Trump’s main goal is to be re-elected, he needs the con to continue. His grift requires getting past a pandemic that will not abide a timetable built on the lies and inaction of incompetence. His magical thinking now hovers around 15 days when everything gets
One of the most damaging consequences of having a president who is a pathological liar is that when a crisis occurs his word has no value. It's impossible to lead when the public has no faith in what the leader says. That's true whether the
Apparently Jared Kushner, because Trump doesn’t trust anyone else, will do the same cracker-jack job on WH strategy he did with that Wednesday Trump address to the nation. x BREAKING – Trump assigned Jared Kushner & Ivanka to come up with a new WH strategy
On Saturday, Trump and Brazilian President Bolsonaro met at Mar-A-Lago. Yesterday, following reports that his communications aid, who was also present, has tested positive, Bolsonaro agreed to get a test. The result, according to the Bralizian newspaper O Dia: Primeiro exame de Bolsonaro teria testado
On Wednesday evening, Donald Trump delivered an Oval Office address intended to inform and calm the public on the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. His demeanor was strikingly dour as he clumsily read his remarks from a Teleprompter. It is hardly comforting when a president sounds and
Received this e-mail today from Rep. Joe Kennedy III’s (D. MA-04) U.S. Senate campaign: Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D. MA) During primetime on Fox Business News, anchor Trish Regan claimed COVID-19 was “another attempt to impeach the President.” At the same time on Fox News,
Bit windy out here on my favorite limb. . . but I like it brisk. So here I am again, making a prediction in advance of results — but I think my limb is solidly attached to the tree. I predict that Joe Biden will
Back out on my limb . . . I’m getting used to it by now. I’m in my cups reading the tea leaves, or maybe that should be in the tea leaves and reading my cups (or maybe just cupping a corpse — a toyten
MSNBC commentator Zerlina Maxwell did not pull any punches as she admonished an unfair system biased against women. She was speaking about the breaking news that Elizabeth Warren had suspended her campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Zerlina Maxwell nails
For some reason I wasn’t watching this live. I mean, on a good day, choosing between watching a NASCAR race or a Trump speech is like deciding whether to eat a Denny’s Grand Slam Breakfast out of a roadhouse urinal or my own liver with
Donald Trump is king of the bungle, but he’s not, in any formal sense, a monarch. That didn’t stop him from suggesting it this morning in a tweet, though: x …..biggest test of his presidency emboldened, ready to claim exoneration, and take his case of
Shocked, Shocked… will sentence leniency compel Trump to do more criming. x #RogerStone Senior DOJ official tells @CBSNews Department was shocked to see sentencing recommendation Stone case. This is not what was briefed to Dept. The Dept. believes recommendation is extreme, excessive, grossly disproportionate to offenses…#DEVELOPING—
Received this e-mail today from the Council for a Livable World: Recently, I wrote to you to say that we have an opportunity to retire Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell by helping to elect Amy McGrath in Kentucky. Now, I want to double down on
Apologies, yesterday was a very busy day for me so I am playing catch up here. Received this e-mail from Theresa Greenfield’s (D. IA) U.S. Senate campaign: Theresa Greenfield (D. IA) Forty-seven years ago, the historic ruling Roe v. Wade affirmed the right of all people to
Honestly, I don’t totally comprehend Trump-ese. No one does. Not even him. Everything he says seems to have been Google translated from English to Cantonese to Zapf Dingbats and back to English. But, hey, it sure sounds like Donald Trump just stated that he’s willing to take
I went to Catholic school and often ate Lucky Charms on Saturdays. Not every Saturday. You know, when I’d get a wild hair. I wasn’t gay or anything. I just liked Lucky Charms. Something about the festive assortment of colors and the convivial cardboard texture.
Trump did hold the aid to ensure a personal benefit including the ordering of various agencies and staff to rationalize the hold in order to force a Ukraine investigation announcement. Trump may still be emboldened to force such a statement from Ukraine president Zelensky after that
At some technical moment in 2020, there will be the delivery of the articles of impeachment, there will be a Senate trial, and some result. Trump however remains impeached in perpetuity. Even if he tries to nullify the impeachment by suing the House and arguing “the entire
“Strong safeguards and rigorous enforcement are needed to prevent this from ever happening again. If we can't protect a biodiversity hotspot like the Galapagos Islands from this kind of pollution, nowhere is safe. There's a dark symbolism to this Galapagos spill, which comes as fossil
It’s a Christmas miracle! I’m not going to subscribe because, well, I can only afford so many barmy right-wing Christian magazines, and I’ve been trying to get off Boys’ Life’s mailing list since 1978, but hey. This is cool. NBC News: The Christian magazine that
