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The Mueller Report means nothing
Today (or someday) Robert Mueller will release his report on Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential elections.
Nothing will happen and it means nothing.
All the facts of the case are known. Russia did interfere with the election. The Trump campaign did participate in the interference (for good reason, they were way behind).
Everyone knows all of this. No news will be broken. Republicans will not be bothered by rereleasing this known info, and Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester will fret that doing something about it will backfire on Chris Coons and Lis Blunt Rochester.
The only thing that will free the country from this crisis is a massive Democratic wave in the next election.
The DSM-5 description of Narcissistic Personality Fits Trump Like a Glove
Does Trump have Narcissistic Personality Disorder? According to DSM-5, individuals with NPD have most (at least five) or all of the symptoms listed below (generally without commensurate qualities or accomplishments). 1 Grandiosity with expectations of superior treatment by others. 2 Fixated on fantasies of power, success, intelligence, attractiveness, etc. 3 Self-perception of being unique, superior, […]
New Zealand shows what gun sanity looks like
There is no reason to allow people to walk around with military-style, high capacity machine guns.
(CNN)All military-style semi-automatic weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines will be banned in New Zealand following the mass shootings at two Christchurch mosques that killed 50 people, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday.
Why Wooing Fox News Viewers Is a Mug’s Game
A Democratic polling organization explored whether the party should try to woo Republicans through their propaganda organ, Fox News. The results are sobering evidence of the power of propaganda. The finding the Daily Beast used in its headline was frightening — 78% of Fox News viewers think the Trump administration has accomplished more than any […]
Biden His Time – Day 2
I guess somebody released a trial balloon because this story from a few days ago is getting more play today: Close advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden are debating the idea of packaging his presidential campaign announcement with a pledge to choose Stacey Abrams as his vice president. Why it matters: The popular Georgia […]
Beto: Hero or Zero?
Love him or hate him, no candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination has polarized the party’s voters more than Beto O’Rourke. The only one close is also the only one who has attracted a similar number of small donors amounting to a large number of dollars, Bernie Sanders. Thomas B. Edsall of the New York […]
Biden His Time
According to the WSJ, Biden is worried that his post-announcement fundraising haul is going to look puny compared to Beto and Bernie, so he is rounding up big money donors.
But the story could well be a hatchet job by the WSJ, because there is nothing Dem primary voters want less than an old school candidate who is captive of the finance and banking industry.
The resistance has demobilized
Over at Vox, Matthew Yglesias points out that the Resistance, the guard dog whose vigilance played such a crucial role as a check against Donald Trump, has gone quiet since the Democrats won the House in the 2018 midterms. “The resistance has demobilized,” Yglesias notes. “There was no mass mobilization to call senators in advance […]
Science Proves – Believing in “meritocracy” makes you act like a dick
The pernicious nonsense that is a belief in “meritocracy” appears to be on the decline. Still, we have a long way to go. …today, a majority of Americans believe that they live in a meritocracy where the market elevates the worthy to positions of wealth and privilege (and power!) despite widespread evidence that the rich […]
Old-School Biden Preps Old-School Campaign
CNN has a piece up this morning about Joe Biden’s slo-mo campaign rollout. How will Joe sew up the nomination? By naming a vice-presidential candidate quickly plus…ENDORSEMENTS! Biden, who has been carefully watching the field of Democratic hopefuls grow, will try to quickly seize command of the race. Democrats familiar with his plans say he […]
The Center Cannot Hold Water
Corporate journalists are typing furiously to try to convince people that a majority of the country wants centrism and unity. Bullshit. Damon Linker at The Week goes after this notion with a sledgehammer, claiming the time for political pablum is over. “If Democrats want to unify the country,” he writes, “they should stop talking about […]
Wilmo Mayor Picks a Great Day to Endorse White Nationalism
One of these two things happened:
A) Like all great leaders, Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki blamed a staffer after getting heat for retweeting white nationalist trope.
B)Twitter is hard. It’s confusing. The kids seem to like it though, so… *click* Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki’s staffer retweeted white nationalist trope by mistake.
Has the tide turned on Trump’s mental breakdown?
Trump’s mental impairment has gotten a lot worse. It is now so bad, in fact, that his ongoing hallucinations and delusions are being more widely talked about openly. “His Condition Is Getting Worse”: Trump Spirals Online as His … Vanity Fair–11 hours ago For someone as prolific in his Twitter usage as Donald Trump, […]
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