For the longest time, Donald Trump was depending on the kindness of social media to spread his thick-headed message of hate toward Mexico and Muslims. However, as his campaign grows shakier and the realization sets in that his biggest supporters aren’t the type to vote, he’s vowed to spend $2 million per week in television […]
Politics
Posted inNews
Ted Cruz Can’t Decide: Is Gay Marriage a Threat to Democracy, or Not a Priority?
Hello, I am Ted Cruz, a person literally without any purpose for existing. Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com Which Ted Cruz do you prefer: pandering opportunist, or dangerous zealot? When he’s talking to evangelicals, Cruz likes to boast about his opposition to gay marriage. Fair enough; the guy’s chosen his side and homophobia comes with the […]
Posted inNews
Lindsey Graham Drops Out of GOP Nom Race
USNews: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham ended his long shot White House bid Monday – a move aimed at avoiding embarrassment in his home state’s February primary. Graham, a fierce national security hawk, failed to gain traction in the crowded 2016 race for the Republican nomination. He was saddled by the perception he was too […]
Posted inPolitics
Here Are the Worst Parts of the UN’s Report on Discrimination Against Women in the United States
Last week, a United Nations working group released a report on discrimination against women in the US. Much of the coverage since has skimmed off the top, so I decided to read the whole report, taking a highlighter to it, and thinking to myself, “Well, gee, I’ll just highlight the most egregious parts.” Oh, how […]
Posted inNews
A Bernie Sanders Staffer May Have Just Fucked the Whole Campaign
The Democratic National Committee is effectively hog-tying the Sanders campaign six weeks before the Iowa caucuses, crippling his campaign’s field organizing. Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com A Bernie Sanders staffer was just fired for improperly poking around in a Clinton campaign voter file, which means that person’s now job hunting several weeks before the rest of […]
Posted inNews
Can We Talk, Bernie Sanders Supporters?
Oh man, Mulder and Scully did not age well. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com Okay, let’s be real, Bernie Sanders supporters. We all know your candidate would make the best president. He is awesome. Says everything that a good-guy president should, and actually believes it. <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/12/bernie_sanders_message_discipline_may_not_be_enough_to_win.html”>Yeah, sure, he’s not super-interested in foreign policy, but imagine […]
Posted inNews
What to Expect from Tonight’s Pointless Republican Debate
It will be broadcast again from the Reagan Presidential Library, minus Scott Walker this time. It starts at 5:30 pm. Eli Sanders and Sean Nelson will be liveslogging it. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com Once more unto the blech, dear friends. The Republican personalities assemble yet again tonight to say words — so many words! But […]
Posted inPolitics
Watch This Conservative Pundit Freeze Up When Asked to Produce Stats About “Dangerous” Muslims
There is nothing more gratifying than to watch a Republican a-hole get shut down on global TV and be reduced to a gibbering idiot. In this hilariously short clip, conservative commenter Kurt Schlichter attempts to defend Donald Trump’s xenophobic “ban the Muslims” plan by stating that “a large number of Muslims believe in this Islamic […]
Posted inNews
Did You See the Editorial About Guns on the Cover of the New York Times on Saturday?
I can’t think of the last time the New York Times ran an editorial on A1. It took up the left two columns on the cover of Saturday’s paper. Here’s what it said: All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California… But motives do not matter to […]
Posted inPolitics
Senate GOP Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood, Reject Gun Control
Charlotte Cooper via Wikimedia Commons Wow, Senate Republicans really know who the real enemy is: While taking the thoughts ‘n’ prayers approach to preventing domestic terrorism this week, they put on their big-kid pants yesterday in a party-line vote for a budget that would defund Planned Parenthood and repeal the Affordable Care Act, but opted […]
Posted inNews
How Politicians Who’ve Been Funded by the NRA Re$ponded to the Shooting in San Bernadino
“I’ve been hearing a lot about San Bernadino, Dad.” Jesus Christ/Shutterstock Republicans agree: It’s time for some serious action on mass shootings, if by “action” you mean “tweeting, maybe, if I feel like it.” And the National Rifle Association has assured that the political response to gun violence will remain as muted as possible, having […]
Posted inNews
Congressional Republicans Just Approved Bill to Provide Americans with More Poisonous Gasses to Breathe
“Good God what is WRONG with you people,” Obama thought to himself. “Hello, my fellow Americans,” he said. LaMarr McDaniel / Shutterstock.com What if there were a terrorist group that killed 3.3 million people around the world every year, including 55,000 in the United States? Well, if the terrorists were foreigners, Congress probably be falling […]