Donald Trump committed countless crimes without being held accountable. So it’s a weird reflection of our societal priorities that the one offense for which he is being held accountable is a relatively trivial paperwork charge.
Ukraine As Performance Art
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former actor, has quite the knack for strange theater of the absurd. Now he’s hosting a “peace summit” which doesn’t invite his adversary, Russia, and which his main supporter, President Joe Biden, is refusing to attend. That, plus the fact that Ukraine says it doesn’t want peace.
I Would Vote If I Could Afford To
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President Biden’s reelection campaign is being hampered by stubbornly high prices and frozen wages, the ultimate economic phenomenon that makes consumers feel that the economy isn’t doing well.
Crack Is Looking Good
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Joe Biden says that he won’t pardon his son Hunter Biden even if he’s convicted at his trial in Delaware for falsely stating that he was not addicted to drugs when he bought a gun in 2018.
First They Forced Us To Get Pregnant
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Right-wing Republicans are banning abortion and contraception. Rape is probably next. If forced pregnancies are the point, however, their environmental policies will interfere with their agenda.
Doomed Be the Peacekeepers
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A dozen Republican senators sent a written threat to the International Criminal Court warning them not to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Which is itself illegal under international law.
Trump’s War on Contraception
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Donald Trump’s plan for his second term includes a push to make it harder to obtain birth control. This follows several other Republican-led initiatives to make it more difficult for Americans to use contraception, including condoms. What’s next, forced impregnation? Guns and marijuana, on the other hand, are still easy to get.
Oppose Democracy to Save Democracy
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Democrats say they’re defending democracy–but only by opposing Trump. They’re happy to resort to anti-democratic tactics whenever they feel threatened.
To Not Know Him Is To Love Him
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After the January 6th Capitol riot, social media companies blocked Donald Trump’s accounts. His poll numbers, which had been awful, began to creep up. Now he’s being silenced again by being stuck in court four days a week and subject to a partial gag order, and the same phenomenon is happening again. The less voters hear from the former president, the better they like him.
We’re the Pariah-iest!
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Norway, Spain and Ireland have joined the 140 nations that recognize Palestine as a country, this coming right after the International Criminal Court prepared to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Never has Israel seemed so much like an international pariah state.
