I winced at the idea of watching Lester Holt’s interview with Vice President Mike Pence on NBC, but I did it anyway. South Korea is finally opening new channels with the North. That’s a good thing. And then there’s Mike Pence. So I listened to his calm, reasonable, and fatherly voice intoning utter barking madness. Remember: this is the man who might become President. Pence […]
Will the Nunes memo matter? Devin Nunes (seriously, what a stooge) issued his Republican-only, drafted-by-the-White-House memo. It’s an obvious sham. Read it, and it’s painfully clear the Republican party of law and order released Top Secret information for what became, at best, a limp excuse. Even so, it’s hard to know how much difference that’ll make. Using their bespoke media, Republicans have been saturating their […]
I’m finally getting to Trump’s State of the Union (SOTU) speech, but I find I don’t care. It was what I expected, but less. What did surprise me was the strength and intensity of the Democratic response. “Wait, what?” you ask. “The SOTU response? That dead fish?!?” I know! But, hand to god, it was the best part of the evening. Ahead of time, the […]
Americans have a right to be proud of our democratic government and our free market economy, despite its many flaws. We defend that democracy against near-constant assault by self-serving and predatory politicians, election manipulation by large financial players, and now by foreign opponents meddling in information, elections, and even privacy. But the newest assault may be the worst: information control, the attack against knowledge itself. […]
The New York Times keeps making the same mistakes. Republicans are manipulating them, just the same way they always do. Now they’re writing that “Democrats ‘cave’!” like it’s not just quoting Republican talking points. Will the Times eventually realize their mistake, and admit Republicans are manipulating them again? Or will they let themselves be used one more time, just the same as the last twenty […]
In my last post, I wrote that Republicans are Liars about Immigration, and We Let Them. What sadly appropriate timing. On the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, the GOP has gone full “Willie Horton” with their “Complicit” ad. I try not to just repeat lies, so I’m not including a link to it. If you’re interested, it’s an easy search. The gist of the ad […]
Today’s Republicans are openly racist and anti-immigration, at least if you’re brown. (Go ahead: tell me why Trump only wants English-speaking Swedes.) So the GOP keeps pushing their classic approach to white supremacy: wrapping themselves in the flag and pretending they’re the most rational of all actors. All their positions are completely obvious, they insist. “Immigration is bad for America. America first!” They bellow about […]
The New York Times editorial board spouted weird, bipartisan nonsense. I think this has to be their own, personal, “…Good people on both sides” moment. The paper has always held their weird false ‘balance’. The Times, over and over, simply refuses to hold Republicans to account. The Times has published quite a few oddly biased articles and editorials over the past few years. (Tell me […]
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