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Asshole of the Month: Pam Bondi
In our system of government, the most powerful officials—after the President —are supposedly those in line to succeed POTUS: the Vice President, then Speaker of the House, President Pro Tempore of the Senate…and eventually you get to the U.S. Attorney General, coming in at seventh place. But the AG is arguably the second most powerful...
Asshole of the Month: Russell Vought
When Trump was campaigning last year, he disavowed any connection with Project 2025, the manifesto of far-right fever dreams hatched by the Heritage Foundation and veterans of Trump’s first term. He knew that Project 2025 proposed a mission so radical and sweeping— kneecapping or dismantling almost the entire federal government—that it would alarm most Americans...
Asshole of the Month: Kash Patel
Every tin-pot authoritarian leader in history has maintained power with one essential asset: a ruthless, obedient henchman as chief of state security—the badass SOB who imprisons, tortures and kills all opposition to “Dear Leader.” Hitler had Heinrich Himmler, Stalin had Lavrentiy Beria, and Mao had Kang Sheng—the top cops doing the dirty work of suppressing...
Asshole of the Month: Vivek Ramaswamy
On November 6th of last year, half the nation awakened to the confirmation that the election results were not a sweat-drenched nightmare but a dreadful reality: We will have to endure four more years of the Orange Buffoon occupying the White House. To complete the horror, the House and Senate will be dominated by Republicans,...
Asshole of the Month: Pete Hegseth
Among the unqualified carnival clowns and bootlickers named by Trump as of this writing, one stands out as the most deranged and dangerous: the candidate for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, a Christian holy warrior who has declared jihad against two foes—Islam and the American Left. As reported in The Washington Post, he has demonized...
Asshole of the Month: Benjamin Netanyahu
For over a year now, the world has endured another gut-wrenching orgy of violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict. A little history first: After the British unveiled the 1917 Balfour Declaration promising a homeland to the Jewish people in Palestine, a former region of the Ottoman Empire, Jews began to immigrate to the region in large...
Asshole of the Month: Mark Robinson
However enlightened and good-hearted, most of us still harbor stereotypes about groups of people beyond our own. One stereotype about African-Americans is that they are all Democrats. Joe Biden expressed this in the 2020 race when he said, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”...
Asshole of the Month: Donald Trump
The mop-haired, B-movie monster from Mar-a-Lago is back, terrorizing the nation with the very real prospect of another gut-wrenching four years in the White House. WTF?! In a 2024 survey of scholars and social science experts, the American Political Science Association rated all U.S. Presidents with a 0–100 score, and Donald Trump came in dead...
Asshole of the Month: J.D. Vance
Trump’s pick for running mate, J.D. Vance, has been called the “voice of the Rust Belt” after his 2016 bestseller Hillbilly Elegy was published. The memoir recounted the travails of his dysfunctional family, originating in Kentucky coal mining country. Vance does have a true hillbilly pedigree: His paternal grandfather’s cousin, also named Jim, married into...
Assholes of the Month: The Supreme Court Conservative Justices
Usually, the damage a bad President does can be reversed once he’s gone, except for one crucial factor: The lifetime appointments made to the Supreme Court guarantee an active legacy outliving a President’s term(s) in office—by decades if the appointees live long enough. We knew there was going be a shitstorm after Trump was elected...
