Bannon Is STILL Colluding With The Kremlin To Undermine America
On Saturday, Israel's Haaretz reported, with a sense of irony, that Trump National Security chief H.R.
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At The Current Rate Of Decline, Trump's Approval Rating Will Hit Zero In September 2020
Active Shooter by Nancy OhanianThe L.A. Times' Cathleen Decker reported that "[m]ore than two dozen voters gathered in Phoenix this week delivered a bipartisan broadside against President Trump, Republicans and Democrats, dismissing the political class as serving its wealthy benefactors and abandoning everyday Americans.
In Memory Of Anthony “Mooch” Scaramucci
-by NoahThe Mooch is gone. Well, he’s at least gone from his temp job at America’s number one show “Asylum White House”. He’s Fired! Maybe he should have pleaded that “it was just locker room talk.”Moochie only lasted 10 days, but, hey, what a fab 10 days it was! Now, he’s been escorted out the gate.
The Apple Does Not Fall Far From The Orange-- Ivanka's and Jared's Fabulous Adventure
John Oliver's segment this weekend on Ivanka and Kushner-in-law was classic. You've got to watch it.
Matt Taibbi On The Anatomy Of An American Kakistocracy
I hope everyone's already read Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone piece this week, Trump The Destroyer, more a story on the ugliness of the Regime he's assembled around himself-- "Trump managed to stuff the top of his Cabinet with a jaw-dropping collection of perverts, tyrants and imbeciles, the likes of which Washington has neve
An Ambassadorship Is Nice-- But Would YOU Want To Be Implicated As A Conspirator In The Trump Regime?
Trump gets to nominate 188 ambassadors. With his bizarre selection of John Huntsman to run the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, he's now chosen 6, two of whom are career professionals-- Todd Philip Haskell to Republic of Congo and Tulinabo Salama Mushingi to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.The others are a bunch of political cronies. The only one confirmed so far is Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador.
Trump's Kakistocracy's First Two Achievements
Even as he was assembling and deploying an American kakistocracy and calling it his administration, there were people of goodwill urging everyone to just wait and be open-minded and see if Trump didn't turn out to be an OK president. "After all," one of that tribe told me several times, "he was a liberal Democrat most of his life." Nah...
Life in Trump Country — "I make $2.35 an hour in coal country. I want a living wage."
What rebellion looks like in Trump Country, and why people choose selling Oxy over flipping burgers (Spencer Platt/Getty Images; source)by Gaius PubliusThe good wages that my father and grandfather fought to win are gone.
Maybe we should be looking into the underwear of the gathering Team of Trumpadoodles
Abraham Lincoln famously had his "Team of Rivals" surrounding him in his administration, and Barack Obama had his. As the Team of Trumpadoodles fills out, are we looking at a team of Woody Harrelsons, or Idris Elbas, or Channing Tatums, or . . . ?by KenWe all remember back when President-elect Obama was assembling his Lincoln-style "Team of Rivals," don't we?
Fighting Back Against Trumpism In Political Arena-- Don't Count On The Senate Democrats, Let Alone The Senate Republicans
If someone wants you to send money to support Foster Campbell in Louisiana, they want you to waste your money. Trump beat Clinton in that state 58.1% to 38.4%. The top vote-getter in the Senate election that day-- there were 2 dozen candidates-- was John Kennedy (R). He took 25% of the vote. The second most votes went to Democrat Foster Campbell (17.5%).
