Yes, we do live in “interesting” times, times in which various “thinkers” around the net, after telling us for more than eight years now that Trump is, well, “normal” are discovering that El Jefe Grande is, well, a drooling idiot! I could laugh, and I will, as I recount their grotesque struggles with, you know,…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Donald Trump not a very nice person, Glenn Greenwald, Yuval Levin, Liz Wolfe, and Eli Honig discover Who knew?
It is “amusing”, insofar as watching the death of what future historians will call “The First American Republic” can be “amusing”, to watch yet another crop of innocents, who somehow maintained their innocence through the events of January 6, 2021 and thereafter, to discover that, you know, Donald Trump is a very, very bad man!…
Shorter John Roberts/Amy Coney Barrett: We’re not 24/7 whores! We’re Monday, Wednesday, Friday whores!
It’s true! The U.S. Supreme Court is definitely not Donald Trump’s personal gumball machine! In a small but genuine triumph for judicial modesty and common sense, only four of the six Republican justices on the Supreme Court rolled over for His Donaldness, because the other two—namely Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney…
Really embarrassing stuff about Daniel Larison
I have frequently lauded the work of Daniel Larison in this blog. He has always been an excellent critic of America’s “warfare” state, what I like to call the military intellectual complex. His most recent post, $1 Trillion in Military Spending Is Obscene (which it damn well is), is well up to his usual standard….
The story of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison & Cowardice: What good is a Constitution if nobody uses it? Billable hours yes, freedom of speech no
Michael S. Schmidt, Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, and Ben Protess have the story, How a Major Democratic Law Firm Ended Up Bowing to Trump, though why the New York Times needed four of its top journalists to “explain” why it took the 200-partner, $2 billion law firm known as “Paul Weiss” no more than two…
Schumer gets one right, Schumer gets one wrong
Poor old Chuck Schumer can’t catch a break these days and shouldn’t catch one either, the old fool. Schumer’s reputation as a crafty and/or soulless specialist in inside the Beltway inside baseball took a massive beating a couple of days ago when Mr. Inside found himself smeared all over the web as Senator Sellout after…
Yo, Democrats! Forget about the working class! Worry about the upper class!
Okay, that’s a bit compressed, but here’s the deal: Democrats are in just a bit of a tizzy following the 2024 presidential election results, worried in particular about the fall-off of support for Kamala versus Joe in 2020 among Hispanic men, black men, and the “working class” in general. Should we go left, as Bernie…
Is Amy Coney Barrett a damn FINO? (Fascist in name only) Or is she just, you know, a WOMAN!
A question, apparently, to be asked. The MAGAverse threw itself into a foamin’ at the mouth frenzy last week when Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with Chief Justice John Roberts and the “Unholy Three”, aka “the Bitches”—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Katanji Brown Jackson—to briefly check the Musk Trump administration’s attempt to claw…
Socio-Politico-Economic Notes from all over
Okay, this is going to be a bit of a data dump on your asses. I’ve been trying to put the finishing touches on a new novel, as well as goofing off a little, and I was compiling stuff that I was going to get to any time now, and, well, this is the result….
Yo, Bret Stephens! We know you’re a pr*ck! You don’t have to prove it every day!
No, you don’t, Bret. In the course of a “on the one hand, on the other” take on Trump’s foreign policies, praising “toughness” but bemoaning the lack of interest in, you know, “freedom”, Bret is heartened by Trump’s “get tough” approach to Iran: “Iran suddenly seems interested in discussing its nuclear program after treating the…