A Bipartisan Commission Must Follow The Final Report
...our nation still has a lot to understand and learn about this category 3 ordeal...
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| The Great American Turning |
NewYorkerSatire, Americans Want Alert System Enabling Mueller to Text Them When This Emergency Is Over
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UPDATED 08/20/2019 SA, Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder
UPDATED 07/24/2019 C-SPAN, LIVE: Robert Mueller Testifies Before Congress (Judiciary)
...Congress must continue its impeachment investigation of the unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al...the Mueller Report is not the end of informing the public, it's the beginning...
C-SPAN,LIVE: Robert Mueller Testifies Before Congress (Judiciary)
DailyShow, Lindsey Graham Wanted Anyone But Trump in 2016
(for those thinking the Senate can't flip on impeachment)
UPDATED 06/21/2019 Reuters, Trump says He Aborted Retaliatory Strike to Spare Iranian Lives
...our nation is not well served by representatives that cannot completely, truthfully, and accurately inform our citizens or an unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al., which simultaneously excels at lying and fortune telling...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Orders Pence to Find Passage in Bible Where Jesus Tells People to Get the Hell Out...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Orders Pence to Find Passage in Bible Where Jesus Tells People to Get the Hell Out...
(for those thinking the Senate can't flip on impeachment)
...more rectum-ramblings from our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et. al...hey GOP cum RAG (Ruse, Artifice, and Gimmick) Party leadership have you had enough of your pathological "dear leader's schisms, snafus, stupidity, and symptoms yet...
...maybe the RAG Party leaders can give their "dear leader" a casualty count cartoon entitled "Bombs and Booms" BEFORE he launches military strikes...(note: the cartoonist may want to change the title to "Bombs and Boobs)...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Panicky Trump Brothers Seek Podiatrist Notes After Dad Sends Troops to Middle East
UPDATED 06/04/2019 WP, White House Instructs Hope Hicks, Former McGahn Aide Not to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and NYT, White House Tells Two Witnesses, Including Hope Hicks, Not to Cooperate With Congress and Reuters, Ex-Trump aide Hicks Agrees to Hand Over Campaign Documents to Congress
...the House Judiciary Committee must make clear that neither labeling behavior as "partisan politics" nor a concocted five or six sigma legal theory will shield or exempt obstructive behavior from the rule of law...
...it's unclear what counsel to our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et. al. thinks is negotiable...
UPDATED 05/31/2019 WP, When Will The Republican Silence On Trump End?
...for what purpose does a shameful Republican Party cum RAG Party want to extra-constitutionally govern our nation...which among our citizenry will be so governed...
JimmyKimmel, Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Mueller Report & Impeaching Donald Trump
Mueller Passes the Impeachment Buck to Congress
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Mueller Stirs Controversy by Urging Americans to Read
...what
UPDATED 05/29/2019 Reuters, U.S. Special Counsel Mueller Says Charging Trump Was 'Not An Option'
UPDATED 05/24/2019 AP, Trump Moves To Escalate Investigation of Intel Agencies
...it is highly likely that prayers and family interventions are insufficient to obviate our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al...can we have early elections...
CBCNews, Why There Are Different Takes on The Mueller Report
(Mueller's Report reads .."like a script for Godfather IV"...)
UPDATED 04/04/2019 NYT, Some on Mueller’s Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed and NYT, Subpoena for Mueller Report and Documents Approved by House Judiciary Committee(Mueller's Report reads .."like a script for Godfather IV"...)
...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Tesla Posts Massive First Quarter Loss After Self-Driving Car Absconds With $702 Million in Cash...
...uh...yeah,...the Democrats are constitutionally responsible (not to mention justified) to "pursue" this POTUS (Pinocchio of the United States)...as is the entire Congress and citizenry...this POTUS has established a historic low benchmark for being unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced for any place of authority in our government...it is unfit for "sh*t scooper" at the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA)...
...it is unfortunate the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party et al. has chosen to characterized their attempted protection and perpetuation of our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. as partisanship...their delusion is neither partisanship nor making America great again and is highly unlikely to protect or perpetuation it...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkSatire, Germany Demands Apology After Trump Claims Father Was Born There...
