Fox News In the wake of Friday’s awful shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, Fox News and the clown car of GOP presidential hopefuls are trotting out that tired accusation we hear every time there’s a mass shooting: The left-wing establishment/Planned Parenthood/liberal media is politicizing a tragedy. The implication, of course, is that […]
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Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
Fascist? Or just tapping into America’s latent fascistic impulses? Ilya B. Mirman / Shutterstock.com Local journalist David Neiwert argues in a long blog post that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is not exactly a fascist: Rather, what he is doing is mustering the latent fascist tendencies in American politics—some of it overtly white supremacist, while […]
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Republicans Threaten to Shut Down Government to Defund Planned Parenthood, and Give Tax Breaks to NASCAR and Bacardi
Speaker Paul Ryan demonstrates a festive jig as commanded by his billionaire overlords. Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com What better way to celebrate the holidays than by holding the government hostage, demanding money for your pet programs, and then shutting federal services down if you don’t get your way? It’s a brand new Republican Christmas tradition! […]
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Watch Seth Meyers (Nicely!) Hand Sarah Palin Her Ass
On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host welcomed guest Sarah Palin—I guess no one else was available?—and (very nicely) took her to task regarding her hardline views on America accepting Syrian refugees. He even had to explain to her how the federal government vets newcomers to our country! (Try not to think too hard […]
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Apparently Ted Cruz Is the One We Need to Be Worrying About Now
Shutterstock Ted Cruz: Boring but deadly. A good magic trick is all about distraction — whipping out some eye-catching bouquet of flowers or dazzling with jazz hands in order to keep anyone from noticing the card tucked in the sleeve.And while it’s fun to laugh about Ben Carson’s pyramid scheme or holler about Donald Trump’s […]
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Donald Trump: What if the World’s Worst Boss Became the World’s Worst President?
Shutterstock An expert without expertise. Many years ago, I worked for one of THOSE bosses, the kind we’ve all had, who would issue demands and proclamations with absolute certainty and was completely wrong about everything.“British children don’t have British accents until they become teenagers,” he once observed. On another occasion: “Why are we all using […]
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Looks Like This Ben Carson Joke Is Finally Nearing Its End
CHRISTOPHER HALLORAN / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Ben Carson: “Wait, there are countries OTHER than America? Where???” Some presidential campaigns fade away quietly under cover of night so deftly that you might not even even notice they’re gone — for example, it’ll probably be a long, long time before you ever have think about Bobby Jindal again. But […]
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Ben Stein: Obama Hates America Because He’s “Part Black”
RawStory: The actor and former Nixon speechwriter appeared Monday on Newsmax TV, where he told host Steve Malzberg yesterday that President Barack Obama was a “bad joke” and a “very real danger to America,” reported Right Wing Watch. Stein, who has described the president as “anti-white” and questioned his background, speculated Obama actually hated the […]
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Where’s the Proof that Jeb Bush Is a Christian?
Jeb Bush: secret Zoroastrian? Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com Jeb Bush is ready to “stand with France,” except for that annoying poem the French had the nerve to chisel on our Statue of Liberty. Give us your tired, poor, huddled masses? Mais non, says Jeb, and au revoir, muslims! To be honest, I don’t know what […]
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Women in Texas are Inducing Their Abortions Themselves
via Thinkstock You know, unless you’re a woman. Fuck this week, man. The latest craze among governors in hard-right states has been to say, full of utterly wrong passionate intensity, that they won’t accept Syrian refugees within their borders. Meanwhile, we’re seeing what happens when another popular ultraconservative opt-out hobby—eroding women’s healthcare—comes to its obvious […]
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Republican Candidates Are Taking a Brave Stand Against Terrorism, Facts
Donald Trump: “Is anything I’m saying true? I don’t know! Who cares!” Ilya B. Mirman / Shutterstock.com Well, another day, another opportunity for the Republican presidential candidates to show off how much they hate foreigners. While Bernie and Hillary have made a good show of their openness to refugees, Republicans have gleefully jumped on the […]
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Republicans Using Paris Attacks to Derail Obama’s Plan to Resettle Syrian Refugees
War, suffering, etc. Nebojsa Markovic / Shutterstock.com The Paris attacks, like everything that hurts beyond measure, is a Rorschach test of ideology: Which of your assumptions would you like it to confirm, and whose would you like it to refute? And if you are a particularly thoughtful person, which of your assumptions will it change? […]