Based in North Carolina, Stacey Matthews is a former liberal and a 16+ year veteran of blogging with an emphasis on media bias, social issues, and the culture wars.
"These are the facts. On January 6th ...
Gov. DeSantis "may be a more competent Trump in terms of his ability to use the levers of state to amass power, but he’s also meaner and more rigid, without the soft edges and eccentricity of the actual Donald Trump," wrote New York Times columnist...
"Imagine Ron DeSantis goes up to a group of white teenagers, offers them some candy and says, ‘Hey, I’m gonna take you to Dinsey [sic] World if you get in my van.’ And then Ron DeSantis drives them to Bush Gardens. That’s kidnapping!" - MSNBC...
MSNBC reporter: Illegal immigrants who were flown to Martha’s Vineyard are "not angry at Ron DeSantis," and some are "actually thanking him" for the trip to the purported "sanctuary" community....
"Schumer privately told a group of Democratic senators that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is 'in trouble' and Democrats are going to lose the House...
"We have to start by sincerely apologizing to Mr. Shapiro for our reaction when he visited a booth we sold his company. That wasn’t right."...
"The message Licht’s firings send to CNN journalists is crystal clear: Too much criticism of the right, which remains united behind Trump and champions the election denial that triggered the January 6 insurrection, may cost you your job."...
Deliberate Democrat strategy: "This is an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights," Karine Jean-Pierre said in a preview of the speech....
“What we’re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the – I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.” - Joe Biden...
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“Hell no. Hell no,” Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue said at the time when asked if he planned on bowing to cancel culture mobs and apologizing for his praise of then-President Trump....
"I definitely get more done when he’s not here," Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told Politico Playbook. "No question about it."...
"The GOP is preying on people's fears of an audit -- which is practically nil (and 80 percent of which are just an exchange of letters). The stated goal is crack down on well-heeled tax cheats, not ordinary Americans, to close a tax gap estimated...
"Friends, I’ve decided that, after 20 years, I’m leaving @cnn after my vacation. Was great to spend my last day on air with pals Wolf, Anderson and Don. Love all my former colleagues."...
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"All of my GOP friends who are worried about 87,000 IRS enforcement agents coming after the little guy...
“So, the upshot of all this is, we want to stop these kind of 'masters of the universe' from trying to do through economic power what they cannot achieve at the ballot box. And it's really an end-run around democracy, where they're trying to impose...
"Defense Department officials have been sounding the alarm for months: the military is going to miss its enlisted recruiting goals this year, and the Army may be in the worst spot of any of the services." - Army Times...