DailyShow, A White House Whistleblower Outs Trump’s Careless Clearances
[Federalist, Christiane Amanpour: ‘Lock Her Up’ Is ‘Hate Speech’ The FBI Should ‘Shut Down’]
[Federalist, Christiane Amanpour: ‘Lock Her Up’ Is ‘Hate Speech’ The FBI Should ‘Shut Down’]
UPDATED 03/26/2019 Reuters, U.S. House Panel Approves Measure on FBI Records of Trump Obstruction Probe and WP, Dispute Erupts Over Mueller’s Findings on Trump, Russia and Obstruction of Justice
...wow, it's about time Congress acts with bipartisanship to rein in the out of control Executive Branch [or if you're a Federalist Society zealot the unitary executive]...don't stop with information demands and transparency...
(RAG Party Senate Majority Leader Stonewalling Release of Mueller's Report)
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, William Barr Reads “Moby-Dick,” Finds No Evidence of Whales
...May Our Next President Ably Discern Friend and Foe...
(NYT, America Deserves a Leader as Good as Jacinda Ardern∧)
(NYT, America Deserves a Leader as Good as Jacinda Ardern∧)
...The Reporting by The "Enemy of The People" Is Extraordinary...
Thank You!
UPDATED 03/22/2019 NYT, The Mueller Report Is Highly Anticipated. Here’s What We Already Know.
...also, we know that our nation is being harmed by an unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al., which is now being publicly confirmed on a daily, if not hourly basis...
...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Trump Ramps Up Attacks On John McCain By Dragging Senator’s Exhumed Corpse Behind Motorcade...
UPDATED 03/19/2019 WP, Mueller Sought Michael Cohen’s Emails Months Before FBI Raid, Warrants Show and WP, Michael Cohen Search Warrants and Vox, 3 Takeaways from Newly Unsealed Michael Cohen Search Warrants
...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Historians Uncover Lost Socrates Dialogues Where He Just Gave Up And Started Screaming That Opponent A Fucking Brainwashed Shill
UPDATED 03/18/2019 Atlantic, A Damaged Soul and a Disordered Personality...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Trump Vows To Bring Back Ohio Town’s White Castle and TheOnion, President’s Cathartic Words Help Nation Begin To Heal Following Yet Another Senseless ‘Saturday Night Live’...
LateNight, Trump Melts Down on Twitter, Defends Fox News Hosts
FullFrontal, Sneak Peek: Is Tucker Carlson a White Supremacist?
[HavGazette, Probing the Roots and Rise of White Supremacy and Atlantic, White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots]
LateShow, The President Thinks He Runs Fox [All] News
[HavGazette, Probing the Roots and Rise of White Supremacy and Atlantic, White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots]
UPDATED 03/10/2019 NBCNews, U.S. Officials Made List of Reporters, Lawyers, Activists to Question at Border and LAT, U.S. Database on Immigrant-Rights Advocates, Lawyers and Journalists Sparks Outrage and Reuters, Factbox: Guilty Pleas, Indictments Abound in Trump-Russia Probe and Reuters, Factbox: Targets of House Panel's Trump Probe
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, God Offers People of Alabama New Bibles to Replace Ones Trump Signed
UPDATED 03/08/2019 NYT, House Democrats Are Flooding Trump World With Demands. Here’s a Guide to the Investigations and BBC, Trump Blasts House Democrats' 'Fishing Expedition' and Reuters, House Intelligence Panel Hires Veteran Prosecutor to Lead Trump Probe and AP, House Panel Opens Sweeping Probe of Trump, His Associates and LAT, White House Prepares for Robert Mueller’s Report — Whatever it Says
...it should stick with the idiom "witch hunt" (or "witch hoax") instead of "fishing expedition"—they'll better understand a "witch hunt" or "witch hoax"...
...it's unfortunate but understandable that our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. would call a process required by the rule of law, "bullshit"...it's better than arbitrary arrest and hanging a sign on the White House door, which reads "gone fishing"...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Obama Demands to See Trump’s Elementary-School Diploma
LateShow, Trump's Historically Long, Epically Weird Speech
KimmelLive, EXCLUSIVE – Trump's High School Transcripts Revealed!
UPDATED 02/06/2019 NYT, What to Watch For in Trump’s State of the Union Address and WP, Federal Prosecutors Issue Sweeping Subpoena for Documents from Trump Inaugural Committee, A Sign of A Deepening Criminal Probe and Axios, Scoop: Insider Leaks Trump's "Executive Time"-Filled Private Schedules and WP, The 7 Big Investigations of Trump, Explained
...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. failed to bully Speaker Pelosi after she put her high heel in his rectum where his head has been for years...when our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.'s bullying fails it has no "Plan B"...more threats, chaos, and collapse (some might say just more FUD: fear, uncertainty, and doubt|delusion) to follow...or in the words of our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al...
