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We Gotta Redefine This Mass Shooting Thing
The fake news and the corrupt Deep State FBI have convinced Americans that we have a lot of mass killings in this America. The fake figures are backed up by some communist university where the most popular course is taught by a drag queen. The course is called "God Sucks Let's Burn the Flag 101."
According to those very bad, deranged liars, ...Read more
Trump’s Political Survival? Blame the Media
Most people today have never even heard of him, but I remember Pogo. During the ’50s and ’60s, cartoonist Walt Kelly’s weekly account of the little opossum Pogo was the most popular comic strip in America, syndicated in more than 450 newspapers.
If Pogo’s remembered at all, it’s for one episode created by Kelly in 1970 to mark the ...Read more
Trump Threatens Social Security's Stability
Donald Trump's tax and spending plans would add enormous amounts to the national debt, with some estimates as high as $15 trillion over a decade. But some of his tax cuts stand apart in threatening one of America's most revered programs, Social Security. They would essentially bankrupt it by 2031.
This is not some far-off worry. We're talking...Read more
Trump Justice
An ABC story, which should have gotten more attention than it did, reports that a proposed appointment roster entitled "Transition Planning: Legal Principals" lists Judge Aileen Cannon, the federal district judge who threw out the classified documents case against Donald Trump, as a candidate for attorney general if Trump gets elected. Cannon,...Read more
The Best Day of Trump's Life
The simple truth about Jan. 6: The mob attack on the Capitol was the best day of Donald Trump's life.
Before you cast your ballot for president, you need to know that. And it's my fate to tell the tale again.
Trump loved every moment of the deadly riot, which is why he refused to call off the rampage for three hours and counting.
Look, what...Read more
Lilly Ledbetter Fought the Bastards -- And Won for All of Us
Forget the cartoonish "Great Man" version of American history. Nearly all social progress in our country has been spurred by unheralded "nobodies" who felt a sting of injustice and resolved to right the wrong.
Lilly Ledbetter, who recently died at 86, was one such trailblazing rebel. It's worth remembering her gutsy stand for "paycheck ...Read more
Chicken Dance: Dodging Harris and Hiding Medical Records, Donald Trump Bobs, Weaves and Sways
Anyone undecided on whether or not Donald Trump is all there cognitively got quite the lifeline recently at a Trump rally outside Philadelphia when what started as a town hall turned into a new television special: Donald Trump Dancing With Himself. Midway through an event in which South Dakota Gov. and famed puppy executioner Kristi Noem was ...Read more
Trump Simply Likes to Scam Little People
With the election upon us, many voters are focused on Donald Trump's unravelling mental state and his radical plans to kill off the democracy. But there should be space to recall his scams victimizing ordinary people and his joy in pulling them off. That speaks to character.
Trump's latest fishy deal involves a crypto operation. But let's ...Read more
Donald Trump’s 'Day of Love' Was Far From Lovely
I was delighted but, alas, not all that excited by the platform of policies that Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled to court Black male voters this week.
Her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men” offers a big package...Read more
Trump’s Penis Envy: Why Winning the Presidency is More Important to Him than Preserving Democracy
On Saturday, Trump opened his speech at the airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, with 12 minutes of reminiscences about the golfer Arnold Palmer, who grew up in Latrobe and for whom its airport is named.
As The New York Times reported, “His monologue culminated in lewd remarks about the size of Mr. Palmer’s penis.”
What historians may term ...Read more
The Endless Campaign
"Cat Eats Fox" was Matt Drudge's headline after Kamala Harris' much touted "interview" with Fox News anchor Bret Baier. It wasn't really an interview. He whined about her coming in 15 minutes late for a pretaped interview and then barely let her answer a question before interrupting her, talking over her and generally just playing to his Fox ...Read more
Corporations Are People. Punish Them Accordingly.
Corporations enjoy many of the same rights and protections as individual citizens, the Supreme Court ruled in 2010. Not only may a corporation claim the right of freedom of religion to, for example, refuse to cover birth control under employee insurance, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission found that the First Amendment grants it the ...Read more
Trump, Musk and the Hideous Campaign of Hate
Long before Donald Trump declared he would run for president, his first political adviser articulated the central idea that has come to define both candidate and campaign.
"Hate is a stronger motivator than love," said Roger Stone in 2008 -- and that corrosive outlook is obviously what still drives the Watergate-vintage dirty trickster and ...Read more
I Quit: Hatred Doesn't Need My Help
Not everything you try will be right for you. But you'll never know if you never try, and you'll learn a lot either way. Don't let the uncertainty stop you.
I quit my day job as a newspaper editor of the opinion section. People are disappointed and some are even angry, but I have to do right by myself, and forge my own path according to my ...Read more
Will Trump Round Me Up?
Will they come at night? When I'm asleep next to my wife? When my cat Jack is curled up next to my ankles? Or in the daytime? When my wife is at work? When I'm at home reading and eating a bagel? Will I be gone when she gets home, and will she think I'm at the gym? Or will there be "signs of a struggle," as the newspapers say?
Presidential ...Read more
Bill Press Advisory
Bill Press is not filing a 10/17/24 column. We are subbing Mary Sanchez. The Press column returns next week.
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JD Vance’s Hateful Masterclass on Immigrants
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who are you calling “fickle?”
Repeatedly labeling former President Donald Trump as a man of “fickle leadership” was a go-to line for Walz during the first and only debate between the vice president running mates of Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
But it was Walz who came off as unsteady, wavering and ...Read more
Must We Feel Sorry for Those Who Believe MAGA?
The tricks Donald Trump tried to play on the recent hurricane victims were beyond depraved. Here were people suffering major losses, their lives stopped in a hellscape of tattered roofs, ruined possessions and, in some cases, a pile of debris where their home once stood. And there was Trump making their lives more miserable as a tactic to fool...Read more
Beyond Weird
It started as a joyful campaign. When President Joe Biden dropped out, Kamala Harris, the president's pick and soon after the pick of every prominent Democrat, quickly secured the nomination. No one put themselves up against her. It was a relief and a joyful coronation. Her vice presidential nominee was the salt of the earth. Coach Tim. The ...Read more
Sordid Story: Corporate Executives Get Self-Gratification From M&As
Sadism and masochism (abbreviated as S&M) are generally frowned on in polite society as perverse acts of sexual gratification. But what should we make of M&As?
This is Wall Street's abbreviation of mergers and acquisitions, which are acts of self-gratification practiced by top corporate executives. Such financial couplings can also be judged ...Read more