Elon Musk is the Donald Trump of South Africa.Born to millionaire parents, Musk inherited his wealth instead of earning it. He has never invented anything or built anything himself. Instead, he just buys companies he thinks will make him look cool — Tesla, Starlink, Twitter, etc. He also keeps showi…
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Just when you thought state politics could not possibly get sleazier, Hope Florida comes roaring back from the dead, putrid yet powerful, casting a light on the breathtaking arrogance and corruption of Florida’s government.Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General James Uthmeier, and U.S. Sen. Ashley Mood…
The Tuesday after Labor Day has always been the unofficial start of the home stretch of campaign season, when new ads flood the airwaves, campaign websites settle on final messaging, and candidates start swinging. Well, at least that’s the way things used to be.But this year’s home stretch appears t…
In one of the most obscene segments ever aired on Fox “News,” our billionaire Treasury Secretary this week said the inflation Americans are suffering is Ukraine’s fault because, in response to Putin’s criminal regime daily murdering Ukrainian civilians (a war crime), Zelenskyy has been blowing up Ru…
No characteristic or attitude has defined Trump Administration 2.0 more broadly or blatantly than the money grab, a pattern established well before Inauguration Day. There was the $TRUMP meme coin pump and dump, and then through airplanes and Saudi projects, continuing right through today with Repub…
It’s one thing for Trump to usurp powers that belong to Congress — quite another for him to usurp places that belong to all of us.I’m talking about his renaming and demolishing what we share in common.Trump said he “decided” to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America because he was pissed of…
In what seems like a rotating game of tag, with Donald Trump always being the “tagger,” the latest “it” guy — or, as Trump might aptly put it, “it-iot — is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who this week proved yet again that when you get touched by Donald Trump, it never ends well. Ever.There’s not…
In more reasonable times, our nation’s leaders used to worry about what kind of message their actions would send to our children. They used to worry about how the policies they passed would harm kids. They used to worry about the well-being of those youngsters, who are forced to live in the world we…
If every accusation is a confession from Trump and the MAGA cult, then every dumb thing they say or do is a distraction from the Epstein Files. Despite his promise to release the files himself if he won the 2024 election, Trump has done everything in his power to block them from seeing the light of…
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed – I mean, there are just so many damn distractions these days – but our Vice President JD Vance is a crazed religious zealot untethered from reality.This is not terribly reassuring considering that his boss is even more deranged than he is.Maybe Vance is just trying to…