2018-10-14 06:15
Hurricane Michael left death and destruction across the SouthEast, but Donald Trump said it was ok for him to go ahead and hold a political rally, because:
We had it under great control. Bec… Read More
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2018-10-13 19:48
Bipartisanship may be dead in Congress, but it might still be clinging on to life among some retired political figures.
Remember the video that surfaced from John McCain’s funeral, sho… Read More
2018-10-12 06:14
I know none of this is a surprise, but given that Trump’s campaign rallies have gotten so old and tired that even Fox News isn’t broadcasting them live anymore, this seems partic… Read More
2018-10-11 12:32
Yes, the Republicans did manage to get an accused attempted rapist confirmed to the Supreme Court, but that seems to be the only good news for them.
Yesterday, the Dow Jones average dropped… Read More
2018-10-06 12:30
Everyone has been focused on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, so of course the Republicans have taken this distraction as an opportunity to sneak in some things they wanted. Probably t… Read More
2018-10-05 06:19
Even Brett Kavanaugh’s drinking buddies say that he lied under oath when he claimed that he never drank to the point of forgetting what he was doing. They swear that they saw him do ju… Read More
2018-10-04 16:59
Taking the tip from Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump, Republicans have started attacking Christine Blasey Ford.
For example, they are posting photographs that they claim proves that Ford is… Read More
2018-10-03 13:15
[I was wondering when Margaret and Helen would weigh in. Helen Philpot does not disappoint.]
Lindsey Graham Sets His Sights On Becoming First Lady
Margaret, did you know that women currently… Read More
2018-10-03 06:15
Benjamin Wittes (the editor in chief of Lawfare and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution) published an excellent article in The Atlantic titled “I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wou… Read More
2018-10-02 06:15
If you don’t understand why the #metoo movement is so angry, I suggest you read this short article titled “Everything I can remember“.
As a man, I can only guess what this… Read More
2018-10-01 06:32
John Oliver asks all the right questions. For example, why are the Republicans so desperate to put Judge Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? Couldn’t they find someone who is a little less… Read More
2018-09-27 03:54
If there was any doubt that conservatives — especially social conservatives who used to champion “respectable social behavior” — have completely lost any and all mora… Read More
2018-09-26 04:15
Now that Donald Trump’s new tariffs against China are in effect, the question is what will this do to prices in the US. Here’s an article that lists what will probably increase i… Read More
2018-09-23 22:20
Sometimes, not always, but sometimes I think Donald Trump wants to lose his majority in Congress at the midterms. I know this sounds crazy, but what isn’t crazy now?
Look at it this wa… Read More
2018-09-21 12:56
When it is called a tariff.
Republicans claim to be against tax increases. They attack anyone who they believe wants to raise taxes. And yet, they have ignored Trump’s tax increases. W… Read More
2018-09-18 12:18
You can’t make this kind of stuff up. Can FEMA look any more incompetent?
With Hurricane Florence causing historically massive flooding on the east coast FEMA decided it was a good tim… Read More
2018-09-17 13:06
What will happen to Brett Kavanaugh? If the Republicans ram the Supreme Court nomination of Kavanaugh down America’s throat, they are going to rile up Democrats (especially women) and… Read More
2018-09-16 13:13
The Republicans have never tried to hide the fact that they are doing everything they can to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Their hysterical campaign has included a barrage of… Read More
2018-09-15 10:56
Sometimes the news just writes itself. On Friday, FEMA tweeted this message:
We have created a rumor control page for Hurricane #Florence that will be updated regularly. During disasters, i… Read More
2018-09-15 06:32
© Ruben Bolling
Does anyone feel better, knowing that there are members of the Trump administration who are actively working to keep us safe from the worst impulses of Donald Trump? Of… Read More
2018-09-14 12:28
© Mike Keefe
And right now, Trump’s major mental defect is that he is simply making shit up about Puerto Rico. Trump claims that only between 6 and 18 people died because of Hurr… Read More
2018-09-13 15:30
Hurricane Florence is bearing down on the eastern coast of the US. According to the National Weather Service, “This will likely be the storm of a lifetime for portions of the Carolina… Read More
2018-09-12 17:45
There is some great video of Trump in this. Watch while Trump — at a fundraiser in Fargo ND — waves some papers in the air. He brags “It’s four pages of things that… Read More
2018-09-12 06:15
This would be funny if it were not so true:
© Tom Tomorrow
I truly wish something like this would happen:
© Jen Sorensen
Confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh will start a war to overt… Read More
2018-09-11 18:05
The Trump administration is not fighting a war against climate change, it is collaborating with the enemy. And it is doing it in the sneakiest way possible. In July, the EPA made it easier t… Read More
2018-09-11 12:02
Stephen Colbert asks Bob Woodward a question (in detail) that lots of us have been curious about, which is “How in the world does Bob Woodward get people to spill their guts to him?&rd&hell…Read More
2018-09-10 11:50
The Republican party has lurched from claiming that climate change doesn’t exist (including Trump’s claim that it is a Chinese hoax), to admitting that it does exist but that it… Read More
2018-09-08 14:13
Congressman Billy Long (R-MO) has a unique way to shut down right wing-nuts when they start to blather.
