TODAY Government Shutdown Averted
FUNCTIONAL DISFUNCTION: The House and Senate last night passed a stopgap spending bill just after the midnight deadline keeping the government open into March in what amounts to a legislative defeat for Donald Trump even before his inauguration.
YESTERDAY Musk and Trump Kill Spending Bill
SHADOW GOVERNMENT: Spurred by his whisperer the Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, President-elect Donald Trump told the House leadership to kill the spending bill that would keep the government running into the month of March.
The bill does not include suspension of the national debt limit, which Trump wanted to have happen while Joe Biden is still President and could be pinned with blame for something the Republicans voted to pass.
Thirty-eight hardcore Republicans voted against a previous bill that would have suspended the debt limit in defiance of Trump, and also voted against a second bill supported by Trump that did notsuspend the limit.
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Trump Fights the Press … In Court
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
PRESS RELATIONS: In a further indication that Donald Trump plans to fight and diminish the free press beyond just calling it “fake news,” the President-elect filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register newspaper, pollster J. Ann Selzer, and the Gannett newspaper …
Read moreTrump Conviction Stands
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
PRESIDENT FELON: The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal fraud case denied the President-elect’s request to have his 34 convictions vacated because he is about to return to the White House. Judge Juan Merchan ruled that Trump’s claim to presidential immunity …
Read moreThe Drone Scare Grows
Monday, December 16, 2024
DRONE ON: Federal authorities have now been given as many as 5,000 tips about nighttime sightings of unidentified drones in six East Coast states, causing politicians to swarm toward the television cameras. New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith said, “For weeks we’ve …
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Thursday, October 31, 2024
The Most Corrupt Justice
Monday, October 2, 2023
Democracy and Video in the Dark
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Page Two: Do the Right Thing
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
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Monday, September 13, 2021
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Friday, August 13, 2021
Trump and the Truth
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
The “Great” President
Monday, March 30, 2020
It's Been Said
"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."
- Donald Trump courting the vote of the Christian right
