“How am I still here?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republicans-join-obama-in-condemning-trumps-words/2016/06/14/fb1619c0-325e-11e6-95c0-2a6873031302_story.html It won’t be long now. Bernie and Hillary held a summit on Tuesday, after which they released nearly-identical statements about working together. Bernie has a big announcement planned for tomorrow. Here at last comes that unifying pivot, with the Democratic Party preshow concluding and the main event about begin. […]
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Inside the Dreams of a Japanese Trump Supporter
MEANWHILE ON THE INTERNET… Popular YouTube personality and music video director Mike Diva just released this Japanese Donald Trump Commercialใใฉใณใ๏ผ๏ผ๏ผ๏ผ, because Youtube is where America REALLY gets its news. It’s not really a Japanese video, nor is it an actual Donald Trump campaign commercialโbut it is a strangely accurate guess at to the probable trajectory […]
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Hillary Crushing Trump In New Poll
TPM: A new Bloomberg poll published Tuesday shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump 49 percent to 37 percent among likely voters nationwide. It also showed that 55 percent of those polled said that they would never vote for Trump. The survey was taken Friday through Monday among 1,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over, 750 […]
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Today’s the Day that Decides Bernie’s Next Move
Wait, has Bernie been a secret Conehead this whole time? Sheila Fitzgerald / Shutterstock.com Some failed presidential candidates fade mercifully away, like Michele Bachmann. Others periodically flounder back into the spotlight, like Bob Dole doing Viagra commercials. Others do whatever it is Chris Christie is doing: henchman nonsense like fetching Donald Trump’s McDonalds order. (Maybe […]
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Donald Trump Is Not a Loser. But He IS a Quitter
David Rees of The Baffler has an interesting theory about Donald Trump: that the [presumptive] Republican nominee doesnโt have the type of personality that will take him all the way to the November election. Itโs not that the Republicans, already in probably the worst position of any major party in the history of presidents and […]
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What Hillary Clinton’s Win Brings into Focus
Bye-bye bernie. ISTOCK Well, this is weird. But hey, it’s a weird election year. Due to a deadline that didn’t cooperate with this week’s big political news, I’m writing to you from the day before the Democratic contests in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, and South Dakota. By the time you read […]
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Associated Press Responds to Criticism Over Calling the Nomination for Clinton: “We Counted”
Still in it. Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock Last night, the Associated Press called the Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders supporters were outraged. You’ve probably already read plenty of stories about what this all means. Here’s another take on how this happened, this one from AP senior vice president and executive editor Kathleen Carroll: “We counted.” […]
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Republicans: We Have More Important Things to Worry About than President of the United States
Not going away, no matter how long you hold your eyes shut. mikeledray / Shutterstock.com Here’s a fun fact about the American democracy experiment: Did you know there are actually THREE branches of government? It’s true! First, there’s Congress, which represents meticulously engineered map-squiggles. Then there’s The Supreme Court, an eight-judge panel that is no […]
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It’s Primary DayโHere’s What You Can Learn from a Cat
It’s Primary Day in California (and elsewhere!) and tempers are already running hot. (Especially since the AP and a certain political gadfly named Dan Savage have already called the nominee race for Hillary.) So we understand your need to pointlessly and impotently scream your lungs out. HOWEVER! If you scream your lungs out at the […]
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Hillary Clinton Has Already Won the Democratic Nomination
jctabb / Shutterstock.com Joan Walsh in The Nation: Hillary Clinton needs just 24 more delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination, when the total of delegates sheโs won in primaries and caucuses are combined with her superdelegate supporters. Assuming she wins New Jersey on Tuesday nightโand she is leading there 64-36 in the latest pollsโshe will […]
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Hillary’s Foreign Policy Speech was an ad for President Trump
“I demand to be taken seriously.” jctabb / Shutterstock.com So maybe you watched Hillary’s foreign policy speech yesterday (or maybe you just read Dan’s play-by-play). It was pretty great! With tough language and highly confident delivery, it was a perfect demonstration of why Hillary would be a great president. Unfortunately, it was also a perfect […]