Over and over, the military tells Americans that grave consequences would follow unless we fight and win in some overseas conflict. Yet we keep losing, and nothing terrible happens. When, if ever, will we see through the military's fear-mongering?
The Biden Administration is setting the stage for tacitly endorsing Israel's war against Gaza by remaining publicly silent until, ultimately, they finally come out in favor of a ceasefire. But it'll only happen after Gaza is destroyed and its Palestinian inhabitants have been driven out into the desert.
American electoral politics was originally designed to make the franchise as powerful as possible for as many voters as possible, but now things come down to a tiny minority of voters living in just a few battleground states. Maybe the rest of us shouldn't bother.
Pro-Palestine protesters shut down traffic on the approach roads to LAX and JFK, angering travelers trying to catch their flights. Way to win hearts and minds!
Democratic-aligned pundits and legal experts argue that removing Donald Trump from the presidential ballot, as the Colorado Supreme Court and Maine’s Secretary of State recently decided to do and 12 other states are considering, is not inherently undemocratic because, even though it takes one major presidential candidate off the ballot in a two-party system it’s permitted under an obscure section of the 14th Amendment. Unfortunately, the Constitution hasn’t always been a charter that upheld the highest ideals of democratic participation.
Everyone is firing missiles at everyone else. There's an obvious moral here: buy missiles.
Democrats say that Donald Trump is evil because he is a liar, cheater and a thief. Because he's so bad, they say, almost any tactic is justified in getting rid of him. Does that include lying, cheating and stealing?
Supporters of Israel sometimes say that the people of Gaza deserve collective punishment because they support Hamas, which carried out terrorist attacks against Israel. Setting aside the fact that Hamas was not elected, Americans should be careful about claims that terrorism by a government justifies violent retaliation against a civilian population.
The Supreme Court has been asked to determine whether Donald Trump can be removed from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. In a two-party system, there will be implications.
Most voters are unhappy about the likely Trump-Biden rematch we're looking at. But it's probably too late to avoid at this point. let the wishful magical thinking begin!
Democrats say that Donald Trump is evil because he is a liar, cheater and a thief. Because he's so bad, they say, almost any tactic is justified in getting rid of him. Does that include lying, cheating and stealing?
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider the vexing question of whether Donald Trump should be disqualified from the presidential ballot under the 14th Amendment prohibition against insurrectionists. Too bad we don't have smarter jurists.
Why don't Americans take politics seriously? Consider the absurdity of the primary candidates who drop out of the primary race only to endorse the opponents they were previously decrying.
Democrats say that Donald Trump is incredibly dangerous and cannot be allowed to ever be president again. If they really feel that way, why are they re-nominating Joe Biden? It's not like he's the strongest possible candidate.
Wanna know how crazy things are? Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the voice of sanity when it comes to the Israel-Hamas War.
The U.S., Biden and neocons alike argue, is the indispensible country, as demonstrsted by Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping. But for every problem the U.S. solves, there are three more it caused, including the one it tries to solve.
Democrats warn that Trump threatens democracy itself. If that's really true, why are they running such a weak candidate against him and refusing to hold primaries that serve as a crucible from which the strongest possible candidate can emerge?
Disgusted by organized religion, 30% of Americans now claim no religious affiliation even though many say they’re “spiritual.” Will this trend continue to grow? Or might something…else…come out of it?
After surviving genocide in Europe during World War II, Jews moved to the state of Israel where they displaced and oppressed the local Palestinians. Now the Palestinians are the ones who are suffering from genocide at the hands of the Israelis. You know what comes next…
American voters are trapped in a rematch nobody wants, between former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden. Driving the rematch are a number of factors, one of which is ego: both of them think that they are indispensable.
Despite Donald Trump's long history of racism, a growing number of Black voters say they support him. Some analysts believe they identify with him because, like them, he has had problems with the legal system.
Special Counsel Robert Hur decided not to charge President Biden with mishandling classified documents because he's too senile to be deemed to have free will and intent for prosecution. Yet Biden immediately called a press conference, at which he claimed to be of sound mind and body.
Most people can tell a senile older person when they see them but one of the major talking points for those who are trying to deny that President Biden is suffering from dementia is to ask them whether they are a doctor who has personally examined him. The cult of the expert has been weaponized.
