The Tennessee Republican state legislature expelled two Black Democrats on Thursday on false grounds. The backlash has come fast and furious from within the state and all across the nation. Political pundit Brooklyn Dad said best: . . “This ain’t over” indeed. The political awakening in Tennessee is just getting started.
The Tennessee Republican state legislature moved to expel three Democrats today on false grounds, then ended up only expelling the two Black ones while failing to expel the white one. It’s one of the most blatantly racist abuses of power in recent memory – and one of the most stupidly self defeating. No one was…
Being put on criminal trial in three jurisdictions, and being sent to prison, will certainly finish off Donald Trump’s 2024 pipe dream when it happens. But the specter of Trump’s criminal worsening criminal problems, and questions about whether he’ll even be available for the general election, are likely to sink his 2024 hopes before prison…
Earlier we pointed out that Donald Trump had gone quiet on his social network for the past twenty-one hours. Here’s the kicker. Just ten minutes after we posted our article, Trump had another meltdown right on cue. We’re sure it’s a coincidence that moments after we mocked Trump for his prolonged silence, he erupted. Sure,…
After his arrest and arraignment, Donald Trump was making one unhinged social media post after another, attacking and threatening everyone from prosecutors to judges to witnesses, in an unhinged attempt at… well, who knows? Once you’re a criminal defendant, there’s no strategy in this kind of thing. It just makes it worse for you. So…
Most of the media is still pushing the notion that Donald Trump will be a viable 2024 presidential candidate even though he’s being criminally indicted in three jurisdictions, will be put on criminal trial three times, and will likely be sentenced to prison well before election day. No one has quite explained how he’s going…
Republican state legislatures in certain red states are running completely amok right now. One of them is Tennessee, where this is happening to Democratic state representative Gloria Johnson and others: . This is a serious problem. Activist Fred Guttenberg may have put it the most succinctly: . We have to win more of these state…
Even though Donald Trump is melting down in sullen and deflated fashion in the wake of his arrest, it’s possible that Donald Trump Jr. is taking the news even harder. Junior, who’s appeared to be unwell for some time now, is unraveling even further. Donald Trump Jr. is now using his Twitter account to beg…
Donald Trump has been charged with thirty-four felony counts in Manhattan. They’re considered lower-level felonies. The charges Trump is facing in the Fulton County and DOJ cases are expected to be more serious felonies. But the charges in Manhattan alone, by virtue of there being thirty-four of them, could be enough to send Trump to…
When Allen Weisselberg parted ways with his Trump-funded attorney a week ago, it raised questions about whether he was cutting a deal against Donald Trump or what. Then Trump’s team claimed that they were the ones who fired Weisselberg’s lawyer for fear that he might help Weisselberg cut a deal, and that they had supplied…
Although it’s never seemed like anything special, Donald Trump has always been very proud of his Florida home Mar-a-Lago. Of course these days everything Trump-related is becoming as much of a punchline as Trump is. Sure enough, everyone on Twitter is now piling on by referring to it as Mar-a-Lardo: . .
When people around Melania Trump leaked to the media days ago that she had no sympathy for Donald Trump over his criminal indictment, it was obvious that something was wrong between the two of them. Something like that doesn’t get leaked to the media unless the side doing the leaking wants it out there. When…