"if there is going to be peace and legislation there cannot be war and investigation"--POTUS, Pinocchio of the United States, SOTU 2019-- ......hey its more pithy, if equally incoherent as...
"they say a wall is medieval, well so is a wheel. A wheel is older than a wall [inaccurate, the wall is older than the wheel]. And I looked and every single car out there, even the really expenses [sic] ones that the secret service uses and believe me they are expensive. I said do they all have wheels, yes, oh, I thought it was medieval. The wheel is older than the wall, you know that" --POTUS, Pinocchio of the United States, January 2019--
...deplorably some of our leaders and citizens call our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.'s bullying, threats, chaos, fear, uncertainty, doubt, delusion, and collapse a strategy...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Americans Relieved to Learn That Trump Spends Sixty Per Cent of Time Not Using Powers as President and NewYorkerSatire, Pence Begs Trump Not to Make Him Sit Next to Woman at State of the Union
LateNight, Democrats Call on Ralph Northam to Resign After Racist Photo Surfaces
LateShow, Stephen Delivers The Restate Of Our Union
UPDATED 01/24/2019 USAToday, Giuliani, Trying To Walk Back Comments About Trump and Moscow, Muddies The Waters. Again....don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Dems Agree to Fund Wall and Reopen Government If Trump Leaves Country Forever...
UPDATED 01/14/2019 USAToday, 'Like I said: A Puppet,' Hillary Clinton Tweets After Recent Reports About Trump, Russia and USAToday, All Signs Point The Same Way: Vladimir Putin Has Compromising Information on Donald Trump
...lamentably, the former Secretary of State will have an opportunity to retweet her statement "like I said: a
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Study: Most Innocent People Need to Hire Thirty-Five Lawyers at Some Point...
UPDATED 01/12/2019 NYT, F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was [some might say IS] Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia
...election annulment and indictment, not impeachment∅ is the proper remedy for our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al., if acting as an agent for a foreign nation...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Kavanaugh Offers to Pay for Wall by Recycling His Empties...MAGA...
∅...impeachment implies a valid election and the absences of votes obtained by coercion, deceit, or fraud...
UPDATED 01/08/2019 NYT, Manafort Shared Trump Campaign Data With Russian Associate, Prosecutors Say and Telegraph, Russian Lawyer in Trump Tower Meeting Has Ties to Kremlin and Wired, Robert Mueller's 2019 To-Do-List
...Natalia Veselnitskaya's obstruction of justice indictment relates to fabricating evidence in a legal proceeding unrelated to our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.'s 2016 campaign or Russia's involvement in that campaign...just a women with many Kremlin related talents...
...Ukrainian Konstantin Kilimnik is a Manafort associate with likely ties to the Russian intelligence (think "Person A") of hacking Hillary's campaign data fame...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Offers to Station Pence at Border with Binoculars in Lieu of Wall
UPDATED 12/28/2018 NYMag, Trump Is Losing the Shutdown Fight in a Rout and Reuters, More Americans Blame Trump for Government Shutdown: Reuters/Ipsos Poll
...a "clean bill" is highly likely to end a very limited "shutdown" shortly after the new year...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. will depart...MAGA...
"...And if President Trump or House Republicans cause a shutdown over Christmas, on January 3, the new Democratic House will send the Senate a clean CR bill. Based on passage of the CR last night, it is clear—and to their credit—that Senate Republicans don’t want a shutdown..."--Senate Record, December 20, 2018--...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Exhausted Robert Mueller Turns Off Phone To Give Himself Breather From Russia Probe News Over Holiday Break
UPDATED 12/27/2018 WH, Remarks by President Trump to Troops at Al Asad Air Base; Al Anbar Province, Iraq and AP, AP FACT CHECK: Trump Makes False Claim to Troops About Pay
...more rectum-ramblings from our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al...hey Congress who else must our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. label "suckers" before you act...
...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Nation Not Sure How Many Ex-Trump Staffers It Can Safely Reabsorb...