Parents used to try to diminish their children's complaints about dealing with inclimate weather by claiming that they had it even worse when they were young. Climate change renders that time-honored tactic impractacle.
Team Biden responds to concerns that the president may be senile with assurances that, behind the scenes, Biden is energetic and sharp. We don't get to see that, of course...not that we get to see much of the Leader of the Free World at all. Maybe it's time for Team Trump to deploy their own version of "you don't know him the way I know him" argument.
You've heard the claim that Joe Biden is with it behind closed doors, that it's only in public that the president seems confused or senile. Similar things have been said about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. What if they're true?
Anti-Trump #Resistance members say they're demoralized by their long fight against MAGA Republicans. Considering what members of actual Resistance fighters had to go through--executions, torture, reprisals against their family members, poverty, being sent to death camps--the minor annoyances these snowflakes report after doing basically nothing since 2016 (unless you count attending one or two rallies) don't even begin to pale in significance. The least they could do is to stop insulting the memories of actual Resistance fighters by comparing their lame selves to real heroes.
Biden's defenders brush off his support for right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's carpet-bombing of Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians. There can only be one reason why.
Finding it hard to get excited about your next date with democracy? You may be suffering from Electoral Dysfunction
President Joe Biden's dog was involved in dozens of biting incidents in the White House yet he refused to get rid of him. Finally now he's gone too far and he's been sent to live with unspecified relatives. The dog, not Biden.
At the same time the U.S. is supplying weapons and cash to Israel to arm and fund its war against Gaza, it is dropping food supplies to the Gazans who are starving as a result.
Nativists and xenophobes appalled by the "open border" policy that has allowed millions of asylum seekers to enter the United States often harken to a nonexistent history when immigrants followed the rules and waited to be invited before entering the U.S. However, Ellis Island was exactly like Eagle Pass, Texas today; German, Irish, Italian and other immigrants were allowed in en masse, without visas, and became the great-grandparents of the vast majority of citizens today.
With nearly 30,000 Palestinians killed by Israel and Gaza, America's support for the Jewish state is being tested more than ever. Now the U.S. has found itself in the position of having to vote against a ceasefire resolution for the third time. Obviously this level of support is unsustainable given the ongoing genocide.
Don't take a risk! Don't take a chance! Don't say a thing. Just pretend to care by joining a lame demonstration of protest that will not change a goddamn thing.
I live in New York City, where many homeless people rely on panhandling in order to get by. A few days ago I saw a Millennial woman turn down a request from a homeless man, saying, "I don't carry cash." I have long been concerned about the ramifications of our increasingly cashless society, like the ability of the government to lock down our bank accounts and ability to move freely. As usual, the poorest among us are paying the biggest price for what we've been told is progress.
Democrats often urge disgruntled progressives to support Biden on the ground that he's the "lesser evil," compared with Trump. But it's Biden, not Trump, who has helped Israel to kill more than 31,000 Palestinians in occupied Gaza.
At first, it seems strange that the United States is dropping food aid to the besieged people of Gaza at the same time Israel is dropping bombs made in the U.S. to kill them. Could it be that the U.S. is trying to fatten them up in order to make them bigger, easier targets for the Israelis?
The White House advance team, the network of White House and campaign aides tasked with coordinating, designing and staging Biden's public speeches and events across the country people has become toxic and abusive. The culture within the office has gotten so bad that the White House Counsel’s Office opened an investigation, and a purge of top staff is underway.
Biden and his Democratic allies attacked Special Counsel Robert Hur, who said he decided not to prosecute the president over mishandling classified documents because he was senile, for saying that Biden couldn't remember which year his son Beau died. Biden said he refused to answer because it wasn't "their damn business." Now it turns out that it was Biden, not Hur, who brought it up.
The collusion between a containership and a bridge in the port of Baltimore provides an IQ test. Do you accept the obvious simple explanation, that the incident resulted from an accident and outdated bridge design? Or do you try to dredge up a bizarre conspiracy theory involving terrorism despite a total lack of evidence and the failure to pass the smell test?
The media is inexplicably obsessed with whatever is going on or not going on with Kate Middleton. Meanwhile, the oceans are burning, the ice caps are melting and we are sleepwalking toward fascism.
DARPA, the Pentagon research agency, wants to build a railway on the moon. Here on earth in the United States, however, our rail infrastructure is excrable.
