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…
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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…
Ramesh Ponnuru is a great big jerk! Why? Let me count the ways.
Yeah, I could have said “Ramesh Ponnuru is a disingenuous dipshit”, or “Ramesh Ponnuru is a Jesuitical jive-ass” (because he’s Catholic), but I like to keep it classy. My latest bitch-fest regarding Mr. Ponnuru is occasioned by a recent post of his in Bloomberg, Trump Tax Cut Was Neither Bane Nor Boon, which I was…
Will “Race” Sink the Democrats?
Well, I hope not. But one has to worry. Images of New York, Portland, Minneapolis, and Kenosha burning can have a strong impact on the “I’m no racist, but” crowd, who are not charmed by Trump’s general boorishness but don’t like riots. Smart phones are bringing home the ubiquity of racism in police departments across…
Yo, Max Boot! Here’s your explanation! Donald Trump is simply the cherry on top of a pre-existing GOP sh*t sundae!
Max Boot is confused. Noting that nothing Donald Trump says or does, not even pissing on those who die for their country, has any effect on the president’s “base”, he wonders Why do Trump supporters even go through the motions of trying to discredit the latest allegations? Their support hasn’t been shaken by all of…
Alan Greenspan: More Mush from the Wimp
Alan Greenspan, 94 years young and still a pain in the ass, has some words of, well, they’re definitely, you know, words! Here are some of them: China’s current success is happening at a time when the United States sometimes looks as if it has lost its way. America’s politics have taken a populist turn….
Black Lives Matter, but so does the Magnificent Mile
Massive downtown looting in Chicago? You can bet that Fox News filmed every second of it and will be replaying that footage from now until election day and beyond. I don’t know if Chicago police “stood aside”, as they certainly did in the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992,1 but I do know…
The Silence of the “Right” is Deafening. And Contemptible.
Recently, President Donald Trump was asked to comment on the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell for charges of procuring underage women for notorious sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein back in the 1990s and, more recently, in 2017, for perjuring herself when testifying about the matter. Quoth1 the Donald I just wish her well, frankly. I’ve met her…
Colin Powell can talk! I did not see this coming!
Yes, four-star general of the army Colin Powell can talk! I did not know this! And, as it turns out, he’s pretty good at it!, blasting Donald Trump for “drifting away from the Constitution,” “lying all the time”, demonizing immigrants, and grotesquely exploiting the death of George Floyd in a typically Trumpian orgy of self-congratulation….