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Category: MAGA

Adrastos, Diary, MAGA, Music, New Orleans, Odds & Sods, Political Crack, Television

Saturday Odds & Sods: Cold As Ice

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: Cold As Ice

Immoral Values, Jamie O, MAGA, Political Crack, The Darnold

It’s Not Conservatism, It’s Mafiaism

December 12, 2025December 12, 2025 JCO

The Republican Party under Trump is a crime family. Continue reading It’s Not Conservatism, It’s Mafiaism

Adrastos, Language, MAGA, Political Crack, The Darnold, Top Ten List

The Insult Comedian’s Top Ten Favorite Words

December 11, 2025December 11, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Does Donald Trump have the best words? Continue reading The Insult Comedian’s Top Ten Favorite Words

Adrastos, Fog Of History, Language, Legal Docket, MAGA, Political Crack, So Called Liberal Media, Supreme Court1 Comment

Don’t Call Them Conservatives: Supreme Court Edition

December 9, 2025December 10, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Call them reactionaries, wingnuts, radicals, extremists, right-wingers; call them anything but conservatives. Continue reading Don’t Call Them Conservatives: Supreme Court Edition

Adrastos, Fog Of History, Legal Docket, MAGA, Political Crack, Supreme Court

Eve Of Corruption

December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Adrastos on the MAGA Supreme Court and its shady use of the shadow docket.
Continue reading Eve Of Corruption

Adrastos, Law/Justice, MAGA, Political Crack

War Crime Or Murder?

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Murder most foul on the high seas. Continue reading War Crime Or Murder?

Fog Of History, MAGA, Parenthetical1 Comment

Putting The Self- Back In Service

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 rcb30

Death By Lightning leads up to the origin of the modern civil service that MAGA can’t stand. Continue reading Putting The Self- Back In Service

Adrastos, Fog Of History, Fog Of Scandal, MAGA, Political Crack, The Darnold

The March Of Mendacity

December 1, 2025December 1, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Adrastos on the relentless barrage of bluster and bullshit from Team MAGA. Continue reading The March Of Mendacity

Adrastos, Congress, MAGA, Political Crack2 Comments

The Mark Kelly Mishigas

November 25, 2025November 25, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Senator Mark Kelly has the right stuff. Pete Hegseth has the stupid stuff. Continue reading The Mark Kelly Mishigas

Adrastos, Legal Docket, MAGA, Political Crack

The Comey Commedia Dell’Arte

November 24, 2025November 24, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Instant analysis of the Comey and James dismissals. Continue reading The Comey Commedia Dell’Arte

Adrastos, Bigotry, British Politics, Congress, MAGA, Political Crack

Shecky’s Quick Hitters: Manic Monday

November 24, 2025November 24, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Taking a poke at Kash Patel, Marge Taylor Greene, Marco Rubio, Nigel Farage, and the BP in NOLA. Continue reading Shecky’s Quick Hitters: Manic Monday

Adrastos, Gret Stet Politics, Immigration, MAGA, New Orleans, Political Crack

New Orleans Is A Bordertown?

November 20, 2025November 20, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

It’s the Crescent City’s turn in the MAGA barrel. Continue reading New Orleans Is A Bordertown?

Adrastos, Congress, Gret Stet Politics, Legal Docket, MAGA, Political Crack, The Darnold1 Comment

Da Winnas & Da Loozas: Epstein Vote Edition

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Instant analysis of a remarkable day on Capitol Hill. Continue reading Da Winnas & Da Loozas: Epstein Vote Edition

Adrastos, Congress, Law/Justice, MAGA, Political Crack, The Darnold

Crackpot Crackup?

November 17, 2025November 17, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Trump breaks up with Marjorie Taylor-Greene. Continue reading Crackpot Crackup?

Adrastos, Gret Stet Politics, MAGA, Political Crack

Pitching The Big Tent

November 10, 2025November 10, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

MAGA Republicans have the freak show. Democrats have the big tent.