Defenders of President Biden argue that he has no culpability for Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank because Netanyahu, not he, makes policy. But he provides the weapons and the intel and the running intereference in the UN.
If someone breaks into your house, are you churlish for refusing to share? That's the accusation lodged against Palestinians who never accepted the establishment of the State of Israel on their land in 1947.
Multiple intelligence agencies have previously concluded that no state actor including Russia had anything to do with "Havana syndrome." In fact, the cost may have been a cricket. But now there's an attempt to revive this old confusing story.
Democrats argue that Trump, who was very in favor of Israel during his presidency, would be even worse for the people of Gaza than Biden, who has totally enabled Netanyahu to do whatever he wants. However, by the time the election rolls around, there won't be anything left of Gaza for Trump to make worse.
Democracy, they say, is on the ballot this year and it's really important to go to vote against Donald Trump. But the election itself has already proven itself to be anything but democratic. Third parties aren't allowed on the ballot or to vote and the parties decided the choices in the primaries.
What causes a tipping point? At what point did Israel go too far in its wildly brutal bombing campaign against the civilian population of Gaza? Somewhere during the past month, but it's hard to see why then.
The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed an 1864 law that bans abortion without exceptions for rape or incest. State legislators then blocked a Democratic attend to repeal the statute. Can Arizona put a positive spin on this mess?
Numerous studies are now documenting how natural soundscapes are changing, being disrupted and falling silent. A 2021 study in the journal Nature of 200,000 sites across North America and Europe found “pervasive loss of acoustic diversity and intensity of soundscapes across both continents over the past 25 years, driven by changes in species richness and abundance." There's an app for that.
Police departrments are having trouble recruiting new cops. There may be an explanation.
Pro-Israel students at colleges and universities like Columbia claim that they feel endangered when they see pro-Palestine antiwar protests on campus and hear phrases like "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." Everyone is entitled to their own baseless feelings, but let's not forget who has REAL cause to fear for their lives--those in Gaza who are being slaughtered by Israel.
The Israeli war cabinet of Bibi Netanyahu has been on something of a bender lately, with seemingly no limit on how many fronts they are willing to open up militarily.
At the same time the Biden Administration sends another $60 billion to Israel to help it kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the US Air Force drops food aid into the beleaguered occupied territory. If you must die, don't die hungry.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his close ally President Joe Biden are both playing for time, pretending to be opposed to what's going on while not changing anything. As Biden sends Netanyahu more money and more weapons, day by day the Gaza Strip is being ethnically cleansed. Even now, it's probably too late for a ceasefire to do much good.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his close ally President Joe Biden are both playing for time, pretending to be opposed to what's going on while not changing anything. As Biden sends Netanyahu more money and more weapons, day by day the Gaza Strip is being ethnically cleansed. Even now, it's probably too late for a ceasefire to do much good.
The linguistic contortions used by supporters of Israel to accuse their critics of antisemitism are truly incredible.
Right-wing House Speaker Mike Johnson demands that Columbia University President Minouche Shafik sic the National Guard against peaceful antiwar protesters. That's always worked out so well in the past...
If you are 18 years old and an antiwar protester, old militarists will say that you're too young and naïve and ignorant to understand the complexities of foreign policy and should just shut up. But if you're 18 years old, and you don't know anything about anything, they are happy to send you to go kill people in those very same foreign conflicts you don't know anything about.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters keep repeating the talking point that all of the civilian casualties in Gaza should be blamed upon Hamas because Hamas begin the latest conflict with his attack on October 7. By their logic, literally anything that they chose to do after October 7 would be justifiable.
Even as he funnels tens of billions of dollars in weapons to Israel to help it bomb the Gaza Strip, President Biden lectures college students about being too violent as they try to protect themselves from riot police.
Joe Biden's "pause" of a bomb delivery Israel is the embodiment of way too little, way too late to help the Palestinians of Gaza. He's like the world's slowest superhero.
Biden told Israel the US would stop supplying bombs to Israel if it insists on bombing "population centers" in Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
The Biden Administration has announced that it does not formally believe that Israel's actions against Gaza rise yet to the official definition of genocide.
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.
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.
Democrats say they're defending democracy--but only by opposing Trump. They're happy to resort to anti-democratic tactics whenever they feel threatened.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An elite team of opposition researchers scour their political targets' backgrounds for evidence of prosecutable crimes.
