“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”--George Orwell “1984"

They literally shot at and tear gassed clergy to get Trump in front of the church, and yet he enjoys enormous support from the so called Christian Right. I think it’s about time they drop the Christian and just admit they’re super into white supremacy and personal wealth.

For the most venal of reasons. It was all about the oil.

As a veteran of the Mesopotamian Unpleasantness, I find the rehabilitation of “Dubya” and his “heckuva job” administration more than a bit disconcerting. He literally started a land war in Asia to look strong in front of the rubes when his double-digit IQ Intel services (the folks who thought Gitmo and Abu Ghraib were…

• The Fascist dictator had announced that he would receive the press. Everybody came. We all crowded into the room. Mussolini sat at his desk reading a book.… Mentally he was already reading the lines of the two thousand newspapers served by the two hundred correspondents. “As we entered the room the Black Shirt…

Maybe it was not the best idea to have Biden — who I personally know and really admire as an individual when he taught one of my law school classes back before he was VP — go against a person that will pretty much call him a c*nt and bring up every gaffe he made since the 70s? Heck, Hillary was articulate and quick on…

I watched the video released by the white house of Trump’s teargas photo-op and it only showed him arriving at the church then arriving at the white house. I am certain that he used a golf cart for most of the mile walk. Remember when Trump was at the G7 and all the leaders were touring the city and Trump was…

I am glad the president led yesterday by going to a church,

So this can’t possibly be towards the pro-Biden camp (as I brought up in the first fucking sentence) that started bashing Bernie for daring to donate to the activists?

There are several other comments that bring Biden into this, but they’re pro-Biden, so I guess you can’t be a fucking asswipe to them.

Trumpland has been awash in takes that Trump’s photo op yesterday showed BRAVE BOLD LEADERSHIP AND SHOWED THOSE PROTESTERS HE’S NOT AFRAID OF THEM.

Time to play everyone’s favorite game: Most craven Republican defense of Trump. But really, as always, there are a variety of flavors to choose from, and it depends on how you like your bootlicking cowardice. Do you like blatantly mischaracterizing the situation? Here’s John Cornyn, a master of the form:

Cue the Biden Crowd: “This ONE site is going to cause Biden to the lose the election, because they criticize him!”

I mean, if we wanna be real the fact that Trump is in office probably helps make plenty of Republicans look tame in comparison, including Bush, especially if you conveniently discount the millions of dead Iraqis. Bush being a personable guy doesn’t negate the unforgivable foreign policy blunders, and Michelle hugging…

Largely rehabilitated? In what way precisely? You can only be referring to a matter of optics and the general collective amnesia of the complacent in this country.

GHWB was very confused about everything back then!

Why would Barack or Michelle dictate to us what our feelings about the Bushes should be? And why should we treat them as unbiased sources given the fact that there is a sort of sanctity between presidential families not talking shit about teach other?

What’s happening right now is not about public safety. If anyone was interested in safety, you wouldn’t send police in full fucking riot gear out to deal with protesters who are protesting police abuse and violence. That is a deliberate provocation. And the police asserting their authority to act with impunity and…

You don’t understand. The problem isn’t that Trump is cynically peddling snake oil to rubes. The problem is that this is the Jesus these people believe in:

This is of course from the same republicans who tout “state rights” and “voter rights” then when voters in towns and cities didn’t want fracking in their back yard the republicans would tell the voters their vote did not matter. Then of course those same republicans would block fracking from being anywhere near their…