Ed Brayton
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Michigan, United States
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Is the NRA Imploding Completely?
This weekend was the NRA's national convention and all hell broke loose. Wayne Lapierre, the longtime public face and leader of the group, accused the group's president, the loathsome Ollie North, of extorting him by threatening to release damaging information on him to the board if he didn't resign. Instead, North → Read More
God Told Coach Dave to Get Hillary Clinton Arrested
"Coach" Dave Daubenmire traveled from his home in Ohio to stand outside the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton in New York because God told him he would spark a movement to have Hillary arrested. And after Rush Limbaugh said he thinks she should be arrested, Daubenmire is convinced that this confirms that the message → Read More
Trump Pressured Fox News Not to Fire Jeanine Pirro
A few weeks ago, Jeanine Pirro gave a particularly vile monologue on immigration -- even for her -- and was pulled off the air for a couple weeks. It looked like she might be fired, but Donald Trump actually intervened and called Rupert Murdoch to pressure him not to fire her but to put her back on the air quickly. → Read More
Appeals Court Strikes Down Michigan’s Gerrymandered Districts
A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the congressional districts drawn by Republicans in 2011 as unconstitutional gerrymandered based on partisanship. The Supreme Court has yet to rule that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional, but have done so for racially gerrymandered → Read More
White Supremacist Steve King Knows How Jesus Feels
Every time some right-wing fundamentalist stubs his toe or is mildly criticized, they suddenly know exactly what Jesus felt like when he was crucified. The latest is white supremacist Congressman Steve King, who has been stripped of his committee assignments and official censored by the House for...well, for being a → Read More
Kushner: Investigation of Russian Interference More Damaging than the Interference
Jared Kushner is seeking to minimize the importance of Russian interference in our elections. First, he dismisses those efforts as "a couple of Facebook ads." Then he makes the ludicrous and self-serving argument that the investigation into the extent of that interference was more damaging to the country than the → Read More
Trump Orders Underlings Not to Comply with Subpoenas
In an escalation of Trump's effort to delay investigations, he has ordered an administration official in charge of overseeing security clearances not to comply with a subpoena that he testify before a House committee to answer questions about the granting of clearances to Jared Kushner and others who were initially → Read More
Trump’s Latest Inane Ragetweet Festival
Tuesday morning, Trump when on one of his typical Twitter rampages, lashing out at those who criticize him, the media and whatever else caught his ire. He started by attacking one of his favorite targets, the New York Times. Naturally, he lied about them in the process and trotted our his familiar Stalinist position. → Read More
Supreme Court to Hear Obama Administration’s Interpretation of Discrimination Law
The Obama administration changed the government's position on anti-discrimination law, arguing that the ban on discrimination based on gender already banned discrimination against LGBT people. Other government levels adopted that position and lawsuits were filed based on that interpretation. The Supreme Court will → Read More
Bachmann: God Will Make Trump Lose in 2020 if He Pressures Israel
Michele Bachmann, the "pastor to the United Nations," obsesses over Israel like most Christian fundamentalists do and promotes the notion that if we don't support anything they do, God will punish America. But she also says that if Trump pressures Israel over...anything...God will make sure he loses the 2020 → Read More
Wingnut: Parkland Shooting a False Flag to Prevent Trump from Draining the Swamp
Two of the most ridiculous crackpots on the right have a conspiracy theory about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Noting that Douglas was an environmentalist, they say that the shooting was a false flag to prevent Trump from "draining the swamp" just like she prevented the → Read More
Fox News’ Absurd Defense of Trump Obstruction
The three dumb mice from Fox and Friends welcomed Fox correspondent Ed Henry on the show to discuss the Mueller report's findings. When discussing the obstruction of justice evidence presented in the report, the four of them argued that since Trump's aides refused to carry out his orders to obstruct several times. → Read More
Mueller Report Shows Trump Lied Repeatedly in Calling True Stories ‘Fake News’
Another thing that the Mueller report shows is that virtually every time Trump claimed that a story was "fake news," the story was completely accurate. This fits a longstanding pattern of dishonest denials from Trump. It is his go-to response to negative media coverage and has been since even before he got to the → Read More
Trump Vetoes Yemen Resolution with Incoherent Excuse
For only the second time, Trump has vetoed a bill passed by Congress, this one a bill passed by Congress that forbid U.S. involvement or aid to Saudi Arabia for its war in Yemen, which the UN calls the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today. And the excuse he used in his veto message was utterly incoherent. → Read More
Trump Refusing Every Request for Documents from Congress
Trump isn't just saying no to one or two requests for documents on one or two issues, he is now denying virtually every request for documents coming from Congressional committees. This sets up those committees having to issue subpoenas, which they'll refuse to comply with, and ultimately a bunch of court battles over → Read More
Excuses for Trump Not Releasing Tax Returns Getting Worse
The excuses and defenses being offered by Trump, his aides and his sycophants in the media for his refusal to release his tax returns just keep getting worse and worse. Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal went on Fox News (of course) and offered this transparently ridiculous and irrelevant argument: BILL → Read More
Notre Dame Cathedral Seriously Damaged; Trump Offers Useless Advice
The Notre Dame Cathedral, a precious and priceless cultural achievement, has been seriously damaged by fire. It was undergoing renovations and some of the art and sculptures inside had already been removed, so that's good, but the main spire and the entire inside are gutted. The roof and main spire collapsed in a → Read More
Wingnuts: Trump Should Shut Down Newspapers and TV Stations that Criticize Him
The fascist impulses of Trump's far right supporters is making itself plain once again. Bill Deagle and Josh Bernstein say Trump should shut down the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and other news outlets that are critical of him. Constitution? Who needs that pesky Constitution? Heil Mein Fuhrer Trump! Oh, and Right Wing → Read More
Sarah Sanders Spreads Some Manure on Trump’s Tax Returns
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on with Chris Wallace Sunday morning and they addressed the questions about Donald Trump refusing to release his taxes. As usual, she spread some particularly odiferous manure around. She made two ridiculous and contradictory claims. The first was Trump's old dodge about his taxes being → Read More
Trump 2020 Campaign Lies About Barr’s Statement
The Hill reports on a new fundraising message sent out by the 2020 Trump campaign that absolutely lies about what Attorney General William Barr said in his testimony about "spying" on the 2016 Trump campaign. The message says he concluded that there was "unlawful spying." In fact, he very explicitly said that he was → Read More