One of our two political parties has decided that its politics is existential, that it is a battlefield where being “right” conveys absolute power given by God. Winning in this kind of politics means the rule of law can be superseded by force.
The Truscott Chronicles
He knows that we know he is in decline and is scared shitless of coming apart at the seams during a Q&A over which he has less control than he does at his own rallies.
The horrors of this man and what he has said and done over the last nine years are impossible to comprehend. Where do you start? The overturn of Roe v Wade? His racism, misogyny and hatreds? His blatant criminality? The list goes on.
The lies Trump is spreading about immigrants “polluting the blood” have real and deleterious effects on real people. That these lies are being spread by a convicted felon and rapist should be in the lead of every paper and on every news show every single day.
There is no way these two criminals haven’t talked with one another about Ukraine, the Middle East, Biden, NATO, and very probably about Trump’s long-held desire to build a Trump hotel in Moscow.
It is unprecedented that a former president of the United States, while running for the office of the presidency, would speak with the leader of a foreign nation that is an enemy of this country.
Musk is going further than merely supporting Donald Trump’s third run for the White House. He is actively participating in the spread of dangerous disinformation.
Invasions and wars don’t work except as a way of killing human beings.
Devin Nunes, now accused of financial mismanagement in a whistleblower complaint, was previously known for trying to "prove" Trump's false accusations of being wiretapped by Obama.
The Supreme Court, by making Donald Trump a “class of one” with its immunity decision has effectively made itself the trial court for any cases involving Donald Trump.
What happened in New York between JD Vance and Tim Walz was not a Broadway play with two actors playing roles during which one was better prepared and “more polished” and the other flubbed a couple of his lines.
JD Vance is every bit as dangerous and malevolent as Donald Trump. He is just much smoother in his delivery of blatant and obvious lies.
Trump and other Republicans have dropped the pretense that truth matters, or at least used to matter, in our political life.
Less than 40 days from the election, Trump thinks that calling Kamala Harris's work history at McDonald's fake is somehow magically going to give him an edge.
A sliver of land on the shores of the Mediterranean has echoed through history with the sounds of clashes—swords and spears and primitive siege weapons and now the sounds and deadly effects of explosions.
Wars are terrible things, all of them, because people are killed, both soldier and civilian. The nature of war demands that you kill your own in order to kill theirs. Can’t we call the whole thing off?