Don Junior does not have the greatest analytical mind. When Joe Biden was photographed eating an ice cream cone, Junior wailed, "When my father had two scoops of ice cream everybody complained!" Yes, they did, Junior. And it was...
Donald Trump was not much of a "steward of the nation's interest." That's because he wasn't a steward of anybody's interest besides his own, ever. The process of briefing Trump on intelligence matters was uniquely tailored to him, for the...
Over on Twitter, user @emptywheel, a dogged drumpf watcher since the beginning of his besmirchment of the Residency, posted a long annotated thread covering the hearing last Thursday into the matter of appointing a Special Master to confuse the...
I didn't knock that over Mom! The DOG did it! The longer this goes on, the more I'm thinking that, in order to do the supreme stupidity and incompetence, we need to invent a new word. Maybe something like Trumponic, a...
According to his Twitter profile Eric Champnella is a “screenwriter/director and above average tennis player. I think we can add “hilarious songwriter” to his list of accomplishments. As a young sailor in Jimmy Carter’s Navy, me and my shipmates would...
(Cartoon by Edel Rodriguez) As of this moment we have no idea, beyond some vague hints about an unhealthy interest in the sexual pursuits of French President Macron, and a souvenir/party favor from his pardon of Roger Stone, just what...
"Can your heart stand the shocking fact about graverobbers from outer space?" -- Criswell the Psychic Things are getting very strange in Trump world. August was indeed the Month From Hell for Donald Trump and not because of the heat....
I do so love to see former cult members defect, not to mention acolytes and high priests. Bill Barr was a major Trump henchman until he decided that he couldn't do it anymore, and he has been the source...
For the moment pundits are focusing on what is known because it's too terrifying to speculate about the unknown, but the simple facts are: 1) 48 empty folders marked "Classified" are in the FBI inventory just released and 2)...
I didn't like Michael Cohen when he first rose to prominence as part of Trump's cult. I was not alone in that. Legend has it that on Election Night 2016, when Steve Bannon was cavorting around with a champagne...

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