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North Korea used love letters to dupe Trump into thinking it was going to get rid of its nukes. Iran used hostages to dupe Biden into thinking it was not going to develop nukes. But North Korea was playing Trump to become an even greater nuclear power. And Iran was playing Biden to continue its… Read more.
Congressional Republicans are treating George Santos like a skunk. But they would do well to smell themselves. Because, thanks to Donald Trump, Santos personifies what their party has become. ‘Today, on behalf of the Nassau County Republican Committee, I’m calling for his immediate resignation,’ chairman Joseph G. Cairo said at a news conference on Long… Read more.
Three years ago, Washington was hailing Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaidó. He was the most celebrated exiled leader since France’s Charles de Gaulle. President Trump even invited Guaidó as his guest of honor at the 2020 State of the Union Address. US Abandons Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Guaidó I was neither impressed nor encouraged. The title… Read more.
And so we all wait with bated breath to know not when Trump will be arrested, but when Republicans will get their spines back. Because the fate of American democracy depends on it. But leave it to Trump for this FBI search to give even graver meaning to hiding skeletons in one’s closet.. Read more.
Mike Pence’s most trusted staffers and advisers have voluntarily testified before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. And reports are that they all did so with not just his blessing but his exhortation. Yet Pence himself has not testified. And all indications are that he has no intention of doing so … voluntarily.… Read more.
Truth be told, as I watched last night’s Jan. 6 hearing, I felt like a porn addict waiting for some tidbit of information or video clip to come along and arouse my interest. It never came. Hell, even that “damning exchange” between Liz Cheney and Ivanka Trump didn’t get a rise out of me… This… Read more.
On Thursday’s edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University claimed that he reintroduced the concept of the “Big Lie” into public discussion in 2019. But that itself is a big lie. Snyder is arguably the heir apparent to Noam Chomsky as America’s bestselling (academic) author. In fact, his book On… Read more.
And nobody can deny that it has worked like a charm… Remember that purportedly incriminating call on which he was caught telling the president of Ukraine, “you need to do me a favor, though”? Or the far more incriminating one on which he was caught telling Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, “I just want to… Read more.
Of course Donald Trump is a racist. But let’s call this spade a spade. President Biden will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries to try to contain a troubling new variant of the coronavirus, senior administration officials said on Friday, though they said it would be impossible to prevent it from… Read more.
Like me, you probably have family, friends, and colleagues who try to impress by regurgitating a point they heard some talking head make on TV. I never fail to give them an attentive ear. I even humor them with a question or two. Because they never seem interested in debating the point; and, at the… Read more.
