“Fixed fortifications,” General George S Patton once said, “are monuments to the stupidity of man. If mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, anything made by man can be overcome.” Consider as an object lesson of one man’s stupidity, Trump’s border wall. Trump claimed it was a success, of course. It was in fact a…

“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…

Donald Trump’s DC “SWAMP” has not been drained as he promised; on the contrary, the swamp waters have reached epic level flooding. This awful stench of Republicanism is all people are talking about because the GOP seems utterly unaware of how idiotic they are appearing to others. As I said, It’s just NOT been the…

The term “big, beautiful bill” sounds as dumb as the man who coined it. Esquire agreed to call it that because “we have a toddler in the White House.” It is still so hard to fathom that people wanted this waste of flesh back in the White House, and while doing so, gave him a…

Now we, the sane, have always known that Donald Trump doesn’t care about ANYONE. It’s not just Democrats he adores hating — it’s the world. He does love his money and he does love power and he simply adores his chicken nuggets. But as far as any human? Not a chance. So it perhaps will…

We’ve spent a long time watching Donald Trump humiliate himself while attempting to interact with various world leaders. I say “attempting” because it’s pretty clear that Trump has no idea how social interactions are supposed to go, or how a person is supposed to act. It’s roughly like watching an alien – a deranged one…

Just when you think things can’t get any worse, Donald Trump rears his ugly head. He is busy doing things that will benefit his rich friends, and he then has the audacity to make up tall tales to try to explain it away. Perhaps the people who were foolish enough to vote for and continue…

Soon after the tragic news broke about President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis, Don Jr. wasted no time posting a nonsensical, pathetic attack against former First Lady Jill Biden. “What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???” he posted on X. The…

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…

Have you noticed that MAGA can’t win an argument? It doesn’t matter what the argument is about. MAGA never has any pushback beyond name-calling and whataboutism. Also, sometimes MAGA says foolish things. The king of MAGA, the leader of this group of sneering Carnevale characters who remain locked in their own house of ugly and…

It comes as no surprise that the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case isn’t unique. Indeed, it is the rule rather than the exception. Of 90 illegal kidnappings and (let’s call it what it is) renditions of Venezuelan men sent to an El Salvadorian prison by the Trump “administration,” 50 were in the United States legally. In…

“Love.” Such a sweet word with such ramifications. And “Love” is, among other things, prominently featured in many Subaru commercials. But there may soon be OTHER words linked to buying a Subaru. “Subaru to announce price hikes.” This is because of Donald Trump’s tariffs. And so it begins. This is just another chapter in America’s…

We all know that Donald Trump has been publicly displaying symptoms of advanced dementia for a few years, and signs of malignant narcissistic sociopathy for his entire life. We should find his befuddled and disturbing behavior predictable by now, if obviously not acceptable. Since he’s retaken office, his behavior has gotten even worse. But of…

Donald Trump has long shouted patriotic slogans like “America First.” While the concept of prioritizing the needs of the country you’re elected to run is not outrageous, Trump’s follow-through inevitably is. Trump may claim to be focused on helping America succeed, but his actions reveal a consistent, disturbing pattern of self-serving behavior. Trump is hosting…

Several of Donald Trump’s more creepy sycophants, are suggesting that Trump ignore any extreme court rulings that do not favor him. MAGA is also chiming in, suggesting the same. For example, Matt Walsh suggested that the extremes do not have the power to tell Trump to do ANYTHING, that they are only weighing in with…

The Social Security Administration continues to smack down Elon Musk’s lies. One of Musk’s biggest lies was that “millions of dead people” are receiving Social Security benefits. According to SSA, the agency receives more than three million death notices per year. Back in February, Musk posted on X: “Having tens of millions of people marked…

Under the cover of night was when it happened. Under the cover of darkness was when they did it. Under dark skies and a mad moon on Sunday night, the GOP House Caucus solemnly reviewed its troops. They had enough troops, enough to advance a bill that would slash funding for the most needy of…

As some of you have pointed out, I haven’t yet written anything about President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis. If I’m being honest, it’s because I was still trying to figure out what to say. There are so many angles involved, so many emotions, such heartbreak, and it only serves to somehow make what happened in…

