Since approximately forever, Republicans have been demanding we run the United States government “like a business,” and Donald Trump has been quick to embrace that advice.
A new whistleblower complaint, which can be read here, has been filed against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency charging “jarring medical neglect” inside the Irwin County Detention Center, in Georgia. The facility is a private prison, run by LaSalle Corrections.
Facebook, the gargantuan and nation-bending social media behemoth, today announced a collection of new actions intended to make it look Slightly Less Bad in the final weeks of the 2020 elections. Facebook has been harshly criticized as one of the top venues, in any medium, for fake news and propaganda dissemination from political campaigns, from professional hoaxers seeking quick advertising revenue, and from your own particularly gullible relatives.
Donald Trump gave another campaign monologue attacking opponent Joe Biden from the White House press room this evening. In it, Trump confirmed one of Biden’s central claims: Donald Trump is incapable of denouncing violence by his own supporters.
Trump first defended a caravan of Trump supporters who drove through Portland firing paintballs and pepper spray at protestors. “That was a peaceful protest, and paint is a defensive mechanism, paint is not bullets.
One of the nervous tics of the Donald Trump “administration” is a seeming obsession with new arms sales. Trump himself has boasted of and promoted the sales, and began doing so early on; he seems to regard weapons sales as something in his Professional Businessguy comfort zone, something with numbers attached, and hardball negotiations needed, and lots of opportunities for grifting around the edges.
Part of Trump Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s credentials for handling a government agency as large and spread-out as the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is his creation of New Breed Logistics, a family shipping company that would eventually become a 9,000 employee operation and be sold off for $615 million, enough money that DeJoy could become a major Republican donor.
We’re rapidly closing in on election day, which means it’s once again time for Donald Trump to meet with his favorite international strongman, Russian President Vladimir Putin. NBC News cites multiple administration sources to report that Trump wants to meet with Putin in-person, possibly in New York, before the November elections.
What will it be about? The White House seems to be still working that out, based on Trump’s desire to have a meeting for something.
The New York Times has a long look questioning whether Food and Drug Administration head Stephen Hahn is being forced into giving the nation subpar advice on the demand of the anti-science, anti-reality narcissistic idiot manchild posing as the current president. It is full of the usual back and forth, both-siding quotes while laying out reams of evidence that actually this is not a question at all. The plain history shows that Dr.
On Saturday Donald Trump announced, in a bizarre golf clubhouse speech to an audience of millionaires, a series of “executive orders” that he will (attempt to) undertake as substitute for negotiating new pandemic aid packages with Congress.
For those of you who were literally just born, let us explain a bit of history from the before-times of the Barack Obama presidency. During those years, Republicans, conservatives, and racists—but I repeat myself—were all absolutely certain that President Barack Obama’s executive orders on take-your-pick were “tyranny.
Most of us have never wasted a moment of our lives worrying about what Kanye West might be thinking, and are not about to start now. Suffice it to say West announced at one point he was running for president, is making few if any serious attempts to follow up on that announcement, and we’ll leave it at that.
What does exist of an actual West campaign, however, seems to be near-entirely a Republican ratfucking operation.
It was another typical day on the Sunday shows, the place where America’s most powerful people congregate to, for the most part, brazenly lie to us. Today’s version came with one thing that the Trump team Very Much wants to talk about—banning social media app TikTok—and several they very much did not.
As the economy reels from the effects of ongoing pandemic bungling, you may be wondering how America’s valuable and important corporate executives are doing during these trying days.
Fine. They’re doing just fine.
A new survey reported by the The New York Times shows that few public companies have cut executive pay during the pandemic and it’s resulting massive layoffs.
There’s been little good news of late, so here’s something to enjoy: the travails of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who’s been scrambling to gather money for the National Republican Congressional Committee to help save House Republicans from what’s looking to be another thrashing in the November elections.
Everything Donald Trump does is a scam. Everything Donald Trump’s family does is a scam. It is all just one big grift, from top to bottom, sucking in money from the gullible and the supplicants and “mostly” from Russia, if you believe his weird but omnipresent failsons, only to spend it on lavish pet project golf clubs and Gatsby-esque role play.
