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I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore   Helen Reddy   I am woman Just a quick reminder, I have absolutely no idea of who is going to win the Democratic primaries for President, and neither do you. I don’t even have a “favorite” yet, and won’t for some little while to come, I want to see and hear them perform in some of the upcoming debates before I start to even think about locking in on any one potential front runner. I will say this though, I think that anybody who automatically relegates Amy Klobuchar to the second tier due to her national name recognition is making a mistake. But there is already a dynamic starting to take shape, even in this early stage of the primaries that is fascinating, and it has nothing to do with how the Democratic hopefuls are relating to each other. Exactly the opposite in fact. Donald J Trump, Pestquire seems to have a bit of a woman problem. For a bull stud that is reputedly more desirable than Valentino himself, Trump seems to have run into an inordinately high number of outlier women who just didn’t find him all that desirable when he put his filthy paws all over them. And they didn’t mind saying so in public either. Man, talk about a hit to the good old Casanova meter! As if having all of those loud mouthed crybabies on his ass wasn’t enough, Trump now finds himself faced with a strong, independent woman who is as infallible to his male dominance as water is to oil. Nancy Pelosi is tossing him around over her head like pizza dough, while he spins helplessly, and flattens out a bit more with every rotation. His complete inability to deal with her is apparent from the fact that the worst Twitter epithet he can think of for this hated rival is “Nancy.” What’s the matter tough guy, cat got your tongue? Personally, I am thrilled to see at this early stage, that there are more women than men running for President on the Democratic side. It is a testament to the diversity of the Democratic party, especially considering that the women are eminently qualified for consideration. On the Republican side, not only do you not have any women running for President, you don’t even have any men running for the job, just the whiny and petulant man child. And this infusion of intelligent, qualified, assertive women on the Democratic side is going to give Trump a whole lot of agita right out of the gate, for the simple reason that he just can’t keep his big, fat, New York nose out of anything! It was stated on MSNBC today that women running for President have an inherent problem, polling shows that men will vote for someone that they don’t personally like if they agree with their positions, but if they don’t “like” a female candidate, their positions are unimportant, the man won’t vote for them. We’re already seeing this with Amy Klobuchar, with this nonsensical controversy over how tough of a boss she is on her staff. Nobody makes such a claim against a male candidate, unless sexual harassment is involved. Men are “driven,” women are just “nags.” And now we’re hearing that Klobuchar is too “nice” to run, […]

On Monday evening, while Donald Trump was spinning his lies about thugs, rapists, and high crimes at the U.S. border, presidential hopeful, Beto O’Rourke, was across the street, on the right side of history, trying...

Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California and presidential hopeful, told hosts of the New York City radio show The Breakfast Club that she not only supports marijuana legalization but that she’s smoked herself. In the interview,...

Short tweets this morning, probably because Trump is focused on traveling to El Paso in order to monger fear with another fly-by lie-fest. Expect a flurry of idiocy while he’s in the air disinforming about the...

Announcing that Sen. Elizabeth Warren has become "hopelessly compromised," that her fledgling presidential campaign suffers from a mighty "albatross," and that "new doubts about her viability" have suddenly emerged, Washington journalists have recently returned to...

Prospects for another government shutdown seemed to grow over the weekend, with Donald Trump beginning another push to blame a shutdown on Democrats and Sen. Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the committee negotiating...

There are times when the statements and claims made by Donald Trump and the GOP are so tremendously ridiculous they are unintentionally comical. Such was the case this week when Trump haughtily proclaimed that the newly Democratic-controlled...

At a snowy outdoor rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar officially announced she will be running for the presidency of the United States. She joins fellow U.S. Senators Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten...

In an interview clip from CBS This Morning released today, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam explicitly said he will not resign in spite of controversy and calls for him to do just that. He also went...

That’s not a place you wanna be, sleeping with the enemy, you know   Roger Hodgson I can’t imagine why I should even have to say this, but apparently I do. In the lead up to Senator Amy Klobuchar’s announcement from Minneapolis today, which looked like a scene from “Fargo,” one of the guests on an MSNBC panel show was talking about Klobuchar’s “lane” being her message of bipartisanship, bringing both sides together to get things done in this dysfunctional congress and environment. Excuse me while I get my Kanys on here for a moment, Fuck bipartisanship! I haven’t yet heard any Democratic Presidential candidates coming right out ans talking about rolling in the muck with pigs, but if these talking heads are this delusional, they have no place on MSNBC or CNN, they should be in the Trump administration instead. Have they learned nothing from recent history>? The Democratic candidates led the GOP spring lambs to the barn in 2018 on two simple messages, solving kitchen table issues, and reining in the GOP madness in Washington. Nobody on the Democratic side ran on, or was elected because of their “I’ll appeal to their better angels” bullshit. They were elected by highlighting the GOP’s ig headed obstinance, especially in the arena of healthcare. They didn’t run and win on reasoning with these spoiled brats, they won by running on sending them to the corner for a nice, long time out! But worse yet, it’s like the last 8 years prior to the crowning of the $1 Store Caligula had never happened for these poli-sci nitwits. President Barack Obama rode into the White House in 2008 on a message of “hope and change.” And nowhere in his entire 8 years was his deepest desire for bipartisanship to move the country forward more apparent, and more sincere, than in the Affordable Care Act legislative debacle. Not only did Obama almost literally beg Boehner and McConnell for suggestions on ways to craft the bill to make it more palatable to Republicans to support, he even scrapped things that his liberal base were screaming for, in order to appease them. And what did he get for it? A couple of middle fingers, and “death panels for Granny!” What is it going to take for those telegenic, know-it-all, “I get paid for this shit and Murfster35 doesn’t” featherless dodo’s to get it through their thick skulls? Bipartisanship is DEAD! There is no such thing anymore. You can’t have bipartisanship when only one side is negotiating in good faith, or even bad faith for that matter. That is what we non lettered morons call capitulation, or to put it in 1938 terms for the more historically inclined, appeasement. And we all saw where that got us the last time around. This isn’t that hard to twig out. The simple fact is that there is no longer a “moderate” Republican party. The handful of remaining alleged “moderates” in the party, people like Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Charlie Dent, Carlos Curbelo, and Bob Corker either fled in disgust, or were beaten in 2018. All that is left is the rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth public health hazard that is the Trump party. There is no compromise or negotiation possible, because Glorious Bleater himself has never negotiated in good faith for anything in his life. So, please Democrats, I beg you, don’t go down this bipartisan […]