A writer for more than 50 years, I'm a journalist, novelis and columnist on Substack and Salon, proud father of 3 great kids, and resident of Milford, PA.
"Lock her up" is Trump's "Heil Hitler." Calling for the jailing of your political opponents without trial isn't a joke. It's a call to outright fascism
Currently a resident of the solitary confinement wing of a cellblock in a federal lock-up in Washington, D.C., Manafort is keeping a secret for Trump that will get him out of jail and get him paid-off in millions by the Russians.
Can we put aside for the moment his corruption, ignorance, incompetence, arrogance, racism, stupidity, criminality, greed and buffoonery, and remember that Donald Trump is a pig?
Right in front of our eyes, Trump is in retreat. He's hiding behind his fence, in his bunker. It isn't Black Lives Matter on trial. It's him.. He is losing and he knows it and he's scared. This is the moment we have waited for. Remember these days. They will go down in history.
We talk about the “founding fathers” of this nation, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, who attended the Constitutional Convention. Well, this nation had founding mothers, as well. One of our founding mothers was a slave, Sally Hemings.
Something happened over the midday break today. I think several Senators realized they don't want a raging alcoholic on the court, even one who's a right winger. The FBI investigation has become the lifeboat they're all jumping into. They're about to throw Kavanaugh overboard.
Trump got beaten by the very fires he lit to win the White House. He stoked racism and hate, and the fire is consuming him. He shined a light on the ugliness that has always been there, and now that people can see it clearly, they are recoiling from racism and from him.
Trump is a cornered rat.
He was contemptuous of the virus — now it is inside his own White House. He is a desperate and dangerous man, trapped in a disaster of his own making.
This is Tatiana Perebeinis, who was killed yesterday along with her two children by a Russian mortar in Irpin, Ukraine. She was working for the SE Ranking company in Kyiv.
The Moscow Trump tower project is evidence that his deal with Putin was a two-way street. Putin wnoted puppet in the WH. Trump wanted money. It was a deal they couldn't resist.
Trump is preparing the ground for a totalitarian dictatorship — but we can stop him if we get angry and stay angry. 200,000 dead ought to be enough to do it.
If you don't think after the Seychelles meeting that Erik Prince reported straight back to Trump and Kirill Dmitriev reported straight back to Putin, you're dreaming.
Trump got beaten by Muriel Bowers, Mayor of Washington D.C. She painted "Black Lives Matter" in gigantic yellow letters on 16th Street in sight of the White House. The troops she demanded be removed from her city are gone. She is in charge in Washington, not Trump.
Liz Cheney is driving the 1/6 investigation into Watergate territory by indicating that the Mark Meadows texts show a conspiracy between members of Congress and Trump to interfere with the operations of the government.
My cousin Shannon Lanier and I after a CBS interview that will air Thursday 8:15 am. Grandson of a slave owner and a grandson of a slave and the same slave owner. Brothers, Jeffersons.
It's a con job. They're just ridding themselves of a cancer they found on one of their legs so they can continue stomping on everyone they don't like. Don't fall for it.
No rallies, no Death Star: Trump’s campaign is disintegrating before our eyes. The biggest vote in 2020 belongs to the coronavirus, and it's voting against Trump.
Donald Trump is a cheap, penny-pinching bastard who wants to steal another election so he can keep enriching himself in office. Impeaching him might not remove him now, but it will beat him in 2020.
You wanted to know what American fascism looks like? It looks like Trump's executive order for meat packers to stay open, despite the covid-19 running rampant through their workforce. Back to work you underpaid immigrants and rural working class Americans! Shut up and die!
Trump got beaten by Colin Kapernick: Roger Goodell admitted the NFL made a mistake when they outlawed "taking a knee" in protest against police brutality. It's going to be a nightmare for Trump this fall as he watches whole teams take a knee during the National Anthem.
A wannabe dictator never cries: Except maybe for himself because nobody appreciates him enough and the governors don't thank him for all the help he gives them
Donald Trump is going to wish he had loved WikiLeaks less and the rule of law more, because his love of WikiLeaks is very likely what will take him down.
Why doesn't a White House reporter ask Trump what exactly he thinks $1200 (or better still, $600) will pay for? Does he think it will cover rent? Or food? Or utilities? All three? This is the "how much is a gallon of milk?" question. When will a WH reporter ask it?
He's a lying thieving incompetent ignorant traitor. Impeachment would be way too kind an end for him. He belongs in Leavenworth, broken, beaten, and bankrupt.
I don’t know exactly how, or exactly when, but this year is the beginning of the end. By this time next year, MAGA is going to stand for Make America Gleeful Again.
Once you get locked into a serious binge of prevaricating and lying and general ugliness, the tendency is to take it as far as you can...we had two jugs of Adderall, six Big Macs, two tubs of KFC Extra Crispy, a galaxy of downers, laughers, screamers..
Donald Trump has made a decision that he is not the president of the United States of America, but president of the red states of America. Trump has embraced a new confederacy, and he is their Jefferson Davis, and a new civil war has been joined
Korbachar looked at Kavanaugh and saw an active alcoholic. He knew she had his number and couldn't stop himself from lashing out. He's a mean drunk. Out of control and he wants to be a SC justice.
Donald Trump hadn’t even gotten the Republican nomination for president yet, and everywhere you looked around the Trump campaign, there were Russian spies at work. It was Putin’s plan, and Trump was its beneficiary.
His name was Cardinal Spellman. The Catholic church knew about the problem of sexual abuse and harassment much longer ago than they admit. Even cardinals were guilty.
The next time Trump has Stephanopoulos over to the Oval Office for a lecture on the Way the World Works, he’s going to call off the election, turn to the camera and say, now what are you going to do?
This is all the evidence you need that the virus is not going to frighten people away from the polls in November. More people will turn out, not less. This is the show of courage that scares Trump and his allies.
This is how we win.
#Wewillnotbedominated
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Operation Faithful Patriot? Try Operation Frightful Idiot. Trump has ordered more soldiers to the border with Mexico than we currently have fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Here's a motto for the Biden campaign:
Liberty and Justice For All
It's what Democrats have always stood for. It's who we are.
#LibertyandJusticeforAll
In memoriam: They didn't die in a war, but fighting in a war changed them forever: Lucian K. Truscott Jr., Lucian K. Truscott III, Francis Meriwether Truscott
The one word you won't find in the whistleblower complaint is Russia, but Trump's debt to Putin is clear. He didn't just want dirt on Biden from Ukraine. He wants Zelensky to surrender in the war between Ukraine and Putin's Russia.
Fear and loathing in the Rose Garden: "My vice president had taken off his shirt and was ripping pages from his Bible and slapping them onto his bare chest to facilitate protection from the women in the Fake News media he knew would be ogling him..."
Trump got beaten by the protesters. This week he felt it necessary to erect a 10 foot high fence around the White House, some three miles of it by some accounts. And yet the protests go on, and the protesters keep coming. He is surrounded.
I'm starting to feel a landslide coming
Remember how the 2016 election results were analyzed? Trump won because a lot of voters were angry. Well, there's a whole new crop of angry voters out there and they aren't Trump's.
Republicans wanted someone who cared even more than they did about getting rich off the fat of the land and fuck everybody else. They wanted a perfect Republican, and they’ve got him in Donald Trump.