When Donald Trump gave his first speech as president to a joint session of Congress in February last year, he was praised for his ability to sound presidential when reading a teleprompter, a talent that Barack Obama also possessed. In…
It was only yesterday that I shared with you some of the many ways Donald Trump is shredding our Constitutional rights in the name of “safety and security” and how, in his world, there’s no national security problem so large…
In the fallout of last week’s announcement about Donald Trump’s plan to “fix” DACA by granting amnesty and creating a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million so-called DREAMers, Doublethink Donald finds himself once again forced to defend his betrayal to…
As expected, the GOP caved to Chuck Schumer’s demand for a DACA fix in exchange for his support of the fourth budget band-aid in the past twelve months—making it possible to reopen the government that never closed. Of course, Trump…
While it’s not my favorite Batman movie, in Batman Forever, Tommy Lee Jones portrays the supervillain Harvey Two-Face, a man obsessed with duality and who believes right and wrong doesn’t matter as everything is ruled by chance. This psychosis leads…
While the country was being treated to a mega-dose of tweets proclaiming Trump’s “genius” over the weekend, so-called conservatives (i.e. Trumplicans) in the House of Representatives were making plans to hold a vote on a bill that will void the…
The members of the political class are breathing a sigh of relief that they avoided a government shutdown for now. But they are ignoring the real government shutdown — the systemic shutdown of our entire system of governance,…
