Donald Trump’s 2020 coup-plotting crew wasn’t exactly an A-Team: You had Rudy Giuliani reaching peak incoherence, Sidney Powell seemingly taking strategic advice from online message boards, the ex-Overstock.com CEO shuttling operatives around the country in a private jet… it was a mess.
And yet: They got pretty close.
Continue reading “Trump’s 2020 Coup Failures Could Be 2024 Successes”This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation.
Promotions for “The End of Men,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s forthcoming documentary, lament “The total collapse of testosterone levels in American men.”
Carlson’s central premise is that modern society has devitalized American men. Strength, drive and aggression are no longer in vogue, and Americans, as a result, are become weaker. This, the film implies, has ramifications for the country itself.
Continue reading “Tucker Carlson Pulls From An Old Playbook As He Stokes Anxiety About A Masculinity Crisis”When now-Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) first ran in 2010, he had a zinger for his opponent, then-Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI).
Continue reading “RonJon Distances Self From Own Anti-Abortion Position”Biden is thinking about and asking the right question: “[Putin] is a very, very, very calculating man. And the problem I worry about now is that he doesn’t have a way out right now, and I’m trying to figure out what we do about that.”
The quote is courtesy of this piece by Friend of TPM Olivier Knox.
According to a new Monmouth Poll, abortion (25%) is now tied with the economy (26%) as the most important issue in the midterms.
The House Jan. 6 Committee issued subpoenas on Thursday to five Republican members of Congress, including Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Five House Members”A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the reverberations and new dynamics since the bombshell draft Supreme Court opinion overturning abortion rights leaked.
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Anthime Joseph Gionet — the far-right internet troll who goes by “Baked Alaska” and who livestreamed his break-in at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — claimed on Wednesday that he blew up his plea deal earlier that day because he was actually following God’s light and not accidentally tying himself to a lit rocket like Wile E. Coyote.
Continue reading “Far-Right Vlogger Insists He Was Doing The Lord’s Work By Tanking Jan. 6 Plea Deal”Republicans are falling over each other to tell us as clearly as they can that the reversal of Roe is a massive electoral liability. You have longtime “pro-life” diehards running towards TV cameras insisting the whole thing is totally no big deal. In fact, you’ll barely notice anything happened. Lots of states will still have abortion. Abortions will be so easy to get you’ll be getting abortions right and left. Or at least that seems to be what virtually every Republican senator is saying.
Continue reading “Numbers Talk, Bull#$!% Walks”The bogus “investigation” of Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Wisconsin could extend forever into the horizon, melting into our collective consciousness until the human project comes to a sputtering end, and all memory of our presence lies deep in the neurons of our vertebrae’d brethren.
Continue reading “Partisan ‘Investigation’ Of Wisconsin’s 2020 Election Could Go On Forever, Per New Contract”
