Say Goodbye to the Republican Party
Please join me, as I take a step back from our primary fight for a moment, for we are about to witness a moment in history that has yet to happen in our lifetimes — the death of a major political party...
View ArticleBuckets of Schadenfreude
Let’s take a moment, shall we, and step away from our respective corners of the Democratic primary. Is anybody else noticing and enjoying this moment for our “friends” on the other side of the aisle?...
View ArticleWhy This Election Actually Is the Most Important In Our Lifetime
Every four years, our two parties nominate candidates for President, and at their respective conventions get up, attempt to excite the voting public and give their delegates their marching orders....
View ArticleThe "Where's the Beef" Moment Has Arrived
You can be an amazing orator. You can bask in the glow of adoring crowds, ride high on weird statistics that don’t matter like — you have more primary wins than the other candidates in your party, or...
View ArticleHere is a Truth: There are Two Establishments, and They Are Very, Very Different
So yo people (in the spirit of the upcoming NY primary), if you are against the establishment and against the status quo — and hence feeling the Bern, listen up: I have a great deal of respect for the...
View ArticleThis Entire Election is Now About Donald Trump - Bigly
By winning the nomination, Donald Trump has broken the Republican Party. It may or may not survive but that is a question for after November. Right now, all you need to do is read today’s...
View ArticleIt's Time for an Urgent Reality Check
This is a call from reality, so I’m going to be provocative. Real reality, not TV show reality. Every Presidential candidate, in every election, likes to say it’s “the most important election of our...
View ArticleOnce Again, America is on the Threshold of History - Thanks to the Democratic...
Take a step back from the primaries for a minute, the prospects of unity or disunity, and the feeling of loss or victory (depending on your chosen candidate). This post, instead, is about the...
View ArticleI Have Chills as We Watch History Being Made
I live in the country’s smallest state, in a very small town. I know that we normally associate small town behavior with conservatives, rural Republicans, etc., but here in progressive Rhode Island,...
View ArticleWho's Gonna Be My Bitch? The Donald Trump Veepstakes
Donald Trump, personality-disordered, narcissistic, crypto-fascist, bigoted,mentally unstable, and ego-maniacal, presumed Republican nominee and likely loser-in-a-landslide is said to be set to name...
View Article#PsychoTrump in Ohio: Gingrich, Saddam Hussein, Jewish Sheriff Stars and What...
Donald Trump is almost always unhinged at his rallies. With or without campaign notes, it doesn’t matter, he’s nuts. He clearly scared the crap out of Bob Corker enough that he withdrew himself from...
View ArticleMental Illness: The Enormous, Undiscussed Issue of the 2016 Campaign
Before I begin, in full disclosure, I have no professional experience whatsoever with mental health services, treatment or diagnosis. But I live everyday with a wife who is acutely, mentally ill with...
View ArticleTed Cruz Sticks His "T" in Trump's "P" and Ruins GOP Night 3
Now that headline was fun to write: Ted Cruz may be the last man standing, and he’s about as loony as Trump is, but no unity for him. His speech was sappy, he was over-dramatic, and he did...
View ArticleMeet Our 50 State Strategy to Win It All
As many of us have said all election year, the monstrous train-wreck that is Donald Trump means that this election is all about Donald Trump. He knows it, and last night he gave us a huge opportunity...
View ArticleDonald Trump - Narcissist, Pathological Liar, Bigot, Idiot, and now.......
The minute that Donald Trump got the Republican nomination, the narrative of the general election became nationalized and crystal clear: The “Big Tent” versus the “Crazy Carnival.”Trump is a lot of...
View ArticleFor Anybody On the Left - This Election is America versus Donald Trump
In 1980, newly minted Republican nominee Ronald Reagan made his first campaign stop after his convention in rural Mississippi. Granted, this was then a swing state, and Reagan was running against an...
View ArticleUmm, Donald? About your trip to Mexico and your speech tonight?
