Ten days is long enough to recover from a New Year’s Eve party no matter how extravagant it might be. Ten days is even long enough to finally realize that it’s true: 2021 is behind us, firmly, and it is now the glorious future of 2022. And in America, that means this is an election year. Every year in America is an election year, technically, … Continue reading Vote Blue Or We Eliminate One Hostage Every Hour
Yesterday, America pondered what it has learned in the year since pro-Trump rioters tried to overthrow the federal government. The reality, which Republican politicians know but won’t admit, is that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. His supporters, who said in advance they were gonna act up if he lost, acted up. They did a little teeny bit of terrorism that led to the deaths … Continue reading Donald Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2024, which is dumb and also important
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is the youngest member of the Biden administration. He’ll be forty next January, younger than any man to ascend to the presidency so far. If he secures his party’s nomination in 2024 and wins the election, he’ll become the youngest person elected president, a few months younger than John F. Kennedy. Buttigieg probably had no illusions that he would be the … Continue reading Are Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg really rivals?
This is going to basically just be a list of all the batshit insane things Dr. Oz has said, but let’s start properly: in this installment of Who the Fuck are all these Fucks?, we’ll be looking at Mehmet Oz, who is apparently running for the U.S. Senate. NAME: Mehmet Cegniz ÖzAGE: 61CURRENT JOB: Television charlatanPREVIOUS JOB: Actual doctorIS IT BETTER TO MAKE A JOKE … Continue reading Mehmet Oz, doctor who advocated for the deaths of tens of thousands of children, running for U.S. Senate
In 2024, an army of Republicans will seek the party’s nomination – assuming former president Donald Trump doesn’t – in an effort to topple the country’s oldest president. Here are six of the likeliest candidates as of November 2021. One would be forgiven for thinking that the two-term New Jersey governor who spent much of the Trump administration being called obese by Donald Trump of … Continue reading The Men Who Would Be Next
Democrats and Republicans are crystal clear in polls that they want government to be allowed to negotiate down high drug prices. Americans pay nearly three times as much for drugs as patients in dozens of other countries. In the past two years, numerous Democratic candidates — including President Joe Biden — have campaigned on enacting such legislation. This year, the polling group at KFF asked … Continue reading Public Opinion Is Unified on Lowering Drug Prices. Why Are Leaders Settling for Less?
Love her or hate her, there’s no denying that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is dedicated to protecting the interests of the everyday taxpayer. The Georgia Republican voted against the trillion dollar Build Back Better infrastructure bill (and encouraged taxpayers to let the traitorous Republicans who voted for it know that they are traitors). She’s called for a total government shutdown to block all spending by … Continue reading Marjorie Taylor Greene saves taxpayers thousands of dollars with this one neat trick
Switching seniors to Medicare Advantage plans has cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more than keeping them in original Medicare, a cost that has exploded since 2018 and is likely to rise even higher, new research has found. Richard Kronick, a former federal health policy researcher and a professor at the University of California-San Diego, said his analysis of newly released Medicare Advantage billing … Continue reading Medicare Advantage Costs Billions More Than Original Medicare, Researcher Says
Today, 19.7% of electricity in the United States comes from nuclear power, an energy source that produces no climate altering emissions and is so synonymous with wealth that one of the world’s best known fictional billionaires owns a nuclear power plant. If you think that’s impressive, slightly more – 19.8% – of our electricity comes from renewables, which have created mini economic booms around the … Continue reading Capitalists could make billions stopping the climate crisis if Republicans would let them
On November 2, New Yorkers will head the polls to pick their next mayor. Democrat Bill de Blasio is term limited, so voters have two fresh faces: Democratic Eric Adams, a retired NYPD officer; and Curtis Silwa, who is like if Frasier was also Batman. In heavily Democratic New York City, Adams is favored to win by a mile. To get to be the party’s … Continue reading The Forward Party is Andrew Yang’s brilliant scheme to keep himself relevant
