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Donald Trump's MAGA Republican Party and its Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, deserve some "credit" for one thing: They have an inexhaustible supply of the mindless bullheadedness required to persist in pushing preposterous pseudo-legal smear...
by News Corpse
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 01:31 PM PDT
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Fourteen months ago Republicans assumed a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives. What they have done with it since then is a masterclass in incompetence, failure, and humiliation. They have chosen to conduct the business of government in...
by News Corpse
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on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 01:27 PM PDT
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The Republican Party is clearly suffering from severe and debilitating delusions about President Biden. They are freakishly fixated on their bizarre and wholly unwarranted determination to implicate him for some (any) crime and to remove him office for...
by News Corpse
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on Thu Dec 28, 2023 at 01:08 PM PST
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The ongoing circus that the clowns (aka Republicans) in the House of Representatives are trying to pass off as an impeachment inquiry of President Biden continues to prove that they have nothing to support their transparently partisan and...
by News Corpse
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on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 02:29 PM PST
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The Republican members of the House of Representatives are fiercely dedicated to their singular mission of maligning President Biden and every other Democrat that they encounter. They have utterly abandoned any pretense of serving their constituents or...
by News Corpse
19 comments
on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 01:23 PM PST
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The Republican Party in the House of Representatives is preparing to vote on whether to initiate a formal impeachment inquiry for President Biden, despite not having been able to produce a single shred of evidence of any wrongdoing after years of...
by News Corpse
90 comments
on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 03:12 PM PST
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Republicans in the House of Representatives are resolute in their commitment to preserve their record of accomplishing absolutely nothing during their year long tenure as the majority party. They are determined to obstruct any progress on behalf of the...
by News Corpse
38 comments
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 01:03 PM PST
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It has been nearly a year since the Republican Party assumed their razor-thin (and shrinking) majority in the House of Representatives. In all of that time they have vigorously avoided and/or opposed any legislation that would actually have a positive...
by News Corpse
60 comments
on Fri Dec 08, 2023 at 11:56 AM PST
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House Speaker Mike Johnson took time away from being a homophobe to hold a press conference on Wednesday. He spent most of the time doing what Republican leaders usually do in front of a press corps: equivocate, change the subject, and spew a few empty...
by Walter Einenkel
87 comments
on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 11:56 AM PST
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The roadrunner is back, though I’ll have to make this post quick. It’s not the coyote today, but rather that old guy in the Chrysler LeBaron with the Goldwater ‘64 bumper sticker still affixed to it. He is inexplicably taking shots at me from a wide...
by Roadrunner65
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on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 11:24 AM PST
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On Thursday, the Republican-led House decided that after having wasted weeks arguing about who should be their next speaker, they needed to take a nice long weekend. With eight days left to fund our government, the Republican Party still can’t get its...
by Walter Einenkel
33 comments
on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 11:36 AM PST
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The brand, spanking new Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, is making a huge splash in his inaugural days on the job. He began by calling for a five day recess, presumably because the three week long humiliating and...
by News Corpse
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 04:10 PM PDT
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For the first time in history, the House of Representatives has been dormant for 17 days because Republicans are utterly incapable of competently performing their congressional duties. They have repeatedly failed to replace the Speaker that they...
by News Corpse
118 comments
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 01:29 PM PDT
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There is less than one week to go before the Republican Congress throws the U.S. government into yet another costly shutdown. In that time the GOP will likely continue debating against itself and making threats aimed at Democrats that will ultimately...
by News Corpse
11 comments
on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 01:41 PM PDT
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The Republican Party has given up entirely on even pretending to be interested in governing. Their sole purpose now is to smear President Biden and other Democrats with baseless allegations, insinuations, and wholly fictional conjecture. They are...
by News Corpse
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 12:39 PM PDT
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In Wisconsin, Republican legislators are talking about impeaching a duly elected Democratic State Supreme Court Justice, all to protect their heavily gerrymandered political map, among other interests. Will Democrats be forced to take back their state?...
by RickElia
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on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 08:17 AM PDT
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From its inception, the Cult of Trump has been fueled by a Republican Party that is cowardly or corrupt, or more accurately, both. They were too afraid to hold Trump accountable when they had the opportunity during his two impeachments. And ever since...
by News Corpse
40 comments
on Sun Sep 03, 2023 at 02:49 PM PDT
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Oklahoma Democrats are demanding that Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters be subjected to an impeachment probe due to fallout from his hate- and disinformation-filled social media posts. In a statement, they called on the...
by Walter Einenkel
49 comments
on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 12:10 PM PDT
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An obviously frantic Donald Trump is unleashing a stream of bile and belligerence in the wake of a court ruling that his trial on charges of subverting democracy and attempting to stage a violent coup is now scheduled to begin on March 4, 2024. That's...
by News Corpse
179 comments
on Mon Aug 28, 2023 at 03:37 PM PDT
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The Republican obsession with impeaching President Biden is reaching new heights of absurdity. While there remains precisely the same amount of evidence for such a move - ZERO - the GOP is accelerating their march toward an utterly unwarranted and...
