After President Joe Biden’s calls for unity in his annual State of the Union address, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders stoked right-wing grievances in her official Republican response on Tuesday night. Sanders went down the list of Republican complaints: A president and administration ensconced in “woke fantasies”; the constant siege …
Read More »Confessions of a Sometimes-MAGA Critic
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) did not intend to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) of her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee —until, of course, she did. As a personal matter, Mace says she has nothing against Omar. “I don’t know her from Adam,” she says,an odd contention from someone …
Read More »A Guide to the House GOP's Unhinged Week of Lies, Revenge, and Infighting
The week of chaos, confusion, and (literal) infighting that preceded Kevin McCarthy’s election as speaker was a pretty strong indication that the Republican Party’s control of the House of Representatives was going to be a shitshow. They’ve been in control for a week now. Yes, it’s been a shitshow, but …
Read More »Crisis, Coups, and Criminality: House GOP Leadership Has Been a Rolling Clusterf-k
Kevin McCarthy’s as-yet fruitless bid to become the GOP Speaker of the House is a once-in-a-century shitshow. The last time the House failed to select a Speaker on a single ballot was back in 1923. McCarthy’s humiliation is historic, but it’s not out of keeping with a Republican party whose …
Read More »Why Are More Black Men Voting Republican?
Wanted: Black Men needed to be buffoons —think Hershel Walker —in exchange for being treated like a King of the Moment and a figurehead greeted by Republican cheers? If interested, please call the GOP. Perhaps it is too easy to reduce the small but increasing rush of Black male Republicans …
Read More »Trump, Who Wants to Be President, Can't Stop Promoting QAnon Memes
Donald Trump spent his morning promoting QAnon-affiliated posts on social media, boosting a theory that holds that a global cabal of pedophiles control the world and pursue immortality via extracting juvenile hormones. Donald Trump is asking the country to make him the next president of the United States. After the …
Read More »The Buffalo Shooter Isn't a 'Lone Wolf.' He's a Mainstream Republican
There’s no such thing as a lone wolf — an appellation often given, in error, to terrorists who act alone, particularly those of the white supremacist variety. There are only those people who, fed a steady diet of violent propaganda and stochastic terror, take annihilatory rhetoric to its logical conclusion. …
Read More »Tucker Carlson Pushed Trump to Endorse J.D. Vance With 'Disgusting' Sexual Innuendo
In the days before Donald Trump endorsed J.D. Vance in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary, the former president huddled with his son, Don Jr., and several staffers at Mar-a-Lago. On the phone was Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a major ally of Vance’s. After promising Trump that Vance was with him …
Read More »Cardi B, Billie Eilish Dubbed Tools of Satan by Republican-Endorsed Candidate for Michigan Secretary of State
Kristina Karamo, who denied the 2020 election results and has been connected to QAnon, was endorsed by Michigan Republicans and Trump as their candidate for Michigan Secretary of State over the weekend, as NPR reports. The podcaster of the defunct It’s Solid Food and community college professor also had a …
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