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 When Glenn Beck featured Eric Massa to  discuss  his claim that he had been silenced by the Obama administration, the interview spun into a bizarre and deeply unsettling ramble about tickle fights and other nonsense. At the end of it, Beck looked into the camera and said,  “America, I have wasted your time.” Understand, that is the  only  credit Glenn Beck will ever get from me. Not because it made him noble. Not because it erased the fact that he had put a half-baked story on the air in the first place. He gets that sliver of credit for one reason only: he did not keep marching in cadence as if the detail had not just marched over a manhole and dropped a soldier through it. He did not try to pretend the lunacy had not just collapsed in full view of the audience. He admitted, plainly, that there was no dressing it up. This was a straight  “well, that happened”  moment. That is what is missing now. When Marjorie Taylor Greene, Joe Rogan, and Tucke...

  In the final years of Fred Trump’s life, when dementia had robbed him of the ability to oversee his business, those around him reportedly built a fake office on his property and escorted him there each day, allowing him to go through the motions of conducting business while, in truth, he was being managed through a comforting illusion. Somewhere near the front end of that decline, Fred sent an aide to Trump Castle in Atlantic City, where roughly $3.5 million in chips were purchased in a transaction that helped rescue Donald Trump’s casino from immediate collapse. While the image of an aide leaving with a briefcase full of chips is sometimes disputed, the essential facts are not: the chips were never used for gambling, and New Jersey regulators later treated the transaction as improper financial assistance to the casino. Fred Trump appears to have spent his final years moving from helping rescue Donald’s flailing cash cow to being staged as if he were still presiding over the empi...

Sounds reasonable: “Deport the criminals.” No, it’s not that simple. I’ll give Charles Barkley this much: he tried. During a March Madness broadcast, he was reacting to a segment about Alex Karaban and his immigrant family, and he was moved to push back on some of the uglier anti-immigrant rhetoric being promoted by the Trump administration and, unfortunately, embraced by plenty of people in this country. For Barkley, that’s actually a decent swing. But he unfortunately stepped into the same trap everyone else seems to these days. He said there’s a difference between “amazing immigrants” and “criminal immigrants.” And there you have it. Right there, that framing doesn’t just divide people into two categories, it quietly sets the default. It establishes the starting assumption before any evidence is even considered. It doesn’t land as “most immigrants are fine, some are criminals.” It lands as “immigrants are a problem, except for the especially admirable ones.” Suspicio...

Ted Cruz and John Kennedy want people to believe they have a clever little two-step: fund TSA and the rest of Homeland Security now, then come back later and fund ICE through reconciliation with Republican votes only. Kennedy himself described exactly that plan, saying he and Cruz wanted to accept Democratic funding for everything but ICE, then use reconciliation later to do whatever they wanted on ICE. That sounds copacetic until you run it through actual Senate procedure instead of the Fox News noise machine. Reconciliation is not a magic word you can say five times like "Candyman" and make the filibuster disappear. It has to be triggered by a budget resolution. That matters. You gotta shoot your shot To get what ya want What ya got Shoot your shot      -Bootsy's Rubber Band The problem is Republicans already "shot their shot." They used the FY2025 reconciliation vehicle to pass the "One Big Beautiful Bill." So if Cruz and Kennedy want...

Though I believe Donald Trump is the strongest argument yet for repealing Godwin’s Law, I’m not going to make a direct comparison between Trump and Adolf Hitler. What I will ask is simpler, and much harder to dodge: setting Trumpism aside entirely, are you for or against the actual policies of Nazi Germany? Once you strip away the uniforms, symbols, and historical branding, what remains is a regime built on horrors no sane person should support. Dictatorship over democracy The Nazis destroyed free elections, crushed political opposition, and turned the state into a one-party authoritarian machine. Censorship and suppression of dissent They silenced critics, controlled the press, criminalized opposition, and made independent thought dangerous. State propaganda They flooded public life with lies, mythmaking, fearmongering, and leader worship to manipulate the population. Racism as public policy They built government around the idea that some races were inherently superior and others inhe...