Spin the wheel of presidential absurdity! Where will it land today? Let’s see. Nukin’ hurricanes, border moat, injecting disinfectant, dry-humping the flag, windmill cancer, invisible planes … and today it’s … ordering malts during a highly classified intelligence briefing! Politico: President Donald Trump was in the middle of receiving a highly classified...
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Recall that however vulgar, the Trump Twitter feed has been since the Inaugural, official WH statements. Trump has perhaps crossed a line with regard to the Whistleblower Protection Act, that if anything, as retaliation could add to the numerous possible charges of witness tampering. Trump has shared more than 100 posts about the...
Trump threatened by association the diplomatic corps even as the NY Times got closer to identifying the Whistle-Blower as a male CIA officer formerly assigned to the WH. “You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? The spies and treason, we used...
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...
To say that I’m “alarmed,: or “concerned,” or “fearful,” or “dismayed,” or any of those other standard goo-goo noises that the media regularly makes to describe feelings to another blazing stupidity by our Pampers President, would be kind of a misstatement. What I actually am is royally pissed off. And...
It’s Sunday, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your espresso, croissant, and crossword puzzle in the fetal position, clinging to your very last soupçon of vanishing hope. Oh, Time has a nightmare story about Donald Trump’s willful, harrowing ignorance that’s bound to frighten you even more than his uneven...