Crooks and Liars

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Michael Gableman, the former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice whom Robin Vos has hired to do a fraudit of the 2020 presidential election, was slammed with a 75-page ethics complaint on Tuesday. As the gentle reader might remember, Gableman ended up costing…

You love to see it! Senate Dems will vote late into the night Monday in a frantic effort to confirm as many Biden’s nominees to the federal judiciary as they can before the Chaos Demon takes over in January. Via The Hill:…

Rep. Tom Tiffany thought he had the perfect double own on them dang libs when he squatted over his phone and xitted this post out:…

Indiana residents were met with Ku Klux Klan flyers scattered about on Sunday night and Monday morning, calling for the mass deportation of immigrants. I wonder who inspired that. I'm sure it's just a coinkydink that the felon confirmed he would declare a…

We've discussed Don Jr's (alleged!) abuse of cocaine before, well, because it's evident in his video rants, and now, at the SpaceX launch on Tuesday, too.…

Mike Lindell is lobbying hard for The Orange Felon to appoint him to head up election security, saying that his team is ready to plug in and get to work immediately. He obviously has been fantasizing about it for a long time. And his number one priority, to…

As the gentle reader is assuredly aware of, one of the GOP's latest faux outrages is claiming that FEMA ran out of money and couldn't help victims of the Hurricane Helene. And, as is their wont, they escalated this faux outrage to the point of demanding…

During a House Oversight hearing on FEMA's response to recent hurricanes, Rep. Lauren Boebert tried to unnerve FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell, by regurgitating Trump's lies that FEMA was playing politics and not helping Republicans in crisis.…

In the most despicable fashion, Fox News host Jesse Watters sided with Rep. Nancy Mace's disgusting resolution targeting Sarah McBride, the first transgender person elected to Congress, by attempting to ban transgender women from using the women's restroom in…

Continuing with his WTAF tour of cabinet nominees, The Orange Felon has named former reality star and fake lumberjack Sean Duffy as his Secretary of Transportation:…

Pete Hegseth, Fox News host, preeminent Trump fluffer and now nominated to be the Secretary of Defense, joined a Christian nationalist podcast to explain how he can turn Christian schools into boot camps tp launch an insurgency against the US.…

Yes, we know Donald Trump plans to skip public background checks on his nominees and we know he’ll try to appoint them no matter what is found. We also know, especially with potential Attorney General Matt Gaetz, there is almost certainly a lot to be found.…

As the last votes continue to get tallied across the country, one thing is clear: Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5 is nowhere near the “mandate” Republicans are claiming. …

Rising tensions in Europe as a fiber-optic cable was cut between Germany and Finland. Via Gizmodo:…

As you probably already know, The Donald has selected the infamous Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator. What you may not remember is that he is an enthusiastic shill for Medicare Advantage.…

On this day in 2024 I decided we needed more Bowie.…

Just after Indiana Republican county commissioner John Jessup won the election, he pleaded guilty in a Nevada sexual assault case. And now, he will be forced to resign without serving in his elected role. He should have run for President so that he would have…

Keeping in line with his cauldron of shit cabinet selections, Trump chose Dr. Oz to be in charge of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid services.…

Lip-syncing has been part of the music industry for a couple decades. Performing live with all the showboating, costume changes, wire work, and choreography - it's understandable…

This is, as the kids say, chef's kiss.…

[Above: Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), an Iraq war veteran, says Pete Hegseth is “dangerously unqualified” to be defense secretary. - eds.]…

Senator Ron Johnson (Q-Moscow) is already in position for the next four years - on his knees, ready to kiss whatever body part The Orange Felon presents to him. This is evidence by this strange claim RoJo recently made:…

"We were flooded with phone calls from people all day, literally around the world.”…

The adage that in wartime you can have either guns or butter, but you can't have both never seemed more vividly illustrated than in Russia recently where the high cost of butter has thieves stealing it so often that protective covers had to be placed on it in…