3 more people close to Trump get COVID
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 12, 2020Three more people close to Donald Trump have tested positive for COVID. Two are White House aides, including the political director, and the third was a guest of Rudy Giuliani. Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, has also recently tested positive for COVID. His aides are frustrated because he did not issue a statement and …
Read MoreRepublicans support Trump’s refusal to concede, some GOP Senators follow his lead
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 11, 2020Well, it’s come to this. Major Republicans have backed Trump’s foolish claims that the election wasn’t legitimate. And by doing that, they’re enabling his stupid march towards authoritarianism. At the very least, the GOP is undermining faith in democracy––and what’s worse, GOP senators are taking his lead and refusing to concede races they obviously lost. …
Read MoreTrump’s fundraising efforts to fight “election fraud” actually paying off campaign debts
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 11, 2020You almost have to admire Donald Trump. The man is like the Joker, he doesn’t have a plan, he just does and goes from there. This is a prime example. He loses the election. With absolutely no thought of consequences, he just claims the election was tampered with. But clearly it wasn’t, and the courts aren’t buying …
Read MoreFox News cut away from Trump’s Press Secretary over false voter fraud claims
Posted by Robert Leonard / November 10, 2020Fox News interrupted Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s Press Secretary, in the middle of a tirade about alleged voter fraud––a tirade with no evidence. The Fox News host said, “Whoa, whoa, whoa. I just think we have to be very clear: she’s charging the other side as welcoming fraud and illegal voting, unless she has more details …
Read MoreTrump fired his Defense Secretary, will chaos ensue?
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / November 10, 2020Donald Trump has fired his Defense Secretary, Mark Esper. Nancy Pelosi believes that this may be the first example of Trump’s “scorched earth” (or “bull in a china shop”) exit strategy. The 75 million Americans who voted for Joe Biden are celebrating their victory, but they’re also growing increasingly worried of what Donald Trump is …
Read MoreQAnon reveals how much we can’t trust tech companies to self-govern
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 9, 2020The success of the QAnon conspiracy theory forces us, as a society, to confront our relationship with big tech companies. Since their inception, sites like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Etsy have made incredible amounts of money while taking zero responsibility for anything they host. By presenting themselves as simply a “marketplace,” they can plead innocence …
Read MoreDems terrified of what Trump will do now
Posted by Robert Leonard / November 9, 2020The 75 million Americans who voted for Joe Biden are celebrating their victory, but they’re also growing increasingly worried of what Donald Trump is going to do as he leaves office. Trump’s own niece is worried that he’s going to spend the next several months breaking whatever he can, and she’s positive he won’t help …
Read MoreQAnon supporters lost, confused, defiant
Posted by Annie May / November 8, 2020With Trump defeated, the are huge questions about what will happen to QAnon believers, the most rabid of his entire base. Some are left isolated from their families, and have to face the hard choice of returning to the fold and hearing the endless “I told you so” chorus. Others are doubling down, and they …
Read MoreTrump isn’t going to go quietly
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 8, 2020Donald Trump has lost the White House, but don’t expect him to leave quietly. A former director of the CIA is worried that Trump will rile up his base and possibly drive them to violence. Even though his aides tell him the legal assaults will be useless, he intends to throw every lawsuit at the …
Read MoreArmed men link with QAnon arrested in PA trying to deliver fake ballots
Posted by Annie May / November 7, 2020Two armed Virginians were arrested in Philadelphia for trying to deliver fake ballots. They had QAnon paraphernalia in their car. If you think QAnon conspiracy theory seems so toxic that it must have been intentionally created or amplified as a kind of Web 2.0 warfare against the United States, but didn’t have the evidence to …
Read MoreMike Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, has COVID
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 7, 2020Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, has tested positive for COVID. His aides are frustrated because he did not issue a statement and only advised a close circle. That put Trump’s entire staff at risk. The White House’s COVID outbreak spread to the Vice President’s office. His chief of staff, Marc Short, tested positive for …
Read MoreMultiple news outlets cut off Trump’s election press conference
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 6, 2020MSNBC, CBS, NBC, and NPR all cut away from Trump’s election press conference, citing its dishonesty, inflammatory intent, and overall insanity. In the conference, Trump made accusations of voter fraud, attacked his enemies, and undermined the foundations of democracy. Overall, I try not to be partisan, but it’s simply jaw-dropping that the occupant of the …
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