by News Corpse
31 comments
on Wed Jul 26, 2023 at 03:46 PM PDT
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- Kristi Noem is the Governor of South Dakota. A leading candidate for Trump VP. And a woman who takes pleasure in killing things. To promote her candidacy, she will publish her obligatory autobiography, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with...138 comments 109 Recs
- Many Americans are confused by the spectacle they heard (we couldn’t “witness” it because Republicans on the Supreme Court won’t allow their proceedings to be televised) yesterday as an attorney for Donald Trump, at least three different times in...55 comments 154 Recs
- If the Supreme Court thinks former presidents have, or do not have, some or absolute immunity against criminal prosecution, why not just say so now? Why would it take months? Do they have something better to do? Are there other priorities on their...284 comments 579 Recs
- Expect the Senate race to be close this fall—unless Wisconsinites find out what Eric Hovde thinks of them. Are you a farmer? Eric Hovde thinks your retirement age should be pushed up to 72 because after all, “you’re largely driving around on a tractor”...9 comments 65 Recs
- A new digital ad will run in the swing states during the NFL draft. The draft festivities were held in Detroit, attended by 300,000, and broadcast to millions across the country. The ad targets Trump's lack of interest in football, comparing it to...41 comments 129 Recs
- Never in my long life have I been as enraged and sickened about American politics as I am now. I am close to utter despair at what I’m seeing. My beloved country is becoming an insane asylum, filled with people who want to see the American experiment...113 comments 255 Recs
- Reposted from Substack This week MAGA Media outlets have breathlessly declared that they’ve found “smoking gun” evidence that proves that the Biden Administration was in communication with ...10 comments 58 Recs
- As my birthday looms ahead this weekend, and the distance I’ve circled around the sun keeps lengthening like a shadow, I thought I would summarize four of the more important studies that have been published on longevity. Unlike other things that have...83 comments 102 Recs
- I am channeling my inner Andy Rooney for this VERY short diary, and am delighted that the Image Library is here to help yet again. Did ya ever notice how, right after the Democrats pull off something absolutely remarkable, this strange thing happens...397 comments 776 Recs
- Russian forces conducted missile strikes against Ukrainian railway and logistics infrastructure on April 25. Ukrainian military officials reported that Russian forces struck a logistics and railway connection point in Smila, Cherkasy Oblast likely with...35 comments 166 Recs
- Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! President Biden has said many times that he is a president for all of America, whether you voted for him or not. His attitude can be hard to take at ...99 comments 147 Recs
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- Happy Freidai, Peeps! Some of us donât have to sweat out a workweek, but even so, sometimes Freidai makes us want to dance. But what KIND of dance? But FIRST: A gentle reminder of how we do ...9 comments 14 Recs
- The Justice Department reports that a Duval County Florida man was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for committing two federal hate crimes by attacking two black women with a firearm. Frederick...3 comments 6 Recs
- I have been troubled over the past few weeks by some events happening on our nation’s college campuses, particularly the Ivy League. At one campus, I believe it was Columbia, the police were even called in to break up the protests with force by the...9 comments 6 Recs
- To sum it all up, Trump borrowed his way into apparent wealth. 1929 seems eerily familiar. From 1928 thru 1929, USA’s Gross National Product hovered around $104 Billion U.S. Dollars. By 1931, it had fallen to less than $60 Billion, a decline of over...5 comments 4 Recs
- I often see titles like this in the EU except that they are talking about the Orange Skid Mark. Has the world gone bat-shit crazy? Could Israelis Seriously Elect Netanyahu Again? Link to Haaretz The latest Israeli polls give Benjamin Netanyahu and his...10 comments 8 Recs
- I am heartbroken to hear of Mike Pinder’s passing. His music and the Moody Blues have played such a formative role in in my life and how I see the world. I am a kinder person for the influence of his and their music. If there is a great beyond, I’ve no...11 comments 22 Recs
- Kristi Noem is the Governor of South Dakota. A leading candidate for Trump VP. And a woman who takes pleasure in killing things. To promote her candidacy, she will publish her obligatory autobiography, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with...138 comments 109 Recs
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- Expect the Senate race to be close this fall—unless Wisconsinites find out what Eric Hovde thinks of them. Are you a farmer? Eric Hovde thinks your retirement age should be pushed up to 72 because after all, “you’re largely driving around on a tractor”...9 comments 65 Recs
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- So, Mr. Alito, I think I follow you so far: If the Supreme Court Rules that the President is Immune from criminal prosecution for crimes committed while in office, even if they might include things like assassinating their political opponent, then said...8 comments 18 Recs
- Now that the Trump’s hush payment trial has moved past the hubbub of the first couple days, it is starting to become rather boring. However, it will still occupy a lot of Trump’s attention, and be the leading story about him. What I predict, or maybe...2 comments 9 Recs
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- What a performance yesterday at the supreme court. No caps was my intention. repect not needed. It was like watching a Madonna movie, without alcohol or being high. I have never done that. But bet it would help. Just an opinion, but think this is what...4 comments 0 Recs
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