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The Texas Republican party, as is by now well known, decided to nominate their current Attorney General Ken Paxton to be their candidate to replace outgoing Senator John Cornyn in the Senate. Cornyn has served in the Senate since 2002, and will have served 24 years when he leaves office. He is a mainstream Republican and reported fundraising machine, none of which helped him in his primary effort…

From the first time that I ever heard of Donald Trump — and honestly, I don’t remember exactly when that was, but it was probably through People Magazine — I thought that he was an obnoxious character, the poster child for the “Ugly American.” Since then, of course, my opinion of him has gone lower and lower. But even I never thought that I’d see something this ridiculous. Trump, as is well…

Having established in Part 1 of this two-part essay that Republicans have abandoned or reversed many of their proclaimed principles in their support of President Trump, it’s time to look at the most common explanation: identity fusion. Identity Fusion Identity Fusion is a psychological concept describing a state where a person’s sense of personal identity becomes deeply merged with a group…

Well, by now it’s clear that there is not a single thing that the MAGAverse and Trump supporters used to claim that they believed in that they are not willing to disregard or contradict. The whole thing has become almost comical, as the scale and breadth of their hypocrisy becomes apparent. When the contradictions become so stark and obvious, even the most sophisticated cognitive gymnastics will…

After what he posted in the wake of the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle by their very own son, our Cryto-pedohile piece of excrement of a President really has hit a new low. Rob Reiner and his wife died in about as cruel a fashion as you can die: being knifed to death by one of his own kids. Imagine lying there, with the life ebbing out of you, knowing that one of your own kids had…

You might have missed it, but a sad event took place last week in the legal cases against Donald Trump. It was the final dismissal of the case in Georgia. The one where they had Trump on tape, saying, “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. I just want to find 11,780 votes. Give me a break fellas.” They had this mothereffer on tape! They had…

As we wait for the release of the Epstein files, a question arises as to how and why these particular files became so important. We have to set some context for all of this. Epstein wasn’t the first and won’t be the last powerful rich white guy to take advantage of women. Pizzagate For context, let’s go back to the “Pizzagate” conspiracy in which Qanon followers and other MAGA types came to…

Since the Supreme Court liberated Trump from criminal liability in Trump v. United States, the Donald’s assault on legality has been non-stop and unrelenting. There are so many examples that we could examine, but I want to examine one particular issue, because it’s one that (as a former government lawyer) I have some familiarity with. And that issue is Trump’s demand for $230 million compensation…

Well, the Senate voted last night to re-open the government after 41 days of getting nowhere. The seven Democrats who voted to re-open are Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA), and Tim Kaine (VA). Independent Angus King (ME) also voted in favor while Republican renegade Rand Paul (KY) voted against. The approved…

So, this story about the Young Republican National Federation is really quite astounding, and should reverberate throughout our news cycle for a while to come. If you’ve been hiding under a rock, or just tuned out our relentlessly frustrating news cycle, there is a group of young Republican leaders that are part of the National Federation, that have been carrying on an extraordinary chat on the…

Should President Trump be eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his efforts to procure a lasting peace plan between Israel and Hamas? The question is no longer quite the joke that it would have been a few months ago. Below we consider that question in detail, here are the main points of the proposal. How many of these will actually be fulfilled, only time will tell. But here is what was…

For this latest shutdown you can thank Newt Gingrich. He was the guy who invented the “who will blink first” game of chicken back in 1995 in the pair of shutdowns against Bill Clinton. That’s when Gingrich wanted significant cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, education, environmental protection, and other social spending along with tax cuts — where have you heard that before? — and triggered a five day…

On September 22, in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Trump filed an executive order intended to designate Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Like so many of Trump’s other executive orders, this one is likely to be ineffective because there is no identified organization, leadership or membership to apply it to. In fact, if you look at the text of Trump’s anti-Antifa…

When I started this post Jimmy Kimmel had just been suspended. Since then he has been (mostly) reinstated after some serious blowback from the viewing public. (The Sinclair Group still has him off the air.) In any case, let’s review how we got here. Kimmel was taken off the air, in this case over what he said about the death of Charlie Kirk.  What did he say? The MAGA Gang is desperately…

Well, it’s very interesting to watch the Republicans tie themselves into knots trying to blame the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Democrats. At the outset it should be noted that agree with him or disagree with him — and I disagreed with him on almost everything — Charlie Kirk is exactly the kind of guy who should not have been assassinated, if we want to have any kind of civil discourse. Kirk…