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THEY THINK WE’RE IDIOTS: Biden Builds the Wall | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Fri, Oct 6, 2023

JOE BIDEN and his administration has insulted the intelligence of every American voter, and they don’t care. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Myorkas waived 26 federal laws protecting the air, water, and endangered species to continue building the wall approved under Donald Trump’s administration in 2019. This flies in the face of Biden’s campaign promise of “not another …

Immanentizing the Republican Eschaton | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Oct 4, 2023

I am not a fan of Kevin McCarthy. He’s as slippery as a greased pig. He got to be Speaker of the House by attempting to bridge an impossible gap between MAGA clowns and Republicans sharing a caucus. And predictably, he failed. Matt Gaetz reportedly (and publicly) has harbored a grudge against McCarthy for some years. This …

UKRAINE: Putin’s Shutdown Madness Strategy | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Sep 26, 2023

Ukraine is taking back Russian-held territory, meter by meter, slogging through the summer into fall, at great cost: the Russian front on their territory would stretch from Norfolk to Augusta, Georgia if it was in the U.S.—to give you a sense of scale. Ukraine has made relatively tiny advances, mostly confined to a salient (a …

CHOOSE: Which Path Shall the GOP Take? | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Mon, Sep 18, 2023

Some proposed definitions to add to the Webster’s dictionary: Bobbitt (v) – to cut off one’s partner’s male genitalia, i.e. penis, with a kitchen knife. Generally done while the partner is sleeping. “She Bobbitted him real good after she caught him cheating on her.” Boebert (v) – to fondle one’s partner’s male genitalia, i.e. penis, …

IMPEACHMENT: A Slow Motion Biden Train Wreck | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Fri, Sep 15, 2023

If you stand on the Kansas & Oklahoma line railroad tracks in Scott City, Kansas and look east, you can see the train coming from Dighton, 23 miles away. Straight and flat all the way. Like a train coming, since before the 2016 election, the Biden family, and then-Vice President Biden were deeply involved in …

BAD NEWS: The Electoral Math Says… | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Sep 12, 2023

It’s hard for me personally to understand why the polls continuously have Donald Trump with a double-digit lead among Republican voters in primary polls (as of September 12, that is). As my brother tends to gently smack me in the head to bring me to reality—people have made their major decision on Trump’s disqualification. Those who continue …

KILL X? Musk Says He’s Not Anti-Semitic While Blaming Jews For X’s Woes

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Sep 5, 2023

Over the long weekend, Elon Musk attacked a Jewish organization, the Anti Defamation League (ADL), for “destroying half the value of [X/Twitter]…roughly $22 billion” in a bizarre claim that ADL pressured advertisers to leave the platform. It’s a monumentally dumb move. Let me be clear about a couple of things before I explain why. First, …

NOBODY’S HEROES: Pence and Meadows Got Played | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Aug 29, 2023

You don’t have to like Donald Trump to go along with him. This is the story of two men who were very close to Trump during the final phase of using “stop the steal” as a cover story while the real stealing went on. Vice President Mike Pence was as pliant and genial an advocate …

PRISONER: The Best Mugshot in History | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Fri, Aug 25, 2023

Donald J. Trump is now inmate number P01135809 at the Fulton County Jail. He was released on $200,000 bond, which he arranged without having to stop at the Second Chance Bail Bond office (as Giuliani had to do). It was fly in, close every freaking Interstate in Atlanta, go in the jail by the secure sally …

GOP DEBATE: Stop Listening to a CBS Hallucination | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Aug 22, 2023

Thursday, the spectacle of Donald J. Trump turning himself in at the Fulton County Jail will consume the media, even eclipsing the search for a thousand missing souls in Maui and California digging out of mud and floods. And the network of “it may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS” put out …

INDICTMENT: Why We Must Not Stop Georgia’s Trump Racketeering Trial | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Aug 15, 2023

Even Donald Trump knew that his greatest legal threat would come from Atlanta. “Billion Dollar Lawyer” Drew Findling leads the Trump legal team in Fulton County, which will be fighting the indictments handed down by District Attorney Fani Willis late last night. All in all, 19 alleged conspirators were charged as part of a wide-ranging case that …

GEORGIA: Trump Fracture Will Erupt After Charges Drop | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Aug 9, 2023

In 2022, Gov. Brian Kemp, who former President Donald Trump despised, beat Trump’s candidate, former Sen. David Perdue, by 51.9 points. (You saw that right: the margin between the two candidates was over 50 points. The actual percentages were 73.7% for Kemp, 21.8% for Perdue.) Perdue previously lost his 2020 Senate race in a runoff …