The upper echelon of the MAGA elite is composed mostly of old white guys with bad diets. Because they’re selfish they have no vested interest in the future of our beleaguered planet. Some would scoff, others would laugh, but most would scratch their heads and wonder what I mean because they’re also stupid, but all…

Elon Musk is not just a liar; he’s a pathological liar. The creation of DOGE was nothing short of a hoax on the American people. To cover his own fraud, Musk deleted his self-given kudos that were not kudos at all. All he and Donald Trump have done is make life more difficult for people…

The old orange beached whale fancies himself a rocker now. Donald Trump appears to have little to do except bitch, moan and mutter. The fact that the country’s falling apart around him doesn’t seem to matter to the freaky felon. People looking at the idiot’s truth social posts over the weekend, perhaps lost their appetites…

The last time Donald Trump was in charge, he screwed up everything he touched. When COVID happened, his words and (non) actions made it worse. Whenever Kim Jong Un piped up, Trump responded to him and made it worse. It was the worst display of abject incompetence to ever occur on the world stage –…

You may have heard about the fantastic new idea of the Trump administration to turn the pain of millions into their own reality show. I mean, we shouldn’t be surprised, should we? The Trumpers have shown that no low is too low for them to go to. So, Homeland Security is vetting a new reality…

It’s particularly amusing when the Supreme Court of the United States uses a Trump lie against him. On Friday they reaffirmed their earlier decision that Trump can’t kidnap human beings off the street and send them to a brutal foreign prison. In a 7-2 decision SCOTUS wrote “The government said it’s ‘unable to provide for…

Donald Trump is a notorious con artist and ripoff artist. He lies. He cheats. He doesn’t pay his bills. He’s a convicted felon because of how fraudulently he ran his business empire. But Trump is also something else: a sucker. Trump has always excelled at ripping off the little guy. But any time he does…

I am weary of news about the plane. It seems a minor folly compared to a government kidnapping and deporting legal residents and kids with cancer, the former into brutal foreign prisons and the latter without medical support. Resources are being ravaged, the economy is being deliberately tanked, habeas corpus is being suspended and a…

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…

Disapprove. Disapprove. Minus 32. Minus 17. Minus 15. Minus 16. These shiny new numbers represent the American people’s feelings on one Felon J. Trump, as seen in a brand new poll from Verasight. This new poll contains not even a smidgeon of good news for him. Let’s crunch the numbers, shall we? In this poll,…

The luxury jet offer from Qatar’s royal family for the United States to use as Air Force One has been setting off all sorts of alarm bells, from Constitution and ethics violations to national security risks. Plus, even if accepted, the plane would require substantial modifications to meet U.S. standards. What President would say yes…

Donald John Trump is now the laughing stock of the world. Sometimes a writer’s work is never done. Sometimes, big big, BIG news stories come in during a political writer’s process, forcing the writer to shift focus from what they were writing about to what they are NOW writing about. I have had to do…

When Donald Trump began trying to find excuses for failing to follow Supreme Court rulings, I wrote that he was risking the possibility of retaliation. After all, the majority of this Supreme Court is made up of power hungry opportunists. Trump was begging to be put in his place, and I predicted that the Supreme…

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…

Nearly everything we, the American people do is contingent on what our meteorologists have to tell us that day. Will it be sun and fun out? Clear skies? Or will it be damp and rainy? Will snowflakes come pouring down, or will it be breezy but clear? Or will it be even worse than that?…

Kristi Noem (a/k/a Ice Barbie) recently told Jesse Watters that the three Democratic reps present at the illegal arrest of New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka “don’t deserve to be in the House.” Taking things one step further, Mike Johnson continues to claim that they can be arrested after the fact and should be expelled from…

Donald Trump is failing. Donald Trump has failed- over and over and over and over again. I can prove it. Since Mr. Trump took office, virtually everything that he wants to do, every cruel, inhumane act of evil, cowardice, and lawlessness, has been wiped away by stitching. A stitching of threads — that spell out…

Note from Bill Palmer: While I’m dealing with a personal matter today, please enjoy this thoughtful column from Robert Harrington: I don’t ordinarily like to begin an article with an assertion that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was right about something. However, when he referred to habeas corpus as a “privilege” and…