When GREED KILLS, But Never PAYS.
I generally don’t write two diaries in one day, but I am generally not this angry.We are almost getting used to “paying for baggage” which is an idea that pisses me off more than the lack of legroom....
View ArticleFox & Friends Searching for Bottom: Promotes Q-Anon Quote, It MATTERS!
Understand, I am all-too aware of the fact that mocking Fox News coverage is just about the biggest “Free Throw” in existence around here (NCAA March Madness LIngo, Go Zags!). And the latest is a...
View ArticleUntil You Read and Hear Directly From Mueller, Assume Nothing.
It is crushing, depressing, hard not to feel “defeated” by the system.I know. But, I know a couple other things, too.For one, I do know that I trust that Robert Mueller couldn’t make a conspiracy case...
View ArticleTrump's Biggest Mistake Yet
Quite a claim, I know.Trump’s “Biggest mistake” ???Yep.Here it is, you’ve seen it already:No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!— Donald J. Trump...
View ArticleTrump Administration Disbanded DHS Unit Focused on Domestic Terrorism
I generally try to stay on the light-hearted side in my diaries, but what I read today in The Daily Beast nearly stopped that light heart.In a move that only the Trump Administration could engineer,...
View ArticleTrump Running Scared: Calls Demand to Release Full Mueller Report, "A Disgrace."
Well that didn’t take long.Just yesterday, Trump went full reverse-power from his initial call to “release the entire report” to referencing a subpoena to do just that a “disgrace.”This is a scared and...
View ArticleWhen Conspiracy Becomes Reality: Democracy at Risk
Forgive me, but:Douglas, just because something is referenced as a conspiracy theory doesn’t make it untrue. Indeed, people do conspire, and the people who wish to get away with it immediately sneer...
View ArticleHere Come the Leaks: NYT "Mueller Team, Report More Damaging …"
Well, that didn’t take long.People, especially elite professionals, the best in the world, apparently do not appreciate political lackeys dismissing all their work with a wave of the hand.According to...
View ArticleBarr On the Edge of Obstruction: Fallout from the Shot Across His Bow
The fallout from yesterday’s revelations continue to reverberate across the land bringing some elements of the ever-evolving story into clarity.One detail emerged yesterday that I believe is both...
View Article"Art of the Steal": Trump ALREADY Planning His Post-Presidency Book
A little bit of news that I cannot resist, while we await our Friday news dump. For some reason this one makes me angry. I will explain.File this under “Evidence Trump is NOT a Billionaire, but IS a...
View ArticleTrump Hires Private Legal Team to Keep Tax Records from CONGRESS
Any time the president of the United States is hiring his own private legal team to argue that he has the right to keep his tax records secret from Congress, the public damn well ought to be...
View ArticleTrump DHS Official: Real Threat Is Antifa, Not RW Extremists
The HuffPo story jumped off the page at me this morning.Fresh off a week in which we learned that the Trump administration — back over a year ago — disbanded the DHS unit tasked with watching far...
View ArticleBarr "Goes There," Full CT, Believes FBI "Spied Upon" Trump Campaign
I admit, this is turning south, faster and with greater alarm, than even I’d predicted. The only person in America who has the Mueller report and has the title of U.S. Attorney General, and all the...
View ArticleIrony DEAD: Ken Starr Has "Concerns" About "Fairness" of the Mueller Report
Holy mother of god, grab your pearls, kidz.Ken Starr has some “concerns” he’d like you to be aware of, and no, it is not that A.G. Barr has both shared an ongoing criminal investigative report from the...
View ArticleBarr Blows Mueller Report: Everything Changed at DOJ and FBI Today.
The Trump administration made a huge mistake in overselling the “EXONERATION” thing. That was bad enough. But “bad enough” is never “bad enough” with the Trump admin. They decided to have a press...
View ArticleWhat About the RUSSIANS? The Question Going Forward
Lost in the shocking abuses of power exposed yesterday is the reality set forth about the depths of Russian involvement, and how much is STILL left to be released to the public.Not a doubt in my mind,...
View ArticleNo, Leading With Impeachment Is NOT Our Best Path, Nor the "Toughest."
