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MEMBERS ONLY: American Capitalism Is Making You Sick And Destroying Itself

(Image via Business Insider) Capitalism as an economic model for society is basically an untouchable concept in America. Anyone who disagrees with this is a socialist, or worse, a communist who doesn't...

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A Definitive Guide To Trump's Ridiculous Border Wall Speech

I didn't watch Trump's much vaunted speech to the nation on his border wall, because I knew it was going to be filled with lies and inaccuracies. So instead, here's a really good recipe I've been using...

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AP Tweet Blames Democrats For The #TrumpShutdown

After last night's ten minute waste of time masquerading as an Oval Office address, news sites put out fact check after fact check. Considering that Trump delivered his usual stump speech filled with...

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MEMBERS ONLY: Don Junior Is In Huge Trouble, And Prison Can't Come Soon Enough

There's one human being on this planet who I'd like to see locked up in federal prison more than Donald Trump. It turns out, the orange doesn't fall far from the orange tree. Specifically, Donald Trump...

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MEMBERS ONLY: The Trump Shutdown Confirms The Tragedy Of The Commons

Donald Trump is a buffoon but he is incredibly useful for one thing so far: Exposing the worthlessness of right wing economic ideology. He's done such a good job at it that Republicans are going to...

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Lou Dobbs Goes Full Fascist: Trump Should "Sweep Aside" Democracy

For the past week, it's become increasingly clear that Trump is going to declare a fake "national emergency" to get around Congress because that's the only way out of the corner he's painted himself...

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Alex Jones Is So Completely Screwed

The Daily Banter has a long history dealing with Sandy Hook Truthers, not to mention their Truther-in-chief, Alex Jones. At one point, a couple of us actually ended up getting one of these disgusting...

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Trump Doesn't Seem To Realize He's Caught

There's no way to know for sure, but it seems like Donald Trump is increasingly disconnected from reality. Specifically, I don't get the sense he fully understands how blindingly real his legal...

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Trump's Obsession With Blowing Up Iranian Boats Could Have Started World War III

A story published in Axios has revealed the full extent of president Trump's idiocy when it comes to America's foreign policy. Due to an obsession with blowing up Iranian boats, Trump quite literally...

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Gillette Ad Skewers Toxic Masculinity And Toxic Men Lose Their Sh*t

There are few things as inherently manly as shaving your face. The ritual of a father teaching their son how to shave is a rite of passage. It's when boys become men! Well, not really but it's still...

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The "Death Logic" Behind Trumpism That Will Turn The Right Into Domestic...

Over the last three years, we as a country have been struggling to understand exactly what is driving the rage of white Republican voters. The press tried to explain it away as "economic anxiety" and...

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MEMBERS ONLY: I Stood On Line At A Food Bank For The First Time. Why Should I...

This past Saturday, my wife Deb and I drove out to the Giant supermarket in Groveton, a neighborhood in the southeastern part of my hometown of Alexandria, Virginia. We were not going to go food...

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Sean Hannity Hates America

In a deranged rant on his show last night, Sean Hannity went to war with the FBI over the revelation that it investigated president Trump for being a potential Russian asset.  The conspiracy theory...

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With A Few Tweets, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Changed Everything

It's no secret that the right-wing media hates newly sworn in congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Not just run of the mill, "I hate the left" kind of hate but with the power of a thousand exploding...

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MEMBERS ONLY: No, Gillette Wasn't Talking About You--Unless You're A Sexual...

Don't look now but a group of a-holes are busily destroying another retail product they've already purchased. You might recall the last time this happened when wizards in red hats were smashing their...

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Let’s Take the “Partial” out of “Partial Government Shutdown"

We are exactly where we belong. Not necessarily as individuals, but collectively for sure. The extended partial shutdown of the federal government is the logical conclusion not just to the first (and...

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MEMBERS ONLY: Nancy Pelosi Has Checkmated Trump

(Image via AP) In a matter of weeks on the job, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to checkmate Trump over his government shutdown in spectacular fashion. Not only has Pelosi refused to back down...

