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You may start panicking now The rumor mill at the West Wing is alive with gossip about who is going to replace Kash Patel. Patel was recently outed for his alleged bacchanalian excesses, thanks to a recent article appearing in The Atlantic. It seems that Patel spends a great deal of his time drunk. And he’s stupid enough and clueless…

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Turns out a senile Donald Trump is indeed not running this show I’ve pointed out on more than one occasion over the past year and a half that it didn’t appear Donald Trump was in charge of his own presidency. Trump seemed fully on board with but only half aware of Stephen Miller’s ICE assault against Hispanic looking people. Trump has often seemed to have very little…

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MAGA cognitive dissonance collapses There is a famous photograph of a huge crowd in Munich’s Odeonsplatz ecstatically welcoming the announcement of Germany’s declaration of war on Russia. The date of the photograph is August 2nd, 1914. The next day after the photograph was taken, Germany declared war on France. And the day after that they declared war on Belgium.…

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Trump's ballroom goes belly up “Effeuiller la marguerite.” This is FRENCH for a game that originated in France. In English, it is referred to as: “He loves me, he loves me not–” Remember playing this amusing little game as a child? Children are most inscrutable beings! But children — or at least THIS child — did indeed believe in magic.…

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Russia Russia Russia... One more time, thank you all for helping with our Palmer Report Emergency Fundraiser, which is still at a crucial moment. We’re getting closer to our goal, but if you can contribute anything at all, it’s appreciated. Donate here. Now on to our morning column: If Donald Trump has accomplished anything this time around (and…

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Donald Trump's art of self sabotage just got even worse The crystal blue sky stretches into infinity, as does Donald Trump’s psychosis. The Straight of Hormuz is open, some gleefully cry! Exclamations of joy fill the streets, just like they did during the Ides of March, when Julius Caesar strolled into the Senate, unaware of the fate that would befall him. You know the rest…

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Donald Trump just doubled down on nothing at all Once again, thank you all for helping with our Palmer Report Emergency Fundraiser, which is still at a crucial moment. We’re getting closer to our goal, but if you can contribute anything at all, it’s appreciated. Donate here. Now on to our morning column. Who says “potahto,” anyway? The Collins English Dictionary defines a contrarian…

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"Who writes this stuff?" Side note: Thank you all for helping with our Palmer Report Emergency Fundraiser, which is still happening. We’re getting closer to our goal, but if you can contribute anything at all, it’s appreciated. Donate here. Now on to our morning column. There’s a trope in the television industry in which the scripts and storylines get…

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The unbalanced scale There are certain behaviours that are common to victims of sexual assault that are still largely unknown to many people, despite recent efforts by healthcare professionals to educate the public about those behaviours. I know this to be the case because of the number of comments I have read in the last few days that…

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Donald Trump's doctor debacle just got even worse First, I want to take you all for helping with our Palmer Report Emergency Fundraiser, which is still happening. We’re getting close to our goal, but if you can contribute anything at all, it’ll be much appreciated. Donate here. Now on to our morning column. Donald Trump has been periodically posting images of himself in…

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Donald Trump is doing our work for us Let’s talk about the midterms. More and more people are shifting their odds toward the Democrats as Bill Palmer explained. It doesn’t help that Republicans are still in denial — deep denial. The GOP right now is acting like COMA victims. Take New York Rep. Mike Lawler, for example. Lawler’s one I love to talk…

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Women have won the day “Harassment is about power — the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.” – Michael Crichton, Disclosure. Disclosure, which was one of my (and my dad’s) favorite films as well as one of my favorite books, deals with the subject of sexual harassment. Many people, even today in the year 2026, act…

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Trump's brain collapse puts GOP in a pickle As the world falls apart in real time, one political party is finding itself in a pickle. Politico reports that Donald Trump is so very invested in overseas wars, that he has forgotten all about his party back home — and they’re definitely NOT doing well. Mike Johnson, leader of the House (not for long),…

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The wind just shifted in our favor At this point the question isn’t so much whether the Democrats are going to win the midterms, but whether they’re going to win the midterms convincingly enough to overcome the Trump-GOP attempt to rig it. This weekend we saw an election that went so thoroughly against incumbent dictator Viktor Orban, that he ended up having…

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Thoughts about Eric Swalwell When a man says his house has been robbed, almost nobody questions him. Nobody demands to know what he did to get robbed. Nobody demands to know what he was wearing or had to drink the night he was robbed. When the burglar is caught (if ever) almost nobody calls it a “he said she…