Both major-party candidates are unpalatable to the vast majority of voters. Yet most of those very same voters respond to the suggestion that they cast votes for a third-party candidate as though it were outlandish.
Long before the age of lawfare embodied by trials like those of Hunter Biden and Donald Trump, politicians were supposed to at least pretend to address the concerns of the voters.
What does it say about America that our two major presidential nominees have to, respectively, avoid acting like a total nut or merely need to convince us that he's fairly alive?
Adhering to the Silicon Alley principle of "move fast and break things," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman embodies the rudeness, recklessness and apparent lack of concern for dangerous societal consequences that prompt many Americans to dislike tech titans. Last week alone, Altman made public apologies for a "breakdown in communication" with Scarlett Johansson over the use of her voice for ChatGPT and for equity clawback clauses in OpenAI employees' exit agreements.
The Ten Commandments are back in the news now that Louisiana has ordered them posted in public school classrooms. It may violate the separation of church of state, but sometimes it's interesting to see just how little Americans, who claim to be mostly Christian, uphold these basic tenets.
Despite considerable evidence that artificial intelligence is far from ready for prime time, just about every technology you can think of is being outfitted with the feature. From search engines to automobiles, we're putting our lives into the "hands" of A.I. that advises us, literally, to eat rocks.
Supply-chain problems and a dysfunctional marketplace in the pharmaceutical space have contributed to a shortage of the anti-ADHD drug Adderall with no end in sight.
Major donors to the Democratic Party panicked after Joe Biden's disastrous debate apearance against Trump. Now the DNC is trying to reassure those donors, but what can they really say?
Between his terrifying debate performance and his refusal/inability to appear in public without reading from a Teleprompter, it's pretty clear that Joe Biden hasn't been the president of the United States for quite some time, assuming that he ever was. His big campaign argument was that he was defending democracy, but this lack of trransparency is more indicative of a totalitarian state than a democracy. Who has been making the big decisions in the Biden Administration for the last few years? No one knows.
"Double haters"—voters who dislike both Biden and Trump—will decide the election.
Almost like a miracle, the FDA has approved a promising Alzheimer's drug just as President Biden is fighting off accusations that his debate performance is evidence that he is suffering from dementia. Hey! There's a pill for that!
After 3-1/2 years, it increasingly appears that President Biden hasn't always been fully in charge of either his mental faculties or his administration's policies. Who made the big decisions? We may never know.
President Joe Biden's disastrous performance in his presidential debate with Donald Trump finally has mainstream Democrats, including top party officials, admitting what has been painfully obvious since they shoved his candidacy down our throats four years ago: he is not up to the job.
A crowd of prominent Democratic leaders are urging President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential campaign following his poor performance in the debate against Trump. Harris is getting ready...,
On July 13th an assassin attempted to kill former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler Pennsylvania. The bullet grazed his right ear but his bravado-filled response turned out to have greatly benefited his campaign for reelection.
Not only is strategic voting bad for your soul, it doesn't really make a lot of sense politically. Why not just vote for whoever you want to see win?
Joe Biden was praised for his decision to step aside from his 2024 presidential campaign. But it came after nearly a month of dithering, delaying and deflecting about his obviously dimished mental acuity, leaving his legacy and dignity severely compromised.
Now that Joe Biden has withdrawn from the presidential campaign, Donald Trump, 78, himself becomes vulnerable on the issues of age and mental acuity, especially considering his own penchant for speaking in word salad. Like Biden, Trump is nowhere as sharp as he used to be.
Democrats who are urging President Joe Biden to step aside from his reelection campaign in the interest of the party and defeating Donald Trump frequently point out or argue that he is a good, kind, decent and compassionate man. The text is almost boilerplate. The people of Gaza, on the other hand, might disagree.
Faced with a divided Democratic base of support, Kamala Harris is seeking a "middle ground" on Israel's war against Gaza. Is such a thing possible?
In their relief and excitement about getting rid of Joe Biden as their nominee, Democrats are forgetting all about Kamala Harris' demonstrated weaknesses as a candidate in the most recent election cycle.
Under the doctrine of lesser-evilism, a vote for minor party is effectively a vote for a major party but a vote for a major party is never anything other than a vote for a major party.
