EDITOR’S NOTE: News of the demise of The Shinbone Star have been greatly exaggerated. True, the need for our services were diminished with the advent of the Biden Administration, and most of the staff has been enjoying a well-deserved break from writing about politics. The door has always been open for a return, and staff […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Although The Shinbone Star is winding down its daily operation, some staff members still haven’t gotten the bad taste out of their mouths. Readers can expect random expostulations at least until the bile settles. By FRED BUNCH Most Republican senators say they won’t vote to impeach the deranged creature who incited a riot […]
Four years ago when The Shinbone Star started its mission to oppose the demagogue who had seized control of our nation, I didn’t know just how hard it would be. In fact I expected it to fail. Back then, the names Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had not entered my thought processes. I only knew […]
The Trump administration, no doubt the most corrupt in the history of the Republic, screeches to a halt in a matter of hours. At noon today, in accordance with the Constitution, Joseph R. Biden and Kamala Devi Harris will be sworn in as the president and vice president of the United States. The Trump Administration, […]
I started looking for all the FBI-reported war chatter cluttering up Facebook and Twitter and conversations in right-wing blogs to see what all the hot scoop was about. Never look up a right wing organization unless you are prepared for a barrage of the “latest hot poop from the city of baked beans (Boston)” or […]
Before everyone falls ass over heels praising Milquetoast Mike Pence, for standing up to Donald Trump, please remember, he was one of the first to embrace Donnie after his vile “Mexican rapists” speech in Trump Tower. That earned him the selection as Trump’s vice president. Even when virtually every shrink, mental health worker and sane […]
Bye, Bye, Douchebag Edition APPROVAL ALERT AT PRESS TIME:Pew Research Center Poll: 29%Rasmussen Poll: 48% Welcome to Trumplandia, a place where, with a bit of wit and snark, we keep the world caught up on all the tasty Nuggets-O-Trump you may have heard about but were too busy to care. Because most of this minutia […]
With the U.S. House of Representatives just voting to impeach Donald Trump a record second time, our pathetic orange führer has learned the hard way that inciting a violent insurrection against your own government is generally not considered a good thing. No student of history or much of anything else, Trump is reportedly a lot […]
The Constitution lays out very minimal requirements for the highest offices in the land. A president or vice president must be at least 35 years old, a “natural born” citizen, and a 14-year inhabitant of the United States. You need better credentials than that to get a job at McDonald’s. In fact, the people who’ve […]
Donald Trump, Oval Office Occupant #45, in a final attempt to remain in power, told the crowd during a Jan. 6 “Save America” rally in Washington, D.C., “We will never concede.” He called upon his faithful to storm the Capitol because his once faithful suck-up, Mike Pence, had refused to illegally attempt to overturn the […]
“Sen. Hawley was doing something that was really dumb-ass,” said Sen. Ben Sasse on Saturday about Josh Hawley’s enthusiasm for the Jan. 6 Trumpite invasion of the Capitol. Speaking on NPR, Sasse said, “This was a stunt. It was a terrible, terrible idea. And you don’t lie to the American people, and that’s what’s been […]
Even accounting for the fact that my country is led by a flaming dick like none the world has ever seen, that headline in our sister paper, The New York Times, is one I thought I’d never see. Let’s break it down because even after sitting in front of the television all day and watching […]
The political news in the first week of the New Year is enough to depress a clown. A fortnight away from inaugurating a new president, outgoing presidential pretender Donald J. Trump threw a tool box full of monkey wrenches into the business of democracy. Instead of Vice President Mike Pence simply rubber-stamping the Electoral […]
Republicans in Congress and tens of million GOPers across the country will need to decide this week if the Pledge of Allegiance they learned early in life — place your right hand over your heart and recite what is a mission statement for a centuries old republic — is meant to support the United States […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post contains some naughty words that could offend people who, strangely, are NOT offended by the idea of throwing brown children into cages, gunning down unarmed African Americans, or who think taking sensible precautions during a pandemic that has killed more than 1.8 million people worldwide is an infringement on their personal […]
Donald Trump’s vanity finally collided head on with his inherent ignorance when he tinkered with the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Deep inside this act lurks a locked and cocked .44 Magnum disguised as an unrelated piece of boring regulatory legislation about locking up money launderers. The wily congressional solons’ who put it there […]
As desperately as Donald Trump is fighting to cling to the golden goose egg of his Oval Office Occupation, his fall is imminent. It’s been a hard reign, and it’s going to fall. His regime is literally kaput. He lost the damned election by millions of votes. In the last weeks of his tenure, Donnie […]
FROM OUR SHINBONE STAR FAMILY TO YOURS, BEST WISHES FOR A HEALTHY AND HAPPY HOLIDAY OUR NATION MIGHT BE BATTERED AND BRUISED, BUT TAKE HEART, WE WILL SOON HAVE A REAL PRESIDENT TO LEAD US!
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