First, let me dispense with this absolutely, positively, right off: Yes, there is more than ample evidence that Trump should be impeached. You give ME a vote that matters and I will do it in...
View ArticleDefending "Women's Rights" in Middle School, and Earlier
If you will permit me this one indulgence.I have to speak just a bit about myself and “us” (that would be 4CasandChlo, Cassandra, my wife, and Chloe, our 11 year old daughter).Somehow, I have always...
View ArticleHe Goes to Another Level. The Constitutional Crises Grows**UPDATED**McGahn
I know you know.But, thing is, even I didn’t appreciate just how bad this is, until I sat back and concentrated on what is really happening here.What is really happening, is a full court press into...
View ArticleThere Is ANOTHER "Party" that Could Bring Down this Regime ….
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)–established in 1958 and based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, NORAD is a Canadian and U.S. bi-national organization ….****The...
View ArticleTrump Called Putin Today About Mueller Report: Scary and Ominous.
MSNBC just reported — during the Andrea Mitchell show — that Trump called Putin today, by phone, and talked about the conclusion of the Mueller report.Bear with me for one moment.Lift yourself out of...
View ArticleEmperor Angry: State News Covers WINNERS, Mayor Pete
Trump wants you to know that he does not appreciate seeing Democratic candidates on HIS network.Mike Wallace interviewed Mayor Pete on Fox Sunday, his majesty doth object:xHard to believe that @FoxNews...
View ArticleTax and Financial Crimes: The Start Line for Impeachment.
The MANDATORY DISCLAIMERNot for one second do I believe that the start line below is easier on Trump than beginning right now.Indeed my point in writing these is to explore with my brothers and sisters...
View ArticleDo Not "React" So Instinctively, Please Think: Mueller's Two Big Points
This is going to be a short one:I have seen a disappointing number very very cool people here discuss how very cool they are in dismissing that Mueller is “in the tank” and basically said absolutely...
View ArticleTrump White House Considered Ordering USS McCain "Hidden" in Japan. UPDATED
Another sort of short and sweet diary, because there’s little left to do but cry.Trump cannot stop hating people who show him up, especially people who show him up both politically and personally, oh,...
View ArticleWhat in the Ever Living Hell Is Going On? Trump Admin Hid Another DV...
Sigh.You know the story. It has surely been covered here. I don’t care, I am covering it, too. The Dailey Beast is on it.The senators tasked with vetting Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan...
View ArticleTucker Carlson, TV Host and National Security Advisor, Really.
Well now.Who could have possibly predicted this?A source familiar with the conversations told The Daily Beast that, in recent weeks, the Fox News host has privately advised Trump against taking...
View ArticleAmerican Drone Downed by Iran? Careful, You Knew It Was Coming.
Well, yes, you knew it was coming, right?Ass kicking reports from the BBC, more trustworthy.What happened: Both the US and Iran say Iranian forces shot down a US drone. However, the two countries have...
View ArticleThe Resident in the White House Admits He Made a Mistake: Sessions!!!
Okay, first we can laugh, because it is more than appropriate:President Trump claimed that the “biggest mistake” of his presidency was appointing Jeff Sessions as attorney general, stating that he...
View ArticleBiden Was Wrong, But Not "Done." We Should Be Careful Here.
Oh, where to begin?Well, how about this. I have tremendous respect for Markos, indeed I might ask him for a job at some point, and we all have bad days, me more than most. Markos was right to write a...
View ArticleThe Resistance Must Be Televised: Time Is UP
If you will permit me this one indulgence. I take some pride, and not a little heat, for being a bit of a contrarian around here. I don’t think the NY Times is a worthless fish wrap.I do believe a...
View Article"What It Would Look Like": A Thought Experiment
At the extreme risk of putting way too big a cart in front of a Russian racehorse, whose head lay soaking your bedsheets, to mix and murder three to four metaphors, I would like to propose what...
View ArticleTrump's Tipping Point, Dems in Disarray, and the Theoretical Minimum
In this week of Kossack on Kossack crime, Trump self-immolation, and “Dems in Disarray” headlines, it is probably best to start with a unifying standard, a “minimum” upon which we can all agree. The...