Joe Biden, who apparently has been mentally impaired for years and has been controlled behind the scenes, has been switched out for Kamala Harris, who never had to convince a single Democratic voter in order to secure the presidential nomination. What makes it hilarious is that the Democratic Party accuses Donald Trump of insufficient dedication to electoral democracy.
Kamala Harris has been running for president for weeks. Yet she still hasn't given a press conference or an interview....just like Joe Biden. Why not? Is she like Joe Biden?
Kamala Harris, a candidate who has yet to share her policy positions, has selected Tim Walz, an obscure Midwestern governor Democrats are being told is progressive.
The Kamala Harris campaign is slicing and dicing its support among such identity groups as "Black Women for Harris" and "White Dudes for Harris" in a way never seen before.
During the last six months of his presidency after he dropped out of the presidential campaign, Joe Biden will not have that much to do. But don't worry, White House officials will find some way to make him useful.
If Israel is serious about ceasefire/hostage negotiations, it's hard to tell from their decision to assassinate one of the chief negotiators for Hamas.
Four years ago in 2020, Democrats said that the fact that Joe Biden was 78 years old and showing early signs of dementia was not a problem, that he would certainly be able to finish up at least his first term and maybe even run her reelection. Now, Donald Trump is 78 years old and showing early signs of dementia.
Surprisingly, it might not cause Israel much trouble.
Wanted: Incredible aquatic athlete and international man of mystery!
Echoing Biden, Kamala Harris seems determined to go as long as possible into the general election without holding a press conference or granting an interview to a journalist. Can she, like Biden, make it all the way through the presidency without any substantial interaction with the press?
Kamala Harris is pushing the tactic of copying a rival's policy ideas to new levels. She copied Trump's idea to get rid of taxes on tips, increase tariffs on China and even to build a border wall with Mexico. What next?
As much as politicians like Kamala Harris would like it, it's not possible to compromise on an issue as dramatic as Israel's war against Gaza. Either you're in favor of aiding and abetting Israel, or you are not.
Abortion is currently the top issue for voters in the election. Maybe Kamala Harris can spin her support for Israel into a way to reinforce her pro-choice bonafides.
Confronted with her move from progressive to corporatist right-wing positions following her aborted 2020 primary campaign, Kamala Harris repeatedly countered that, though her policies had changed, her values had not. But she didn't tell us what her values were.
Kamala Harris is portraying herself as a blank slate by refusing to articulate issues other than those that appear to be popular after they were developed by Donald Trump. But her desire to be popular only goes so far.
Kamala Harris says, in an echo of Joe Biden, that nothing will fundamentally change when it comes to U.S. funding and arming of Israel in its war against Gaza should she be elected president. But hey, at least the genocide will be carried out with an abundance of "joy."
With no actual solution to Americans' most pressing problems on offer under the existing system, candidates for high office distract voters with cultural wedge issues.
Democrats say they are defending democracy against the Republicans. The United States says it's a model democracy. How to explain the rise of Kamala Harris? So unpopular in 2020 that she had to drop out before the first primary, she was appointed by her senile predecessor, who then stepped aside in a classic bait and switch after he nailed down the nomination and then handed it to her. Some democracy.
In the same week, a kid shot up a public school in Georgia and a second gunman tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump. As usual, people in this highly militaristic society are asking: what is inspiring all this mayhem?
To hear Donald Trump (mostly), everything that ails America can be traced to illegal immigration and legal migrant applicants eating pets and, I imagine, driving up inflation.
House Speaker Kevin Johnson is trying to pass a continuing funding resolution for the federal government that also contains a voter ID requirement that even some Republicans oppose. An October 1st deadline looms, but will anyone care if the federal government ceases to operate?
A father whose son shot up a Georgia high school has been charged with giving him an AR-15 assault rifle. When the President gives Israel tons of weapons to kill more than 40,000 Palestinians, however, there are no consequences.
One debate. One interview. No policy specifics. No high-profile achievements or exposure. We may not know anything about Kamala Harris until after she becomes president.
Voters who refuse to consider supporting a third-party candidate often feel that to do so would be to waste their vote. Following that reasoning to its logical extreme, we should all vote for the candidate who is at the top of the polls at any given time (assuming the polls are reliable).
Donald Trump, his opponents say, threatens democracy. Democracy in America was already in big trouble long before Trump entered politics, though. It would be a pity to believe that defeating Trump goes far enough to defend democracy.
