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Cowboy of the Capitol: more outlaw than sheriff
For this post we’re donning our spurs and we’ll saddle up the old gray stallion riding backwards in time to the Wild Wild West. Warren Love, a State Representative, is still living in that time. The State Representative called for a good old-fashioned lynching. The person who vandalized a Confederate statue should be hung. Love […]
Kelly Thomasson threatened in the name of Trump
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia reportedly just shared this image he got via the mail after the Charlottesville attack by the extreme White Supremacists. It seems to be a threat to the life of Kelly Thomasson. After Charlottesville this was mailed to the Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth- her husband just shared it […]
So you think you can #Brexit? UK struggling to book any results
The UK government decided to enact the article 50 procedure, triggering the Brexit, earlier this year with no actual plan of attack in place. The results of this… ‘strategy’ are now showing. Mostly through their absence. On the one hand, the UK is likely to strike a bargain with the EU for an extension of […]
Mueller indicates he’s going after Pence
Well, as if this political soap opera that is unfortunately not a “House of Cards” rip-off, but real life, needed more complications. It didn’t. Still, Robert Mueller is now also going after Mike Pence, or so it seems. Mueller is investigating wether Michael Flynn was getting kickbacks, fraud. He asked the White House for documentation on […]
Can we please go back to when this was a Presidential scandal?
Just three years ago, the republicans were OUTRAGED over the colour of President Obama’s suit, calling it ‘unpresidential’. The following segment, tweeted by ‘NowThis’, shows media snippets concerning the tan suit, and various critics calling it all kinds of things including – and we’re not making this up – “an impeachable offense”. One election later, we’re finding […]
‘Every silent Senator and House member is now complicit in Trump’s crimes’
In an opinion piece republished on Saloon, Charles Kaiser lashes out against the Trump administration with Fire and Fury. His tone is unmistakably harsh and convictive, calling the Trump Administration ‘incipient Fascism’. He also says lawmakers who do not verbally protest Trump’s actions are complicit in his crimes. It’s hard to argue against the harsh accusations […]
No, having tanks in the streets is not a ‘superficial concern’
Today, AG Jeff Sessions announced that Donald Trump will be using his executive powers to undo the ban on military equipment for police officers. After the irregularities in Ferguson, Obama made sure that his own citizens wouldn’t have to feel as though they were in a war zone. Now, for so-called security purposes, Trump is […]