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After Trump Tower Moscow Bombshell, Democrats Must Urgently Move To Impeach

A bombshell report from Buzzfeed has revealed that president Trump "directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow." Reporters Jason...

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MEMBERS ONLY: How Vice Rewrites The Rules of Biopics

Throughout the film's first hour, McKay plants the seeds for conservatism’s rise. Cheney meets Roger Ailes as a young congressional staffer; Antonin Scalia before he became a Supreme Court justice; and...

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Qanon Claims Trump Will Fire Hundreds Of Thousands Of Federal Workers On Tuesday

Over the last few days, the QAnon crowd has been super excited over a new theory that's risen from the fever swamp of stupiditiy that is the right wing fringe: Donald Trump engineered the shutdown so...

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Donald Trump Is The National Emergency

UPDATE: In an extremely rare move, the Special Counsel's office has disputed one of the details from the Buzzfeed story: “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office...

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Rudy Giuliani Accidentally Blurted The Truth On Television. Twice.

The most amazing and simultaneously frustrating thing about Donald Trump’s t-shirt cannon of lies, say nothing of the lies told by his subordinates, is that every once in a while they all end up...

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I Got It Wrong About The Covington Catholic Boys

Like almost every non-racist person in America, the sight of a group of young white men wearing MAGA hats mocking an elderly native American war veteran made me sick to my stomach. I shared my disgust...

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Muhammad Ali To Be Honored With An Airport Bearing His Name

“I’m not the greatest, I’m the double greatest” -Muhammad Ali One of America’s greatest patriots, Muhammad Ali, is being honored for living a life of courage, conviction and love. The New York Post...

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2018 Oscar Nominations Make History in Several Categories

2018 was one of the richest years in recent film history, and Oscar voters had their work cut out for them selecting the nominees. Their choices are eclectic - I'm still pissed Bradley Cooper wasn't...

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Trump Having His Tiny Fingers Photoshopped Is Peak Conservatism

The eagle eyes at Gizmodo have noticed that several images on President McTinyDigits' social media accounts have been altered to flatter the notoriously vain occupant that puts the "oval" in "Oval...

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Birtherism 2.0: Kamala Harris Can't Be President Because Her Parents Weren't...

Let's get this out of the way: Jacob Wohl is a fucking moron. If you don't recall the name, he's one of the two masterminds behind the disastrous plot to discredit Robert Mueller with a made-up sexual...

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Trump Allies Believe Rudy Giuliani May Have Been Drunk Before Disastrous...

Former Mayor of New York and current Trump legal counsel Rudy Giuliani is in his boss's bad books after a series of interviews that can only be described as a train wreck. Trump is reportedly incensed...

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The Covington "Controversy" Is Pure White Privilege In Action

Over the last few days, we've been subjected to a grand "mea culpa" from the media who have suddenly discovered a world of nuance concerning the Covington students disrespectfully mocking a Native...

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MEMBERS ONLY: Trump Needs His Shutdown To Last Forever

(Image source: The New York Times) We should probably brace ourselves for an extended Trump shutdown because there's ultimately no reason for the president to end his ongoing temper tantrum. He...

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Trump Surrenders To Pelosi On SOTU But For How Long?

When my wife told me this morning that Trump caved to Nancy Pelosi over the State of the Union address and wouldn't be giving it until after his shutdown was over, my first reaction was,...

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MEMBERS ONLY: The First Rule Of White Club - Never Talk About White Club

I belong to a secret club. This club gives me special privileges and perks. I'm allowed to breeze through doors that others aren't even allowed to walk up to. I can do things that would make the jaws...

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MEMBERS ONLY: Roger Stone Has Been Arrested, Now Congress Needs To Impeach...

With the arrest of Stone, the evidence for Trump's collusion with Russia is also now so overwhelming that if action isn't taken to impeach the president, American democracy and the rule of law may be...

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F*ck You, Tom Brokaw

On Sunday's Meet the Press, ancient white male Tom Brokaw forgot he was on camera and had an uncensored moment of ancient white maleness where he let us know how little he thinks of the Latino...

