The invitation to the bigger table is open to the world, and that absolutely includes people across the political aisle, but active hatred and discrimination are not welcome here...
Whether Trump pardons Maxwell—or not—probably depends on what kind of dirt he thinks she has on him and whether that outweighs dirt she might have on his perceived enemies.
Trump has a simple view of statistics and numbers. Those that make him look good in some way are real. Those that don't are fake and made up by his ever-increasing number of enemies.
Shouldn’t Americans know, and just as soon as possible, if their president raped children? And if he did, shouldn’t THAT finally end the long, national nightmare we have endured for 10 years?
The Trump economic strategy has always been: do whatever you want and claim it is all part of "America First." But the reality is always going to be "screw Americans first."
The cognitive dissonance is almost beyond comprehension: to be able to tell yourself a story that you believe in defending the “sanctity of life,” while actively championing the single most common tool used to commit mass murders.
Ignoring fascism doesn’t make it go away; it ensures its survival. We’re here in this precarious place, partly because so many people took the way of least resistance.
So far, the files have exposed this Republican Party as a vile and morally inverted cadre of broken humans marching and voting in lock-step to protect predators and pedophiles and laugh in the face of their survivors.
How do otherwise reasonable, self-respecting adult women find themselves staunch defenders of a man whose entire grotesque body of work declares that he has complete contempt for them?
All hatred is rooted in ignorance, and since hatred is the Republican Party’s sole political platform, they must propagate a steady stream of that ignorance.
It’s so befuddling that a man like Donald J. Trump, with all his wealth and all his power, isn’t fighting these allegedly false stories linking him to Epstein’s crimes.
One day, hard as it is to imagine right now, he will be extinct, and it will be our jobs to make sure as much of his gruesome legacy as possible dies with him.
If they’re honest, most MAGA Republicans feel more affinity to a vicious, vengeful billionaire in Lex Luthor than in Clark Kent’s alter ego’s boundless benevolence toward the disparate human beings in his path.
Florida now has statutes forbidding teaching the truth about slavery and Jim Crow, threatening educators who discuss gender, sexuality, systemic racism, and other disfavored topics.