This is not sustainable. That is obvious, correct? To anyone not personally-invested in Donald Trump on an emotional level, which - unfortunately, describes somewhere between two-thirds to three-quarters of his voters, it is patently obvious that this can't continue. There...
God, I love Republicans, in some ways. So proud, so "upstanding Americans," so predictable, even the Trump ones. Some way, somehow, they will find a way to enrage religious working-class whites, (e.g. tell voters that Democrats are going to...
Robert Kuttner of the American Prospect posted this comment today as the pre-amble to his newsletter. It’s so on point. President Pence, What’s Not to Like? I’ve heard otherwise sensible people say that removing Donald Trump would not be a good idea because then we’d get President Pence and then Republicans could regroup. You gotta […]
It has already been a devastating day. I apologize ahead of time. I am in a stupor. It appears to me that some people - like the readers typically here - do recognize the utter devastation unleashed upon our...
According to a New York Times report, Paul Manafort hired two journalists, paying them $2.4 million out of a foreign account, wanting them “to bolster the reputation” of Viktor F. Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine. No news there, that's...
Let's all take a journey back in time, a time when we knew that Hillary would defeat Trump, because of course Trump could not possibly win the election. This CNBC article, written prior to the election, the article references near...
It is not going to surprise anybody who has been following Donald Trump for longer than five minutes that while the appearance of a bromance between himself and Michael Cohen may appear to be the case, the truth of the matter is that Trump has been playing Cohen and using him, starting with dangling the […]
The President of the United States’ “personal attorney,” who brokered a “deal” on behalf of his “client” (the president) with a porn star, will assert his 5th Amendment rights with respect to the investigation into his deal with Ms. Daniels, according to NBC News. Okayyyyy. Meanwhile, Trump has informed the SDNY Fed District Court that […]
“I did when I came in, but now I see Spygate,” Giuliani used Trump’s misleading term on CNN's State of the Union in describing the FBI’s use of an informant. As we all know by now, the informant spoke with...

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