Up is Down and Down is Sinking Fast
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 … Read More
Category: Tillerson
Exxon's Green Sheen and asymmetric information (and media bias)
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, … Read More
I thought you were Proud…Boys?
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 … Read More
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. … Read More
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. … Read More
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 … Read More
disloyal rage: Trump helps Woodward because Bob's got the Kim Jong-un love letters
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 … Read More
National Security Officials Are Concerned About Trump's Phone Calls
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 … Read More
Bolton says Trump told China to “Make sure I win”
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 … Read More
Trump, Iran, and Christians United For Israel: A Question
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
New book, 'Very Stable Genius,' contains smorgasbord of Trump stupidity
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, … Read More
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 … Read More
State Department went on witch hunt to find out who liked Chelsea Clinton's anti-Trump tweet
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 … Read More
Something is happening here. What are we not being told?
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. … Read More
Will Lev Parnas Throw Himself on the Giuliani Hand Grenade
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 … Read More
Rock Around the Clock
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 … Read More
#KremlinAnnex protest week 65 Thursday
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 … Read More
even Fox News…. yes, Fox News polls at 51% for Trump's removal
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 — … Read More
So Trump just retweeted an account that makes fun of his hatred of sharks
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’ … Read More
Rex Tillerson says Israel, Netanyahu 'played' Trump
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 … Read More
Hooboy! The Trump-Fox feud continues with fierce pushback from Neil Cavuto
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 … Read More
The Arctic will not survive Russia's wave of industrialization; nuclear submarine in flames.
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 … Read More
“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, … Read More
Tillerson talks to House committee about Kushner's meddling, Trump's reluctance to confront Russia
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, … Read More
Trump claims he didn't try to fire Mueller because firing people 'is not good'
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 … Read More
New Jarvanka book: Couple views Air Force as their own personal travel service
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 … Read More
Memo for National Security: Time to grow a spine.
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 … Read More
What is a Pampers President without the Pampers?
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 … Read More
WaPo: Trump concealed details of his conversations with Putin from senior officials
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 … Read More
About That Oval Office Meeting with Lavrov and Kislyak…Putin Asked/Told drumpf To Do It.
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 … Read More
Why are Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump and the Republicans destroying the State Department?
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 … Read More
Warner, Heitkamp, Manchin, King: Rex Tillerson's enablers from the left
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 … Read More
