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Trump again ignored the order of succession in firing Mark Esper and replacing him with Chris Miller

Angry baby strikes again, ignoring the rules to exact revenge on those who did their duty. Mark Esper will probably not be the last firing, but for today this will divert attention from Trump signaling that he will run again in 2024 to continue the grift. Not unlike other cabinet...

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November 9, 2020

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“This is what Trump is like in the Oval Office every day.”

Red-faced. Shouting. Interrupting. Ignoring. That describes Trump at last night’s debate. Turns out it also describes what he’s like in the Oval Office: Trump doesn’t accept the consensus that the debate was a disaster because, sources said, he was unabashedly himself. “The thing about the debate is people got to...

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September 30, 2020

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Trump campaign reportedly worried that Brad Parscale will start squealing

Let me bury the lede for the moment to point out that Donald Trump almost certainly thinks he won last night’s debate. Why wouldn’t he? He was quintessentially Trump, and that always gives the ocher asshat a tingling sensation. So it was no surprise when the redoubtable Gabriel Sherman wrote the...

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September 30, 2020

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All Former Living presidents will not back Trump. Bi partisan support for Biden/Harris.

I find this as a big story. All former living Presidents and this not limited to their staffs and former cabinet members who are standing ready to vote against Trump. I used this pic as it was the only one I could find that included all four but I am...

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September 27, 2020

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All Living Former Presidents will not back Trump. Support for Biden/Harris by many republicans

I find this as a big story. All former living Presidents and this not limited to their staffs and former cabinet members who are standing ready to vote against Trump. I used this pic as it was the only one I could find that included all four but I am...

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September 27, 2020

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only GOTV ensures any “Biden Blowout” and God will remain if Biden wins

Only a Biden blowout will stop the impending doom for so many things. But not any ontological arguments, even if Trump promises that God will not exist if Biden wins. Perhaps even CNN has learned something from 2016. x From your lips to God's ears… Trump is headed for a...

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September 20, 2020

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Citing Trump's 'flat-out disregard for human life,' former WH coronavirus adviser to vote for Biden

How many Trump administration officials have to tell us that Donald Trump is an incompetent, pudding-brained ghoul before his support falls below 5 percent … where it should (and deserves to) be? We’ve already heard from James Mattis, John Bolton, Miles Taylor, the Mooch, Anonymous — even Omarosa. Well, you can add one...

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September 17, 2020

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Trump in ABC town hall, touts 'herd mentality' (or herd immunity) in ignoring pandemic threat

“Let's understand what this is: Donald Trump has confessed, on tape, to the greatest and most deadly lie in all the long history of the United States bar none.” — Steve Schmidt #TrumpLied200KDied Trump creates a new term, the opposite of downplaying — “up-playing”, because BS is too smelly. Trump doubled down...

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September 16, 2020

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Trump confirms Woodward report he decried as 'fiction' in 2018

I don’t tell many lies. Sometimes I fudge my responses a bit when talking to my psychiatrist. Like, I’ll tell her I’m exercising regularly to improve my mood, when by “exercising” I actually mean “eating Corn Nuts.” So it’s not that tough to keep track of my little white lies....

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September 15, 2020

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ironic Kushner warns of “overconfident idiots” close to Trump being dangerous

Trump’s 18 interviews with Bob Woodward demonstrate the usual charm offensive that failed to work. To Trump, foreign policy is like selling white elephant properties, especially when he’s getting paid at inflated prices that could be bribes or money laundering. And then there’s the bragging about secret nuclear weapons which...

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September 10, 2020

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Trump knew COVID “dangerous, highly contagious, airborne, deadly” in January – did nothing

Trump’s deliberate dereliction of duty revealed in actual recording of Bob Woodward with Trump. #TrumpKnew As the first excerpts from Woodward book begin to drop, the White House press briefing, scheduled for 12, was moved to 12:15 then 12:30. — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 9, 2020 Trump admits to concealing...

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September 9, 2020

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Woodward book: Trump privately admitted COVID was worse than flu even as he downplayed it

Trump is already a drowning otter trapped in a k-hole, and now this. According to Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, Trump knew all along just how deadly and dangerous the coronavirus was, even as he continually downplayed the emerging health crisis. The Washington Post: “You just breathe the air and...