UPDATED 12/19/2018 Reuters, Trump Signed Off on Moscow Project During Campaign: Giuliani...it's highly likely that we'll be hearing the phrase "I made a mistake" a lot in the coming year...Reuters, Senior House Democrat Demands Documents from White House
...judge endeavors to clarify Flynn et al.'s; our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.'s; Professor Emeritus Dershowitz et al.'s☃ and Guiliani et al.'s efforts to inject feculent into Flynn's sentencing hearing...
...is it guilty, FBI artifice, entrapment, FUD, stupidity, or ?...
...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, The Trump Presidency In 2018 and TheOnion, White House Ficus To Leave For Virginia Arboretum After Declining Trump’s Offer To Be Chief Of Staff and TheOnion, Frazzled Robert Mueller Walking Around With Piece Of Russia Investigation Document Stuck To His Shoe and TheOnion, Trump Administration Launches Human Rights Investigation Into Senate’s Harsh Treatment Of Mohammad Bin Salman
...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, The Trump Presidency In 2018 and TheOnion, White House Ficus To Leave For Virginia Arboretum After Declining Trump’s Offer To Be Chief Of Staff and TheOnion, Frazzled Robert Mueller Walking Around With Piece Of Russia Investigation Document Stuck To His Shoe and TheOnion, Trump Administration Launches Human Rights Investigation Into Senate’s Harsh Treatment Of Mohammad Bin Salman
☃ ...this isn't a good time to propose interesting but immaterial law school exam questions and moot court arguments...our nation is trying to disentangle surreptitious efforts, by Russia to undermine our governments, which has entangled our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al...
UPDATED 12/17/2018 NYTOpEd, Would Indicting Trump Be Constitutional? and DoJ, A Sitting President's Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution (pdf) and Lawfare, Document: Maria Butina Plea Agreement and NYT, Trump Inaugural Fund and Super PAC Said to Be Scrutinized for Illegal Foreign Donations and WSJ, Trump Inauguration Spending Under Criminal Investigation by Federal Prosecutors (access paywall or gl)
...even the Russia's are flipping on our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. as reporting and plea agreements suggest RAG (Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks) Party (formerly GOP) operatives envisioned special back channel communications with Moscow...you can't make this stuff up...what's next, Putin "leaking" the Moscow dossier on our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al...
...recall...seems like an eternity ago...
...tragically, we've since learned that our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. never was about unifying our country...
...and don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Names TV Remote New Chief of Staff...
...if our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. and the leader of the GOP cum RAG party presages likely governance configurations of our nation, Congress must give more prophylactic policies, short of impeachment, that can expeditiously end ad hoc self-dealing...
ABCAu FourCorners,Trump/Russia: Part 2 - Secrets, Spies and Useful Idiots and ABCAu FourCorners, Trump/Russia: Part 3 - Moscow Rules
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, G-20 Leaders Vote Unanimously Not to Give Trump Asylum...
UPDATED 12/02/2018 WP, The Many Contradictions [a small sample] in Trump’s Relationship with Russia and WP, The Lies That Mueller Has Already Documented and WP, Lies, Lies and More Lies: This Is Not How Innocent People Act and WP, Trumpism Is Rotten To Its Core. And The Stench of Corruption and Failure Is Everywhere and WP, ‘Individual 1’: Trump Emerges As A Central Subject of Mueller Probe and NBCNews, Cooperation Between Trump, Manafort Camps Raises Specter of Obstruction of Justice and Salon, Surrounded by Foes, Emperor Trump Moves To Put Himself Above The Law
...the more interesting question is not whether our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. is obstructing justice...but when congressional "partisanship" manifests an intent to join an ongoing conspiracy to obstructed justice...
...neither Dershowitz's drivel nor GOP cum RAG party ruses, artifices, and gimmicks (RAG) will redeem "Individual 1" et al...they're simply slowing the start of salvage operations...MAGA!..