No time to re-hash the Donald’s personality disorder or his issues. I’m just going to say this. Donald Trump is a private citizen. He’s not contracted by, nor requested to, meet with Mexico’s...
View ArticleHow Can ANYBODY not Vote for Hillary?
I am writing this on the heels of having watched Nina Turner — former Democratic state senator from Ohio — sitting on MSNBC on a panel with some pro-Trump African-American pastor — refusing to say she...
View ArticleMeet Your GOP Presidential Nominee: Yes, He is an American Nazi.
So I don’t speak about my background or religion much in my diaries. I’m not embarrassed or ashamed — I just normally think it doesn’t matter. Progressive ideals are for everybody.But here’s a bit...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Criminal Enterprise
I get it. People think politicians are corrupt. Trust me, some really are, and I know it first-hand. I haven’t worked on a political campaign in years. I’m 52 years old, and my last campaign was...
View ArticleThis is Their Fault: Impeach the Republican Party at the Ballot Box this...
Depending on which poll you look at, Donald Trump is about 5 — 7% of the national vote away from winning the presidency. Let me repeat that: A mentally unstable and comprehensively corrupt monster is...
View ArticlePunish Them. Punish. Them. All.
I’ll be short and sweet, because I am repeating myself. When I say “punish,” I mean: “Vote.”Donald Trump is not some entertaining anomaly. He’s not an isolated incident that wafted into a political...
View ArticleThe Fierce Urgency of a Landslide
OK, so there we go. Three debates, three clear victories. Why? Donald Trump, Republican nominee has proved himself to be exactly the guy we think he is: Mentally unstable, unqualified, bigoted and...
View ArticleNew WAPO Article: Trump is a Serial, Counterfeit Philanthropist
David Fahrenthold just posted a new article for the Washington Post here: wapo.st/…In it, he details just how much boasting Trump does about charity, and how little — how very little — he and his...
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State of the Race: 9 Days Out
So first, everybody take a breath. I mean, did you really think we would sail through this election with these two candidates and not have some kind of Republican defense mechanism vomit something...
View ArticleEnd Game: Amongst Everything Else, Donald Trump is a Traitor
Yes, Donald Trump is all these things: Mentally unstable. Erratically angry. Bigoted. A sexual predator. Unqualified. A pathological liar. From the perspective of the voters, now you can add...
View ArticleHe Cannot Govern: Stop the Racist, Mentally Unstable, Sexual Predator before...
No, I’m not kidding.This is my missive to any remaining progressives who feel the need to sit this election out or vote for a third party candidate — for whatever their reasons.I know that inspiration...
View ArticleReally? Republicans Aren't Like These People? Then Where Are They?
Right now, as I write this, real-life American Nazis, fascists and other assorted right-wing lunatics are torturing, attacking and brutalizing people in Charlottesville VA. They are even attacking...
View ArticleBecause He Is One
Here is one thing we can all stop asking about. I know journalists need to ask questions about Trump — and that’s generally a good. But the vast majority of us are not journalists, and THE question...
View ArticleWanna Help Me Test My New Travel Site? It's in Open Beta and Needs Your...
I know this diary is not about politics. However, I love how this community supports its members, and this project is all about travel — something I feel is a very important part of my...
View ArticleThe Quickening
Can you feel it? This “Trump thing with Trump and Russia” is accelerating. And for good reason: While the vast majority of big conspiracies turn out to be bullshit, Trump-Russia is — upon all...
View ArticleWhat is this, Russia? Oh Wait...
Yes, this is a screed. I’m not even that pissed off at Donald Trump any more. He, his friends, allies and family are awful people. They always have been. Back when I was growing up in NJ politics...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration IS the Constitutional Crisis
No matter what your political persuasion, almost all members of the practicing political spectrum — even people who have odious right-wing ideas that create hurtful policies — all adhere to two...
View ArticleAnd Here We Sit - A Crisis Thanks to Criminal and Crazy
At this moment, the investigation around the most corrupt and most incompetent US presidential administration in history is reaching a crescendo. Our National Mistake is finding its reckoning. And we...
