“I talked to the president prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly, ‘They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.’” (Laughter)   That parenthetical was the sound of the White House Press Corps sharing a hearty laugh with the man who just told them that the president had lied to them consistently for over a year. Tonight’s post will be short and not-very-sweet. Fuck you, media. You haven’t learned a goddamned thing.   Meanwhile, in news that doesn’t matter… While the national media was busy laughing off the admission that the president was willfully lyingRead More →

From Ted Cruz February 28, 2016: “Maybe his taxes show those business dealings are a lot more extensive than has been reported.” “The fact that Donald seems terrified to release his taxes suggests that there’s a bombshell there. It’s natural to wonder, ‘Well, what is it that he’s hiding in his taxes?’” March 23, 2016: “It’s not easy to tick me off. I don’t get angry often. But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that’ll do it every time. Donald, you’re a sniveling coward. Leave Heidi the hell alone.” May 3, 2016: “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t knowRead More →

    On Monday, one of the president’s favorite people took the stage to say something incredibly weird. “That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons, great-granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.”   These were remarks made by Ben Carson—yes, Ben Carson—during his first speech to the poor saps who have to do what he tells them to do at the Department of HousingRead More →