The UK Parliament returns from its summer break on Tuesday, returning to a chaotic showdown today. CNN reports Britain’s crazy Brexit crisis is about to get crazier: All of this sets up an epic clash between Johnson’s critics and supporters in Parliament. The drama could play out in a number of ways. But first up, … Read more
Renée Graham at the Boston Globe has a great line that’s worth repeating: “President Trump never met a conspiracy theory that he wouldn’t spread like manure.” The tinfoil hat presidency (subscription required). President Trump has spent a significant portion of the past two and a half years soothing his deeply fragile ego by insisting he … Read more
One of Donald Trump’s very first official acts as president was his Muslim Travel Ban (version 1.0), on Jan. 27, 2017. Trump’s pandering on anti-Muslim bigotry is a sop to his white fundamentalist evangelical Christian Right base in the Republican Party, and their end-times Apocalyptic cult of the Rapture. And it is inextricably linked to the … Read more
Last week, Donald Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) blew up in his face. Rep. John Ratcliffe is already out as Trump’s DNI pick: Congressman John Ratcliffe’s short-lived tenure as the Director of National Intelligence nominee has already come to an end. Less than a week after President Donald Trump … Read more
The littlest rebel, little Lindsey Graham (R-SC), spent many years as John McCain’s loyal puppet boy. Whatever John McCain had to say, Lindsey Graham was right there at his puppet master’s side, parroting whatever John McCain had to say in a bad ventriloquist puppet act. Jeff Dunham McCain was not. But when John McCain died, the … Read more