After musician after musician pulled out from Trump’s “Freedom 250” concert, he was left with Lee Greenwood, an opera tenor, a couple of military bands, and Kash Patel’s girlfriend. The anthem that made Greenwood a star, “God Bless the USA,” was written in 1985 during the height of the Cold War. It …
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Disgusting, vile, repugnant, supremacists.I can think of more attributes along these lines to describe the six conservative justices, who handed down three rulings today that, taken together, reveal the naked, ugly face of what this court has become – disgusting, vile, repugnant supremacists. All we…
Mitch McConnell isn’t voting this week. His office isn’t saying much about why, just that he’s been hospitalized. Curt answers, no timeline, no details.I worked in PR for more than 30 years, and one thing you learn is that when the news is scant, the situation usually isn’t good. The less said, the …
Hey, wanna see a cult that’s been fully triggered by a public display of basic human goodness and decency? Head on over to Twitter or Threads, where all of MAGA is short-circuiting over their guy’s last few days of global embarrassments, which began with his UFC slapfest birthday party tanking in t…
If the chaos of this last year and a half week has shown us anything, it’s that every distraction Donald Trump has manufactured to stop people from talking about the Epstein Files has failed spectacularly. The UFC fiasco kicked off a week that ended with a full surrender to Iran at Versailles, whic…
This weekend, the right-wing Italian daily Libero, a major conservative newspaper that shares a fair amount of Donald Trump’s politics, ran a one-word verdict on the President of the United States across its front page. The Italian word is coglione. The polite translation is “idiot.” The translation…
That subhead of mine is certainly repetitive of me (me, me), but how can you not be repetitive in the distinctly repeated world of Donald J. Trump (Trumped, Trumped)? I mean, twice already and who really knows what’s to come?Here’s the question nobody seems to be asking right now, though: What count…
Referring to the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, Minnesota governor Tim Walz commented on X: “Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nut…