"...I mean, we were very open with it. We were thinking about building a building. I guess we had — in a form, it was an option. I don’t know what you’d call it. We decided — I decided ultimately not to do it. There would have been nothing wrong if I did do it. If I did do it, there would have been nothing wrong. That was my business...Well, this was a deal that didn’t happen. That was no deal. I mean, if you look, this was an option — I guess, I don’t if I want to — I want to be very specific. So — but, to my way of thinking, it was an option that I decided not to do..."--Transcript of Comments on "Russia Project--
JefferiesShow, Jim Throws a Party for Fellow Soon-to-Be U.S. Citizens
LastWeek, The Wax and the Furious
UPDATED 11/29/2018 NYT, Michael Cohen Admits Talks for Trump Over Moscow Tower Occurred Well Into Campaign and Bloomberg, Deutsche Bank’s Troubles Are Donald Trump’s Troubles and Bloomberg, Michael Cohen Just Complicated the President’s Life and WP, The Swamp Builders and WP, Who’s Been Charged in Mueller-Linked Probes, and Why and Guardian, Trump Cancels G20 Meeting with Putin After Bombshell Michael Cohen Guilty Plea – Live (guess that "Moscow Project" isn't going so well these days?) and WPOpEd, The True Depths of Trump’s Cruelty Are About To Be Exposed and WPOpEd, The Truth Is Finally Catching Up with Trump and WP, Corsi Provided Early Alert To Stone About WikiLeaks Release, According To Draft Special Counsel Document and and NYT, Trump Lobs Insults at Special Counsel One Day After Prosecutors Say Manafort Lied and NBCNews, Mueller Has Emails from Stone Pal Corsi About WikiLeaks Dem Email Dump and NYT, Manafort’s Lawyer Said to Brief Trump Attorneys on What He Told Mueller (how many times can one person flip?) and NYT, Roger Stone Sought WikiLeaks’ Plans Amid 2016 Campaign, Associate Says and Guardian, Manafort Held Secret Talks with Assange in Ecuadorian Embassy, Sources Say and Wired, Robert Mueller's Endgame May Be in Sight
...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. and affiliates are belligerently arrogant, perpetual prevaricators, vacuously pretentious, and conspiracists...they merit each other (and can now find each other on social media or jail or GOP cum RAG)...but what about our nation, others and the rest of us?...those investigating this "dumpster of deplorables" for eighteen months deserve a Presidential Medal of Freedom from our next president...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Cindy Hyde-Smith Says She Never Lost Faith in Mississippi’s Racists and WP, President Trump’s Full Washington Post Interview Transcript, Annotated (lamentably, we have learned to laugh at our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.)
...information perceived by our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.'s as adverse or jeopardizing can trigger a distracting "terrified toddler twitter temper tantrum"...but tear gassing migrants seeking asylum at the San Ysidro Port of Entry is despicable behavior...especially if intended to inflame or distract from potential personal or familial legal and political jeopardy...
Today, Agents Fire Tear Gas At Migrants At The Border
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Mueller Offers Cyber Monday Plea Deals...
...it's unclear why our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. would provoke, promote, exacerbate, or exploit immigrant crises...it's not like our nation lacks a number of urgent and real crises (e.g. climate change impacts and risks)...maybe those working hard on finding an energetically (economically) favorable process to break the strong bonds of CO2 could use the estimated $200M+ spent (wasted?) at the San Ysidro Port of Entry...
(...it's unclear why any discussion of science includes Danielle Pletka...book snowballs not snowflakes...)
UPDATED 11/21/2018 CourtHouseNews, CNN Asks Court to Intervene After White House Threat on Acosta...amicably is not an option while our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.'s governance technique seek to emulate the likes of Xi (WP, Chinese Online Star Detained for Five Days After Singing the National Anthem Badly), Putin, Orban, Duterte, Erdogan, Maduro, Salman (AP, Trump Says No New Saudi Punishment for Khashoggi Murder), Kim, Assad, and Trump (NYT, Trump Wanted to Order Justice Dept. to Prosecute Comey and Clinton) et al. more than our democratic principles, de rigueur, regularity, precedence and rule of law etc...
and NYT, White House Must Restore Press Credentials for CNN’s Jim Acosta, Judge Rules and WP, Judge Hands CNN Victory in Its Bid To Restore Jim Acosta’s White House Press Pass and CNN, Judge Orders White House To Return Jim Acosta's Press Pass and NYT, CNN Sues Trump Administration for Barring Jim Acosta From White House and Copy of Complaint; Cable News Network Inc. and Abilio James Acosta v. Donald J. Trump [our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.] and [others]
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Refuses to Pardon White House Turkey After Accusing It of Working for Soros
UPDATED 11/14/2018 WP, Cornered and Raging, Trump Begins His Coverup. Here’s How Democrats Can Respond and SMH, Donald Trump Is Cornered and He Knows It and C-SPAN, How Fascism Works; New Yorker's Jelani Cobb in Discussion with Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder and Reuters, France Says Trump Should Have Shown 'Decency' on Paris Attacks Anniversary and WP, Five Days of Fury: Inside Trump’s Paris Temper, Election Woes and Staff Upheaval
"...Trump[our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.] has no political skills. Nor does he know how to govern. But neither of this matters any more. He is fighting - not for his political life, which is all but over, but for his very liberty. The end game, as US commentators are already calling it, is likely to get very ugly. But it is the end we are looking at, which means we can look forward to it being over..."--Sydney Morning Herald, Anne Summers--
...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. is devoid of decency...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Rick Scott Accuses Democrats of Trying to Thwart G.O.P.’s Successful Voter Suppression...
