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Macron is a going through a crisis.

Joe Biden’s November 20th debate performance was both his fifth and also fifth consecutive poor debate. This comes with campaign foibles and declining poll numbers – Biden’s problem wouldn’t be so enigmatic if DNC and deep-state controlled media didn’t insist that he was the DNC nomination frontrunner, despite their accurately reporting his lack of appeal and poor campaign performance. Sure, there’s name recognition from the Obama administration. As Trump might say ‘yes, he has experience, but it’s bad experience’.

Patrick COCKBURN
Prince Andrew and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia have both had a bad week.

Donald Trump’s millions of detractors without doubt see him as The Mad Hatter: But, no: He’s Alice. The President of the United States has disappeared down the rabbit hole and he’s in Wonderland – Complete with a Red Queen (Nancy Pelosi) shouting “Off with his head!”

The developing story about how the US intelligence and national security agencies may have conspired to influence and possibly even reverse the results of the 2016 presidential election is compelling, even if one is disinclined to believe that such a plot would be possible to execute.

Andrew LEVINE
Despite Nancy Pelosi’s “prayerful” concerns and the cowardice of the party she leads, impeachment time has come at last! Republicans must now decide whether to flee their Dear Leader, like rats on a sinking ship, or to stand by his big and very stable brain.
As of now, the smart money has them remaining on board – agonizing over their own fates.
Agonize away, miscreants! When bad things happen to bad people, it “proves the heavens more just.”

Last week’s impeachment headlines show why. If all you read is the New York Times, you’d think that the dump-Trump movement was going swimmingly. On Tuesday, Oct.

Fox News just ran a piece noting that the attorney representing the “Ukraine whistleblower” (alleged to be a CIA agent by the name of Eric Ciamarella) is on record for tweeting in 2017 that the “coup has begun”, two years before its realization unfolded in the Compleat Fake Impeachment Inquiry which has been dominating much of the news cycle for all American media outlets. What we see now is this coup in progress. Fox reports:

With the U.S. presidential cycle gearing up, Elizabeth Vos takes stock of lessons from 2016. 
Elizabeth VOS

Andrew LEVINE
Is there anyone in the Trump Party, formerly known as the GOP, who is not worthy of contempt?
Perhaps somewhere within the Fox News demographic there are a few. Thanks largely to that propaganda outfit and other rightwing media, there are people who don’t know better, who are that dumbed down and disinformed.
But the GOP’s Trump toadies and enablers, its Senators and House members especially, have no excuse.
Like Trump himself, they have to be taken seriously – for the power they wield. Otherwise, they would not even be worth despising.