Here's a flashpoint in the culture war and this is going to get hot. This just happened. I'm sure the war room at Fox News and all the other right-wing war rooms, including Steve Bannon's, which is named that,...
You've got to wonder if Mike Flynn knows how cheesy and ridiculous this spot is, or if he is so tasteless cinematically, as in other areas, that he thinks it's cool. If you need a belly laugh, here it...
Donald Trump said that he was the most popular Republican ever. "beating Lincoln. I beat our Honest Abe." Jon Voight also sees a profound connection between Trump and Lincoln. Voight apparently gets messages from the spirit world, which doesn't surprise...
It's no secret that politicians pivot. If you've heard of the Overton Window, it is a model for studying political thought. At any given time in history certain ideas will be acceptable and unacceptable. The acceptable ones are within...
This is not a good sign. Virginia is one state where a Republican was able to defeat a Democrat, in a state which had been growing progressively blue. Glenn Younkin was able to be elected governor, it was said,...
Just what we needed, another new front in the culture war. Roger Marshall is a moron, as Dr. Fauci correctly called him, and now he's out for bear. Marshall sat at his peg board table with his little hammer,...
The biggest conundrum in Trump era politics, which is where we still are right now, is that the right-wing characters who perpetrate every outrage are known to us, and their specific dealings are known to us, yet the left...
There are different stratas of performative assholery and one favored by politicians is arrogant disdain. If you are looking for a working example of the genre, you will do no better than to read Kevin McCarthy's statement about how...
It was a busy day in the Senate today. After having to deal with the likes of Rand Paul, Dr. Fauci had to deal with Roger Marshall. That is a sandwich nobody would want to be in the middle...
It is not surprising that this latest bonkers rumor has been started by none other than Lauren Boebert. Maybe she thinks Rachel Maddow would be too intimidated to have her on her show as well. Maddow attended Stanford and...

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