Tuesday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Should’ve known electing a MAD Magazine parody president would turn US politics into a reality TV freakshow.
MAGA figures push claims Trump assassination attempt was staged (MSN)
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
Tucker Carlson Apologizes for the Role He Played in Getting Trump Elected (Yahoo)
Hot air, cuckboi. Apologize to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The surveillance state:
“ICE glasses”
@DK: Well whaddaya know – over in Wingnuttia they now have questions about Trump’s pro wrestler worthy fist pump and faux resistance to agents trying to get him off the stage in Butler, PA. They’ve also noticed that Trump immediately marketed the event (saved by Jesus!), and never mentions the poor guy who actually did “take a bullet,” and lost his life. Given the reality TV essence of cabinet meetings, nothing can be said to be beneath Trump’s dignity. Stew in it, Tucker!
Fatso is getting ready to TACO and knows he fucked up by welching on the JCPOA, so he’s spreading the bullshit deep and wide.
Imagine…guaranteed peace and safety EVERYWHERE!!!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116438239629407600
Oil markets suspicious trades. Inside information?
“Omission“
@charontwo:
I suspect this is the felon and/or a family member(s).
@Daryl:
I wonder why:
1. Trump refers to himself in the third person,
2. puts scare quotes around his name, and
3. capitalizes the letters in it.
The bottom could be falling out in Trump’s polls (CNN)
The more his unpopularity rises, the more he’ll decompensate further into psychosis.
The Long-Delayed Realization (Tony Davis)
At age 79 or 69 or 39: Trump is “temperamentally unfit” as Hillary repeated ad nauseum. A creepy and childish pathological lying pedo is unqualified at any stage.
Toddler Sent To Room While Grownups Talk (Wonkette)
While recovering from COVID, Joe Biden personally worked the phones to close a multinational hostage release involving Russia, after Trumpers + our dumbest demos (invariably blind to their ignorance) told us Biden was too elderly to function. So we replaced liberal competence with neofascist brainrot.
Youth is no antidote to the toxins in American culture, with Zoomer males hustled by Nick Fuentes, Polymarket, Clavicular, and Draft Kings. Selfishness and stupidity have no political cure.
Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida resigned on Tuesday moments before a hearing was to begin to consider what punishment to recommend after a House ethics panel found she had committed numerous campaign finance and reporting violations.
@DK:
I’ve read a number of reports recently, that El Taco was astonished how easily Iran closed off Hormuz, though he had been warned about it.
I think he may have imagined a physical barrier would be necessary. Like a cartoonishly large striped boom, like those on parking lots, or so many mines you could walk on them clear across the strait.
@DK:
I wonder what the over/under is till his numbers are down to the crazed 27%?
But he’s becoming more dangerous as he becomes unhinged..
Israeli soldiers punished over vandalism of Jesus statue in Lebanon
I wonder what Mike Huckabee and other evangelical supporters of Israel have to say?
@Daryl:
“Now where’s my Nobel prize, you ungrateful bastards?”
@JohnSF:
Reminds me of an obscure Rob Dilan* song, Blowin’ up the World:
How many wars must one man start
before he can get the Peace Prize?
The answer my friend
is blowin’ up the world
The answer is blowin’ up the world
*Winner of the Noble Price for Writin’ Stuff Good
Looks like it’s TACO Tuesday
El Taco has extended the ceasefire indefinitely, “while talks go on.”
That almost makes him look rational. I can’t help but think it’s an aberration, or even his sycophantic clown car of a cabinet and advisers have reached their limit of insanity.
@Kathy:
Didn’t Suzy Wiles call some sort of emergency meeting the other day?
@CSK:
Given the toddler Taco she’s charged with, and the clown car cabinet, I’d assume she’d call one very other day.
The repression continues. The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges.
I’m sure it’s bunk, and that it will cost the SPLC a bundle to clear itself, and time it won’t be able to dedicate to worthier causes.
On the plus side, in the special election in Virginia voters approved the redistricting measure.
Also on the plus side, according to Paul Krugman in his substack today, polls indicate a majority in the US believe the economy was better under Biden.
Of course, they think this because it’s true.