Related posts:McCain claims he is not a rich man – is that why he is selling h… Read More
2018-09-06 16:23
Apparently, Washington (and everywhere else) is going crazy trying to figure out who wrote the bombshell anonymous op-ed published in the NY Times.
Related posts:Conservative Response to J… Read More
2018-09-06 14:29
Of course Donald Trump is attacking Bob Woodward’s book. What else would we expect?
In fact, the strangest thing about this is that the book announcement caught Trump off guard initial… Read More
2018-09-05 21:37
The NY Times just published an article by a senior Trump administration official titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration“. The name of the author was… Read More
2018-09-03 04:29
Ok, I admit it, I’m almost enjoying watching the news from John McCain’s funeral. This is a double whammy for Trump, who absolutely needs to be the focus of attention. And on top… Read More
2018-09-01 06:35
The Wall Street Journal reports that sales of AR-15 assault rifles and other “long guns” have cratered. Revenues are down 50% since Trump got elected, most likely because gun lov… Read More
2018-08-31 06:01
I love listening to Joe Biden speak. Do me a favor and watch this. Don’t read about it. Don’t watch a short highlights video.
And please, let’s try to leave politics out o… Read More
2018-08-30 11:20
© Tom Tomorrow
How will this end? The Atlantic has an interesting article that compares the likely coming fall of Donald Trump to a Shakespearean play (namely, the “Scottish play… Read More
2018-08-29 12:32
When Donald Trump was running for president, he promised that he would “surround myself only with the best and most serious people”. Hilariously, he even said that they would be… Read More
2018-08-27 06:42
Related posts:The ‘eductaion’ of Fox News
Fox News goes Ironic
Goodwill from Fox News Read More
2018-08-26 06:09
This powerful article, written by Katherine Fugate, speaks the truth about how we all have the ability to fight racism and xenophobia.
If you are concerned about the current level of racism… Read More
2018-08-25 08:52
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2018-08-24 18:25
I know it has been a while, but I just wanted to give a heads up that I might resume posting a bit before the midterm elections.
As I’ve said before, I’m not really upset at Dona… Read More
2017-10-22 02:25
I’ve been publishing Political Irony since May 2008, during the run up to the election of Barack Obama as president. I started this blog for several reasons.
Primary was my frustration… Read More
2017-10-19 15:24
One of the few things we know about what happened in Niger a few weeks ago is that four American soldiers died. We don’t know why those soldiers were there, what mistakes were made tha… Read More
2017-10-19 04:00
© Tom Tomorrow
Everything is speeding up so fast that in the near future, everything might happen at the same time!
Related posts:Get your election results early!
The Republican vers… Read More
2017-10-16 06:24
SNL doesn’t pull any punches!
No related posts Read More
2017-10-15 14:34
© Steve Kelly
How much bad news can we take? Either caused by man or nature?
Meanwhile, I had hope that we had heard the last from Michele Bachmann when she lost her seat in Congress… Read More
2017-10-13 12:22
© Ruben Bolling
This comic is brilliant. I just hope he does more like it.
For example, how Republicans are repeatedly and desperately looking for election fraud for which there is abs… Read More
2017-10-12 03:56
[from Margaret and Helen]
Margaret, last week six football players knelt during the national anthem. This week it was 200. And just like Colin Kaepernick, they weren’t making a state… Read More
2017-10-11 00:14
© Tom Tomorrow
According to the Fact Checker at the Washington Post, Donald Trump has made 1,318 false or misleading claims over 263 days. How’s that for material?
