Donald Trump’s idiotic handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal – a story that wasn’t even getting headlines until Trump decided to put it into the headlines – isn’t just making Trump and his people look like they’re idiots who are hiding something ugly. It’s also having reverberations on the midterms already. “Speaker” of the House…

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By now we’ve all seen footage of Donald Trump dozing off during various meetings and events. Any time Trump isn’t putting his dementia on display by talking incoherently, he’s putting his dementia on display by promptly falling asleep. Now things have gotten even more absurd, with Trump falling asleep while on stage: . . This…

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Now that Donald Trump’s Attorney General has declared that there is no Epstein client list, it hasn’t just put the spotlight back on evil deceased villain Jeffrey Epstein. It’s also put the spotlight back on his evil sidekick Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been quietly rotting in prison. Maxwell has been appealing her conviction for some…

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A week ago today, Donald Trump and his regime made one of the dumbest mistakes in the history of the United States presidency when they decided to dredge up the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in a manner that was both suspicious and wildly incompetent. As a result Trump got a week’s worth of very ugly headlines,…

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By now you’re familiar with the series of very stupid decisions and unforced errors made by the Trump regime this week with its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, so I won’t waste time recapping it. But it is worth trying to size up the sheer magnitude of the fallout – even as it continues…

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Whenever someone does something odd, we all have a tendency to try to figure out what their strategy is. No matter how strange or absurd or seemingly dumb the move might be, we all figure there has to be some kind of strategy or intent in there somewhere, right? But what we’re learning with this…

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The week began with the Trump DOJ announcing for no apparent reason that there was nothing suspicious about Jeffrey Epstein’s death and that there was no Epstein client list to be found. This has played out in multiple negative ways for the Trump regime. It’s turned numerous pro-Trump conspiracy theorists against the Trump regime. It’s…

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Suffice it to say that we’re in hell for as long as Donald Trump is in power. But if it’s any consolation – and it should be – Trump is now increasingly in a hell of his own making. It’s not just that we get to watch him suffer. It’s that the worse things get…

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After Donald Trump’s big ugly bill was passed into law last week, I wrote that we finally knew who was really running the presidency while a senile Trump twiddled his thumbs: Stephen Miller. The profoundly anti-poor, anti-immigrant legislation had Miller’s ideological fingerprints all over it. And it was Miller who was celebrating the most loudly…

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Trump Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (you couldn’t come up with such a bizarre set of words if you were playing MadLibs) somehow survived the Signalgate scandal. That’s probably because Donald Trump is too far gone this time around to understand the need for scapegoating anyone. But now it appears Hegseth is being thrown under…

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This morning I asked why the Trump regime had chosen yesterday to make such a big controversial announcement about there supposedly having been no further evidence in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and nothing suspicious about his death. What were they trying to distract us from? We still don’t know the answer to that. But we…

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Over the past few weeks there has been a popular theory that Donald Trump’s more unhinged than usual behavior was an attempt on his part at distracting everyone from his unpopular budget bill while it was being passed. But according to that logic, now that Trump’s awful bill has become law, shouldn’t he be reining…

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During the previous Donald Trump regime, none of his cabinet members were suitable – but at least they tended to only embarrass themselves one at a time. During this new Trump regime, his cabinet is so cartoonishly awful that it’s difficult to even keep track of all the awfulness. Most of the medical focus this…

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Earlier this week I wrote that Donald Trump and his Republican Congress may have just passed the one and only piece of substantive partisan legislation that they’re going to get this term. I know that they still have a year and a half left. But even with full control, things have a way of running…

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I spent the Fourth of July like many of you probably did: enjoying the festivities, going through the motions of patriotic joy, while wondering what it really means within the context of what’s happening to America right now. How do you manage to juggle the celebration of this nation’s founding ideals with the travesty of…

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Remember back when the entire media pretended that President Biden had dementia because of one weak debate performance while he was sick? Imagine if the media had correctly identified Donald Trump as the candidate that actually had dementia. Since the media handed the 2024 election to Trump, his dementia has gotten worse. Far worse. This…

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For the past few months, we’ve been staring at the same question: who’s really in charge? It’s certainly not a senile Donald Trump, who is so far gone that his foreign policy consists of “tariffs” and his domestic policy consists of “sharks.” Trump’s family doesn’t seem to be around anymore. JD Vance is a pushover.…

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The deed is done. Donald Trump and the Republicans have finally managed to ram through the most corrupt and evil piece of legislation in the history of Congress. So be it. We’ve known since election night that they were going to end up managing to pass one big piece of awful legislation to make the…

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Earlier this week I pointed out that even as Republicans were trying to hurry up and ram the most corrupt legislation in history through the House and Senate, Donald Trump was busy announcing plans for a new prison surrounded by sharks. That’s right, Trump’s dementia riddled obsession with getting eaten by a shark has become…

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The Republican Party managed to ram a version of its evil budget bill through the Senate with zero votes to spare. Now we’ll see if the Republican House is willing to swallow it, or if the House is going to stand its ground and demand an even more evil version of the bill. If it…

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Donald Trump spent the entire 2024 election cycle babbling about how he’d rather get electrocuted than eaten by sharks, and yet the media pretended he was the non-senile one, and tens of millions of people voted for him. Now we’re stuck with a “President” of the United States who’s so deep into dementia, he’s now…

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Just six months ago, Elon Musk bought the presidency for convicted felon Donald Trump. Just one month ago, Trump was still letting Musk run the federal government into the ground. But things can take a sharp turn rather quickly in politics, particularly when you’re dealing with two mentally unstable people. Now Musk is out of…

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Last week I shared with all of you that I’ve been dealing with anxiety attacks since election night, and that for a time it kept me from being able to write as much political commentary as I wanted to. I want to thank all of you who offered well wishes and support. Your supportive responses…

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Donald Trump and the Republican Party have decided to advance their fundamentally evil budget bill through the Senate no matter what it takes. As I wrote yesterday, there are going to be some tragic things that we just can’t stop from happening. But here’s the thing: this legislation is already doing tangible damage to the…

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Once Elon Musk quit the Trump administration in a huff, it probably always spelled the end for his DOGE agency. For one thing, the agency never really seemed to exist, beyond Trump announcing that something called “DOGE” was now in charge of every federal agency that Trump and Congress were supposed to be overseeing. But…

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I often try to highlight any good news or positive developments that occur during the darkest of political times – not out of any desire for optimism, but because we can often use good news to our advantage. I have to tell you though, this week has not been one for good political news. First…

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As I write this I’m sitting on a somewhat turbulent cross country flight, but it’s on time and headed to the right destination. It could be worse. The last time I flew cross country, it turned into a 27 hour odyssey that somehow involved airports in all four quadrants of the United States. So yeah,…

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There are a number of highly relevant things playing out in politics. We’re still dealing with the fallout from the Supreme Court’s ludicrous assertion that federal judges can’t issue federal injunctions. We’re still fighting against Trump’s “big beautiful bill” which is working its way through the Senate. But this morning I want to address the…

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Donald Trump, the biggest failure in history, continues to pick the wrong fights with the wrong people. He just bombed Iran and had it backfire on him, and now he’s reportedly considering bribing Iran. Even as he screws up his dealings on that side of the world, Trump is continuing to blow it closer to…

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