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    “I’m sick and tired of this White House as I was sick and tired of this campaign treating people less than whether they’re different because they’re black, whether they’re different because they crossed a border, or they’re different because they worship a different god, or their god is known by a different name…. I am tired of difference being disrespected and mistreated by this White House.” Those words came from Angela Rye today on CNN as she faced off against Joe Walsh, former Illinois congressperson and current massive dickhead who has demonstrated that he’ll pander to any group of right-wing misanthropes if itRead More →

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On Thursday morning, presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway (known as Chatterbox Con-artist by those who don’t quite love her as much as donald trump does) appeared on the Fox News morning-program-for-dipshits called Fox and Friends (See? Everyone’s friends who watches it. Yes! You! At home! You’re their buddies, too!). During her appearance, Chatterbox made the decision by Nordstrom to stop selling Ivanka trump’s crappy shit a point of contention. At the end of her appearance, Chatterbox said this: “Go buy Ivanka’s stuff, is what I would tell you. It’s a wonderful line. I own some of it. I fully — I’m going to just, I’m going toRead More →

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  Today was a busy day in trumpland. Let’s get busy. After Iran tested a ballistic missile, trump national security advisor Michael Flynn said, “We are officially putting Iran on notice.” On notice for what? Going straight to bed without dessert? For nuclear retribution? Hacking their TV system and showing an endless marathon of Michael Bay movies? After voting to confirm Rex Tillerson, the ExxonMobil CEO, as Secretary of State, two Senate Republicans declared that Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos wasn’t qualified enough to be confirmed. They made that statement without holding up the snark tag (/s) afterward to let us know they knewRead More →

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Today on Twitter, president-elect donald trump tweeted a picture of himself “writing” his inauguration speech. What is he looking at? What is he thinking? Is that really him or his wax dummy? Tell us in the comments.Read More →

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“I don’t see this President-elect as a legitimate president.” On March 7, 1965, Congressman John Lewis was then just a young man making a name for himself in the Civil Rights Movement making his way across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when armed state police officers fell upon his group of marchers and used their night sticks to crack Lewis’ skull open. Lewis continued on, and crossed the bridge. That was not the first, nor was it to be the last time that John Lewis would be violently assaulted for taking a stand for what he believed in. John Lewis’ willingness to putRead More →

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Or, How the Media Continues To Say “No Thank You” to the First Amendment   Yesterday, CNN “broke” a story about the possible blackmailing of our president by a foreign government. It now seems more and more likely that the story just simply wasn’t true. So, how did it become such an explosive story so quickly? Let’s take a trip down memory lane for a moment to help us understand how this might have happened. In October, 2009, CNN cut into their regular programming to report some breaking news. It seemed that a large helium balloon had broken free and was floating above the Colorado countryside.Read More →

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Throughout history, presidents have always been judged by their words and by their actions, but that is about to change. Enter president-elect donald trump, who should be judged not by what he says or what he does, but by what’s in his heart, according to his consigliere, Kellyanne Conway. In the wake of trump predictably being unable to resist a famous person criticizing him, Conway appeared on CNN to complain, “Why is everything taken at face value? You can’t give him the benefit of the doubt on this and he’s telling you what was in his heart, you always want to go with what’s comeRead More →

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Before we begin, let’s get some truths out of the way. You are not going to have a discussion with a right-wing troll because they are not there to have a discussion. They are there for one reason only: to disrupt. Their dishonesty is not a character flaw, it is a deliberate strategy to gaslight you. (Gaslighting is a method people use to “win” an argument by getting you to question your own reality by denying things you both know to be true just for the sake of denying them.) Their outrage is entirely duplicitous. They will pretend to earnestly demand proof of right-wing racism,Read More →

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died February 13, 2016. On March 16, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill Scalia’s vacant seat. At the time, Senate Republicans continued their then-7-year-long strategy of refusing to do their jobs. They decided it was better to sabotage the Supreme Court for 11 months and place their hopes in winning the White House and the ability to pick a right-wing justice to fill Scalia’s vacancy. Keep in mind this was after numerous Republican senators had publicly stated that Merrick Garland was probably the most qualified candidate for the Supreme Court. With donald trump’s electoral victory, Senate Republicans celebrated theirRead More →

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The GOP Congress voted to reverse their earlier secret vote to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) after being surprised that the public was incredibly unhappy with the idea that the political party that now controls all three branches of government seemed to want to do away with any ethical oversight, especially in light of the many ethical questions being raised regarding the incoming president. Many people are crediting the president-elect for shaming Republican lawmakers into rejecting their desire to eliminate ethical review, but we should not be so quick to give the president-elect credit for the decision. Here is what president-elect trump had to sayRead More →