Dispatches From the Culture Wars

Jesse Lee Peterson = Clayton Bigsby

January 11, 2019 By Ed Brayton

Dave Chappelle’s legendary sketch about a white supremacist who is black, but is blind and doesn’t know it, has come to life before our very eyes in the person of Jesse Lee Peterson. He has gone on another white supremacist podcast to support their position that white people should be in charge of everything. Seriously. (more…) Read more

Taylor: Clinton, Obama Already Arrested ‘In the Spirit’

January 10, 2019 By Ed Brayton

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One of my favorite excuses when some crackpot makes a ridiculous prediction and it doesn’t happen is when they claim that it actually did happen, but in the “spirit world.” Firefighter wingnut Mark Taylor is now using that excuse since all his predictions of the breakup of this imagined pedophile ring led by Obama, Clinton and Soros haven’t come true. (more…) Read more

The Fox News Tail Wags Trump’s Shutdown Dog

January 10, 2019 By Ed Brayton

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The Daily Beast is reporting that Trump has been getting advice on how to proceed with the fight over the border wall from none other than Sean Hannity and the utterly unhinged Lou Dobbs, both from Fox News. They have told him, of course, to hold firm and not give in on funding for the wall, no matter how long the government is shut down. (more…) Read more

We’re Getting Closer to Learning Identity of Mueller’s Mystery Company

January 10, 2019 By Ed Brayton

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CNN reports that we have a bit more information now on the identity of the company that tried and failed to quash a subpoena from the Mueller investigation. We don’t know the company, but we know the law firm representing them and it has a long history of representing Russian oligarchs and financial institutions. (more…) Read more

Conway: Any Polls We Don’t Like are Fake

January 10, 2019 By Ed Brayton

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Baghdad Kellyanne Conway, who became a major player in the Republican party as a pollster, went on Fox News after Trump’s address from the Oval Office and warned people to ignore any polls that show that his speech didn’t move the needle. Polls that didn’t exist yet are obviously fake if they show what Trump doesn’t want them to show. (more…) Read more

Trump’s Ignorant Threat to Cut Off FEMA Funds from California

January 10, 2019 By Ed Brayton

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Donald Trump continued his cavalcade of ignorance and pettiness by tweeting out that he had ordered FEMA to cut off funds to deal with the aftermath of the massive wildfires in California. Why? Because “proper forrest (sic) management” would prevent wildfires. His inane tweet: (more…) Read more

Counter-Terrorism Expert Calls Trump a Liar on Border Threat

January 10, 2019 By Ed Brayton

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We already knew that Trump was lying through his teeth about the threat of terrorists getting into the country through the border with Mexico, but now Richard Clarke, former counter-terrorism adviser to three presidents, flat out calls him a liar for his vastly exaggerated and dishonest claims about it. (more…) Read more

Jackson’s Convenient Hypocrisy on Muslim Legislators

January 9, 2019 By Ed Brayton

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E.W. Jackson, fundie preacher and former candidate for Lt. Governor in Virginia, is beside himself that two Muslim women were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He offers an argument against Ilhan Omar, elected from Minnesota, that is both factually incorrect and highly hypocritical. (more…) Read more

CBP Data Proves Trump is Lying

January 9, 2019 By Ed Brayton

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Donald Trump and several others in his administration are continually claiming that the border wall is necessary because literally thousands of suspected terrorists are coming over the border. Pressed on that claim by the media, Customs and Border Patrol provided data that proves that to be a ridiculous lie. (more…) Read more

SCOTUS Forces Mystery Company to Comply with Mueller Subpoena

January 9, 2019 By Ed Brayton

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That mystery corporation from another country that has been fighting to quash a subpoena from the Mueller investigation has lost its final appeal. The Supreme Court rejected the appeal, leaving a lower court order in place that forces them to comply with that subpoena and turn over the documents Mueller is seeking. (more…) Read more