When word came out a few days ago that the Republican Party had decided to go into their convention without any platform, instead just pledging their complete and total fealty to Donald Trump, I knew that the RNC was going to be weird. This feeling was further compounded upon reading that half of the speakers […]
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I told myself that I wasn’t going to post about the RNC, but then this happened…
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, California, cults, culture war, Donald Trump, heroin, Joe Biden, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Republican National Convention, Republican Party, Republican platform, RNC, screaming, white grievance 309 Comments
Have the Republicans, in an attempt to keep a Democratic former CIA operative from Congress, released her private security clearance application to the press?
Back in 2014, with the rabid support of the Tea Party and far-right talkshow hosts like Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, and Ann Coulter, Dave Brat, an econ professor at Randolph–Macon College with an Ayn Rand fetish and a talent for riling up crowds of angry voters, somehow managed to win the Republican primary for Virginia’s […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Abigail Spanberger, Alexandria, Ann Coulter, anti-government, CIA, Congressional Leadership Fund, Dave Brat, Eric Cantor, Girl Scouts, Hostile Intelligence Service, Islamic Saudi Academy, John Schindler, Koch brothers, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Muslim, Paul Ryan, racism, Saudi Arabia, security clearance, SF86, Super PAC, tea party, Terror High, Valerie Plame, Virginia 46 Comments
As Trump refuses to distance himself from America’s white domestic terrorists, we appeal to members of the GOP to acknowledge the blood on their hands and do the right thing before things get even worse
[The above quote, offered earlier today in Charlottesville, is from white supremacist David Duke. You’ll find the context below.] As news was breaking this morning about the events in Charlottesville, many of us, in our own little ways, tried to help push members of the GOP into making statements rebuking those who had taken to […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged birther, Charlottesville, David Duke, Donald Trump, fake news, FOX News, global warming denial, impeachment, James Alex Fields, Koch brothers, Marco Rubio, Maumee, Ohio, racism, Sheldon Adelson, Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Ted Cruz, Unite the Right, white nationalism, white nationalist 103 Comments