This past week reminded me of how soothing and vital literature, art, and music are to the world. All of us have spent more than two years exhausted from Covid-19. We are ironically distracted by […]
Category: Mafia

“bad mafia movie” – Peril in the Trumper-bunkers on the eve of the Insurrection
CNN’s David Gergen: The Only Thing That Can Stop Donald Trump From Running in 2024 is a Prison Sentence From the Insurrection, we know that conspiring to commit felonies is also a felony. We know […]

Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine Sums Up The Last 24 Hours Nicely.
I’m sure most of you have seen the clip from last night’s car wreck of a Laura Ingraham show where she and her all star panel of a torture advocate and alleged child rapist smeared today’s […]

Trump's increased unhingery and witless intimidation
x TrumpâÂÂs implication that he wants @RepAdamSchiff executed for treason is unhinged, disgusting, and beyond intolerable. The president is acting like a raving lunatic. https://t.co/kymtnxM6mR — Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 29, 2019 Individual-1 started tweeting […]

All the POTUS*'s “very good people” – revisiting Trumpster criminal associates
The Giuliani subpoena is also about Giuliani’s association with mobsters, especially ones relevant to Ukraine, which as we know from Michael Cohen’s case, is an important component of NYC and Florida activity x @tribelaw THIS […]
Wow. drumpf Blaming “Perfect Call” on Rick Perry.
I thought it was perfect? Rick Perry’s about to learn the hard way: Everything Trump touches dies: .Axios “President Trump told House Republicans that he made his now infamous phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr […]

Trump: Whistleblowers should only be protected if Trump thinks they're legitimate
Don’t be too hard on Trump. I’d be pissed, too, if I thought I were emperor of America and they kept throwing checks and balances in my face left and right. This one is, to […]
Hollywood Slanders Unions–“The Irishman.”
You may have seen the ads; Scorsese, De Niro, Pesci, and Pacino, are all together in a new movie, “The Irishman.” These are my favorite actors and director, and my favorite subject; labor unions. However […]

Geraldo wants to beat up 'rotten snitch' whistleblower for Trump
When Fox & Friends wants to ratchet up the rank stupidity a notch or two, they recall Geraldo Rivera from the Smithsonian’s Hall of Old-Timey Mustaches and put him on the air for a few […]

NBC political analyst: Not fair to compare Trump to the mob because the mob tries to hide its crimes
You know, that’s a good point. Still, the Trump regime is kind of like the mafia … if everyone in the mafia were Fredo. But, you know, the mafia has lasted as long as it has […]

Nothing Like Setting Up a Mobbed Up Russian Front in Politically Safe Trump Loving Kentucky.
I can see why Mitch McConnell moved on removing those economic sanctions against the Russians. It wasn’t just at Trump’s bidding: Kentucky might be going into business with the Russian mafia. Not the rough-and-tumble “Godfather” […]
A Little More About Those Blocked Number Phone Calls Don Made Before Trump Tower Meeting…
So, reports indicate that the two phone calls Made by Don Jr, to blocked numbers the same day Jr. spoke to Emin Agalarov and publicist Rob Goldstone were not to his father (who was in the same building […]

Cohen to spill the borscht on Russia at congressional intel hearings
Michael Cohen is ready to talk. About Russia. Da. While he’s tried to put off his testimony to the House Oversight Committee because he’s afraid of the Trump mafia, he seems more than willing to […]
Watch Malcolm Nance Chuckle as Sarah Kendzior Lays the Wood to Trump. Priceless!
I love, love, love Sarah Kendzior! x My interview on #AMJoy: “Of course Trump is susceptible to blackmail! That's why he's surrounded himself with a lawyer goon squad for 40 years.” pic.twitter.com/zC2jyzxtZw â Sarah Kendzior […]
Threat from The Cornholeone Crime Family: “Michael Cohen’s a ‘Rat’ and ‘Inmates Hate Rats’”
Cue “Speak Softly Love”. Mediaite “As Michael Cohen strikes a new plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, admitting to lying to Congress on President Donald Trump‘s dealings with Russia, CNN’s Jim Acosta said one […]

Ex-White House staffer: 'The Cohen news is very bad' — Mueller may have laid a perjury trap
Tricking Donald Trump into lying is not exactly sporting. It’s sort of like hunting manatees with an Uzi and a stick of dynamite. But Robert Mueller has a job to do, and it looks like […]

New Lewandowski book alleges Trump has 'embedded enemies' (thank God)
Corey “Grabby-Hands” Lewandowski and David “Cotton-Picking” Bossie, two former Trump advisers, have written a new book titled “How to Live Inside Donald Trump’s Sigmoid Colon While Still Maintaining Your Independence and Objectivity.” No, actually it’s called “Trump’s […]

Saudi Arabia wires U.S. $100 million payment as Trump continues to defend the kingdom
If you happened to read Bob Woodward’s recent Trump book, Fear: Holy Fuck, Holy Fuck, Holy Fuck, Oh Christ, Just Kill Me Now!, you know how obsessed our pr*sident is with shaking down other countries […]

Giuliani admits Trump administration will likely try to block release of Mueller report
It’s hard to imagine what else Donald Trump could do to make himself look guilty. Maybe streak down Pennsylvania Avenue wearing nothing but an authentic Russian Army ushanka cap and an enormous red ball gag, while trailing a […]
There Is Another Republican Congressman With Russian Ties Hiding in Plain Sight.
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District appears to be aping Donald Trump when it comes to the Russians: Twelve days after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th American president, a small […]
Why there's more to come: Mueller and Russia
The Republicans are circling their wagons today and dancing a little dance of joy because Mueller issued an indictment that doesn’t, in fact, directly implicate any Americans as anything except idiots. And we all know […]