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Jesus Christ... There was an old Saturday Night Live sketch in which the actors got around network television limitations on the use of “Jesus Christ” as an exclamation by having a Jesus Christ character standing next to them. That way when any of them yelled “Jesus Christ” in frustration, they could then just pretend they had been…

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Another one bites the dust Donald Trump is running out of friends. He’s coming off a week in which he’s publicly lashed out at diehard supporters like Tucker Carlson And Alex Jones because even they’ve begun distancing themselves from him. Trump is running out of allies abroad as well, given that he and Netanyahu can’t seem to see eye to…

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Donald Trump's own prison Getting through these chaotic times requires moral fortitude. Every morning I meditate but it’s still hard to bear the constant wave of bad news. Former Hindu monk turned self-help guru Jay Shetty often quotes renowned Hungarian Holocaust survivor turned psychologist specializing in trauma, Dr. Edith Eva Eger. Eger’s strength came from creating a mental sanctuary.…

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Trump has shown us who he is, it’s time to believe him Maya Angelou once famously said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Trump has been showing us who he is for 50 years. Too many of us refused to believe what they saw with their own eyes, while readily believing their ears, believing the bullshit Trump told them about who…

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My dad's last wish... I write this with the sounds of silence all around me. My readers and friends, I thank you for your warm messages and beautiful words regarding my dad’s recent health struggles. They meant and mean the world to me. Unfortunately, my dad passed away this week. He was at peace. So I sit here, wanting…

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Donald Trump goes completely berserk, attacks the last of his remaining allies Donald Trump’s week has been getting worse literally by the hour. He threatened to annihilate Iran, then caved, announcing a ceasefire that lasted about five minutes. Then yesterday his wife Melania Trump held a surprise press conference and called for Congress to hold hearings into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Trump is losing support left and…

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Melania Trump just made an even bigger mess out of Donald Trump's Jeffrey Epstein scandal Everyone is still talking about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, but no one outside a few internet posts has been talking about Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. So in typically bizarre Trump regime fashion, Melania Trump called a surprise press conference today to announce that she had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein, and that…

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In the aftermath of the idiocy... here comes more idiocy After Donald Trump took the world to the brink of annihilation this week for no decipherable reason, only to cave at the last minute while spewing self-conflicting gibberish about why, I wrote that he would have a particularly difficult time living it down. After all, Americans didn’t want this war to begin with, they understand…

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Trump just got duped Did Iran just ‘dupe’ Donald Trump? Some people think so, including the Associated Press. Trump happily and giddily announced a two-week ceasefire deal with Iran.. Only the AP reported on Tuesday night that Iran may be trying to get one over on the Trump regime (This would not be hard to do.) This all has…

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It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) “They hate each other more than they hate us,” James Carville told Ari Melber on MS NOW’s “The Beat” on Monday. “I mean, it’s kind of the end of the Republican Party as we knew it, and they’re all fighting with each other.” Carville added, “They’re just in some descent, just finger-pointing. And that’s just…

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So now what, dummy? Last night Donald Trump did what he almost always does: he caved. After a dramatic, unhinged, armageddon tinged build up to the supposed eradication of Iran from the map, Trump announced at the last minute last night that he was instead putting a ceasefire into effect for two weeks. No surprise there one supposes. The…

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There is now no question that MAGA is in decline There is no question that MAGA is in decline. We track this decline with the crash and burn of Trump’s polls in all categories, healthcare, the economy, immigration, the Epstein files, the war in Iran, and so on. We track this decline from radical right wing social media influencers who have turned on Trump, the…

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Donald Trump just caved big time on Iran This week marked the third time in which Donald Trump vowed to imminently blow up Iran’s power plants if it didn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Given that Iran ignored him the first two times and he merely pushed back his deadline, Trump’s latest threat had no teeth at all. Even after Trump vowed to…

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Donald Trump just had his most unhinged 24 hours yet After Donald Trump launched a profanity laced attack against Iran on social media in which he declared “Praise be to Allah,” while in the midst of a three day absence from public view, respected Dr. Vin Gupta announced that Trump was displaying all the signs of dementia. When Trump finally resurfaced on Monday for a…

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Doctor: Donald Trump has "all the signs of dementia" For some time now I’ve been documenting all the signs of dementia that Donald Trump has been displaying. I have first hand experience observing dementia up close, and it’s not difficult at all to spot the signs of dementia from afar. But as some people have liked to point out, I’m not a doctor. Well,…

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