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People Say DeSantis Is Autistic. If It’s True, It’s The Only Interesting Thing I’ve Heard About Him
On Friday the NY Times assigned a top political reporter, Michael Bender, to cover Ron DeSantis’ visit to Iowa, billed as a stop on his...

Howie Klein
Mar 11, 20235 min read


Meatball Ron Is Certainly Running-- We're All Waiting For Trump To Take Him Apart
Trump Will Leave DeSantis On The Side Of The Road Begging To Be Friends Again DeSantis is in Iowa today, ostensibly on a book tour, but...

Howie Klein
Mar 10, 20236 min read


Republicans Are Whining About Woke This & Woke That-- Normal Americans Think They're Insane
Republican vanity candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is running for president (of the United States) on an anti-woke platform. He claims he...

Howie Klein
Mar 9, 20234 min read


“Make America Florida”— You Must Be Kidding… DeSantis’ New Jim Crow Has No Place In Normal America
John Oliver On The Dangers Of Meatball Ron’s Woke Math A month ago, Karl Rove wrote that there was a lot of skepticism about Trump’s...

Howie Klein
Mar 6, 20238 min read


Educational Policy Is Why Floridian Parents May Want To Consider Moving To Another State
Alan Grayson Summed Up DeSantis' School Agenda In 2 Words: "Stay Stupid" Conservatives have always had an agenda regarding education—...

Howie Klein
Mar 5, 20239 min read


The Debate Continues: Who Would Be More Destructive To Our Country— Trump Or DeSantis?
Yesterday, writing about CPAC for MSNBC, conservative #NeverTrumper Charlie Sykes declared that in the annual far right event that...

Howie Klein
Mar 3, 20237 min read


The #NeverTrumpers Hate Trump For Different Reasons Than We Do
To #NeverTrumpers, DeSantis Doesn't Look That Terrible Let me add some context to the previous post about fascism. Not everyone agrees...

Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20235 min read


Flirting With Fascism? The GOP Has Gone Way Beyond First Base... Especially In Florida
Last night on Chris Hayes’ show, former GOP strategist turned #NeverTrump activist Stuart Stevens slammed the Republican Party as an...

Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20233 min read


America’s Authoritarian Future?
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meatball Ron’s book, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival,...

Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20237 min read


Why Extreme Republicans Are Way Crazier— And More Dangerous— Than Extreme Democrats
Over the weekend James Austin Johnson played, plausibly, Trump visiting East Palestine. His Trumpian stream-of-consciousness prattle...

Howie Klein
Feb 27, 20237 min read


Meatball Ron Wants To Run Against His "Woke Mob"-- But First He Has To Get Through Señor Trumpanzee
Yesterday, one of the NY Times in-house conservatives noted that Ron DeSantis is full of shit and has no spine, at least when it comes to...

Howie Klein
Feb 24, 20235 min read


There Were People Like This When I Was 20 Too--They're As Much A Waste Of Time Now As They Were Then
It's Unlikely Anything Good Will Come Out Of Wyoming This Century Marjorie Traitor Greene tweeted that “everyone” she talks to agrees...

Howie Klein
Feb 22, 202322 min read


Does Trump Agree With Putative Running-Mate, Marjorie Traitor Greene, That Red States Should Secede?
Does Kevin McCarthy Agree Too? She Said "Everybody She Talks To" Does Yesterday was President’s Day and since Trump was an illegitimate...

Howie Klein
Feb 21, 20235 min read


Midnight Meme Of The Day! GOP: Making Ignorance Great Again!
by Noah "The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, because these people are dangerous. They...

Noah
Feb 21, 20231 min read


The 1950s Were A Miserable Time In America— The Era Has Always Been The Modern GOP’s Loadstar
Think: Have You Ever Met A Republican Who Was NOT Obsessed With Sex? There was more to the 1950s than the post-war economic boom, an...

Howie Klein
Feb 18, 20239 min read


DeSantis-- Probably Much Worse Than You Imagine
I don’t know anybody rooting for Ron DeSantis to win the Republican presidential nomination. But I know a lot of people who are rooting...

Howie Klein
Feb 12, 202311 min read


Midnight Meme Of The Day! GOP Slogan: Don't Say Black!
by Noah Your Saturday Cartoon! Yep, this cartoon will show you why Republicans like Florida Nazi Ron DeSantis so much. Just wait 'till...

Noah
Feb 11, 20231 min read


It Sucks To Be Trump-- And It's Going To Get Much Worse
A few days ago, David Frum wrote about Trump’s role in turning the GOP nastier than it’s ever been, The GOP Is Just Obnoxious. He began...

Howie Klein
Feb 7, 20237 min read


The Donkey In Decline
-by Patrick Toomey While the Dems have had more than their share of bad weeks since the watershed year of 1980, this week was an...

Patrick Toomey
Feb 5, 20234 min read


How Much Of A Threat Is Home-Schooling To American Democracy? Spoiler: A Big One
Yesterday we looked at the MAGA syndrome through the Lost Boys lens and then later at the extreme toxicity of white Christian...

Howie Klein
Jan 31, 20236 min read
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