Year: 2019

Now that the Trump regime has consolidated the courts under his control, and has direct management of the nation's intelligence operations, the calm quiet of Tom Carper and his two proteges in Congress has come into focus and begins to make a lot more sense. For all of his faults, Tom Carper is able to see further down the road that most of us. It is a skill he brought to setting up Delaware as the usury-friendly state when governor. Similarly, Carper must have seen the Trump regime continuing and thriving well into the future. What profit could a clear thinking striver like Carper see in rocking the boat when a long (possibly multi-generational) Trump regime was practically a forgone conclusion given the cowardice of the Democrats and uselessness of the media? There is no profit in it and that is obviously something that Coons and LBR picked up on as well. How else can you explain their preternatural calm in the face the end of our American experiment? There is no explanation. They are calm because they see the future more clearly than the rest of us and that has given them a running start at planning for that future. They know that Trump will need the support of a faux congress to give his brand of fascism a patina of legitimacy. Carper, Coons and LBR must be high on Trump's list when he considers how he is going to manufacture that legitimacy among DC-based talking heads and feckless political "analysts". It is sickening to confront this reality, but feeling sickened is going to be the least of our worries by next year at this time.

ANOTHER Trump Official Convicted of Being Illegal Foreign Agent 1) In the daily avalanche of Trump criminally ridiculous bullshit, it is easy to lose track of all the bonafide crimes and criminals. 2) Why Democrats can't come up with some consistent messaging about Trump's criminality is truly beyond me.

It is hard to argue against CHARLES PIERCE's point that while congress is on vacation. the president will be the whole entire government. I know this may seem a bit…

El Somnambulo considers David Ruffin of the Temptations the greatest soul singer of all time, and I'm not going to disagree. And it's not just because of his great voice…

If you fill in this form, Equifax will send you $125 as part of its settlement with the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the FTC, and 48 out of 50 states. Equifax doxed the nation and profited handsomely from it. $125 is a laughably small sum given how much damage the data they hemorrhaged all over the internet could cause you. Equifax should have faced the corporate death penalty, the execs who oversaw the disaster should have had their assets seized and diverted to anti-identity-theft measures and charities. Instead, the FTC et al are hitting the company for a maximum of $700m(how much they pay depends in part on whether you fill in this form. Equifax's market cap stands today at $16.6B, and it posted $3.412B in earnings in 2018, up 1.48% increase from 2017.

Highlands Bunker - E25 - People’s Republic of Cambridge Working Families Party activist Vanessa Clifford joins RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about what Working Families Party is, some…

Credit where credit is due?. Or...If someone as cowardly and dithering as Lisa Blunt Rochester supports impeachment, she really must be hearing about it from actual voters.

Today, I'm announcing my support to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Director Mueller has done his job. Now it's time for Congress to do ours. My statement below:

“I understand where these groups are coming from, but while it might feel good to vent their frustrations about the state of the country, they could undermine what I believe should be our core 2020 argument: We are dithering, incompetent doormats who are infinitesimally less objectionable than our opposition.”