The absolutely most heartbreaking moment of the DNC Convention was the appearance of Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin, American-Israeli parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin. The entire crowd was in sympathy and in tears as Rachel and Jon told the story of their son’s kidnapping and the 109 people, including 45 Americans, who were still held hostage … Read more
The MAGA fetish for foreign dictators is disgusting and disqualifying in a democratic polity with respect for the rule of law and civil rights. But Abe Hamadeh (who is running as a carpetbagging candidate in AZ’s CD 8 and was the loser in the 2022 AZ Attorney General race) just demonstrated both his willful ignorance … Read more
This election will be determined by the success or failure of a massive disinformation campaign. Trump hasn’t any real issues to run on, so he tells outrageous and obvious lies, ad nau·se·am. His entire persona and the raison d’etre for his candidacy are based wholly on a series of lies about himself and what America … Read more
I was going to tear the MAGA Caucus apart today, but woke up to Jay Kuo having already done so quite effectively on in partnership with the Substack the Big Picture, so I am just going to quote him here and encourage readers to subscribe to his own SubStack the Status Kuo, as I do. … Read more
The narrative we are being fed by the Republican noise machine – and that mainstream media is only too happy to amplify for them – that the border is ‘overrun‘, ‘out of control‘ or a ‘crisis‘, is bullshit. And far too many Democrats are buying into that tall tale and blaming Joe Biden for the … Read more