Security measures in DC are about global and domestic consumption of the image of national security, lest the Russians and others think it’s like the troops needed for the coups at the end of Soviet communism, or even Ukraine and Belarus. Rather than being like a head coach of general manager,...
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Trump's in Ohio today, trying distract us from knowing that the Manhattan DA has grounds to prosecute Trump and his business on these grounds: -Scheme to Defraud -Falsification of Business Records -Insurance Fraud -Criminal Tax Fraud x Q: Who do you think poisoned Alexey Navalny in Russia? TRUMP: Uhhhh … we'll...
Nature rules, because there are naturalism arguments. Hunter King, a drone pilot at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), was monitoring an area of the lake near the state’s Upper Peninsula. Then bad stuff happened. Bald eagle attacks $950 state drone, drops it into Lake Michigan...
The expansion of the ranks of the CBP happened in the first months of the Trump administration, because it had some personnel turnover. It had spaces available in the first front lines of that ‘Muslim Ban’ executed at points of US entry. It is one of the areas that allows...
Show of Farce. Peaceful protest in the day, now earlier curfews. x JUST CONFIRMED: Denver Police seized these guns and tactical gear from two men who showed up to the protest on Friday. One of them, Chevy McGee, tells me he didn't break any laws. McGee is part of the...
We are at an interesting point, the necessity for socially distanced behavior and the imposition of De Facto martial law. Even as there is peaceful protest during the day time, there will be problematic police behavior in the evening. Remember that Trump needs martial law or at least its quasi-military manifestation to...
Sen. Marco Rubio appeared on Fox & Friends the other day to workshop some stupid shit he wanted to say. Brian Kilmeade, who has long been Stupid Shit’s earthly avatar, was happy to oblige him. So it seems people don’t want to work because they’re making more sitting on their...
Trump spoke before the daily briefing of the COVID task force presser.at 630pm ET. More time was spent changing the podium seal from the VPOTUS to that of IMPOTUS* than Trump’s remarks. Trump announces payroll tax cut to be discussed with GOP leadership. Trump lies about being the first to shut borders....
For the umpteenth time, Donald Trump urges you to join him in his jaw-dropping ignorance: x Trump learns that tens of thousands of Americans die of the flu every year, insists nobody knew that. https://t.co/6qEFy5uMwi— Seth Masket (@smotus) March 3, 2020 TRUMP: “Over the last long period of time, the...
President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said he is ready to throw himself at the mercy of the Senate Impeachment court, but color me skeptical. The truth from anyone associated with the Trump administration, even for a short time, strains the fabric of credibility. Mr. Bolton has teased...
With his nomination of former Raytheon vice president and lobbyist Mark Esper for secretary of defense, Donald Trump essentially chummed the swamp with alligator feed. Of course, it was kind of a joke for Trump to put a defense contractor in charge of the DoD while at the same time...
Daniel Dale totals the lies so far by the one-eyed Mango King. Note that the GOP members of the House Intel committee repeated the meme of #41 during its hearings. It’s been hard to communicate just how comprehensively Trump has been lying about his Ukraine scandal. So I made a...
Salvation is a post-apocalyptic film set in the year 2018. It focuses on the war between Skynet’s machine network and humanity, as the remnants of the world’s military have united to form the Resistance to fight against Skynet’s killing machines. Christian Bale portrays John Connor, a Resistance fighter and central...
Individual-1's tough day of unhingery continues, as a new book describes more Trump sexual predation. Many moving parts in today’s media as the Turkish offensive in Syria begins, and Trump who once proclaimed ISIS defeated, now facilitates their spread. This is apparently another dog-wag anticipated when Trump gets desperate, this time...
Hey, don’t worry about anything — particularly not the environment. Donald Trump is on it. Trump is an environmentalist — an environmentalist, I tells ya: From his logorrheic assault on logic and consensus reality at the G7: “I think I know more about the environment than most people. I want clean...
Cross-posted from Eclectablog.com During the time when the Flint water crisis was unfolding, right wing conservatives spent a lot of time trying to convince the country and the world that it was all the fault of the local government. They portrayed these local leaders as incompetent buffoons who poisoned themselves,...
Unlike the title suggest, the configuration of race and war in the immediate future may have a new facade. I fear a new war, but not because of any perceived weakness on the part of the United States or the capabilities of its’ fighting men. In fact, my nephew has...
“When you look at several decades, it is best to sit back in your chair before looking at the results, because it is a bit scary to see how fast it is changing,” French glaciologist Eric Rignot, of the University of California at Irvine Abrupt! Climate! Emergency! I was perusing my...
A line a day when you’re far away, Little things mean a lot Little Things Mean A Lot OK! *CLAP!* Everybody have their final walk through with the caterer for the menu for tonight’s “Mueller Report Watch Party?” Waiting in suspense for Lo-Barr to release the gobbledygook that will have...
There is no doubt that the Maduro regime in Venezuela is not good for its own people and not good for American Petro giants. Where my doubt comes in is the idea that Bolton, Abrams and drumpf have any good intent in kicking that particular hornets nest. But Senator Rubio...
It won’t be Michael Cohen. And it won’t be Michael Flynn either. Forget about Paul Manafort while you’re at it, and he can take Rick Gates and Don McGahn with him. Yeah, I know, their faces are all as universally recognizable as Fabio’s pecs, and they all have, like, kick...
On Tuesday, May 15th, the Oakland City Council passed into law what has deservedly been called the “strongest surveillance oversight law in the country.” Some of its key requirements: Public hearings on every new gadget and computer program that can be used for surveillance or monitoring. Review by...
A smattering of today’s headlines from Yonhap, South Korea’s largest news agency. S. Korea, U.S., Japan to take unbearable punitive action if N. Korea provokes SEOUL/TOKYO, April 25 (Yonhap) — Senior officials of South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed at a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday to take...
Summary: According to U.S. Central Command logs, we are making fewer airstrikes during a whole month today than we did every day in 2003 during the effort to remove Saddam Hussein. Compared to current capacity we're going at less than a 2% effort. The United States was a No Show...
Welcome to Iraq. America's military experts advise Iraq to push ISIS back into Syria. Here's the conversation in Wall Street Journal: Iraqi security forces and their U.S. partners are divided about where to next confront Islamic State after their victory over the extremist group in Tikrit last week. Both hope...
Charlie could have been interviewing Condi just prior to invading Iraq. Everything National Security Advisor Susan Rice said about Iraq and Syria appeared to be either a political sham or a product of manufactured intelligence estimates. As we saw with the Bush crew, this is no way to run the...
“The Supreme Leader, Ali Khameini, recently called Israelis 'animals.'”This is presented as an official statement. Is this real? Or not? The actual quote relates to loss of life among civilians during the Gaza battles last year. The statement translated from the original Farsi says something quite different: “Israel is a...
This is crazy stuff. The United States and Israel are on opposite sides in the ISIS War. Same time Jordan sends its Air Force in to pummel the Islamists, Israel under Bibi Netanyahu kills more of the Islamist's ground-war enemies. Then Boehner rewards this crap with a flood of nice...