I don’t… Read More
2017-10-09 01:28
© Ruben Bolling
Leave it to America. In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, when the news came out that the shooter had used “bump-stock” devices to turn semi-automatic rif… Read More
2017-09-18 14:23
© Ruben Bolling
Batten down the hatches! Run for cover! The denialists won’t be denied! Raining and flooding will just cause them to flood the airwaves. Not to mention sticking t… Read More
2017-09-15 06:45
© Tom Tomorrow
And the best part is that you don’t even have to wear them. You can get the same effect from TV or the internet if you look at the right things (and when we say ri… Read More
2017-09-13 06:30
© Jen Sorensen
Trump supporters hate say they hate immigrants, but they only hate immigrant workers. They seem to be blind to immigrant companies, such as multinational corporations. E… Read More
2017-09-12 05:43
Republicans claim to be the party of self reliance and personal responsibility. But they don’t hesitate to blame any problems on someone else. They even blame their problems on childr… Read More
2017-09-09 03:54
There is an interesting article in the Chicago Tribune about the right-wing media.
You know how the right (including Donald Trump) have been claiming that climate change is “fake news… Read More
2017-09-02 06:18
Never heard of Sinclair Broadcast Group? Well you should know them, because they very well could be filling your head with far-right-wing propaganda. And if Donald Trump has his way, it wil… Read More
2017-08-31 16:54
© Keef Knight
As long as Donald Trump keeps clarifying his statements on Charlottesville, we may as well join in. After all, he has taken almost every possible position except this one… Read More
2017-08-29 13:00
Donald Trump fired his longtime aide George Gigicos, who has planned almost all of Trump’s rallies since the start of the presidential campaign. Why? Because there weren’t enough… Read More
2017-08-27 12:49
Donald Trump has broken a presidential record. He has now achieved the lowest approval rating in his first year in office of any president, ever, and he even has five months left in his firs… Read More
2017-08-25 13:17
This has to be the flip-flop of the year. Is Donald Trump really going to hold the federal budget hostage just because he is a terrible negotiator?
Related posts:The Supreme Flop
Ethanol… Read More
2017-08-25 06:22
Last week, the Presidential Committee on the Arts and the Humanities disbanded themselves in protest of Donald Trump, but they did something interesting in their letter of resignation. The f… Read More
2017-08-24 06:24
© Matt Lubchansky
Make America Great … Again?
What good old days do they want to go back to? The Civil War?
© Steve Kelley
Related posts:The Good Old Days
First 100 Days… Read More
2017-08-22 06:24
The New York Times has an excellent article on how to deal with white supremacists, racists, and Nazis. They call it “humorous subversion” but it really is just making fun of the… Read More
2017-08-21 06:22
© Brian McFadden
Every since Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” Republicans have been courting racists and bigots in the name of states rights, voter fraud laws, harsh and e… Read More
2017-08-21 06:10
Four to go.
Or should I say “Five to go”?
No related posts Read More
2017-08-21 01:09
[I absolutely love this article from The Atlantic. Especially the last line. –iron]
The scientists are all talking like it’s a sure thing.
On August 21, the “moon” wi… Read More
2017-08-20 06:12
Related posts:Give Me a Sign
Give me Liberty, or give me a new Caucus
A Sign Read More
2017-08-19 06:22
The Economist just wrote a wonderful “detailed, ringing rebuttal” to the former Google employee who circulated a sexist message internally, but which leaked out and caused a big… Read More
2017-08-18 06:30
Donald Trump has managed to do something that no other Republican president in recent history has done. He has alienated the captains of industry.
The presidential Strategic and Policy Forum… Read More
2017-08-17 06:24
© Jack Ohman
It only took one day for Donald Trump to go back to to blaming “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville.
He also did something worse in a way. About th… Read More
2017-08-16 11:46
Donald Trump makes statements that earn him a “Pants on Fire” rating from PolitiFact 52 times more often than Barack Obama did while he was president. To put this in perspective… Read More
2017-08-15 04:56
© Tom Tomorrow
TT admits that he initially finished this strip a week ago, but rewrote the final panel before publishing it because of Charlottesville. He didn’t want to wait unt… Read More
2017-08-13 11:19
When it is committed by someone from a group of people who voted for Donald Trump. You know, like white supremacists.
Even The Economist, normally not overly concerned with civil rights, con… Read More
2017-08-12 11:26
© Glenn McCoy
Not only that, but Donald Trump is also bringing conservatives and progressives together. It has been a while since I’ve seen Glenn McCoy publish a comic that was c… Read More
2017-08-11 14:35
© David Horsey
I try to ignore him. Try to forget about him. Then he goes and does something like threatening to unleash nuclear fire and fury. Ignoring him just seems to make him more… Read More
2017-08-10 03:36
© Tom Tomorrow
I’m still not sure if Donald Trump even believes half the stupid lies he tells.