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September 9, 2020

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we're not even near peak unhingery with Trump

We are simply at the moment where the accumulated stories of disrespect all get to be compared with the opposing candidate and his party. x Every Republican who stood by and continues to stand by Trump, particularly after we’ve learned about his “losers and suckers” comments, deserves to forever wear...

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September 5, 2020

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Belleau Wood Is Coming to Dunsinane!

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the three witches promised Macbeth that he could not lose until “Birnam Wood shall come to Dunsinane” (that being Macbeth’s castle). Since it was impossible for a forest to pick itself up and move, Macbeth figured he was invulnerable. But Duncan’s troops cut branches from the trees...

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September 4, 2020

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You are important and not losers. Do not listen to a Madman. Thanks for serving.

I had to go to bed last night very early as I was so upset. I then thought, this is what this madman wants. I got up this morning and found there is plenty of evidence to back up the Atlantic, including The Washington Post, Associated Press and the infidel...

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September 4, 2020

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The Second Trump term: selling Puerto Rico and buying Greenland, putting the “toxic” in assets

Climate change will bring Greenland to the US

Few of you will recall my stories mocking the possibility of a Trump win in 2016, ostensibly because it was plausible to assume that HRC would win. This time more caution is necessary, since the same Trump deceit is happening like promising to support something DACA-like in a future executive...

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July 11, 2020

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Lawn Order: in New Jersey it's wet, in DC it's golf

x Photos of Trump today – from @tru62. pic.twitter.com/dVVHvwUG9q — Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 27, 2020 x In white polo shirt and red cap, Pres Trump returns to WH from his Virginia golf club. pic.twitter.com/8hAWAvma8z — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 27, 2020 x The choice of messenger…. Irony and any...

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June 27, 2020

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bungholed or bungled, everything Trump touches, perishes

Trump’s button got pushed by Biden: x If John Bolton's accounts are true, itÃ¢Â€Â™s not only morally repugnant, itÃ¢Â€Â™s a violation of Donald TrumpÃ¢Â€Â™s sacred duty to the American people to protect AmericaÃ¢Â€Â™s interests and defend our values.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 17, 2020 x Joe Biden was a TOTAL...

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June 18, 2020

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Seb Gorka, a “Soft-handed McLovin-vested…fish-oil peddler” takes on Jim Mattis

Seb Gorka does more of his Trumpian silliness by attacking Jame Mattis because he told the truth about Trump. Seb got his PhD off the label of a can of corn. He is a member of an actual Nazi group. Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson “I'm not going to bother linking the...

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June 9, 2020

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Ex-CoS Kelly Agrees with Mattis on Trump

Yesterday, former WH chief of state John Kelly contradicted Trump’s story about firing SecDec Jim Mattis, reminding the world that Mattis had resigned in protest after Trump ordered our troops out of Syria. This morning he took the next step: Former White House chief of Staff John Kelly: 'I agree'...

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June 5, 2020

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Trump tweets his lawyer John Dowd's letter to attack General Mattis

It’s getting weirder, now that Trump tweets a copy of his lawyer, John Dowd, attacking General James Mattis. Trump can still afford a lawyer to do his defaming for him, since Trump made up false tweets so far about Mattis. Unhingery abounds, not exactly Lenin and Trotsky, more like Abbott-Costello. The...

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June 5, 2020

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Another retired Marine General speaks out

< p class=”is-empty-p”> Immediate past Commandant Robert Neller wrote “A Letter To America” on his Linked-in page, and the website Task and Purpose, which deals with military matters, posted a story about it titled Former Marine commandant on nationwide protests: 'The time for being silent has passed' after confirming the...

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June 4, 2020

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Murkowski Endorses Mattis's Rebuke of Trump

I have read the Washington Post front page story Murkowski calls Mattis’s rebuke of Trump true as many Republicans distance themselves from the former defense secretary and it shows that Murkowski came out strong — especially for a sitting Republican senator: “I thought General Mattis’s words were true and honest...

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June 4, 2020

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John Kelly contradicts Trump on Mattis

embedded in this Washington Post story we read the following: President Trump’s former chief of staff John F. Kelly defended former defense secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday over Mattis’s criticism of the president’s handling of nationwide protests. Kelly also dismissed Trump’s assertion that the president fired the retired general in...

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June 4, 2020

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#BunkerBoy is angry and is hoping for street violence

Trump's tear gas photo-op was 'frightening' to authoritarianism experts, who warn that his behavior will only get worse without 'fierce opposition’. One example of the problem for an opposition is that Los Angeles protesters who get arrested will be given a citation with a fine of $1000. x Armed soldiers against...

