Congressional caucuses often invite special guest speakers Last week Ted Lieu organized for the House Democrats on the uses of social media, featuring Alexandria Ocasio and a rep from Twitter. It went over so well-- and standing room only-- that they're following up with sessions devoted to effective use of Facebook, Instagram, etc. Smart.
by NoahAt DWT, we watch FOX "News" so you don't have to, although, if you want to see inside the crazy house... just steel yourself and promise yourself you won't scream or tear out your hair. The above clip is a good example of how far gone the wackos and buffoons holding court are at what Josef Goebbels would regard with orgasmic delight.There have been changes at FOX "News" in recent times but you'd never know it. Creator Roger Ailes is gone. He died in 2017 after leaving in a shitstorm of sexual harassment claims and comparisons to Jabba the Hutt.
As we saw Sunday evening, the new poll from NBC and the Wall Street Journal found that 62% of voters believe Trump lies about the Mueller investigation, up significantly from last summer when voters were asked the same question.
It looks certain that NC-09 is going to have a do-over election, although, it would seem absurd to allow Mark Harris to participate in it, since the whole reason for having it is because he was caught trying to steal it and should be in prison, not trying again.
Sunday, on MSNBC's AM Joy, sharp-tongued columnist Jennifer Rubin predicted that in January 2021, just as his term is finally ending, Señor Trumpanzee will resign so that "President" Pence, also on his way to the garbage heap of history, can pardon him of all crimes.Eric Levitz is always good for a yuck.
-by NoahWhen President Obama was elected, Republicans howled. Immediately, billboards of George W. Bush’s smirking countenance sprang up that read “Miss me, yet?” It wasn’t so much that a Democrat had won the White House. Those things happen. No, it was more about which Democrat had won. Republicans, racists to their core, could not mention Barrack Obama’s name without saying “Kenya” and spitting out Obama’s middle name, Hussein (which actually means ‘blessing’), in an effort to push their alternative facts that President Obama is a Muslim, and, he wasn’t even a citizen of our country.
-by Skip KaltenheuserDespite democracy’s diminishment by gerrymandering and the playbook of suppression, your vote is still your best Hail Mary defending against the Big Money’s low art of the thinly disguised bribe. It’s your best chance to sink the oligarchy floating in on the tides of captured government.
Yesterday we featured a tweet by Frank Schaeffer on a class of elite, entitled, white males represented by Brett Kavanaugh: "They were the tears," he wrote, "of an entitled bully unused to getting caught.
