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The aspiring fascist’s “bloodbath” comment, in the context of the last nine years
During Trump University professor Donald Trump's weekend lecture in Fascist 101, he said something so egregious, something so reeking in criminality, something so steeped in cesspool stench, that it actually got major play in the mainstream media. While ostensibly...
The aspiring fascist’s “bloodbath” comment, in the context of the last nine years
During Trump University professor Donald Trump's weekend lecture in Fascist 101, he said something so egregious, something so reeking in criminality, something so steeped in cesspool stench, that it actually got major play in the mainstream media. While ostensibly...
GUEST COLUMN: Progressives who think Biden isn’t sufficiently pure are making it easier for Trump to win
By Chris Satullo Back in 2004, a wise man named George Lakoff wrote these words: “Facts bounce off frames.” Translation: Once we humans find a satisfying narrative to explain the world and our place in it, we cling to it stubbornly. Usually this is because a)...
This week in media overload: Let’s recap the latest hailstorm of horrors!
I'll take a wild guess that you cringe every time your phone buzzes with a news alert. This week has been particularly busy (although, given what awaits us during the next eight months, it will surely look tame in retrospect). If you've had trouble keeping up these...
A female Republican’s most thankless job: Defending a crotch-grabbing rapist.
There are lots of thankless odious jobs in America - sanitation worker, septic tank repairman - but surely none are worse than cleaning up Donald Trump's serial excrement. That goes double for his top female acolytes, who are tasked with defending a thrice-married...
For MAGA, Katie Britt is the perfect fit: Woman in the kitchen, cooking an indigestible lie.
If you haven't had a chance to catch Katie Britt's fake emotional mishmash - her failed audition for an eighth grade production of The Stepford Wives - you're in for a treat. But if your time is too precious to waste on the junior Republican senator from Alabama, I...
GUEST COLUMN: A dream scenario for the ’24 Democratic ticket! (A guy can always dream.)
By Chris Satullo I have something to propose. In all likelihood, you've been thinking something along the same lines, though your specific names and clever twists may vary. Even my older sibling, who usually leaves the political punditry to his kid brother,...
Joe kicked ass at the SOTU. Why am I not surprised?
Al Pacino, in the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross, sat in a bar and said, "Our life is looking forward or looking back. That's it. Where is the moment?" Good philosophical advice. We can't alter the past and we can't see the future, so we should maximize the...
Bread and circuses: For the cult, Super Tuesday was the Russell Crowe primary
With apologies to cinema's The Gladiator: "Ladies and gentlemen of the cult! I stand before you as a rapist, an insurrectionist, a coup plotter, a financial fraudster, a deadbeat who owes half a billion dollars to courts of law, a thief of classified documents, an...
During the pandemic, His Fraudulency got a lot of people killed. Has that slid down the memory hole?
It's perversely fitting that the anti-science quack whose imbecilic behavior during the pandemic resulted in an unnecessarily high death toll is now declaring that, if returned to power, he will withdraw all federal funds from public schools that require vaccines....