Remember Heidi Fleiss, the so-called “Hollywood Madam? She had a lot of important clients in her Rolodex. Last night we learned that former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows will not cooperate any further with the House Select Committee investigating […]
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California congressman Devin Nunes is retiring to become CEO of Donald Trump’s media company
We all know Devin Nunes by this point. Some of you may recall the so-called “Nunes Memo.” This is also the guy who told everyone to go out and eat at their favorite restaurant in March 2020. Earlier this year […]
The 2022 Georgia governor’s race is heating-up
Remember Brian Kemp’s 2018 campaign ad for Georgia governor?. If not, watch it here: Kemp defeated Stacy Abrams in a very close and controversial general election in November 2018. In April 2020, Kemp issued a stay-at-home order after learning for […]
Did Trump try to kill Biden?
The title of Tim Miller’s piece at The Bulwark is provocative, but worth considering. Here is a taste: Of all the insane moments from 2020, this one still stands out: The former president of the United States knowingly and intentionally […]
Tweet of the day: “They told us we were electing a president, not a pastor . . . but that president sure did disciple a lot of people”
Former Liberty University fellow and Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis helped plan the attempted undoing of the 2020 election
Ellis was a former fellow at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center (now Standing for Freedom Center). Here is a taste of Libby Cathey’s piece at ABC News: In a memo not made public until now, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark […]
QAnon fans wait for JFK Jr. to appear at Dealey Plaza and announce the second coming of Donald Trump
Yes, stuff like this actually happens in the United States of America these days. Yesterday hundreds of QAnon supporters gathered in Dallas at the site of John F. Kennedy’s assassination because they believed that John F. Kennedy Jr. would appear […]
There is no moral or constitutional equivalence between the presidencies of Joe Biden and Donald Trump
What happens when party loyalty and a cult of personality trumps our loyalty to the checks and balances built into the United States Constitution? We have a Constitutional crisis like the one we are currently experiencing. Here is Robert Kagan […]
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From University of Pittsburgh historian Marcus Rediker, author of The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist.
More on that blasphemous pro-Trump bulletin board
We posted about this blasphemous billboard last week. Heather Greene at Religion News Service has more: The billboard is situated on a well-traveled commuter route in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, near the border of Tennessee. Historically known for being the site […]
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From Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson:
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Metaxas and pro-Trump worship leader Sean Feucht are gearing-up for this event in Washington D.C.
Trump is endorsing people
The former president’s endorsement of Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate race is getting the most attention, but I am more interested in his endorsement of Joe Kent in the race for the House seat from Washington state’s 3rd congressional […]
January 6, 2021: What does Kevin McCarthy and the GOP have to hide?
Kevin McCarthy and other GOP House members are threatening American telecommunication companies that have received subpoenas from the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection. What do they have to hide? Here is Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene: It’s […]
The GOP rank and file is “identifying less and less with Trump personally,” but Trumpism is stronger than ever
In his recent piece at The Atlantic, Wehner argues that “the GOP base may be identifying less and less with Trump personally…but it is not identifying any less with the conspiracist and antidemocratic impulses that defined him over the past […]
Alabama crowd boos Trump for recommending the vaccine
Back in February I live-tweeted Trump’s speech at CPAC: Some of you may recall a post I wrote in March 2021 about pro-Trump evangelical Franklin Graham’s efforts to get his followers vaccinated. It did not go well. Here were some […]
Franklin Graham calls for a day of prayer for Afghanistan days after he asks his followers if they “miss President Trump.”
Franklin Graham is calling for a day of prayer for Afghanistan on Sunday, August 22, 2021. Here is his Facebook message to followers: DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN Iām asking for Christians around the world to join […]
Donald Trump on the “right” way to leave Afghanistan
Either Trump doesn’t realize that a lot of Afghans are American allies or he does know this and just doesn’t care. What a fool.
Trump on Afghanistan: Then and now
Here is former president Trump on April 18, 2021: I wish Joe Biden wouldn’t use September 11th as the date to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan, for two reasons. First, we can and should get out earlier. Nineteen years is […]
Trouble in paradise: Steve Bannon turns on the MyPillow Guy
Mike Lindell’s 72-hour cyber symposium is underway. Get up to speed here. Here is MSN News: Right-wing media figureĀ Steve BannonĀ has slammed MyPillow CEOĀ Mike Lindell‘s cyber symposium for failing to present evidence that actually proves Lindell’s long-touted claims of voter fraud […]