Everyone who is not a racist, a grifter, or a nihilist knows that Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be President. The list of things he should be impeached for is long but today’s news that Trump told the head of the Customs and Border Patrol to close the border and he would pardon him […]
Because our racist grifter of a President is afraid that Ann Coulter will say mean things about him if he doesn’t get his racist wall on the U.S.-Mexico border the federal government has been shutdown now for almost a month. On Saturday the dummy President, and supposed excellent deal-maker, offered a 3 year extension for […]
The ascension of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is a terrible thing for the country but it is clarifying. America is in the midst of a legitimacy crisis. The Republican Party has gone all in on white nationalism (in addition to ensuring the rich pay nothing in taxes and American is continually engaged in […]
The New York Times, has a great story on how the term “fake news” has been increasingly used by authoritarians around the world to deflect criticism against them for their horrible policies: “President Trump routinely invokes the phrase “fake news” as a rhetorical tool to undermine opponents, rally his political base and try to discredit a mainstream […]
Pew Research Center has just released a new report on opinions about the Russia investigation and other Trump related horrors. It’s not surprising that Trump is totally unpopular with Democrats and Independents but he is also losing ground with Republicans especially with moderate Republicans. From February to December 2017 Trump’s support among moderate Republicans has decreased […]
Our in no way emotionally disturbed President tweeted the following a few days ago: As it happens I have been doing a lot of research lately on international public opinion about the U.S. and came across a few articles that suggest, not surprisingly, that the President is dead wrong about the image of the U.S. […]
There are many theories on what motivates Donald trump. One is that he is, in his heart if not in practice, and authoritarian. There is some evidence to support this theory, specifically his disdain for institutional constraints, his advocacy for violence, and his desire to use the power of his office to persecute his political […]
What would it take for Trump’s base to abandon him? With the parade of daily outrages that accompany the Trump Presidency (see this running list from Mother Jones to keep up) one has to wonder, how can anyone support this? It seems that no matter the volume of stupid and cruel things he does and says […]
Donald Trump can be hard to figure out. Because of his newness to politics and his seemingly erratic behavior it’s difficult to understand sometimes what motivates him (assuming he has motivations aside from just reacting to various stimuli like a human goldfish). To clear things up a bit I have surveyed the various attempts to […]
According to the New York Times the Trump Administration is planning on setting the cap on refugee admissions into the U.S. at 45,000 for next year. This, as the article points out, would be the lowest amount of refugees admitted into the U.S. since the United States Refugee Act was passed in 1980 allowing the […]
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