David James

2 days ago | wegotthiscovered.com | David James

Half a year on from their humiliating election defeat and the Democratic Party is still searching for a scapegoat. But, to be fair, there’s plenty of blame to go around. Whether it’s frittering millions away on celebrity-packed events few cared about, snootily dismissing the concerns of your base on issues like Israel/Palestine and universal healthcare, or simply assuming Americans will vote for you because you’re not Donald Trump, huge mistakes were made.

2 days ago | wegotthiscovered.com | David James

One strawberry sundae with sprinkles, a chocolate swirl, and a side order of police surveillance, please! In a development that feels like it might be a scene from a cartoon rather than real life, the NYPD has apparently been caught red-handed (well, raspberry-syrup-handed) operating a fake ice cream truck to spy on citizens.

2 days ago | wegotthiscovered.com | David James

One of the cornerstones of Donald Trump‘s book The Art of the Deal is about maximizing your leverage to emerge victorious in negotiations. The simple principle he lays out is to use what you have to make the person you’re dealing with do what you want, letting you turn the situation to your benefit. Now Trump has clearly forgotten his own advice.

2 days ago | wegotthiscovered.com | David James

Imagine having the whale-decapitating, bear corpse planting, literally worm-brained Robert F. Kennedy Jr for a dad. Trump’s Secretary of Health looks and sounds like a disease elemental and appears to be on a one-man crusade to re-establish measles as a leading cause of death for American children. But let nobody accuse him of not putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to exposing kids to disease.

3 days ago | wegotthiscovered.com | David James

Measles was a solved problem. For most of the 20th century potentially deadly virus infected between three and four million people each year, resulting in the unnecessary deaths of thousands of children. In 1971, the MMR vaccine (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) was approved for use and measles rapidly became just a bad memory. By the 2000s the confirmed cases of measles each year in the United States had dropped to just 40-70, with a low in 2004 of only 37.