Axios sums up the magnitude of this year’s election: Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is duking it out with Billionaire Donald Trump, often on Billionaire Jack Dorsey’s Twitter and in ads on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, all chronicled in Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post. And it isn’t just Democrats: 60% of Republicans say they rely on Billionaire Rupert […]
Whether or not you agree with this or even like Bill Maher, it is pretty funny. (I know this is a little old, but I just saw it. And it is just as true now as it was a couple of weeks ago.)
This is actually pretty good. I love the animations.
Ahead of today’s primary election in New Hampshire, UMass Lowell polled Democratic voters in NH and asked them the following question: Which of the following outcomes would you prefer occur on November 3, 2020?– Donald Trump wins re-election– A giant meteor strikes the earth, extinguishing all human life You can see the question on page […]
This is one of the funniest Weekend Updates I’ve seen for a while.
I reminded folks that I’m a conservative, but I said conservative policies aren’t good enough. Decency, honesty and compassion matter, too. But they wanted nothing to do with it. There was more booing, more yelling, and I caught a middle finger or two. I’m a big boy, and I can take a tough crowd, but […]
“I want to say again how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did… and for the great burden they have imposed.”— Bill Clinton, February 1999. “It was all bullshit.”“It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers, it was liars.”— Donald Trump, February 2020.
Regardless to anything I might have said about Mitt Romney in the past, today I want to say “Thank you”. Romney did something that I can’t imagine will benefit him personally in any way, but it was the right thing to do. That takes guts. Read why in The Atlantic. An anonymous quote, attributed to […]
The Republicans have learned to throw everything, no matter how ridiculous, up against the wall to see what will stick. Because 40% of the country will believe it, and the rest of us will typically tune it out and ignore it. Heaven help us.
Why does nothing shock or surprise me anymore? I mean, this is something I would expect in some corrupt third-world country run by a warlord, but here we are: Allies of Donald Trump have begun holding events in black communities where organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of […]
[A brilliantly sarcastic column by Rex Huppke in the Chicago Trubune.] Republican senators must acquit Trump in impeachment trial before any more truth leaks out As a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, I demand that Republican senators in charge of the upcoming impeachment trial swiftly acquit the commander in chief before any more truth […]
A study published this week provides hard facts about the truly bad deal the US is getting for health care. Simply put, the US for-profit health system costs four times as much than Canada’s single-payer system. Even though the two systems provide roughly equivalent results. Why? Because of a veritable army of administrative workers who […]
From Twitter: A protestor confronts Senator Lindsey Graham and asks him “How will your children survive extinction with Donald Trump in office?” Graham replies, “That’s easy, I don’t have any.” Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, is chatting with Donald Trump at the White House Christmas party. Luntz asks Trump what his middle initial “J” stands for. Trump […]
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