By now, Americans have grown accustomed to incendiary rhetoric from the raging right. Nevertheless, the past week witnessed some truly explosive eruptions from some of the leading lights of the conservative movement. Last Sunday, Donald Trump warned that his impeachment and removal from office could trigger a second civil war. Three...
October 6, 2019
Ralph Kramden speaks for us all: x So good. | Trump meets The Honeymooners https://t.co/wF7VdYDF0c via @YouTubeâ Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 6, 2019 < p class=”is-empty-p”> x x YouTube Video
x .@realDonaldTrump should rest easy about this. ItâÂÂs difficult to imagine anything that could possibly further blemish his reputation or legacy at this point. https://t.co/pkRjaYKShG â George Conway (@gtconway3d) October 6, 2019 < p class=”is-empty-p”>
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As the WH purges its NSC, DPRK talks broke down in the wake of the John Bolton resignation. While Trump continues to tout North Korea talks as success, signs of any progress are hard to find x Kim Myong-gil, the NorthâÂÂs chief negotiator, told reporters after meeting with his US counterpart,...
Journalist Greg Palast was the guest on Politics Done Right (PDR) recently. He pointed out several inconvenient truths about past elections. Most importantly he said once again voter suppression could cost Democrats the election in 2020 and pointed out that many of our elections were stolen. So who is Greg Palast? He is...
What a gal ! Poor old Mother had dementia and her MAGA daughter had a reality show. This great daughter ( republican conservative, of course) stole her Mama’s Social Security and plead guilty Oct 2 in Palm Beach County. This is the same Karyn Turk who defended Kavanaugh by saying the...
A new article at Politico tries to isolate the justification for a presidential request from a foreign government(s). It only proves that the smoking gun is yet still a smoldering arsenal, now that there are multiple whistle-blowers. Here’s the big question on which the potential impeachment of President Donald Trump could...
You probably have heard that it has been revealed that Donald Chump called Prime Minister Theresa May in the summer of last year to toe Putin’s line and dispute British Intelligence’s estimate that Russia was behind the poisoning of a Russian emigre and his daughter earlier in that year. The...
Chuck Todd exploded as Senator Ron Johnson tried to defend President Donald Trump on Meet The Press. He did not allow Johnson to get traction with his Fox News conspiracy theories. Chuck Todd loses it on Senator Johnson x x YouTube Video Chuck Todd started the interview by quoting what...
This isn’t about Trump telling Ukraine “nice country you’ve got there…” This is about the White House protecting Trump from himself (and not incidentally protecting the country from Trump); that protection is breaking down. Russ Douthat (yeah, I know, not a favorite around here) published an op-ed in the NY...
As Donald Trump’s guilt becomes more and more apparent, the deflections and obfuscations his defenders engage in have gone further and further off the rails. Today on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd (who, in a watershed moment for journalism, recently started rockin’ a full beard instead of that sad Klingon-with-late-stage-malaria goatee),...
Donald Trump's stupefying public performances last Wednesday as the widening collusion scandal continued to gain momentum were stunning, even by his erratic standards. Trump uncorked rambling, incoherent, angry, whiny monologues that were filled with lies and rattled conspiracy theories. That's when he wasn't yelling at a Reuters reporter and threatening...
Donald Trump's stupefying public performances last Wednesday as the widening collusion scandal continued to gain momentum were stunning, even by his erratic standards. Trump uncorked rambling, incoherent, angry, whiny monologues that were filled with lies and rattled conspiracy theories. That's when he wasn't yelling at a Reuters reporter and threatening...
#RickPerryMadeMeDoIt x I may have engaged in some lite treason but itâÂÂs not my fault because #RickPerryMadeMeDoIt pic.twitter.com/cT8u7BLtXhâ Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 6, 2019 x Sept 25: It was a perfect pushOct 2: The water was hardly even wet!Oct 6: #RickPerryMadeMeDoIt pic.twitter.com/ffhYk1fElx â FTJ (@fairytalejedi) October 6, 2019 x DUDE!...
abcnews.go.com/… ABC News is reporting that a second whistleblower has spoken to the inspector general for the intelligence services and has personal knowledge of some of the events that led first whistleblower to complain about the actions of Donald Trump. The information comes from Mark Zaid, the attorney who now represents...
Fatalism at the fore. Virginia Heffernan in the LA Times suggests that there may be no country for old men. x I have a theory: some old white men in politics fear irrelevance as death, and will do anything for relevance â taking whatever deal with the devil is necessary....
Mt. Susan Collins of Maine had an eruption of sulfurous gases with regards to Trump and his present predicament: “I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent,” Collins said at a press gaggle in her home state of Maine,...