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June 4, 2020

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Mattis eviscerates Trump

… and leaves the craven dipshit’s quavering viscera on the abattoir floor. James Mattis, Donald Trump’s erstwhile defense secretary, is speaking out — finally — about the ocher abomination and His Majesty’s misrule. And it ain’t pretty, folks. The special occasion? Trump’s shameful response to the killing of George Floyd and the...

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June 3, 2020

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Even GOP Senators Thought Firing Sondland Was a Bad Idea – But Trump Wouldn't Listen

IMPOTUS (and he will be IMPOTUS forever) somehow managed to contain himself during the trial, but as soon as the votes were in, he let loose, firing LTC Vindman and Vindman’s brother (the last being akin to the Nazi practice of Sippenhaft — arrest or apprehension of kin), and Amb....

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February 9, 2020

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Landmines and the roll back under Trump and Co. I guess it is kill em all and let God sort em out.

I got an email from a devoted Kossack yesterday. She does so many IGTN diaries. This is what she was so upset about and I understand. Civilians get killed by Landmines. More civilians than the people America is at war with. Landmines kill and kill and kill over generations. Not to...

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February 3, 2020

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New info emerges explaining why Tillerson called Trump a 'f***ing moron'

The new book A Very Stable Genius by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig has some fresh context surrounding former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s famous “he’s a fucking moron” dis. Seems Tillerson made the comment following an unhinged Trump tirade during which the commander-in-queef disrespected the military...

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January 17, 2020

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Why Pompeo Can't Tell the Truth About Soleimani

A front-page diary right now is detailing how SoS Pompeo’s explanations for killing Soleimani make no sense: Mike Pompeo keeps blowing up Donald Trump’s excuses for blowing up an Iranian general. Turns out there’s a very good reason why Pompeo has to keep coming up with new excuses and fairy...

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January 10, 2020

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A Bolton out of the Blue

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...

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January 6, 2020

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Top Pentagon Brass Discussing Resignation

Politico is reporting that Trump's strain with Pentagon inspires talk of more departures: Even before Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s forced ouster this weekend, a handful of the Pentagon's highest-ranking officials have been debating just when they would feel compelled to resign over what they see as Trump's disregard for the...

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November 26, 2019

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To Former General Mattis: Be a Real Patriot and Tell Us What You Know About Trump.

I’ve never served in the military. I grew up in a strict household under my Dad and went to private Catholic schools were there was always some authority figure bearing down. Therefore, the last place I wanted to be was in the military. As time has gone by though, I...

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October 18, 2019

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James Mattis on Trump's 'overrated' dis: 'I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals'

So Donald Trump hires only the best people, and yet he regularly and viciously insults nearly all of them on the way out the door. According to several accounts of Trump’s Velveeta meltdown in the White House yesterday — during which he called Nancy Pelosi a “third-rate politician” — Trump...

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October 18, 2019

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LOL. Gen. Mattis Roasts drumpf. (Updated with full speech)

"I’m not just an overrated general. I’m the most overrated general," Mattis says. "I'm honored to be considered that by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress. So I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals, and frankly that sounds pretty good to me." pic.twitter.com/Hzpe5lUeje —...

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October 18, 2019

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“Dude gotta go” … majority in favor of impeachment and removal

The Trump meltdown seems not to have had much effect, other than enhancing Speaker Pelosi’s image with women as Gallup polls a majority in favor of impeachment and removal. So much Republican cowardice, especially in the US Senate, as #Trumpeachment continues. There could be an actual breaking point, even as history...

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October 17, 2019

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#KremlinAnnex protest week 65 Thursday

x #KremlinAnnex pic.twitter.com/OWBqJhA3ph Ã¢Â€Â” Melissa Barlow (@LiteraryMouse) October 8, 2019 x Have you read about our team yet? Ã¢ÂœÂŒÃ¯Â¸ÂÃ°ÂŸÂ‡ÂºÃ°ÂŸÂ‡Â¸ Kremlin Annex: Five women have been protesting outside the White House for over a year – The Washington Post https://t.co/NhHHZV420V Ã¢Â€Â” Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) August 17, 2019 “Hasta la victoria, siempre!” ...