View ArticlePost Press Conference: The House MUST Formally Censure Trump
Per Wiki:Censure is a formal, and public, group condemnation of an individual, often a group member, whose actions run counter to the group's acceptable standards for individual behavior.[1] In the...
View ArticleDNI Pick Ratcliffe Engineered FBI Secret Society Hoax
Not a hell of a lot to say here, even for me:Donald Trump’s new pick for director of national intelligence played a role last year in popularizing what briefly became one of the right’s most easily...
View ArticleThe Critical Issue Dems MUST Debate: How They Intend to Beat Trump's Ass Down
All around here and plenty of other places, the story coming from the CNN debate was the Left versus Center debate within the Democratic Party. If you’re cool around here, you lament that this does...
View ArticleOnly in America: Potential Criminal MSU President Walks ... With $2.45...
It is true, perhaps only in America can a university president who oversaw a child predating monster do what child predating monsters do, all with plenty of warning, then be “forced” into retirement...
View ArticleTrump GLOATING About Attempted Robbery of Elijah Cummings' Home.
Sigh.Lest you thought there was a bottom to all this, one person persists in assuring you there is not.xReally bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. Too bad!— Donald J. Trump...
View ArticleWow! Former Fox Reporter So Deservedly Rips Tucker on White Supremacy
Yesssss.Every once in a while, the news feels oh so good. This is especially true when it is bad news for someone who has so dearly earned it … at Fox.Bring it, HuffPoCarl Cameron, the former chief...
View ArticleOn Dogs, Snake Bite, Chance and Cornering on Life.
Permit me the self-indulgence, it is the weekend. This is an altered version of a post from last year, one received so well it moved me deeply.4Cas****Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look...
View ArticleTrump Bragged He Renegotiated AF One Deal: Now Costs More
The purported author of The Art of the Deal has struck again. From the beginning, and right up through this last June, Trump bragged that he personally renegotiated the $4 Billion dollar cost for new...
View ArticleIke Warned Us: Democracy Will Crash Under Wealth's Weight
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of...
View ArticleHow Western Water Law Established a System to Ruin the West, at the Fastest...
*I spent near a decade practicing water law in the American West. Though there are people with more experience, I have enough to share the basics. I was encouraged in several comments a while ago to...
View ArticleAtrocious GOP Chair! Vows to Stop Dem Mark Kelly "Dead in his Tracks"
There is no bottom.Not much to analyze here. The Arizona state GOP chairman Kelli Ward put out a solicitation bragging that they would stop “gun grabber” Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly,...
View ArticleNow NOAA Disavows Birmingham NWS RE: Dorian and Alabama!
Just when you thought it could not possibly get worse.On day 5 of the ongoing public “litigation” of Trump’s Alabama proclamation, not only has Trump pathologically refused to just let it DIE for...
View ArticleNew Middle East Policy Advisor: Jared's 30 Yr Old Former Coffee Guy
And you thought tapping Jared Kushner as chief of Middle-East policy indicated a lack of professionalism and care about international relations. You didn’t use enough imagination, nor did I.Meet Avi...
View ArticleMcCabe Appeal to Avoid Criminal Charges Denied.
Expected different?x---> @TheJusticeDept indicates they are prepared to move forward on criminally charging former Acting @FBI Director Andrew McCabe, reportedly informing his lawyers an appeal to...
View ArticleImpeachment Tactics: Fast and Narrow? Or Broad and Bold?
Democrats finally, as a united party, came around to initiate full impeachment proceedings against Trump.That was the easy part, a fortuitous whistleblower (aka patriot) left them little choice, lest...
View ArticleKen Starr Wonders Whether Lindsey Graham and GOP Will Go to Trump and Say It...
Ambassador Sondland has sent the entire Trump administration rolling under the Greyhound, making it clear without the least bit of equivocation, this was a “quid pro quo,” and the ramifications are...
View ArticleYou BETTER REALLY WORRY TRUMP Will Steal the "election." The Scenario...
I am not around near as much these days, busy on another project, at PoliticalFlare.com.But as I stopped by to check in with friends, I was deeply concerned about one of the top-trending diaries. The...
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