In election after election, tinier slices of ever-more-specific demographic groups in fewer battleground states determined the outcome. Finally, A.I. narrowed down the process to the perfect precision of a single person.
Like Joe Biden in 2020, Donald Trump is 78 years old and showing signs of dementia. How can Republicans cover up the truth about his cognitive acuity? Fortunately for them, the Democrats showed how it’s done.
Many of the conservative voters who deny the existence of human-caused climate change are the most likely to fall victim to its effects.
Hurricane Helene has devastated western North Carolina. Yet the federal government has only doled out a paltry $4 million over the last two weeks to American hurricane victims. Meanwhile, Israel and Ukraine have received over $200 billion in federal largesse over the last two years, much of it without any oversight whatsoever.
Biden and Harris have both embraced a strategy of refusing press conferences and interviews with adversarial journalists. When you bring this up, each has a ready answer.
For Democratic voters, especially liberal women, this election comes down to abortion rights. For those who are also concerned about Gaza, they point out that Donald Trump might be even worse than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, in terms of their support of Israel. For the people of Gaza, including women, it's a distinction without a difference.
Like Hillary Clinton in 2016, Kamala Harris is clear on the fact that she isn't interested in convincing progressives to vote for her. At this point, it would be rude and invasive for progressives to vote for her anyway.
Every election, including this one, Democrats like to say that it's the most important election of our lifetime. Therefore, they say, we can't possibly risk a Republican coming to power so we're not allowed to vote for an independent or third-party candidate. That message might resonate a little more if they didn't say it in every single election.
Like a lawyer who bills by the minute, Kamala Harris never misses a chance to say as little as possible using as many words as possible. It's not so much word salad as blather. It's not so much stupidity as inconsideration of other people's time. It's really an unwillingness to get to the point, to focus, to...[cue AI language generation bot here].
The Democratic Party brief against third-party candidates like Ralph Nader and Jill Stein tends to boil down to the same tired group of clichéd criticisms: they're egotistical. They only care about themselves. This election is too important.
A vote for someone who polls say cannot win a campaign, duopolists say, is a wasted vote. But how does one assess likelihood of victory with perfect precision?
Remember when you first learned about the Holocaust? You probably wondered how so many Germans could turn a blind eye to the misery to the suffering inflicted by their government. Now, however, Democrats and Republicans are both happy to ignore the Palestinians killed by U.S.-supplied Israeli bombs.
Remember when you first learned about the Holocaust? You probably wondered how so many Germans could turn a blind eye to the misery to the suffering inflicted by their government. Now, however, Democrats and Republicans are both happy to ignore the Palestinians killed by U.S.-supplied Israeli bombs.
Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan. The phenomenon is accelerating as election postmortems that identify tactical and strategic errors in a campaign are going the way of the dodo bird.,
If Donald Trump wins, there will be one positive side effect: many Democratic voters who sideline protests for social justice when the president is a Democrat, as he is now, will head back to the streets and take up the good fights they've been sitting out.
Defeat is an orphan. But defeated Democrats, themselves responsible for losing an election to Donald Trump that should have been easy to win, are flailing about trying to pin the blame on everyone but themselves.
Democrats engaged in all sorts of histrionics during the 2024 presidential campaign, in which the centerpiece of their message was that Donald Trump represented a grave and accidental threat to democracy and might even open concentration camps as a genuine fascist. Now that he has prevailed, there is no indication that they believed any of that. Why are they still here?
Defeated Democratic Party presidential nominee Kamala Harris studiously refused to make any concessions whatsoever to her party's large left-wing progressive base, including on the important issue of genocide in Gaza. Now that Democrats are conducting their postmortems, the one thing they fail to acknowledge is that alienating your base voters and driving away 12 million of them wasn't such a bright idea.
Many swing voters who opted for Donald Trump told pollsters that they felt that Democratic coastal elites looked down upon them and that they were reacting against the feeling that they were viewed with contempt. After the election, as if to confirm their suspicions, Democrats repeatedly said that people who voted Republican were stupid.
One of the more puzzling decisions of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign was to make numerous appearances with Liz Cheney, the far right neoconservative who is despised universally both by Republicans and Democrats. Now that Trump has prevailed, in part due to decisions like this, it's likely that the blossoming friendship isn't what it used to be.
