At a town hall this week in Concord, the sleepy capital of New Hampshire, Democrats were riled up. “I call Washington every day on my lunch hour,” one member of the audience said in an exasperated tone. “I’m doing my part. I feel let down. There is no fight in the Democratic Party anymore.” The town hall was hosted by Rep. Maggie Goodlander, a longtime … Continue reading Democratic lawmakers still don’t get it
“No,” proclaims the longtime fact-checking site Snopes, “Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists ‘Very Fine People’.” It’s a puzzling headline, published yesterday and making the rounds through social media as users try to figure it out. Do they remember this wrong? Is Snopes wrong? What’s going on? The headline refers to the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the home of … Continue reading Snopes gets it wrong
On July 15, 2016, Donald Trump tweeted that Indiana governor Mike Pence would be his running mate. Pence had a reputation as a deeply religious man and a fiscally conservative politician. Looking back on it now from the wild west of 2024, it’s easy to imagine that Trump could have selected anyone he wanted. Trump today is a convicted felon, an adjudicated sex pest, and … Continue reading Who wants to be Trump’s #2?
A recent online exchange has me a little tense about a lot of things. Here, in short, is the backdrop. Donald John Trump, who was president of the United States for one term, is running for a second non-consecutive term. Trump now holds the distinction of winning more votes than any other candidate in an election except one candidate, who is, of course, Joe Biden. … Continue reading Once again, the Constitution is not a magic spell
Welcome to a surprise episode of Our Long National Nightmare because, after months of no one having the guts to do it, the Colorado Supreme Court held today that Donald Trumhop engaged in an insurrection and is ineligible to appear on the presidential ballot in the centennial state. The court’s basis is the Fourteenth Amendment, which may or may not actually say that. What’s the … Continue reading Colorado says Trump can’t be on the ballot. Is that allowed?
Welcome back for a truly unpredictable episode of Who the Fuck Are All These Fucks? as eight – that’s right, folks, eight– Republican members of Congress try to get the rest of their party to agree that they should be the one who gets to be the next Speaker of the House. As a reminder, Jim Jordan recently had the opportunity to run against technically … Continue reading Eight Republicans think they’ll be the one to win Congress’s heart
Darlings, scoundrels. Again, I have not had time to correspond with you since Nikki Haley announced her bid so many years ago (it feels, at least). There are so many more Republicans in the race now and we will do our best to cover them in order of how much I hate looking at their faces. You can decide for yourself which end of that … Continue reading 2024 Candidates: Mike Pence
My precious angel babies, did you think I had forgotten about you? Yes, things have been very busy at the secret underground pyramid-shaped headquarters of Pyramid, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t had my eye glued to the news that, apparently, we’re having a presidential election next year. Didn’t we just have one of these? Smash Mouth was right: the years start coming and they … Continue reading 2024 Candidates: Nikki Haley
In six rounds of carefully managed balloting, Republicans made their dividing line extremely clear. The 200-or-so members of the party who advocate conspiracy theories are on one side and the roughly two dozen members of the party who believe those conspiracy theories are on the other. They have to unite if they’re going to name a Speaker of the House. They have not yet done … Continue reading “I Never Imagined Leopards Would Obstruct MY Face,” sobs leader of the Leopards Obstructing People’s Faces Party.
Follow along on Tumblr at https://americanestablishment.tumblr.com/ (you don’t need a Tumblr account to see the posts), that’s what we’ve picked as a blogging platform for this year’s midterms. Continue reading It’s Midterm Madness