View Article"I have the absolute right to pardon myself."
No Donald, you don’t. Nobody has absolute rights to anything. That’s Democracy. That’s the Rule of Law. It’s enshrined in the US Constitution. It’s actually the only absolute: There are no...
View ArticleThey Say they Are Taking Kids to Showers, While Taking them Away? Seriously?
Years ago, I had a summer job as the take-out guy in my local deli. One of the older gentlemen I worked with was a man named Leon, who was German Jew that survived the holocaust: He was liberated by...
View ArticleWhen You Talk About It You're An Idiot. When You Act on It You're a Monster.
There are lots of people we call idiots. They go out on the media stump. They spew garbage, hate, vile crap and they’ve been doing it for decades. And we call them idiots, but we have to let them...
View ArticleLive By the Banana Republic, Die By the Banana Republic
So somebody in the upper echelon of Trump’s administration wants to out the incompetence, immorality and insanity of this president. And we’re supposed to think it’s treason or a “soft coup” say the...
View ArticleSigns of a Very Big Blue Wave in Little Rhode Island
Greetings from Little Rhody. Blink and you miss us, but we are here and the blue wave has us WOKE!I know Rhode Island is supposed to be a blue state. And it mostly is — although until we elected Gina...
View ArticleNo, It Was Not Just "Boys Being Boys" in the 80's
This is going to be their excuse: “Well, while we’re sure something happened to these women, we listened to them, and Kavanaugh was just another high school/college boy partying like they party....
View ArticleBe Mad. Be Depressed. As Long As You Get Even... Vote!
This time they got what they wanted. They plowed on through. And now it’s done. Republicans do that. Politics isn’t debate to them, or elections. They are a cult at war. The American Taliban. And...
View ArticleOf Blips, Bumps and Trends: Polls and Midterm Strategy in 2018
I’m willing to be there are plenty of stat and polling professionals lurking on this site. I’m not one. But I thought this might be a “catch your breath” moment. There is one month until we vote in...
View ArticleThe View from Over the Pond
Over several of the past years, my profession has given me the pleasure of being in London during the first week of November for World Travel Market, where I have the chance to meet with destination...
View ArticleBernie's The Frontrunner - And With That Comes the Vetting
The Bernie people are going to hate this diary. That’s OK, flame away. I haven’t picked a candidate yet, and I agree with lots of what Bernie campaigns on. If he gets nominated I’ll vote for him...
View ArticleThe Democratic Feud Needs to End - Now!
OK, so I’m up on DailyKos reading all of this anti-Biden crap, anti-Bernie crap, basically taking the primary down into the gutter. And my instinct is to drop my usual analytical approach and let you...
View ArticleOf Heroes and Villains
Of late, I’ve been thinking lots about where the country is, and what we’re fighting for. There are lots of ways people can be denied their dignity: There’s racism, sexism, religious intolerance,...
View ArticleOK Democrats - Time to Nationalize ALL of the Elections this Year
I know Democrats live by the strategy that “all elections are local.” OK, maybe in most years, but not this year. Honestly, mid-term turnout is usually abysmal, on all sides. The party that wins...
View ArticleMaybe, Just Maybe, It Was All About Trump and Russia, After All
Move over January 6 coup and Donald the Seditionist: How about Donald Trump, traitor? Not conceptually, or rhetorically, but literally, and legally!Earlier this week the FBI got a warrant, went into...
View ArticleWhen "Left vs Right" Became "Left vs Wrong:" How Democrats are Winning the...
I’d like to start my article by positing an alternative theory about midterm elections: Yes, turnout is — generally speaking — much lower than Presidential elections. In fact, the winning side rarely...
View ArticleSabotage Masquerading as a Trump Lawyer Invades the Manhattan Grand Jury
Yes, I know The Donald tweeted (or “truthed” or “passed emotional gas” or whatever) that he expects to be indicted on Tuesday. That was to rally the brownshirts and see what chaos he can cause....
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