One of the assumptions of Kamala Harris's failed presidential bid was that voters didn't want radical change of any kind. She promised an incremental approach designed to gradually improve things without altering what she assumed were beloved American institutions like the courts. In reality, life for most Americans is pretty bleak and they don't have much investment in those longstanding traditions.
Our topsy-turvy morals: Marco Rubio is considered a safe, "normal" nominaiton for Secretary of State even though/because he's a rabid neoconservative (read: warmonger). Tulsi Gabbard is considered quirky, even loopy, despite her military service because she shares the view of the rest of the world that the US is too imperialistic and aggressive. RFK Jr., who desperately wants to clean up our food, is considered frightening.
Whatever you think about Donald Trump's cabinet picks for his second administration, whether or not you think they are qualified, very clearly he and his transition team are having a wild time choosing them and dropping them on a shocked establishment...maybe a little too wild.
Is it me, or is it a little strange for Joe Biden, and the Democrats, who repeatedly characterized Donald Trump as a bona fide fascist, to cooperate with his transition to power? Shouldn't they be resisting? Maybe even trying to reverse the election results?
I fell and broke my wrist in two places. My urgent care place was wonderful, but referred me to a specialist they claimed carried my insurance. In fact, they did not. This is a common problem. Lists of covered providers are years out of date. Nothing is more maddening, especially when you are hurting and sick, to repeatedly be given the runaround about something as simple as whether a doctor accepts your insurance. If an insurance company claims that a doctor is in network, they should be liable if their list is wrong.
President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to impose big tariffs on imported goods, especially from countries like China. Might be a good idea to hoard cheap imported crap now.
Media organizations are reporting high levels of cancellations of newspapers and other news products in the week of the election of Donald Trump, as liberal Democrats depressed by the results decide to check out rather than to fight a man that they described as an existential threat to democracy.
The murder of United Heatlthcare CEO Brian Thomas coupled with the overwhelmingly gleeful public reaction thereto has corporate executives at evil companies thinking twice--not about their actions, but upping their personal security.
Progressive Democrats and Corporate Democrats are blaming themselves for their party's latest defeat. But the corporate Democrats run the party, it was their candidates including Biden and Harris who fell flat and they didn't allow progressives to have anything to do with the campaign or their strategy.
Corporate executives worried about becoming the targets of the next Brian Thomas-style killing of those who run am evil company have to choose between a chance of losing their lives versus the certainty of making more profits.
The quote in this cartoon is adapted from an employee of United Healthcare interviewed by the New York Times. It is remarkable for its lack of self-awareness. If the system is the problem, it's immoral to work for the system.
The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad by Islamist rebels in Syria has outside factions scrambling for influence with the new rulers, HTS, who are former members of Al Qaeda and ISIS. The United States is among the suitors, offering to work with the Islamists. But these love affairs tend to have an expiration date.q
Defenders of the health insurance industry reacted to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York by saying that murder and violence are never the answer because there's always the option of working within the political system to reform a business based on profiting off pain, misery and death of sick Americans. In reality, however, the system does not allow any challenge to the status quo.
Before he allegedly killed United healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione was considered intelligent, thoughtful, kind, funny, and well-adjusted in every way. Now, because he killed someone, probably for political reasons, he's considered insane. But what does that say about all the other people who kill for political reasons, like the President? Or Thompson himself?
Cities have been hollowed out in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of working at home. As office buildings emptied out, urban dwellers were asking themselves why they were paying so much rent to commute to a job that no longer requires them to do so. As warm apartments and storefronts sit empty, there's probably never been a more searing indictment of capitalism than the fact that American citizens continue to sleep outside in the cold.
Cities have been hollowed out in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of working at home. As office buildings emptied out, urban dwellers were asking themselves why they were paying so much rent to commute to a job that no longer requires them to do so. As warm apartments and storefronts sit empty, there's probably never been a more searing indictment of capitalism than the fact that American citizens continue to sleep outside in the cold.
Weeks and months after she lost her presidential campaign, which ended with her millions of dollars in debt despite raising billions of dollars, vice president Kamala Harris continues to shake down Democrats for donations.
The Wall Street Journal has confirmed in a blockbuster investigation that President Biden has been mentally diminished throughout his first term in office. Democrats knew and covered it up.
