Opinion

I am so done with this whole Mitch McConnell thing.

We’re now past six weeks of this ridiculous crap, and the silence surrounding the Kentucky senator’s condition long ago eclipsed the point of disturbing to become completely absurd and intolerable. But that just seems to be the Republican way. All we get are vague justifications and likely manipulated “proof of life” photos rather than actual explanations.

If you’ve been finding yourself swooning lately over the clips of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) calmly and methodically bulldozing Republicans facing Senate questioning, welcome to the “Senator My Boo” Club, my friends.

Movie-star handsome and charismatic, Ossoff was given the moniker by political powerhouse influencer Qondi Ntini, who’s turned “political thirst” into a movement that’s been reframing the way Democratic men run for public office. Her social media accounts reflect a timeline of consistently supporting both Ossoff and his fellow Georgia Senator, Rev. Raphael Warnock, always keeping to the facts while centering the thirst. Not just for good-looking men in leadership (though it’s just true that Democrats have the looks on lockdown), but the thirst for truth and equality in both the government as well as the rest of the country.

It’s hard to believe that we’re less than two months away from the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, that horrible day when war arrived at our doorstep.

One thing that’s always stuck in my head was the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers onboard the four jets that wreaked such deadly havoc were citizens of Saudi Arabia. This doesn’t necessarily mean that kingdom had an active hand in the terror, and the 9/11 Commission found no evidence that the Saudi government knowingly funded or directed the attacks.

Pete Hegseth has not held a Pentagon press conference since May 5. That's more than two and a half months of silence while the U.S. fights a war. The administration is claiming some of the past few weeks fell under a “ceasefire.”

That’s just another in a long line of lies and excuses about its fatally flawed war. It’s been a war all along.

Thirty years ago, I had my first job in PR, at a small Midtown Manhattan firm. This was before HR complaints were really a thing, which was lucky for the managing director, because his behavior would have gotten him fired a dozen times over.

He was also one of the most offensive human beings I have ever met, and the fact that I'm still thinking about him three decades later tells you he left a nasty mark in my memories..

Trump, his billionaire buddies, and his Republican lickspittles appear to be setting up a possible massive fraud with regard to this fall’s election. It could signal the end of American democracy.

We democracy-loving Americans have fought oligarchy three times on these shores, roughly every 80 years. Each time, we defeated the morbidly rich and established or re-established popular democracy and a government that put working-class people ahead of the oligarchs.

It’s just so exhausting to live in the dumbest timeline in global history.

I could give you a decade’s worth of examples of MAGA stupidity, and we could spend the next 1,000 words debating over which is the dumbest of the dupes deployed by Dumb Donald’s Deplorables. For me, it was the sight of everyone wearing those moronic maxi pads on their faces at the 2024 RNC after Trump’s first faux-assassination attempt in Butler, PA. Weird timing, huh?

Just when we think Donald Trump has exhausted the ways a person can transform the presidency into an ongoing fundraising scheme, we’re given fresh new evidence that he’s barely scratched the surface.

I swear I thought I was hallucinating when I read last weekend that Trump’s social media company had put out word that it was pitching a premium “Trump API” service to Wall Street traders and investment firms that would charge them a subscription fee of as much as $100,000 per month to provide faster access to the president’s Truth Social posts. There was also the mention of a bargain-basement discounted plan of $60,000 a month for firms that signed up for a three-year plan.

We have a lot of metaphors for it; the camel’s nose under the tent, the foot in the door, where there’s smoke there’s fire, and the handwriting on the wall, among others. Every police state in history started this way. As the White House declared last week in a press release:

“Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, far-left extremism will be treated with the same seriousness and ferocity the world has long reserved for jihadist terrorism.”

Ed Luce of The Straits Times/Financial Times recently argued, like so many other conservative and liberal commentators do, that the Democratic Party was missing a golden opportunity in the upcoming midterm elections due to its internal squabbling, stalled approval ratings, and a failure to effectively address the causes of the 2024 election losses.

Like most media coverage of the Democratic Party divisions, Luce has misunderstood the substantive differences between the two democratic factions. Because they have actually been discussing and arguing about party power going forward in relation to why they lost in 2024.