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How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible

the tragedy that took place in Charlottesville last weekend could not have occurred without the tacit acceptance of millions of ordinary, law-abiding Americans who helped create such a racially explosive climate.  it’s the ordinary people — the voters who elected a reality TV star with a record of making racially insensitive comments, the people who … Read more

Trumpcare Has Lowered Health Insurance Costs Already!!

All I can say to this is Oh My God!!!   If this is the level of intelligence of the voters there is no hope for this country. a woman in Tennessee who is praising Trumpcare–which hasn’t even been voted on or put in effect–for lowering the cost of health insurance in her family. Charla McComic … Read more

The life and death of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory – The Washington Post

When Seth Rich’s Gmail account received an alert this week from Mega.com, attempting to start a new account on a website created by the New Zealand-based Internet businessman and convicted hacker Kim Dotcom, his family knew that something was off. A conspiracy theory that began on pro-President Trump message boards — a theory that Rich … Read more

He played me for a fool

Source: ‘He played me for a fool’: Kentucky Trump supporter laments he should have voted for Hillary  Kentucky Trump supporter Wesley Easterling regrets his vote, he believed it when Trump told voters he would fight for them. Now, however, Trump is cutting programs that help people like him survive Easterling is on food stamps and … Read more

Judah P. Benjamin

Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew … Read more

Not even president yet, and Donald Trump is losing his mind

The man is not merely incompetent and unqualified, he is not even a fully developed adult. He is a spoiled child. He can barely register the presence of other persons in his field of view, so absorbed he is in his own self-estimations. This man is going to melt down before he ever reaches his … Read more

Joy-Ann Reid’s most prescient message to voters who elected Trump

You’ve also lost the right to moralize to Blue America about family values. Now we sincerely hope and pray that your daughters or sisters or your wives and all women and girls are never disrespected, never abused the way the next President of the United States has boasted about disrespecting or even sexually assaulting women including … Read more