And now of course, Trump has become a “madman with nuclear weapons“, th… Read More
2017-08-07 06:22
Some of you might be thinking that having a new communications director get fired before he even officially starts his job because of a profanity-laced (possibly drunken) tirade to a reporte… Read More
2017-08-06 13:05
Donald Trump not only lies constantly, he even tries to convince other world leaders to lie for him.
But it looks like this is (finally!) catching up with him. The latest polls show that ev… Read More
2017-08-05 06:25
© Jack Ohman
Unfortunately, this comic left off the current leading candidate for the position of White House communications director, which of course would be Donald Trump himself. Tr… Read More
2017-08-04 06:27
An interesting new web site tracks 600 Twitter accounts “linked to Russian influence activities online”.
This is very interesting because while Russian efforts to spread disinfor… Read More
2017-08-03 15:57
Trevor Noah hilariously pokes fun at the White House over Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired even before he officially started his new job.
Related posts:Lifestyles of Assholes
Make Americ… Read More
2017-08-02 06:23
© Tom Tomorrow
I suspect that sometime in the near future, Donald Trump is going to try to pardon someone he shouldn’t, and all hell will break loose. My only question is whether… Read More
2017-08-01 06:26
This weekend, attendees at a large cybersecurity conference were invited to try their hands at hacking 30 voting machines. The conference had acquired the machines and set up a “voting… Read More
2017-07-31 09:00
Some people have started to notice something interesting. All attention was focused on John McCain as he made a dramatic return to the Senate after being diagnosed with cancer, giving a spee… Read More
2017-07-31 06:09
Trump jokes about wanting to be on Mt. Rushmore. Mt. Rushmore responds:
No related posts Read More
2017-07-30 06:27
Donald Trump is replacing everyone in the White House who is not his relative with really bad caricatures from B-movies.
Either that, or some horrific reality show where they really do kill… Read More
2017-07-29 07:37
Conservative George Will has a lovely and hilarious opinion piece in the Washington Post. I really do recommend that you go read the whole thing, but I’ll include a few paragraphs to e… Read More
2017-07-28 15:14
Late last night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill that nobody had read (or even seen before). Then he brought the bill up for a vote this morning at 1am. Seriously. I… Read More
2017-07-27 14:49
© Barry Deutsch
Why did Donald Trump lash out against transgendered soldiers on Twitter? After all, during the presidential campaign he made it clear that he didn’t care one way… Read More
2017-07-26 06:30
[reprinted from The Onion]
Senator Struggling To Weigh Interests Of Entire Constituency Against Nothing
WASHINGTON—As legislators gathered Tuesday for a critical vote that would go a l… Read More
2017-07-25 11:40
© Scott Stantis
Donald Trump keeps attacking his own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, complaining that Sessions should not have recused himself from investigating Russia and that Sessi… Read More
2017-07-24 07:43
© Ruben Bolling
Remember, it isn’t a crime when the president does it, or someone does it for him.
I have a theory about this, I call it the “good/bad syndrome”. It i… Read More
2017-07-23 12:53
© Joel Pett
This is all over the news, so I won’t go into much detail, but Donald Trump has launched an all out war against special counsel Robert Mueller. He started one of the… Read More
2017-07-22 11:34
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is supposed to be our country’s top law enforcer, but evidence appeared on Friday that Sessions perjured himself twice.
The first time we already knew ab… Read More
2017-07-21 06:26
And now he has even more to be angry about!
No related posts Read More
2017-07-20 13:55
Donald Trump decided to celebrate this week as “Made in America” week, saying “Remember the old days, you used to have ‘Made in the USA’. We’re going to p… Read More
2017-07-19 10:00
© Tom Tomorrow
Why do Donald Trump supporters believe anything he says? How can they believe such a flimsy story about meeting with the Russians?
Even Trump jokes about his constant ha… Read More
2017-07-17 12:35
© Clay Bennett
Team Trump spent this weekend engaging in a propaganda technique called “Whataboutism” that is similar to a technique often used by young children. Whatabout… Read More
2017-07-15 11:37
© Ruben Bolling
Have you seen the movie (or the play) “The Producers”? Actually, there were two versions of the movie, either will do. In The Producers a Broadway producer… Read More
2017-07-14 06:30
© Tom Tomorrow
The Republicans keep claiming that the Obamacare exchanges are collapsing. I guess they think that if they repeat it often enough, it will be true. There are just TWO pr… Read More
2017-07-13 13:45
As I’ve said many times, I’m a pragmatist. If there is hard evidence that something works, then I’m for it, ideology be damned. I like single-payer health insurance because… Read More
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