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  After Helping Cost Kamala the Election, the Abandon Harris Movement Is Now Pleading to Trump for Mercy by u/Humble_Novice in LeopardsAteMyFace This was all so predictable. I have nothing but contempt for organizations like Abandon Harris, who helped set the stage for the current clusterfuck we are living with now. I don't want another war in the Middle East either, but anyone who thought Trump was an isolationist was deluded.

I'd say this video about sums it up:   This video is from earlier in the week, but it will remain relevant for a long time to come.

If Lawrence is soon to be off the air (his contract ends in June), he is going to go down swinging. Here is his take on Trump and the GOP's cowardice:

What a long title for what will probably be a short post. I think it is no secret that what we think of as MAGA in the US is a movement composed of demographic groups who ordinarily would never be allies. One of the huge challenges among the oligarchs who have their own fortunes to grow - while fleecing the rest of us of course - is how to package themselves as working class nationalist populists when what they really want is to keep the neoliberal gravy train flowing. It is quite the balancing act, and one likely doomed to failure. Elon Musk is our poster boy of an oligarch elite who truly believes he is better than the rabble he amplifies on his social media app. And now that he has his candidate about to occupy the White House, he's let the mask slip. Remember, the white nationalists in the US don't want immigrants at all. They're pretty clear about that. Musk's and Ramaswamy's argument that Americans are poorly educated and not capable of handling the jobs that ...

According to the scripture found in the Books of Bokonon , a Pool-pah is defined as a "shit storm" or "the wrath of God." Either will do as far as I am concerned as we witness the latest round of House GOP incompetence (with a significant assist from Trump and shadow president Musk). As of now, we are staring down yet another government shutdown, and I will have to double check the calendar for the last day that the debt ceiling needs to be raised, but also the debt ceiling being breached, thus tanking the global economy. We have some real stable geniuses running this circus.  Here's the sitch: The US House of Representatives has a GOP majority this session that is wafer thin (currently 221 GOP - 214 Dem). It will be an even thinner majority come January when the new Congressional Session starts (220 GOP - 215 Dem, with some seats already vacated thus further narrowing the majority). Any House Speaker, regardless of who he or she is, will have to accept that mos...

Never mind that Russia's Putin regime invaded Ukraine in 2014 and illegally annexed Crimea as it fought a low-scale war in the Donbas that had been on-going prior to 2022. Never mind that the same Russian regime ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and have been engaging in human rights abuses ever since. In Trump's deranged and demented mind, somehow it was the president of the invaded country who allegedly started the war with Russia . Yeah, it makes no sense and is completely divorced from reality. But that's Trump for you. It's also a harbinger of what to expect if Trump is reinstalled in the White House. Trump will cede Ukrainian territory to Putin against the will of the duly elected Ukrainian government and the will of the Ukrainian people. Bet on it. Then again, it would be in character for Trump to blame the abused spouse for being beaten (or worse) or the rape survivor for allowing the rape to happen. That's what you get from a former ...

This scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail encapsulates the absurdity of a significant facet of our political dialog right now. Steve M. of No More Mister Nice Blog fame has more to say about an upcoming JD Vance campaign stop , involving a pastor who is claiming that Kamala Harris is a witch, and seems to be hell-bent on claiming that those of us not in the Trump camp are demon-possessed. Read through it all, and take a look at the embedded Twitter posts (I refuse to use whatever name a certain mad billionaire calls it now). It is truly theatre of the absurd.  The premise of Steve M.'s post is spot on. The usual scolds on legacy media, including the nominally liberal scolds, keep on telling us that we have to meet Trump's true believers where they are in order to persuade them to at least hear you out. I'll get back to the merits of that in a moment. But first, we need to look at this specific political environment in which we find ourselves. If your goal is to chang...

As some in the media might have said a couple decades ago, this scandal has legs. The couple who provided the money to fund Tenet Media have been charged for violation of sanctions and money laundering . It's believed they are back in Russia, so good luck with the extradition. As Kevin Drum says, the Russians have been targeting the far right in the US all along . The right-wing influencers who accepted considerable sums of the now-defunct Tenet Media were at best useful idiots . I guess if you pay people enough money, they'll look away and pretend like everything is legit? I have a hard time buying the excuses of ignorance . Then again, from what I do know of these influencers, if any of them were to come up with an original thought, it would die of loneliness.  As of now , the Tenet Media YouTube channel has been taken down and the couple who took Russian money to effectively bankroll the output of the comrades who spewed Kremlin talking points, while not yet facing charges, ...

I'll give the wingnuts credit: they cannot help themselves when it comes to being unspeakably idiotic. If only their idiocy didn't have awful consequences for real people. Sometimes, all any of us can do is laugh, because the alternative would be to scream. Let's take a closer look: And yes, the wingnuts are talented at whinging about "cancel culture", but it's amazing how much cancelling these clowns do when they even get a bit of power.

You never know what special brand of insanity will come from the wingnuts who run the GOP. We have one wingnut Congress Critter who claims that somehow the "Deep State" and the "Left" are conspiring to cancel cowboys. Confused? Seth Meyers breaks it down in A Closer Look: