How to fluster Trump in the debates - “BELIEVE ME”
My 2 cents on how to add fuel to the Trumpster fire during the debates — take away his signature phrase: “BELIEVE ME”. He says it all the time, and by now probably doesn’t even know when he is doing...
View ArticleSunday Talk: Extreme Pivoting
This week, ClintonFoundationdonorDonaldTrump found himself in a bit of a pickle.Recognizing that he has a yugewhitemaleproblem (read: there aren't enough of them to win), Trumpattempted to soften his...
View ArticleTrump's debate preparation. About what you'd expect.
One would think that at this point Trump would be cramming for these debates like a frat pledge facing a final that could get him booted from school. After his “dead cat” bounce from his...
View ArticleWatch Colbert rip EpiPen's "Pharma Sis" Heather Bresch, then do something...
“Pharma Sis” Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan, isn’t as smarmy as “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, but she is every bit as greedy, nasty, and tone-deaf. The “EpiPen” device only contains $1 worth of...
View ArticleMy progressive friends: We need to talk about Jill Stein
Today, we will go on a journey. We will forget technicalities. We will forget, for a moment, that Jill Stein in fact has no path to the presidency, that there is no conceivable method she can do...
View ArticleJoy Reid: interview w/Spencer Hsu Washington Post nails it.
Joy Reid did what other reporters failed to do. Did you know that the Clinton Foundation has a searchable database where you can see who donated to the foundation? No one else has done this. Did you...
View Article"Something Has Gone Badly Wrong at the AP"
x@mattyglesias If I were AP management, I would seriously ask whether a Trump partisan is running social media. Unless it's management itself— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 27, 2016 This was...
View ArticleWallet Poll: The stark divide between battleground NC's Trump & Clinton...
Opinion polling isn’t the only way to take the pulse of a political contest.Recently the data-driven activist team at insightus has been kicking around the notion of conducting what some like to call a...
View ArticleWould Anyone be Interested in a Baking Thread?
I’m trying to learn how to make buttercream flowers. I think I have roses down pretty good (needs work, but hey! They look like roses!) There are a ton of other flowers out there that people are...
View ArticleTrump's words and how they have turned off R leaders
can be seen in a new feature at The New York Times titled At Least 110 Republican Leaders Won’t Vote for Donald Trump. Here’s When They Reached Their Breaking Point.There is nothing I can add to...
View ArticleTrump Supporters Alter Reality. Rapper Ice Cube Fires Back
Trump supporters took to the internet over the weekend, and, in typical campaign mode, began creating endorsements where there were none. After seeing the endorsement pitched above, rap artist Ice Cube...
View ArticleMy GOP Bellwether Mother Has Never Voted For a Democrat
I’ve always thought of my mother as sort of a bellwether for whats going in the GOP mindset.Raised by a hardcore Republican father, she has always stuck to the party — despite my better efforts.And...
View ArticleNow They're Pepper Spraying 84-Year Old Women. Again.
Yesterday, Muskogee, Oklahoma police released a video showing how they pepper-sprayed a diminiutive 84-year old woman, Geneva Smith, in her own home on August 17th. x YouTube VideoLest you think that...
View ArticleCrappy Anniversary
Well, thank goodness it's not a "big" year, at least. Last year was ten. Damn near unbearable. Seeing the images and hearing the stories again. Those (many) of us bedeviled by PTSD from that time...
View ArticleIf you had any doubt that a double standard exists for the Clintons:
“David Cay Johnston, an investigative reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize while at The New York Times, teaches business, tax and property law of the ancient world at the Syracuse University College of...
View ArticleJewish guy declares himself alt-right. Alt-right promptly informs him they'd...
If you are disturbed or triggered by terrible, hateful racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric, please look away now. I wish to God I had not happened upon this thread (which got a lot of attention on...
View ArticleNo Cokie Roberts, both parties are NOT at fault here!
It’s not often I wake up and the first thing I say, no scream, is “f*** you!” but Cokie did it to me this morning. I turned on NPR (my only news source apart from kos, huff and a few other leftie...
View ArticleHillary News & Views 8.29: MLK march, Epipens, Kutcher, Star surrogates,...
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View ArticleThe Other 98% goes viral with 'Racist Glasses'—see how Trump voters view the...
Rudy Mancuso has just put out a clever, funny, and all too real YouTube video showing those of us who have inquiring minds — just what the world might look like through the eyes of a Trump voter...
View ArticleNew Poll Shows Effects of Trump's "Outreach": Favorability Rate Among Black...
SHOCKER!Public Policy Polling released a preview of a new poll on “The Rachel Maddow Show” Monday night that showed Donald Trump’s favorability rating among African-American voters at 0 percent....
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