The latest: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist said, “This is the first time I’ve felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast.” Yes, Trump told the NOAA to back up his lie–and someone there did it. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four showed us why Trump is doing this. “Without truth, we …
GOP is not a conservative party. It’s a reactionary party. Let’s stop calling it “conservative.” True conservatives, according to NYU prof. @Jonhaidt, form a kind of yin-yang balance with liberals (or progressives). Liberals embrace forward-looking change. Conservatives value order. The conservative insight is that order is precious, hard to achieve, and easy to lose. (From …
Hi, @TedCruz, I read your thread about guns, the Bible, self defense, and black rights (which made no coherent argument). You don’t like “playing politics” with guns. You left out the part about how you, the NRA, and Russia use guns to play politics and to further your own goals. From Yale prof. Timothy Snyder, …
Once again, Trump is threatening to sue a former White House staff member for violating a non-disclosure agreement (NDA): It’s not enforceable, but Trump’s NDAs do tell us a lot about Trump. Last year, Kellyanne Conway confirmed that “everyone” in the West Wing signs NDAs. Omarosa made public the agreement she was asked to sign, so we …
Kristen Johnson said: FDR taught us how to make rapid change: Win elections with large majorities. When FDR took office in 1933, the U.S. was in the throes of the Great Depression. Income inequality was like today, but with big differences. There was no social security. There was no 40 hour workweek. There was no …
Joe Walsh announced that he’s running for president as a Republican, and Twitter panicked. Twitter does that. Even when the news is good. Preet Bharara tweeted this: I don’t understand the confusion. If you want Trump to go, support the Democratic candidate for president. Joe Walsh is running as a Republican. A Republican challenger means …
It’s almost like Trump spends his day devising ways to enrage and insult people, divide us, and inflict pain. Today, to thrill his Evangelical base, enrage everyone else, and call out American Jews, he tweeted this: Yesterday he said this about Jews who vote Democrat (most but not all of us): “I think any Jewish …
Alternate title: California shows the way California used to be Republican. We gave the nation Nixon and Reagan. Republican candidates won CA in every presidential election between 1952 and 1988 except one: By 1990, CA demographics were changing, with growing Asian and Spanish-speaking communities. Then California’s “Latino and Asian populations boomed in the 1990s.” In …
Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky and conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin agree on how to get out of this mess: The GOP needs to be crushed in 2020 so that a center-right party can arise from the ashes. America needs a center right party. We know how we got into this mess. Over the past …
U.S. Rep Steve King (R-Iowa) asked if not for rape and incest “would there be any population left?” He noted that throughout history, rape was common and women bore the children. Why, he evidently wonders, should things change? During the Kavanaugh hearings, King also said, if sexual assault is the new standard, “No man will …
Placing Rep. Steve King’s “rape and incest” comment into context. Read More »