UPDATED 11/11/2018 Reuters, With Trump Sitting Nearby, Macron Calls Nationalism A Betrayal and DW, German Politicians Remember Nazi Kristallnacht Pogrom and AP, Germany: Merkel Warns of Modern Racism on Kristallnacht 80th [Anniversary]
“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism: nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism,” --Emmanuel Macron, Armistice commemoration ceremony, Nov 2018--
...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. and its "friendship" with malign state actor Putin must stand alone on any global stage...their concerted efforts toward malign statesmanship demands nothing but continuous castigation and opposition...
UPDATED 11/13/2018 Atlantic, It’s Probably Too Late to Stop Mueller ...it should surprise almost nobody that our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. would appoint an unfit, unwell, and unbalanced Attorney General∴, least of all our Republican leaders...it is likely key Republican leaders have advised our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. on how to truncate the Mueller probe...at least until we learned of Whitaker's compromising history...some Republican leaders equate a "compromising" history with a "conservative" history...
...and AP,Appeals Court Hears Argument That Mueller Probe Is Invalid and WP, Roger Stone Associate Challenges Mueller’s Special Counsel Appointment and Intercept, Jeff Sessions Replaced by Aide Who Said Mueller Should Be Barred From Probing Trump Finances and AP, Jeff Sessions Pushed Out After A Year of Attacks from Trump and NYT, Trump Installs a Critic of the Mueller Investigation to Oversee It...
...it is highly likely that part of the backstory for today's firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions is found in these documentsÅ:
- DOJ, Grand Jury Indicts Thirteen Russian Individuals and Three Russian Companies for Scheme to Interfere in the United States Political System and DOJ, Case 1:18-cr-00032-DLF Document 1 Filed 02/16/18 Page 1 of 37
- ONDI, Joint DHS, ODNI, FBI Statement on Russian Malicious Cyber Activity
- DHS, Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security
- DNI, Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections
- emptwheel, The Universe Of Hacked And Leaked Emails From 2016: DNC Emails (blog page)
- Senate, Russian Interference in the 2016 U.S. Elections
- Senate, Open Hearing On The Intelligence Community's Assessment On Russian Activities And Intentions In The 2016 U.S. Elections
- Senate, Disinformation: A Primer In Russian Active Measures And Influence Campaigns Panel I and CPRP, Computational Propaganda in the United States of America Manufacturing Consensus Online and PNAS, Private Traits and Attributes Are Predictable from Digital Records of Human Behavior and PNAS, Psychological Targeting As An Effective Approach To Digital Mass Persuasion
- algorithmic use of digital footprints to predict and persuade is in its infancy...our nation is fortunate that Russia, our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al., and an obsolete Republican Party has presented a relatively trivial "trial run" with which to learn...
- Oral Arguments D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, mp3; [Mueller Probe] Grand Jury Investigation [In Re: Appeal of Andrew Miller] Judges: Henderson, Rogers, Srinivasan Arguing: Paul D. Kamenar, James C. Martin, Michael R. Dreeben (DOJ)11/08/2018 (oral arguments are ignoring the November 8, 2018 firing of Jeff Sessions; the panel will likely request supplemental briefs on the impacts of the appointment of Matthew Whitaker and perhaps more oral arguments?
Å...those wanting to understand Russia's malign United States presidential election, 2016 electioneering activity in the frame of a political communications researcher might enjoy Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know; Kathleen Hall Jamieson; 2018 (OUP)...also,...
∴...appointees unable our unwilling to accommodate our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. quickly become roadkill under the bus (a career preserver)...
...a constitutionally compliant President of the United States should expect appointees to carry out policy...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. should have no such expectations...
...those rationalizing our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.'s rectum-ramblings as partisanship are deluding themselves and harming our nation......Jeff Sessions's recusal from overseeing Mueller's investigation into Russia's malign activity prevented him from providing any "protection", which our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. expects from the DOJ...!!!!
