When the good ship Cheney sank into the Green River last night, and for a moment, I regretted someone of flexible integrity losing a primary, at the same time, I grinned broadly. Undeniably, history will call Rep. Elizabeth Cheney a patriot. I hope that history and Democrats also do not...
Is the Market for Lemons like the market for lemonade or even Don Lemon. Asymmetric information is everywhere, the example of the used-car salesman synonymous with the reign of Trump, best exemplified by his disinformation complicity shared by hiring as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, chairman and chief executive officer of ExxonMobil from...
Sure, there is something to be afraid of when a group of gun-toting terrorists brandishes weaponry to cover their intellectual deficiencies. Whether they or their ilk, make plans to kidnap governors, or declare the “Proud Boys are here” in a profanity-laced group tirade directed at the Speaker of the House...
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...
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...
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...
Trump never read Bob Woodward’s first book on Trump, Fear, and yet, Trump does believe that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, what? Why it matters: Trump participated extensively in Woodward's research for the book, sitting for 17 interviews at the White House, Mar-a-Lago and over the phone between December...
New reporting from CNN: From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in...
Reading the Bolton book is a tough slog. although it is amusing to read how he wanted to settle scores including obliquely allowing Rex Tillerson to call Nikki Haley a c***. If there’s a takeaway so far, it is how badly edited it is, and how absent any consideration of...
I want to get some feedback on a topic I’m researching for my book on religion: the degree to which some Christian fundamentalists may be actively working to trigger the apocalypse. I’m not going to get into the weeds here (keep your sighs of relief to yourselves, thank you!), but,...
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...
And here we go again. Another book revealing what an irredeemable idiot our pr*sident is — and, of course, the people who really should read it won’t. Because, by and large, they don’t read. The book, A Very Stable Genius, by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig, is chock-full...
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...
It really kills Donald Trump that the U.S. doesn’t have labor camps to send truculent dissenters to. If he had his way, no doubt Chelsea Clinton would be hauling Chicken McNuggets up the White House Grand Staircase 24/7 like a Sherpa, as fitting punishment for being far too smart to...
This is an observation and not CT. There is something so very wrong in this country that just does not make sense to those who still have some sense left. I have many questions. Why are people who appeared to be fair minded, respectful and even so called people of...
Will Arms-for-Dirt-gate signal the death of political selfies. In a week of public testimony, more details emerge in the continuing backstory for the Trumpeachment. The latest counter-propaganda is a Nikki Haley interview trying to make John Kelly and Rex Tillerson into honorary “amigos”. Lev Parnas says he told Ukrainian officials in...
Former South Carolina Governor and the United States Ambassador to the UN for Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, kicked off her book tour yesterday. Haley tossed former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and ex-Chief of Staff John Kelly in the pit like a fat South Carolina hog. Ms. Haley accused the...
x #KremlinAnnex pic.twitter.com/OWBqJhA3ph — Melissa Barlow (@LiteraryMouse) October 8, 2019 x Have you read about our team yet? ✌ï¸Â🇺🇸 Kremlin Annex: Five women have been protesting outside the White House for over a year – The Washington Post https://t.co/NhHHZV420V — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) August 17, 2019 “Hasta la victoria, siempre!” ...
Tough sitting at the tipping point — when 55% polled want Trump impeached. x BREAKING: A new Fox News poll shows that 55% of Americans think Trump should be impeached — and 51% believe he should be removed from office. Only 40% are opposed.#ImpeachmentTaskForce pic.twitter.com/WHBWMCFORY— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) October 9, 2019...
For my money, this is still the greatest paragraph ever written in the English — or likely any other — language. And, as you’ve probably already guessed, it’s from Stormy Daniels’ interview with InTouch: But he was a little distracted by the TV. “The strangest thing about that night — this...
Well, who hasn’t? I mean, all you need to do to play Trump is bring a bag of curly fries and a conspicuous lack of shame to your meeting, and then tell him he’s the most intelligent, handsome, president-y president of all times. In other words, hold your nose and...
On his Thursday show, Neil Cavuto responded to Donald Trump’s recent remarks about the relative dearth of bootlicking happening at Fox News these days. Yesterday, Trump tweeted this: x Just watched @FoxNews heavily promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback by...
This is not the diary I wanted to write. Though it includes snippets of the research I wanted to share, it is not what I had been working on for the past few days, obviously. I am rushing this diary through as I had most of the research already and...
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...
When it comes to heroism in the current government, there’s a pretty low bar. Rex Tillerson may not have had any business serving as secretary of state to begin with, but he allegedly called Donald Trump a “fucking moron,” and so he’s kind of a hero to me. Sort of like...
This is a guy whose entire persona was based on the lame catchphrase “You’re fired!” And here he was earlier today: “I’m a student of history. I see what you get when you fire people and it is not good. But there would have been nothing wrong with firing him....
A new book on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, titled Kushner Inc., is due out next week, and excerpts are starting to leak like the cranial fluid from Donald Trump’s head. The book, by journalist Vicki Ward, includes several revelations, including that “Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner wanted to control...
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...
What is the sound of one hand clapping? Chinese proverb OK screw it, I was wrong. So, sue me. A little over a week ago I put up a rather lengthy article, in which I chronicled the fact that Trump’s obstinance in the current partial government shutdown was not something...
Ask yourself how a Russian agent would act, and then look at Donald Trump’s actual behavior. I mean, when it comes to Putin, Trump is basically Blofeld’s cat. From The Washington Post: President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin,...
Susan Glasser at Politico confirms what many of us suspected all along, that Putin had directed dumbass to invite Boris and Natasha to come for a photo-op in the Oval…. “The chummy White House visit—photos of the president yukking it up with Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak...
The title question is fairly straight-forward and of crucial importance. I am inspired to ask this question after reading the recent Politico article: “PRESENT AT THE DESTRUCTION: HOW REX TILLERSON IS WRECKING THE STATE DEPARTMENT- I worked in Foggy Bottom for 6 years. I’ve never seen anything like this.” Many...
Earlier this afternoon, the Senate voted to confirm Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. Plenty has been written here about what a loathsome choice Tillerson is for the position, and I’m sure we’ll see that play out in the coming weeks and months. But for now, the problem is in...
