Well, as with so many things in life, it appears that "timing is everything," especially when it comes to tucking your head inside of your shell, and admitting that your signature international diplomatic gambit had come a cropper. Mere...
This week in Trump World was an epic exercise in Orwellian doublethink. As GOP strategist Rick Wilson points out it was a time to terrify our allies and legitimize our enemies. Not many people could figure out a way...
It's a shame Gerald Ford died in 2006, because if anybody could empathize with Joe Biden, it would be he. They both succeeded a lunatic Republican rogue president, they both fell on the steps of Air Force One and...
How quickly they forget. Donald Trump was passing messages through his spox Liz Harrington on Twitter yesterday, saying that "Joe Biden should resign in disgrace." Kayleigh McEnany was expressing great concern for the girls and women of Afghanistan. Yet,...
Ronald Reagan wasted $200Billion of your taxes plus got a lot of government contracts for his buddies with his Star Wars program, but that’s nothing. Donald Trump has just directed the Department of Defense and the Pentagon to create...
Donald Trump seems bound and determined to incite an international crisis with our allies no matter what. He has been agitating about NATO, “you’ve got to start paying your bills,” and he makes no bones about how much he...
As Charlie Pierce asks, what does this man have to do to prove to the world he's a Russian agent, puppet, asset, - put on a fur hat and dance the chechotka on the Truman Balconey? It appears that Donald Trump...
The Civil Reserve Air Fleet was created out of the Berlin Airlift of WWII and that may provide a means for Joe Biden to escalate the evacuation from Afghanistan considerably. This is some good news. Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—The...
Treason is a serious accusation. Donald Trump throws it around like a Frisbee, accusing Barack Obama of treason for no good and defensible reason. And we all know that when Trump accuses someone of something, it's almost certainly because he's...
In lieu of another “beautiful” letter, North Korea’s state media today released photos of what appears to be a Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile Submarine, which it says is nearly ready for deployment. Commentators on Twitter noted that the photos had been cropped...

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