...don't forget to laughå...NewYorkerSatire, Rick Scott Accuses Democrats of Trying to Thwart G.O.P.’s Successful Voter Suppression and NewYorkerSatire, Putin Loses Control of the House
DailyShow, Trump’s Anti-Press Press Conference & Jeff Sessions’s Forced Resignation
LateNight, Democrats Take Back the House, Trump Fires Jeff Sessions
å...wow, the press is as fed up with the rectum-ramblings of our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. as the rest of us...
...hey, Republicans how long are you going to subject our citizenry and nation to our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.'s abusive rectum-ramblings?...
UPDATED 11/28/2018 NYT, Meet the New Freshmen in Congress: More Democrats, Diversity and Women and NYT, Sizing Up the 2018 Blue Wave and NYT, Night of Firsts: Sharice Davids, Ayanna Pressley and More Make History in Midterm Elections and WP, The Historic Firsts of The 2018 Midterms and Reuters, Trump Points to Republican Gains, Broaches Cooperation with Democrats and Reuters, Loss of U.S. House leaves Republicans More Tied To Trump Than Ever and Reuters, Trump Vows To Resist Any Democratic Effort To Investigate White House
[Source: U.S. Census Bureau]
(Wikipedia, 116th United States Congress)
UPDATED 11/16/2018 Guardian , Photo of New House Members Shows [Stark] Big Gap in Diversity Between Parties (click for larger image and combined "class" photo
(Wikipedia, 116th United States Congress)
...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. and Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) may need to consult a dictionary for the definitions of harassment and oversight?...
Guardian, Donald Trump Speaks Following US Midterms
(see also, AP, From Bad To Worse: Trump's Media Relationship Frays More)
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Warns That Democrats Would Drag Nation Back to Days of Tolerance and Decorum and NewYorkerSatire, Unskilled Wisconsin Man Unable to Keep Job(see also, AP, From Bad To Worse: Trump's Media Relationship Frays More)
UPDATED 11/06/2018 WP, Could Losing The House Actually Help Trump In 2020?
...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. and an obsolete Republican Party are beyond help...ignore their harmful slogans, dogma, and demagoguery...if they think they can make America great with White Nationalists and related propaganda, let them go for it...the results will be as hilarious as this dick...........tator's propaganda poster... dont' forget to laugh...
Dick...............tator's Propaganda Poster
...and vote...UPDATED 11/04/2018 WP, Trump’s Hate And Lies Are Failing; Two New Studies Show Why and WP, ‘Pushing Every Button’: Trump Mobilizes The Government In Campaign’s Final Days
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Americans Would Feel Safer If a Huge Caravan of Angry White Men Left the Country+ and TheOnion, ‘Kanye Must Be Back On His Meds,’ Says Nation Technically Having Conversation About Mental Illness
LateNight, The Migrant Caravan, Long-Distance Dating
Steve King [R IA-5] is the Racist-est
(AP, Iowa Rep. Steve King Keeps Low Profile Amid New Controversy)
+...it would be myopic for our country to miss the opportunity to directly deal with the residual racism and racists...it's unfortunate that it took our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. and an obsolete Republican Party to present the opportunity...but here it is...
UPDATED Halloween Axios, Exclusive: Trump Targeting Birthright Citizenship with Executive Order(AP, Iowa Rep. Steve King Keeps Low Profile Amid New Controversy)
+...it would be myopic for our country to miss the opportunity to directly deal with the residual racism and racists...it's unfortunate that it took our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. and an obsolete Republican Party to present the opportunity...but here it is...
...more rectum-ramblings from our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al...it's difficult to imagine a scarier Halloween declaration from our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. than "I'm your dick.............tator", however deluded...
...send former Presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Carter to Squirrel Hill...
... WP, How Much Responsibility Does Trump Bear for The Synagogue Shooting In Pittsburgh? and WP, Thousands Signed A Letter Saying Trump Was Not Welcome In Pittsburgh. He Plans To Visit Anyway and AP, Anti-Semitic Incidents Were On The Rise Even Before Shooting and Atlantic, A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Violence in America and CBSNews, NYPD On The Hunt After Orthodox Jewish Man Attacked In Brooklyn...
...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. is fomenting its ilk...with the help of a silent and obsolete Republican Party; Making America Great Again...MAGA...
