Category Archives: Wonky Media

Washington Post: A President Trump Could Destroy The World Economy Or Something

I’m starting to see a pattern here from the Washington Post Editorial Board. It’s another day, another crazy editorial from the WP editorial Board. Previously, we’ve learned that a Pres Trump could deport freely (hooray!), that he’d end the era of US global leadership (not much left to lose after 8 years of Obama) or […]

Progressive Haven Of NY Times Suddenly Upset About This Whole “Democracy” Thing

Progressives have long been big adherents of Direct Democracy, where the people vote for lots and lots of things directly to determine the outcome. Think of ballot initiatives. This is different from representative democracy, where people vote lawmakers, who then go and vote the way their big moneyed donors constituents determine. But, NY Times writers […]

Washington Post: A President Trump Could End The Era Of American Global Leadership Or Something

Sunday, the Washington Post Editorial Board told us that a President Trump could “deport freely”, which was supposed to be a negative. Monday we learn something interesting (which fails to mention the phrase “leading from behind”) A President Trump could end the era of American global leadership IN NO realm is the U.S. president more […]

Bombshell Or Something: Trump Might Possibly Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes For 18 Years

At the end of the day, the question this brings up is “will anyone beyond the anti-business left give a damn?” Here’s the NY Times going hysteric “Trump Tax Records Obtained by The Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades.” Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his […]

CNN Decides To Falsely Add “Racial” To Trump Comment

The Hill’s Joe Concha catches something interesting CNN added the word “racial” to Donald Trump’s Monday comments on terrorism and immigration, and is running headlines reporting that the GOP nominee is advocating “racial profiling”. But a review of the transcript of Trump’s comments to Fox News that CNN quoted, however, shows that Trump never put […]

Trump Trolls Anti-Gun Liberals, Suggests Hillary Should Disarm Her Protection

For all of Trump’s faults, least of which is that he is essentially a Blue Dog Democrat, he doesn’t shy away from being provocative. Sometimes this elicits a pure facepalm moment from Republicans. Others utterly tweek the noses of liberals/Democrats/progressives, putting them into apoplexy, and often highlights their hypocrisy and bias. Right now, most of […]

Washington Post: Say, Perhaps Candidates Health Records Should Remain Private

The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus is at it again. Previously, she was Very Upset, even sickened, by Donald Trump’s (and really, lots and lots of people’s) concerns over Hillary’s seemingly poor health. It was even considered sexxxxxist. And now, after months and months of records of Hillary having massive coughing attacks, barely able to walk […]

CNN Totally Debunks Hillary Health Conspiracy Or Something

Why? Because they’ve seen a letter from her doctor! The new birthers: Debunking the Hillary Clinton health conspiracy From Donald Trump and his top surrogates to the right-wing media and its engine rooms of outrage in the blogosphere, Hillary Clinton’s opponents are ramping up efforts to sow doubt over the candidate’s health. Much in the […]

Washington Post: Trump’s Attacks On Hillary’s (Poor) Health Sickening Or Something

Ruth Marcus is Very Upset over anyone daring to question the health of Hillary Clinton, because no one should question the Queen, and it makes her sick. Especially since Ruth drags in the sexxxxxism card Trump’s Sickening attacks on Clinton’s health Donald Trump — he who likes to fly home at night in the comfort […]

NY Times: Aetna Dramatically Decreasing Participation In Obamacare Is Just A Hiccup

Aetna has announced that it will significantly reduce its participation in the Obamacare exchanges due to losing quite a bit of money. Many other insurance providers have done the same or pulled out completely. According to the NY Times Editorial Board, the obvious idea here is to scrap it and start over with ideas that […]

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