What is the deal with Max Boot and why do I keep making fun of him? Well, for one thing, his name is really short and fits easily in a headline. Another is that, well, he has a habit of falling short of the truth—the whole truth, that is. El Maxo is a very solid…
Tag: Donald Trump
What would Ronald Reagan do?
Daniel Drezner, who seems to be my favorite straw man/straight man, and maybe even tin man, has a long post up at Reason, “There Is No China Crisis”, which is absolutely gold. As Dan points out, in a thoroughly researched and most convincing manner, the very many sins and crimes of the Chinese government doesn’t…
Maine Senator Susan Collins is very, very stupid
At first I thought I would come up with something witty for this head, you know, the way I usually do, but then I figured, why should I bust my ass for the likes of Susan “Dumb Little Bitch from Maine” Collins? Amirite or Amirite? Back in the day, a fairly recent day, Susan said…
Jonah Goldberg, still not getting it
Over at the National Review, the sometimes sensible Jonah Goldberg (but only sometimes) has a cri de cœur so poignant that I feel I have to give poor Jonah a helping hand. In a bitterly worded piece, Jonah explains the suffering he endures watching President Trump’s daily briefings on the coronavirus: “I hate them with…
Shorter National Review: Daddy only hits us when we make him mad
Yes, that’s the way both Dan McLaughlin and Kylie Smith are spinning it over at the National Review. Listen up, Media! We all know that the president is “unusually thin-skinned and capricious, that he is keenly and perhaps unhealthily focused on what the media are saying about him at any given nanosecond, that he has…
Neocons suffering withdrawal symptoms in Afghanistan
There are about 13,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Now that number is coming down to about 8,600. Yet from the growls n’ howls emitted by unrepentant neocons like Thomas Joscelyn of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, writing in the anti-Trump Dispatch—“No Deal Is Better Than a Bad Deal”—and Iranian-born Shay Khatiri, writing in…
Well, this is embarrassing! Donald Trump will probably/possibly/maybe do what Barack Obama should have done. Get us the heck out of Afghanistan!
Yes, it’s true! Or maybe it is, as Donald Trump would say. Who knows? Tune in next week! Indeed, the agreement signed between the U.S. and the Taliban contains a lot of if thens and if whens. As Adam Wunische, over at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, explains, in his article “The U.S.–Taliban Deal…
Shorter Mike Bloomberg: Yes, I am an arrogant, self-involved, racist, anti-Muslim, authoritarian billionaire! But I’m not as bad as Donald Trump!
The sad thing is, everything in that headline is true. I would take Mike over Trump, though by a damned small margin. Not only does Bloomberg have a record of obvious racism, blame-shifting with regard to the provenance of the Great Recession, authoritarian longings, and a frenzied Likudist/interventionist take on foreign affairs, as mayor he…
Brave Bill Barr: Speaking truth to power, or lying his ass off? We report, you decide
That should be “lying his big fat ass off,” but, well, it’s more euphonious without the adjective, so we’ll go with the short version, even though throwing around ad hominem sneers n’ snickers at public figures is kind of a tradition here at Literature R Us, particularly when it comes to fat, aging, wrinkled, rancid,…
Yes, Impeachment Was TOTALLY Worth It!
Damn straight it was. There will be some handwringing and pontificating—because, you know, pundits gotta pundit—but the fact is Trump’s actions were deserving impeachment and conviction many times over. The “good arguments on both sides” folks are just covering ass,1 and you know who you are, and you know where you’re going, which is not…