How often have I written in the past that the GOP's ability to message effectively, and especially preemptively had to turn Democratic stomachs. After all, it was their rapid response messaging of the ACA that led to the astroturf Tea...
My contempt and disgust for Trumpsters (including but not limited to all  Republican stooge politicians, civilian supporters and other co-conspirators (witting or unwitting) has reached such an unhealthy new low that I daily feel an actual physical shock to...
This is the era of "economic narcissism" in the words of Gene Sperling, an economic adviser to both Clinton and Obama, as Donald Trump wends his way to this year's G-7 summit, all set to brag about how "incredible"...
Get ready to wash down the walls, Bedminster staffers. They will soon be bathed in red and the floor covered in glass. And hopefully that will all be ketchup bottles and not blood. Trump might bash his head (or...
Take a victory lap Mr. President. Another month, another positive monthly jobs report. Last month the US added right around 430,000 jobs, and unemployment ticked down from 3.8% to 3.6%. Even better, a report came out that showed that...
With the exceptions of MSNBC and CNN, I don't watch traditional "network" television, but even I'm passingly aware of a television show on CNBC, with a bunch of passably photogenic, moderately coherent venture capitalists giving sad sacks who come...
Donald Trump's fantasy explanation of how tariffs work might rouse the base to yet another cheer, which is what it was designed for, but now that pipe dream is going up in smoke as the reality of world economics...
If you are one of the forty million unemployed, take heart. Daddy doesn't have time to deal with such tackiness as the largest unemployment figures since the Great Depression, he's too busy watching TV and running for reelection. But...
https://twitter.com/JonFlan/status/1133207369058574338 Rueters MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would supply soy beans and poultry meat to China and that the United States had effectively given up on that market. Putin was speaking at the Russia Calling annual...
As the old McDonalds jingle goes, I'm loving it! Right now the GOP House are jumping around like a bunch of howler monkeys, screeching and throwing shit all over the place. It's so bad that even GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead