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
I’m consistently unimpressed by the performance of Arizona’s newest United States Representative, Eli Crane. The man was a special forces operator, so I have tried hard to see any benefit from his direct combat experience being brought to bear on his work, but I consistently fail to see it. Instead, I find nothing but anti-vax … Read more
Earlier today we saw the national GOP finally give in fully to the MAGA movement with the election of backbencher radical Rep. Mike Johnson (Who?-LA) to a Constitutional office second in line of succession to the Presidency. The clearest statement of why this is such an irresponsible and destabilizing choice was by historian Heather Cox … Read more