Now that we’ve had a week to digest the results of the 2016 election, here are some observations about what happened and what the results might tell us about the future: 1. Electoral map tilts to the GOP…
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Bernie Sanders Shuns Democrats: “I Will Finish This Term As An Independent”…
In yet another slap in the face of the Democratic party, The Hill reports that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won’t officially join the Democratic Party even though he was appointed to a leadership position within the Senate Democratic caucus this week…
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World Suffers From Trump Shell Shock – Here’s What Will Happen Next by Brandon Smith…
I’ve been saying this for a long time, and I’ll say it again here — in life there are only two kinds of people: those who know and those who don’t. Some might claim there is a third option: those who don’t want to know. In any case, if you want to be able to […]
Pilot Forced to Lecture Passengers During Flight About Politics, Decency When Dispute Breaks Out…
A United Airlines pilot was forced to intervene over the intercom during a flight from San Fransisco to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to explain to the passengers aboard the importance of remaining calm after a political dispute had erupted about last weeks’ election results, the Washington Post reported Monday…
The Revenge of Class and the Death of the Democratic Party…
The Democratic Party of my lifetime – the coalition of Wall St finance capital and identity-politics voters that arose during the 1980s and 90s – is dead. It has been killed, quite ironically, by the revenge of class politics – the kind once championed by the Democrats. Decades of economic misery…
It’s Class, Stupid, Not Race by Marshall Auerback…
During the Presidential campaign of 1988, the Reverend Jesse Jackson was asked, “How you are going to get the support of the white steelworker?” He replied: “By making him aware he has more in common with the black steel workers by being a worker, than with the boss by being white”…
Paul Ryan Nominated ‘Unanimously’ by Voice Vote…
House Republicans on Tuesday afternoon unanimously nominated Paul Ryan for a second term as Speaker. The GOP conference gave the Wisconsin Republican voice-vote approval, forgoing a secret ballot tally that would have shown how many Republicans oppose Ryan leading the chamber…
McConnell to Lead Senate GOP, Schumer to Lead Minority…
Senate Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell on Wednesday to be majority leader next year while Democrats picked Chuck Schumer to lead them, setting the chief actors as the chamber prepares to push an agenda that will be dominated by Donald Trump and the GOP…
FLASHBACK: Liberal News Site Slate Defends Electoral College: “The Argument That It Is Undemocratic Falls Flat”…
With over half the voters complaining that their safe-space-protector-in-chief ‘unfairly’ lost the election due to the sinister “electoral college” voting mechanism, we thought it worth noting that uber-liberal ‘news’ site Slate.com defended the electoral college in 2012…
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Jay Leno Misses the Days When ‘Clinton was horny and Bush was dumb’…
Former late night host Jay Leno said he was glad he didn’t have to cover the 2016 election and missed “simpler times” when “Clinton was horny and Bush was dumb”…
The Blame the Media Movement…
There was an odd moment yesterday on Twitter when a bunch of people were RTing screen caps of NYT’s front page the day after Jim Comey’s October 28 letter, blaming the media for Hillary’s loss…
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Real Protesters Target Senator Chuck Schumer’s Office Along With Trump Tower (VIDEO)…
The corrupt and collapsing two-party political system in the U.S. is coming under renewed attack by the young generation. Trump Tower in New York City, where Republican President-elect Donald Trump is holed up, has become a veritable police fortress at street level with much of the sidewalk…
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Students and Professors Send Letter to University of Virginia Head Criticizing Her For Quoting Thomas Jefferson…
Snowflake university culture in America may have just hit peak safe-space stupidity. Here’s what happened according to the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Daily: Several professors on Grounds collaborated to write a letter to University President Teresa Sullivan against the inclusion of a Thomas Jefferson quote in her post-election email Nov. 9…
Post Chief of Staff Announcement Reince Priebus Gives ABC Interview (VIDEO)…
Newly appointed (President-Elect) White House Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus gives his first broadcast interview to ABC Good Morning America…
Rudy Giuliani Crushes Pre-Election Chatter about His Alleged Demise…
It’s a special thing to be yelled at by Rudy Giuliani. I remember the first time I ever really came in for a tongue-lashing from the former Mayor. It was October 2006 and anticipation was peaking that Rudy would soon enter the 2008 Republican primary for President…
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Bernie Sanders “deeply humiliated” Democrats Can’t Talk to Working Class (VIDEO)…
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday lambasted the Democratic Party for failing to pay attention to white working class voters during the election. “There needs to be a profound change in the way the Democratic Party does business. It is not good enough to have a liberal elite”…
Hundreds Of Former Bernie Sanders DNC Delegates Launch Campaign For Donna Brazile To Resign…
The Bernie Delegate Network, hundreds of former Bernie Sanders delegates to the Democratic National Convention have voted overwhelmingly in a straw poll to “call for the immediate resignation of Donna Brazile…
Leaked Memo from Clinton Campaign Blames Everyone But the Campaign for Loss…
Who’s to blame: “Voters who decided in the last week voted Trump…Director Comey…Jill Stein…late breaking developments”…
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The Wealthier the State, the More People Voted for Hillary…
This chart also reveals the reason that the talking heads were so shocked by the outcome … see the one state with 93% Hillary votes way up at the top there?…
Sean Hannity Purchases Original “The Forgotten Man” as Gift For President Elect Donald Trump…
The wow aspect is not so much that Sean Hannity purchased it, but rather that Jon McNaughton actually sold the original. McNaughton never sells his originals… at least he never used to…
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