In a tale of logistical wizardry, persistence, and sheer physical endurance, Massachusetts is being whisked some 1.4 million N95 masks on the New England Patriots' plane. 300,000 some masks will go to New York. Bob Kraft is paying for some … [Read more...]
We’re locked in a room with a maniac.
I do not listen to the press conferences with Trump. I hear about the fallout afterwards. Perhaps it's best to ignore him, save our outrage, and give a signal boost only to correct misinformation. (Rachel Maddow had a good segment on this.) … [Read more...]
Impeachment Was Inevitable No Matter Who Won in 2016
The first time I realized that the Republicans were going to impeach Bill Clinton was about 46 minutes into his first address to a Joint Session of Congress, also referred to as the 1993 State of the Union, on February 17, 1993. When the … [Read more...]
The Presidential Con Game and the All-American Bust-Out
According to The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It… Every Time by Maria Konnikova (NY: Viking, 2016 ISBN 978-0-525-42741-4), there’s a structure to the con: The put-up picks out the mark The play establish a bond The rope lays out the … [Read more...]
The Globe, like the rest of the press, can’t help but try to legitimize Trump
Even when they clearly disapprove of Donald Trump and his policies, members of the media can’t seem to keep themselves from trying to normalize his policies and provide them with a veneer of legitimacy. The latest case I’ve seen of this is … [Read more...]
The Global Plutocracy Story
With the news of Saudi and UAE meetings with the Trmp campaign, Jeet Heer, staff writer at the New Republic, points out that the “so called Russia story is a global plutocracy story” and I believe he is correct. In fact, the global … [Read more...]
The Sledgehammer President
Like probably most of you, I've been trying for weeks now to figure out what President Trump is trying to accomplish in continually upping his war of personal insults with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Up to now, it has been at least … [Read more...]
Is Trump really that stupid?
Can anyone answer this one for me? It seems clear that Donald Trump's strategy in criticizing Jeff Sessions is to get him to quit as AG so that Trump can appoint someone else as AG who will agree to fire Robert Mueller. I get that. It … [Read more...]
Collusion Is Not a Crime
“We do not get our opposition research from spies, we do not collaborate with Russian spies, unless we want to be accused of treason.” --Richard Painter Trump Russia Scandal is like a connect-the-dots picture that will later be colored … [Read more...]
Welcome to Watergate 2.0 (A Thread Starter)
No two ways about it. James Comey screwed up (in) the 2016 election. My informed belief: he spoke about reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton to short-circuit a leak from the FBI's New York Field Office. I'm holding onto this … [Read more...]