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October 10, 2019

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Fatal Distraction

There is a term used in Syria and Turkey about the Kurds, “Arabize.” Essentially the Kurds since the 1920s and 30s have been ostracized as rebellious heretics. Although the Kurds comprise nearly 25 percent of the Syrian and Turkish population, Bashar al-Assad the Syrian leader, and Recep Erdogan the Turkish...

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October 9, 2019

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Trump claims Obama left him with a military 'very low on ammunition'

It’s a metaphysical certitude that either 1) Trump made this up out of whole cloth or 2) James Mattis told him this because Trump wanted to invade Mexico, Puerto Rico, California or somewhere equally as insane. Because I really, really doubt the U.S. military — with a budget of $611 billion...

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September 16, 2019

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Josh Marshall: If Bolton Noises Off on Trump He’ll Lose His RW Grift Card.

I think Josh Marshall has a better grasp of the future of John Bolton than does Andrea Mitchell. TPM The word is that John Bolton is not going quietly after President Trump’s ostentatious slam-dunking of him on Twitter. Maybe he won’t. But there’s a part of this equation I doubt we’ll see...

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September 12, 2019

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The Mooch drags Trump hard in new interview: 'Oh my god, this jack*ss'

Okay, he’s a fraud and a loudmouth and a total douche-canoe frigate. I get that. But the enemy of my enemy is, well, still maybe my enemy — but definitely less of an enemy. And as evidenced by his recent comments in this new Vanity Fair interview, Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci...

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August 18, 2019

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“Sanity” Prevails? Why Am I Not Reassured?

Jeez, it’s getting so that you don’t dare to sleep anymore. Every time you close your eyes, that damn little ditty from Wes Craven starts going through your head, One, two, Donnie’s coming for you! Three, four, better lock your door. On the other hand, you need a good nights sleep if you’re going to...

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June 21, 2019

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This is where it gets dangerous.

Anybody who has ever thrown a birthday party for a kid knows that there are two basic forms of entertainment. There are clowns, and then there are magicians. Donald Trump is a true cross over, a magician clown. He lumbers around the yard with his big flopping feet, knocking over...

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February 14, 2019

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The 2019 “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done” Year End Summary Report

Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by categorizing these actions by policy areas and scoring their relative impact, we have attempted to understand how the Administration operates and measure where it’s done...

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January 20, 2019

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Court Overturns Ban on Trump's Transgender Ban.

We know that the Trump and the GOP have and are continuing to fill judicial vacancies with conservative cuckoos. This decision is thus just a likely harbringer of many more to come. Trump may have lost the House, but he continues to grow his ability to institute his hateful policies....

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January 4, 2019

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Trump's shutdown might delay your tax refund — unless you're rich, of course

This is what happens when Donald Trump’s brain farts in an airtight room and no one is allowed to open a window. You get screwed, while his wealthy friends skate by pretty much unscathed. Today, The Wall Street Journal reported that the timely delivery of tax refunds could be imperiled...

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January 3, 2019

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Coward Trump Can't Tell Mattis 'You're fired!'… Makes Pompeo Do It.

Big executive boss man didn’t have the courage to fire SecDef General Mattis to his face, so, in typical Trumpian fashion he had somebody else do it. Sec. of State Mike Pompeo. Bloomberg (Parens and bolds mine) “Hours after Mattis announced his resignation to Trump in an Oval Office meeting...

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December 24, 2018

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'Twas The Fight Before Christmas

'Twas the fight before Christmas, and in the White House, The dotard was pissed off, and starting to grouse; “I want Wall” he pouted, then reached for his phone, And tweeted his Twit-sters, misspelling “unnown”. Chuck and Nancy were nestled, all snug in their beds; While dreams of majorities danced...

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December 23, 2018

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Trump forces Mattis out early; he's now leaving on Jan. 1

Ugh. We’re all dead. Merry Christmas! From The Washington Post: President Trump, who aides said has been frustrated by news coverage of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s scathing resignation letter, abruptly announced Sunday that he was removing Mattis two months before his planned departure and installing Patrick Shanahan as acting defense secretary. Shanahan, a...

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December 23, 2018

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Top envoy in ISIS fight resigns, knows ISIS isn't defeated

I knew Donald Trump was incompetent the moment I saw his face. If you’re going to spray-tan, whhhyyyy are you leaving two big white circles around your eyes so you look like part of a brand-new Deep Space Nine Star Trek race that’s being introduced because they didn’t have the budget...

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December 22, 2018