Enjoying the view from Limbo
Donald Trump, in his typically infantile manner, has responded to not getting his way in trade bullying with Canada by signing an executive order to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.” Of course no one in Canada will ever recognize or use this name. And of course the only Americans who will ever use it are the diehards still clinging to their Trump fantasy...
Where is Mitch McConnell? As for where his body might be, I have no idea, although since all evidence points to his having suffered a massive heart attack, it is likely that he will never be what he was before his disappearance, and this is granting that what he was for the last couple of years before his disappearance was, if I may...
Lindsey Graham has been part of my personal political consciousness since he served as one of the House managers in Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. I remember his portion of the prosecution’s presentation more clearly than anyone else’s, not because it was the most legalistic or the most rationally persuasive of the cases for removing Clinton from office, but because it was, in its...
CBS, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump, Inc., has obtained by way of a phone call with “senior U.S. officials,” a full rundown of the fourteen-point “memorandum of understanding” between the United States and Iran, which lays the groundwork for final treaty negotiations to end the dumbest own-goal defeat in American military history. In sum, these fourteen points summarize the...
In 1987, in a speech at the annual convention of Kiwanis International, in the context of arguing for his proposed Economic Bill of Rights, Ronald Reagan reiterated his famous remark from twenty years earlier, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It has to be fought for and defended by each generation.” How many people in attendance when Reagan delivered...
Mark Levin, former rational human and Reaganite, has used his X account to promote a post claiming that “Nick Shirley says he has proof” that Marjorie Taylor Greene was “bribed” to turn against Donald Trump. I don’t know who Nick Shirley is, and I don’t know why Marjorie Taylor Greene really turned against Trump. But I do know that Mark Levin, who used...
It is common sophistry among the performance artists formerly known as the alt-right, along with their millions of useful idiots, to ask with a rhetorical flourish and a pretense of perplexity why — “I mean really, exactly why?” — The United States should be supporting leftist-progressive Europe and the NATO alliance against Putin’s “Christian, anti-woke Russia.” The answer, simplified for the useful idiots...
Thomas Massie is a libertarian and a former leading member of the Republican Party’s “House Freedom Caucus” — a name which can only be used in scare quotes, since almost all of its members in Congress, past and present, have proven themselves to be utter frauds who would, and indeed did, sell their country’s last shred of freedom in a heartbeat to protect...
It has been revealed that Viktor Orbán’s foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, was in regular and surreptitious contact with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, specifically tasked with undermining EU policies toward Vladimir Putin’s regime and feeding inside information about high-level European strategy meetings to the Kremlin. Furthermore, according to prime minister-elect Péter Magyar, in the hours after the Orbán government suffered a crushing electoral...
America Descending / Ideas and Reflections / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published April 8, 2026 · Last modified April 15, 2026
Here is a breaking news headline from CBS News: “Trump agrees to two-week ceasefire with Iran, delaying large-scale attack.” And from the accompanying story: President Trump said Tuesday he has agreed to a “double sided CEASEFIRE” with Iran, less than two hours before his deadline for Iran to either cut a deal with the U.S. or face massive strikes on its power plants. “I agree to suspend...
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