It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and the latest fake news regarding “Solar Winds”, the Russian super hack that wasn’t, is a good example. It’s just coincidence, I’m sure, that a sudden leak regarding Russian perfidy should emerge just as Joe Biden was taking office. The odds were already roughly 1,000,000,000,000,000 to 1…
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Is Donald Trump making some Republicans “smarter”? Well, if by “some” you mean “two or three”, you may be on to something!
Okay, I don’t want to go out on a limb here, but I do detect a few signs of intelligence on the “right”, largely prompted by disgust over Trump’s hysterical reaction to his defeat and, even more, his clear willingness to overturn the results of the election by having state legislatures appoint their own electors…
Yes, Donald Trump is destroying American democracy and the Republican Party is helping. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.
Only eight years ago—how time flies!—Republicans were actually embarrassed by the fact that since 1988 their nominee for president had won more votes than his opponent only once, compared to five second-place finishes. Now if you ask a Republican “strategist” about the fact that it’s now one out of eight, he’ll explain to you genially…
Today the Struggle Begins
The odds for a Biden victory do not look good. Possibly the Democrats will win the Senate. Probably they gain strength in the House. Our long national nightmare just got longer. Obviously, we cannot surrender to Trumpism. We have to endure, so that, eventually, when the emotions that brought Trump to power exhaust themselves, the…
Good news! (Sort of) Other countries have been even more f*cked up than we are!
Big consolation, n’est-ce pas? Well, at this time of the “Big Wait”, when I am pathetically hoping for a Biden blow-out and even more pathetically trying not to think, really, not to think about anything at all, it is “nice” to think that other nations have, at other times in their history, endured internal distress,…
Donald Trump must really be in trouble, because Ben Sasse is kicking him
You know a pimp is hurtin’ when his whores start to turn. Anyone who reads this blog—all three of you—know that I’m, well, basically terrified of thinking that Uncle Joe Biden has it in the bag, despite what the polls say. But here’s a real sign that Donnie’s ship is sinking: Nebraska Sen. Ben “Sassy…
Back to “Normal” in 21? We should be so lucky.
There’s been a meme floating around for the past several years, pushed perhaps most assiduously by the New York Times’s Ross Douthat, and given another shove in his recent column “There Will Be No Trump Coup”, picturing that man in the White House as a “noisy weakling, not a budding autocrat”, an embarrassment rather than…
Yo, Donald Trump! The Editors of the National Review are getting really, really tired of you waving your penis in their faces! Really!
Well, they are. In their latest anti-presidential penile tirade, titled “Trump’s Outrageous Pressure Campaign against Bill Barr”, the overwrought eyeshade folk at NR were driven to the last refuge of “conservatives”, to wit, “the truth”, when Trump tweeted that Hillary Clinton’s criticism of him during the 2016 campaign amounted to a “treasonous plot”. Well, the…
Factoid o’ the day. And it ain’t pretty.
Over at Bloomberg, Frank Barry has an interesting post, “Racial Justice and the Long Shadow of Gettysburg”, from which I’ll extract a curious and thoroughly dispiriting snippet: It seems that the town of Gettysburg, Pa. has a “sister city”, Gettysburg, S.D., the relationship originating purely on the basis of the shared name. Recently, the Pennsylvania…
Donald Trump’s unmentionables
Oh, that Donald Trump! Sometimes he says such awful things! Just awful! So awful, in fact, that poor Charles W. Cooke, online editor for the National Review, can’t bring himself to say what the awful Mr. Trump actually said. In a post titled “Trump v. Trump” (rather than, perhaps, “Donald Trump is an utterly disgusting…