Putin’s other puppet ‘Moscow Mitch’ has a sad, and gets burned

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Friday lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling him “Moscow Mitch” over his inaction on legislation to address Russian election interference. Scarborough calls McConnell ‘Moscow Mitch,’ says lack of action on Russian meddling is ‘un-American’: Scarborough made the comments about the Kentucky Republican during a segment on “Morning … Read more

California is the first state to require presidential candidates to submit income tax returns

First, some context: in 2012 Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett made Barack Obama’s birth certificate a potential ballot issue in Arizona. In an interview with an Arizona conservative radio host, Bennett said it would be “possible” that he keeps President Obama off the Arizona ballot in November unless he receives “confirmation” from the state of … Read more

Update: GOP socialism bailouts go to biggest wealthiest farmers

I touched on this report in a post yesterday, Another round of Trump’s farmer bribes set to roll out, but it turns out that this GOP socialist scheme to redistribute wealth does what one would expect: redistribute wealth upwards to the largest and wealthiest farmers. The Hill reports, Study: More than half of Trump farm … Read more

Coming this fall: Show trials for U.S. intelligence agents who investigated Russian interference in 2016

Donald Trump and his propaganda network Fox News aka Trump TV have long promoted the conspiracy theory that a “deep state” within the intelligence community plotted a “coup” against his presidency. They have long promoted the idea of “investigate the investigators” who conducted the Russia investigation. Shortly after taking office, Trump compared the U.S. intelligence … Read more