Enjoying the view from Limbo
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...
Watching Donald Trump these days, with his increasingly unhinged bluster and threats and humorless assaults on common sense, I see more and more of what I have always seen. It is the same thing we would see in Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and any other upside-down man of our time for that matter, were they all as constitutionally inclined toward infantile public exposure...
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...
Back in January, when the Iranian people took to the streets in yet another desperate cry for international support against their theocratic oppressors, and faced death by the thousands for their courage, Donald Trump, the world’s most powerful lying coward, took to social media, where he does all his brave fighting, to send a message to those risking everything on the streets of...
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...
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...
Here, from Axios, is the funniest headline I have read this year, or perhaps ever: Scoop: US suggests Cuba complicit in helping Russia fight Ukraine. No, of course, when I say this is the funniest headline of the year, I am not referring to the usual news media illiteracy that has become so commonplace that we barely notice it anymore. For does not...
The Trump administration has spent much time and energy in recent months desperately trying to prop up Viktor Orbán in Hungary, in yet another obvious self-revelation of the truth of what Trump likes to call “The Russia Hoax.” Hungary was occupied and decimated for decades by a brutal, expansionist Russian dictatorship which supported a series of Hungarian puppet regimes to oppress the people...
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