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 […]
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 […]
Donald Trump has gotten mighty cozy with the bigoted gangbangers who call themselves Proud Boys. When not so occupied, he is reportedly telling friends he may back out of the 2024 election for president if the climate is still gray and bleak in 2022. Politico reported Monday that the doddering wannabe bully boy “has spent […]
Emily Murphy is having the worst month of her life. She could lose her job at any minute, but it’s hard to feel a scrap of sympathy. She created her own misery. Never heard of Emily Murphy? Join the crowd. Overnight she went from anonymity to rock star — she holds the key to a […]
Cut to the chase: If Democrats can’t win the two runoff elections for U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, Joe Biden is fucked! If the turtle, “Moscow Mitch” McConnell, retains his stranglehold on the genitalia of the Republican Party, then Joe, Kamala and sane Americans everywhere are going to be as useful as teats on a […]
If anyone in your circle of family and friends starts going-on about how they plan to support Impeached President — and Election Day loser by a landslide — Donald J. Trump’s 2024 bid to return to the White House, tell them this: Nobody. Named. Trump. In. The. White. House. Ever. Again. Full stop. Not Don […]
If ever there was any fucking doubt that Donald Trump is a raving goddamned lunatic, post-election events should leave no doubt in any but the most depraved Republican Party member’s pea brain. Trump has twitted that he isn’t going to accept the vote of the people; claims he’s not leaving the office. He’s being backed […]
Lying flat on my back watching the world rush by in opiated slow motion was a good way to witness one of the most tumultuous presidential races in American history. And no, this missive is not the confession of a fallen scribe, I had to be in the hospital for a while. Some of that […]
By GLENN REDUS (with DUTTON PEABODY) As the founder of this iteration of The Shinbone Star, some staff members thought it would be appropriate that I be the one to provide some kind of mission accomplished statement. So here it is: Donald Trump lost the election! Yay! While I am acceding to their request and […]
After four years of the most unqualified creature ever to inhabit the Oval Office, Donald J. Trump has been defeated at the polls. Joseph Biden Jr., after 30 years of trying, becomes President of the United States #46. He was youngest ever to seek the office and oldest to win it. His vice-president will be […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: MACinelli filed this report after a quick trip to the future — courtesy of Doc Brown — where he spent Inauguration Week 2021 in Washington, D.C., verifying not only that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had been sworn-in to office, but that Impeached (and 2020 Election Day loser) President Donald J. Trump had […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column first ran on Oct. 27. We are reprinting it this morning as Americans who did not vote early flock to the polls on Election Day. Although final results are not expected by tonight, we’ll be back tomorrow with new material on what many see as the most important election in their […]
From Webster’s dictionary: “Scourge: a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.” Media coverage of the 2020 presidential election has set off warning sirens for a possible Blue Tsunami. Really, you ask? Fact or “Fake News?” Could a tsunami of Democratic voters concerned about the future of the country wash the Red Tide scourge […]
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: The Shinbone Star — if you’re not counting the movie version — began publication on Jan. 29, 2017, just nine days after President Donald Trump raised his right hand and lied on a Bible that he would preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. During his tenure, our […]
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