Trump Derangement Syndrome! It’s everywhere! Not among Democrats, but among Republicans! Yes, it’s dismaying when “your president” acts like a two-year-old—because he is a two-year-old! So what’s a pundit to do? Well, “I know you are but what am I?” seems to be what may be called the “Ramesh Ponnuru defense”. Ramesh, writing in the…
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Mote and Beam Dept: WashPost does CNN
“CNN’s Russia story debacle came at the worst possible time for the network”, Paul Farhi reports for the Washington Post, describing the embarrassing collapse of CNN’s “exclusive” on a supposed Senate investigation of Wall Street bigshot/Trump insider Anthony Scaramucci’s supposed suspicious links with Russia: “When challenged on the particulars of the story, CNN acknowledged that…
The silence of the Donald, the pusillanimity of the Republicans
Okay, Donald Trump hasn’t been entirely silent. “Trump proposes a law that’s existed for 20 years”, snickers USA Today with well-earned glee, reporting on our president’s proposed crackdown on free-loading legal immigrants, who, naturally, aren’t free loading at all. Then there’s his epic links “faux pas”—running his golf cart onto a green because he’s too…
Trump on Qatar: Let the ass-kicking begin!
The quasi-civil war within the Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), pitting Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against tiny but wealthy Qatar, has alarmed just about everyone in the “West”, with the single exception of President Donald Trump. The Donald has been tweeting enthusiatically that the collision between the…
Republicans’ “Donald is just a little boy” meme totally blows
Okay, for a guy who’s constantly yapping about how much he luvs Mozart, that is a less than classy headline, but sometimes accuracy must trump class. After all, Trump always trumps class. It was House Speaker Paul Ryan, aka Lyin’ Paulie Ryan who first pushed this meme, claiming that Trump couldn’t break the law or…
Republican “analysis”
What Trump did, well, okay, a president isn’t supposed to tell the head of the FBI to discontinue an investigation because the subject is a good guy who’s been through a lot; he shouldn’t expect federal law enforcement officials to function as instruments of his convenience and will; he shouldn’t fire the head of the…
Donald and the Paris accords—a tale of a tub
Back in the day, as only old-timey English majors would know, a dude named Jonathan Swift wrote A Tale of a Tub, which Swift, wrapping himself in multiple layers of irony, describes as a sort of prelude to a great work of immense learning that will resolve all the tensions of the age. In the…
Donald Trump, a shande far the Jews
Jennifer Rubin gives us goys a break, and a laugh, by explaining just how many Jewish toes got stepped on by Donald “Big Belly” Trump when the Donald decided he wouldn’t be moving the American embassy to Israel to Jerusalem, as he had promised that he really, really would. As Rubin notes, it’s pretty much…
Donald Trump = American Retreat
Damn straight we’re retreating. We’ve had it with that Europe thing, damn Germans selling us all their damn Beemers n’ Benzes, n’ fuckin’ Audis and won’t buy a damn Cadillac to save their souls. That’s what I like about Russia, you know? They don’t make a damn thing, and if you need a little extra…
H.R. McMaster, a shande far di civilians
Yes, all of us lucky folks who don’t have to salute Donald Trump1 can have a chuckle at the fate of H.R. “Herbie” McMaster, and particularly have a chuckle at his defenders, like Michael Crowley at Politico and Fred Kaplan at Slate, who join in the cry “Say it ain’t so, H.R.!”, reacting to McMaster’s…