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Dear Howard Schultz And Other Bored Billionaires, Please Go Away

Not content to destroy good coffee and wreck thousands of small businesses around the world, Star Bucks founder and billionaire "visionary" Howard Schultz now wants to give America another four years...

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MEMBERS ONLY: The Real Reason Why Conservatives Are Petrified Of Alexandria...

The emergence of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a major player in the American political scene has been astonishing to watch. The 29 year old Latina from the Bronx is not only a fearless progressive, but...

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Remember When Rush Limbaugh Declared The Polar Vortex A Liberal "Hoax?"

The right has made a denying climate change a centerpiece of what passes for their ideology for years. But few of them have made themselves look quite as stupid as Rush Limbaugh. The Midwest is about...

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MEMBERS ONLY: The Support We Received During Trump's Shutdown Was Humbling

Over the five weeks of Trump's idiotic shutdown over a wall he will never build, my wife and I discovered just how much support we had from our friends and family. It was a humbling experience and one...

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MEMBERS ONLY: Mitch McConnell Doesn't Want You To Vote

An epidemic is plaguing the Republican Party these days. For some reason, perhaps it's their consciences or perhaps it's the pressure of backstopping an incompetent nincompoop in the White House, who...

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Panicked Republicans Smear VA Gov. Ralph Northam As A Baby Killer

Republicans are desperate. Trump is as unpopular as he's ever been, he just surrendered unconditionally to Nancy Pelosi after a disastrous and unnecessary 35 day government shutdown of his own...

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Republicans Abandon Immigration For Abortion (For Now)

After getting their asses kicked in an election, most political parties take stock and modify their message to appeal to a broader range of the electorate. And that's sort of what the GOP is doing...

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Kellyanne Conway: Cory Booker 'Sexist' Because He Is Running For President

It is fairly self evident that if you work for someone who was caught on tape bragging about grabbing women by their genitals, you lose your moral authority when it comes to calling out sexism. This...

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Are Steve Schmidt And Howard Schultz Helping Trump Get Re-elected? Maybe,...

Many of you know about a concept I've been pushing here and on social media. I've colloquially nicknamed it the "Coalition of Normals," a proposed alliance of Democrats and "Never Trump" Republicans...

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We Now Have Proof Trump's Family Separation Policy Was Meant To "Traumatize"...

Lost in the fire-hose of news from the Trump shutdown and its humiliating ending for Republicans was a report about the deliberate nature of the disaster at the border: Following reports on Thursday...

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Trump Described By U.S. Intelligence Officials As Willfully Ignorant

By now it's an undeniable fact that Donald Trump's most reliable advisers are Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Lou Dobbs, and Sean Hannity. Maybe toss Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro into that basket as...

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Let Them Eat Fake

Righteous, fuming, long bottled up anger when finally released does not have an attractive history. Just look at the Union Army’s burning of Atlanta, Mussolini’s fate at the hands of a raging Italian...

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Eddie Haskell's State Of The Union Was An Infuriating Study In Gaslighting

For those of you too young to remember, Eddie Haskell was a character on the old Leave It To Beaver show. He was an adolescent pal of Wally, Beaver's older brother, and he was an unapologetic dick who...

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Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rips Apart Dark Money In Politics In 5...

In an astonishing performance that calculated to have maximum impact in today's social media age, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez dismantled America's corrupt political system in 5 minutes flat.  Speaking at...

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MAJOR UPDATE: The Daily Banter Is Closing Down And Moving Exclusively To Email

In July of last year, I drafted an article announcing the end of The Daily Banter. In January of 2018, we saw a severe decline in referral traffic from Facebook. Having dealt with Facebook algorithm...

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MEMBERS ONLY: Interview With A Men's Rights Activist And Child Porn Advocate

As a person who writes about politics and social issues and the intersection thereof, I spend a lot of time dealing with the right-wing. It's unpleasant. I talk to Tea Partiers (not so many of those...

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