Continue reading Pitching The Big Tent

Adrastos, MAGA, Political Crack, The Darnold

Quote Of The Day: Great Gatsby Edition

November 4, 2025November 4, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Let them eat MAGA cake. Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Great Gatsby Edition

Adrastos, Congress, Fog Of History, Legal Docket, MAGA, Political Crack, Supreme Court, The Darnold1 Comment

Third Term Chatter

October 30, 2025October 30, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

MAGA’s dream of a Trump third term is America’s nightmare. It’s also illegal but when did that ever stop them? Continue reading Third Term Chatter

Adrastos, Congress, Film, MAGA, Political Crack

Quote Of The Day: Hunger Games Edition

October 29, 2025October 29, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Is Team MAGA starving poor children to cover up the Epstein files? Paul Krugman thinks so. Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Hunger Games Edition

Congress, Elections, MAGA, Parenthetical, Stupid Republican Tricks1 Comment

Smile If You Like Disenfranchisement

October 28, 2025October 27, 2025 rcb30

Why is this woman pursuing right-on-right crime in Arkansas? And what’s the GOP’s cling-to-power quadfecta? Read on. Continue reading Smile If You Like Disenfranchisement

Jamie O, MAGA, Political Crack

The Explanation For All Of This

October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 JCO

A look at the hilarious-but-probably-true theory that everyone is now 12-years-old (at least on the right). Continue reading The Explanation For All Of This

Adrastos, MAGA, Music, Political Crack, The Darnold, Top Ten List

Top Ten Songs That Should Be Played At MAGA Rallies

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Keeping it real with Peter Frampton, The Tragically Hip, Steve Winwood, Tony Joe White, Frank Zappa, Green Day, Peter Tosh, Cheap Trick, The Police, 10cc, and Bonnie Raitt. Continue reading Top Ten Songs That Should Be Played At MAGA Rallies

Adrastos, Law/Justice, MAGA, Political Crack

Commuting The Talented Mr. Santos

October 21, 2025October 21, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

The MAGA patrimonialism, it burns. Continue reading Commuting The Talented Mr. Santos

Adrastos, Diary, Do Something, MAGA, Music, New Orleans, Political Crack, Television

Shecky’s Quick Hitters: Shine On

October 20, 2025October 21, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

This time: No Kings Day, The Frampton Glow, JD Vance: Professional Asshole, MAGA Canary In A Coalmine, Mamdani Takes Manhattan, and When Andrew Met Jack. Continue reading Shecky’s Quick Hitters: Shine On

Bigotry, Jamie O, MAGA, Political Crack

When Shame Goes Away, The Fascists Will Play

October 17, 2025October 17, 2025 JCO

Cancel culture hysteria helped enable the GOP’s I Love Hitler Funtime Group Chat. Continue reading When Shame Goes Away, The Fascists Will Play

Abortion Rights, Adrastos, Bigotry, LBGTQ Rights, MAGA, Malakatude, Political Crack1 Comment

Malaka Of The Week: Winsome Earle-Sears

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

The MAGA malakatude, it burns. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Winsome Earle-Sears

Adrastos, Bigotry, MAGA, Political Crack3 Comments

The I Love Hitler Club

October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

They’re all insult comedians now; make that baby insult comedians. That’s why Adrastos calls them the Hitler Youth. Continue reading The I Love Hitler Club

Adrastos, Congress, Gret Stet Politics, MAGA, Political Crack

Mike Johnson Is Good For Louisiana?

October 13, 2025October 13, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Speaker Johnson’s picture is in the dictionary next to sycophant. Continue reading Mike Johnson Is Good For Louisiana?

Immigration, MAGA, Parenthetical, Political Crack

The Point Behind The Point

October 7, 2025October 7, 2025 rcb30

Even if the GOP ultimately “loses” a shutdown or ICE gets some bad PR, it still wins, because in uncertainty and interruption, there is pain. Continue reading The Point Behind The Point

Adrastos, Diary, MAGA, Political Crack

The Adolescent Administration

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Of fantasists, cosplayers, and immature idiots. Continue reading The Adolescent Administration

Adrastos, Congress, MAGA, Political Crack, The Darnold

Quote Of The Day: Shutdown Edition

October 1, 2025October 1, 2025 Peter Adrastos Athas

Josh Marshall on authoritarianism and the shutdown. Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Shutdown Edition

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