...removal from office is the remedy for any public officeholder equating a bunch of torch carrying white racists chanting "Jews will not replace us" with those protesting their deluded hateful conspiratorial tropes, then for an encore calls our press "the enemy of the people"...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Fox News Says Megyn Kelly’s Blackface Comments Not Racist Enough to Get Old Job Back...
TonightShow, President Trump's Midterm Rally Tour
LateLateShow, Stop Asking President Trump Questions, Babies
UPDATED 10/19//2018 Reuters, Trump's Lawyers Preparing Answers To Questions In Russia Probe: Source
...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Frightened Don Jr. Asks If He Can Sleep In Dad’s Bed After Bad Dream About Being Indicted and TheOnion, Trump Administration Urges Saudis To Stick To Killing Random Yemeni Civilians...
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| Frightened Don Jr. Asks If He Can Sleep In Dad’s Bed After Bad Dream About Being Indicted |
UPDATED 10/03/2018 Frontline, A Meeting in Trump Tower. A Response Dictated on Air Force One
UPDATED 10/03/2018 NewYorker, Trump’s Mocking of Christine Blasey Ford and the Dark Laughter of His Audience and USAToday, President Donald Trump Unpopular Across Globe and America's Standing Dropped, New Poll Shows and Pew, Trump’s International Ratings Remain Low, Especially Among Key Allies
...hey, who needs the "key allies" when our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. is pursuing a "lover affair" with the thugs in North Korea and Russia (unrequited in the case of authoritarian China)...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Says It’s a Very Scary Time for Men, Because Women Can Vote Them Out of Office and Twenty Million Witnesses Come Forward Claiming They Saw Kavanaugh Lie Under Oath
DailyShow, Brett Kavanaugh’s 1985 Bar Brawl Brings His Honesty Under Oath Into Question
LateNight, Trump Defends Brett Kavanaugh, Robots Suspended for Sexual Harassment
LateLateShow, Donald Trump & Kim Jong-un are BFF Pen Pals Now
UPDATED 09/29/2018 USAToday, Federal Judge: Democrats in Congress Can Sue Trump in Emoluments Case and Scribd, Senator Richard Blumenthal, et al., v. Donald J. Trump, Case 1:17-cv-01154-EGS Document 59 Filed 09/28/18 Page 1 of 58
...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. incredulous that monetizing the Executive Office of the Presidency of the United States for personal gain is challengeable in federal court...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Obama Saddened That Kavanaugh Did Not Blame Him at Any Point
LateShow, How Many Times Can Trump Interrupt Women In One Press Conference?
DailyShow, Republicans Need Jesus
RealTime, New Rule: Church and Destroy
LateNight, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh Testify
UPDATED 09/28/2018 Reuters, Trump Calls Kavanaugh Testimony Powerful, Calls for Senate Vote and WP, ABA, Yale Law School dean call for FBI probe into Kavanaugh allegations, delay in confirmation
...the Senate must decline to vote or outright reject our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. and Republican Party's efforts to "cram-down" the Kavanaugh nomination, pending a FBI background investigation into the women's allegation of sexual assault and completion of a thorough vetting process...
...here's a Trump supporter who like our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. and a segment of the Republican Party thinks groping daughters is no big deal...
UPDATED 09/28/2018 President Trump addresses U.N. General Assembly and CFR, Narcissistic Nationalism: Trump’s Second UN General Assembly Address and Atlantic, The World Just Laughed at Donald Trump and Atlantic, Full Transcript: Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly
...more rectum-ramblings from our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al...we laugh at its delusional self-appraisals, too...it has been our "great embarrassment" to have our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. so pretentiously "representing" our nation....
...continuous chaos and delusions rarely couple to constructive change....
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Brags That He Got Much Bigger Laughs at U.N. Than Obama...
FullFrontal, Sam Goes Full Carrie Over Kavanaugh and His "Ruined Life"
LateShow, All Male GOP Senators Try Relating To Dr. Ford
LateShow, Stephen Interviews Fox News' Interview Of Brett Kavanaugh
LateNight, Trump Holds Crazy Press Conference to Defend Brett Kavanaugh
DailyShow, Kavanaugh Defends Himself Against Sexual Assault Allegations
UPDATED 09/21/2018 NYT, Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment and NYT, The Plot to Subvert an Election, Unraveling the Russia Story So Far and NYT, A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath
Originally Published September 16, 2018; Last Updated August 20, 2019; Last Republished August 20, 2019:
