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  As a native Californian, I like to keep abreast of what’s going on in my home state, and in California, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is losing support…in her home state. According to the Sacramento Bee, fewer than 1 in 3 California Democrats think Nancy Pelosi should be leading the party regardless of the outcome of the midterm elections next year. Part of Democratic frustrations with Nancy Pelosi is her infuriating caution when it comes to taking political action that steps outside the comfort zone of the status quo. Another prong on the ditch-Pelosi pitchfork is the impression that Pelosi represents the ineffective DemocraticRead More →

3:04:10 PM About a week after the 2016 election, The New York Times ran a story called The Two Americas of 2016. In it, Tim Wallace demonstrated the geographical divide between trump voters and Clinton voters. Two maps were included with the article that showed what could be seen as a striking comparison between what the two Americas looked like geographically. trumpland occupied 85% of the continental United States—a staggering figure at first glance, and a figure most trump supporters love to reference when talking about trump’s victory. They also like to tout this particular electoral map:   which, much like the Times’ maps, seemRead More →

    No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken forRead More →

How many of us remember the media racism evident during Hurricane Katrina? Remember this?     In order to celebrate the 12th anniversary of Yahoo(!) News’ fun little exercise (seriously, check the date on the image), we here at Our Trump Nightmare aren’t content to sit on our laurels and let an opportunity to turn these kinds of bullshit narratives on their heads during another natural disaster. So, with that, I bring you a new meme for a new era with a new twist.   Too soon? Not soon enough? Got a meme of your own? Share it in the comments.Read More →

  On Saturday, August 12, trump made a worthless speech about the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in which he blamed both sides for the violence. He was immediately and universally criticized for the speech, especially in light of the fact that a neo nazi had just plowed his car through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring many more. Many sources reported that Ivanka had a talk with daddy and urged him to take a slightly harder line against the people who voted for him, who also happen to be the same people who support the people that would like to put Ivanka andRead More →

  What drives who we are? Is it nature? Nurture? Some combination of the two? Random chance? We may never know the answer to what makes us who we are. I grew up in a household with 3 children. 2 of use turned out atheists, and 2 of us turned out to be Republicans—one of them even went so far as to become a trump-supporting fascist who nods and winks his racism. Parents often sadly have no say over the course their children’s lives take. Such is the case with a man named Pearce Tefft, who publicly disowned his son for becoming a neo-nazi andRead More →

  The tech world was rocked (not actually) last week when (now former) Google employee James Damore’s “manifesto” was leaked to the Internet. In his screed, Damore claims, essentially, that women are biologically “different” (read: inferior) and that he is being oppressed by not being allowed to openly make such claims in his workplace. We’ll get to his claims in just a moment, but first, a brief diversion into the perpetual victimhood of Manmerica. Every one of us who is a parent, or who is older, knows one truth: that every younger generation (that includes us) repeats the same behaviors of the older generations, allRead More →

  “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States […] They will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.” I was planning on writing something else entirely today, and not entirely trump-related, although trump-inspired, but then I read those words, and I decided that my other topic could wait at least another day. 27 years ago, I was serving as a security specialist in the U.S. Air Force. This meant that I spent my days and nights trying to stay awake under the guise of preventing anything terrible happening toRead More →

  I had a conversation today with a resentful right winger. He tried to play the Democrats-are-the-racists-because-Lincoln-freed-the-slaves-and-he-was-a-Republican-and-the-Democrats-started-the-KKK card in our discussion. One of the other conversation participants mentioned the Dixiecrats and his response was, “Oh, the Dixiecrats! You guys always bring them up.” By that time, the conversation was winding down, but that stuck with me. When we are having a “discussion” with right wingers on the Internet, there is always this effort to explain how the parties flip-flopped on their ideas of race, and how the Civil Rights Movement was the final straw that sent Southern Democrats (Dixiecrats) to the Republicans for the foreseeableRead More →

  The Secret Service has moved out of trump tower, and into a trailer on the sidewalk. The reason they gave was that the lease required by trump tower was greater than they believed fair for the government to pay. According to The Washington Post, “The Secret Service has vacated its command post inside Trump Tower in Manhattan following a dispute between the government and President Trump’s company over the terms of a lease for the space, according to two people familiar with the discussions.” The Secret Service was forced to establish a command post in the gaudy gold monstrosity after trump became the presumptiveRead More →