Our Trump Nightmare

This was posted as a comment elsewhere, but I intended it to be used here, as well.   Some years ago, McCain billed himself as a maverick, and the media fell for it, because no one wants to criticize a man who was a POW for five years. It would just seem untoward, so McCain remade himself into a sort of Anthony Fremont who knew that people were afraid of holding him accountable for his actions. He coasted on this for years. But something else was happening. McCain’s captivity demons resided right beneath the surface, and any time anyone mistreated him poorly enough, he recoiledRead More →

I decided to take a month off from this. Every now and then, one must give ones’ self a break from the bullshit, and since this isn’t my actual paying job, I felt no urgency to keep up with it at a daily pace. Trying to keep up with trump’s daily slights against humanity can be demoralizing. But, a month has passed. Back to it. I don’t think the president has ever sent mixed messages on how he feels about all of the improper actions that the Clintons took and certainly were involved in over the course of the last several years, and I thinkRead More →

  This evening, on MSNBC’s Meet The Press Daily, a pundit—or maybe it was a strategist, or perhaps it was a consultant, or an advisor, or a contributor, or whatever other fancy title news channels give to the dozens of mouths they pay to gaze at their own navels—was attempting to spin Jon Ossoff’s loss in Georgia’s 6th district yesterday as a positive by declaring that Ossoff’s close campaign forced the GOP to spend more money to win that seat than they have in any other congressional election in history. That was a stupid statement. Here’s why. Imagine an Atlanta Falcon’s fan saying on theRead More →

  In 2011, Representative Gabby Giffords was shot in the head during a public appearance in Tucson, Arizona. The day after the shooting, Pamela Gellar wrote this on Breitbart (I won’t link to that shit-hole, but just put the quote into the Google thingy and it’ll take you where you need to go for a citation): When Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and six others were killed Saturday morning by a gunman Jared Loughner, the left wing smear machine went into high gear. So, today, while right-wingers were busy flooding social media with “outrage” that anyone might treat the shooting ofRead More →

  “Do you like spy fiction?” This was the burning question Sen. Tom Cotton (F*–Arkansas) had for Attorney General Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions during Sessions’ testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding the trump campaign/administration’s probably collusion with Russia in order to steal an election. You see, Cotton was pulling a funny, by insinuating that the accusations being levied against trump, his fluffers, and anyone else connected to his administration are even more fantastically unbelievable than the plots of zany spy movies starring characters like Jason Bourne and James Bond. Or, some other people might argue that Tom Cotton was feeling out Sessions’ willingness to bypassRead More →

  To whom do national political appointees owe their allegiance: the people who appoint them, or the American people? Does their oath ask them to protect and defend the president, or the citizens?   Both NSA Director Mike Rogers and National Intelligence Director Dan Coats today refused to answer questions posed to them by the Senate committee tasked with their oversight. Both Rogers and Coats claimed that the reason for them refusing to answer questions from the Oversight Committee was that they didn’t feel answering the questions were appropriate. When pressed by numerous members of the Oversight Committee to clarify whether the information they wereRead More →

  Today has been a flurry of political punditry as analysts enamored with the sound of their own brilliance swamp the cable news channels to chat incessantly about tomorrow’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee by spurned FBI Director James Comey. As sad as it is to state, there are lefties out there in Political Spectator Land who have convinced themselves that tomorrow’s testimony is going to end with video of donald trump being led out of the White House in handcuffs. I hate to be the one to break this to any of those lefties who might have stumbled upon this page by accidentRead More →

  I have to use an image here, because the actual late-night tweet has been deleted: Here is what the president tweeted shortly after midnight on May 31: By now, everyone knows what it says. In reply to a Fox & Friends tweet about Jared Kushner and an anonymous source, the president tweeted, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” Now, any reader will tell you, using context clues, that what the president almost certainly meant to type was coverage. It seems like an honest late-night, sleepy typo, and during normal times, a president or some vigilant staffer would have edited the tweet immediately, but weRead More →