When it comes to less-than-sincere-seeming Republican praise for civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis, it would be hard to top Sen. Marco Rubio tweeting it was “an honor to know” Lewis while posting a picture of himself with … Rep. Elijah Cummings. But Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia might have come close last Saturday.
The national “debate” over whether to do the literally smallest possible thing to end the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States—put on a damn mask when in a public place—continues to be virulently stupid and good evidence the United States really is an “exceptional” country in, ahem, at least one unfortunate way. We are extremely fortunate in that masks appear to be reasonably effective in combating this particular virus.
Washington R——s majority owner Dan Snyder has long been one of the biggest assholes in the NFL, and that is saying something, and is the person most responsible for the team keeping its blatantly racist name even after years of every sentient non-racist human pretty much agreeing that the name is odious and racist and for f—k’s sake just change it already.
Now the rest of the team’s owners want out, reports The Washington Post.
On July 1, several hundred public health organizations wrote a letter to Health and Human Service Secretary Alex Azar expressing—let’s say exasperation—with the Trump administration’s continued stifling of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in particular, and resistance to competent, science-based pandemic messaging in general.
You are probably of the opinion that 2020 is a terrible year, truly bottom of the barrel, and that it should just pack its things and leave already. It knows you think that, and resents it, but doesn’t know quite what to do about it.
There is clearly no number of deaths that will make Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and their associated toadies take the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic seriously. On CBS’ Face The Nation, host Margaret Brennan started off by informing viewers that (despite soaring new caseloads), the Trump administration has been blocking interview requests with key government exports for three months.
“We have not been able to get our requests for Dr.
Only days ago, Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence attended a rally in a Dallas, Texas, megachurch packed with over 2,000 people.
Though it was buried in yet another frantic news day, on Monday the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume federal executions by letting stand an appeals court ruling allowing the same. After a 17-year pause, the 60 prisoners on federal death row will now face new execution dates.
It was Attorney General William Barr, of course, who had indicated that his department would be lifting the hiatus.
Back in April, Wisconsin Republicans fought bitterly to prevent mail-in voting during a pandemic, instead demanding that voters instead wait in long lines to cast in-person votes despite the literal danger to their lives.
The Associated Press now reports that of those Republican state senators and assembly members, over 80% of them themselves voted absentee in the same election. Specifically, 81% of Republican assembly members and 83% of Republican state senators voted by mail.
In a new Sunday evening story, The Washington Post cites unidentified sources to confirm that the Russian program offering “bounties” to Taliban militants for killing U.S. forces in Afghanistan is “believed to have resulted in the deaths of several U.S. service members.” It was previously unclear as to whether the Russian program had been successful; the Post’s sources indicate that it was.
A new University of North Florida poll of Duval County voters suggests that the locals are none too happy about the Republican Party’s decision to saddle them with the Pandemic Funtime Hitler Show, aka the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, at the end of August. The poll shows 58% of county residents “strongly or somewhat” oppose hosting the convention, compared to 42% in support.
Yeah, yeah. Irony remains dead, and so forth. You’ve probably already heard the latest Trump administration message-botching, but if you missed it: Yes, the State Department’s top spokesperson ordered that a reporter’s phone line be muted for asking a question she didn’t want to be asked, during a telephone briefing.
Donald Trump has nothing on his schedule today and is in a bad mood after being humiliated by poor attendance at the Tulsa, Oklahoma COVID-19 ball pit his advisers set up for him to play in. Because he is a malignant narcissist whose mind is rapidly disintegrating from the dissonance of not being worshipped as the god-king he imagines himself to be, he is going to fill this void by inventing insane conspiracy theories about the plots against him and telling us about them on Twitter.
Last September, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s acting chief scientist announced that the agency would be conducting a probe of NOAA’s apparent public buckling to Donald Trump on whether or not Hurricane Dorian was headed for the state of Alabama when all agency science demonstrated it was not.
Everything is bad and we can’t have nice things so, instead, please enjoy this long, drawn-out Twitter war between two of the least liked Republican lawmakers in America and … um, famous actor Ron Perlman, for some reason. The pushing-off point was Florida man Rep. Matt Gaetz grunting that well, if there’s going to be be kneeling during the national anthem, maybe we just shouldn’t have soccer at all, you soccer meanies.