Tweets Of The Day: Athenae’s Boyfriend Edition
The Insult Comedian gave another bonkers presser yesterday. Since he’s into threatening to prosecute his enemies, he went after John Kerry for alleged violations of the Logan Act: “I’d like to see —...
View ArticleNew Tea From The Tillerson
Image by Michael F. Oil baron and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is back in the news. You didn’t really think I could pass this story up, did you? He was in Washington City to testify before...
View ArticleDonald Trump Says The Darndest Things
There’s a theme to this week’s posts: mouthy septuagenarian tricks. Joe Biden seems determined to talk his way out of the Democratic nomination. And the Insult Comedian seems to determined to talk his...
View ArticleTweet Of The Day: Come Fly With Me
I took my own advice yesterday and stayed away from political news. We binge watched the first half of Season 4 of Billions instead. The one in which Axe and Chuck are unlikely allies but I digress....
View ArticleDonald Trump Is A Racist
I realize that I’m both preaching to the choir and stating the obvious with this post title. I think it’s important to be direct when writing about the depths of the Insult Comedian’s bigotry and the...
View ArticlePolitical Performance Art
The Insult Comedian has been giving his big fat bazoo quite a workout. It’s all smoke and mirrors: an attempt to obscure his latest cave to the NRA on gun control, a drooping economy, and dire...
View ArticleBedbugging Out
The bedbug is perhaps the perfect metaphor for the Trump era. The word has certainly been tossed around a lot lately. Failing New York Times columnist Brett Stephens took umbrage over a tweet by a...
View ArticleThe Boy Ain’t Right: Hurricane Edition
It was the Sharpie mark heard round the world: President Trump shows doctored hurricane chart. Was it to cover up for "Alabama" Twitter flub? https://t.co/UhBaCLKbwK — The Washington Post...
View ArticleYour President* Speaks: Disco Donald
The Impeached Insult Comedian had another bizarre, impromptu presser yesterday. He didn’t talk terlets or windmills but there were a string of weird non-sequiturs and tangents. He made up a new...
View ArticleYour President* Speaks: The Scalise Files
There aren’t any Scalise Files that I know of, but the Impeached Insult Comedian made some bizarre comments about the mendacious minority whip from Metry at his unhinged acquittal celebration. Here...
View ArticleOnly The Stupid Or Cynical
I’m sure many of you have argued with elderly relatives as to whether President* Pennywise is stupid. Fellow rich guy Rex Tllerson called him a “fucking moron,” after all. My argument is weirder than...
View ArticleThe Age Of Overkill
It’s hard to know where to start some days. There’s so much happening that my mind reels like the drunk monkey in the ancient koan. Overkill is the koan of the realm in 2020. Pun intended; it always...
View ArticleNot Taking Sides Is Taking Sides
It’s a crazy news day even for the Trump era. It’s Juneteenth, which the Impeached Insult Comedian claims to have discovered or some such shit. It’s much like Christopher Columbus sailing the ocean...
View ArticleHerd Mentality
The Impeached Insult Comedian gave another incoherent teevee performance this week. This time, it was not in the friendly confines of Fox News but on ABC. The host was my diminutive countryman George...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: Your President* Lies Edition
The Big Lie is alive and well. Here’s the Kaiser of Chaos at a super-spreader rally in Ohio: “It affects elderly people, elderly people with heart problems, if they have other problems, that’s what it...
View ArticleYour President* Speaks: Smocking Gun Edition
I swore off doing these posts because the Insult Comedian says and tweets stupid shit pretty much every day. In the wake of his own personal Black Friday, he’s been tweeting up a flop sweat storm....
View ArticleNo Plan, No Endgame
I didn’t get all the agita yesterday about Trump’s Oval Office speech. It lived up (down?) to my low expectations. He’s a terrible, and worse, boring speaker without an audience. To quote the man...
View ArticleAmerica Held Hostage Day 34
Donald Trump isn’t used to anyone saying no to him. He doesn’t handle it well. That’s what happened yesterday when he tried to force his way into the House chamber for the SOTU, which should be...
View ArticleA New Low: Trump’s Blood Libel
In the first year of the Trump regime, I revived the “your president speaks” feature. It’s a Bush-era feature that was brought back upon the inauguration of another president* who said weird and wacky...
View ArticleThe Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
So as a lot of you know, Joe Manchin kind of lost it on Sunday morning and declared the Build Back Better Act dead, and if you missed the ins and outs of it, it was capably handled here at First Draft...
View ArticleYour President* Speaks: Dumbbell Caveman Edition
It’s President’s Day. The Current Occupant is currently at his Florida pad and there’s a tweet storm brewing. Who am I kidding? He’s been watching Fox News, hanging out with his idiot sons, and...
View ArticleThat’s Why I Call Him The Kaiser Of Chaos
The word of the week in the MSM was chaos. I’ve been calling Trump the Kaiser of Chaos since last July so I guess I’m ahead of the curve. It’s not much to brag about given how many pundits and news...
View ArticleLife Imitates The Untouchables: Scarface Paul Manafort?
The Kaiser of Chaos was a busy boy with an itchy twitter finger yesterday. The tweets dripped with flop sweat and palpable panic. He “ordered” Jeff Beau to end the “rigged witch hunt” and praised...
View ArticleThe Legal Docket: Of Henry Fonda Wannabes & Flippers
The first Manafort juror has spoken. It’s a Trump supporter who nonetheless voted guilty on all 18 counts despite loathing star witness Rick Gates. She revealed that there was one hold-out on the 10...
View ArticleYour President* Speaks: So Much For The Solid South
My favorite bit from the WaPo story on the Woodward book is this beauty: A near-constant target of withering presidential attacks was Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump told Porter that Sessions...
View ArticleYour President* Speaks: A New Low
I’ve been doing fewer Your President* Speaks posts as the Trump administration slogs along. The stupid fucker wants us obsessing over his tweets and I prefer not to give him what he wants. There are,...
View ArticleThe Three Thousand & Where Power Lies
It doesn’t matter whose fault it is: “When Trump visited the island territory last October, OFFICIALS told him in a briefing 16 PEOPLE had died from Maria.” The Washington Post. This was long AFTER the...
View ArticleYour President* Speaks: The Boy In The Bubble
I originally planned to write at length about the Kavanaugh mess but it’s still as fluid as hell. I’m not into trying to nail Jello to the wall, so let’s see what our idiot president* has been up to....
View ArticleTrump’s Raking, California’s Burning
There have been so many pinch me moments since Donald Trump became president*. The latest came with his bizarre response to the California wildfires. As always, this fucking moron thinks he knows...
View ArticleTrump’s Sordid Saudi Word Salad
I guess the Insult Comedian hadn’t heard about the decline and recall of the Romaine empire when he issued his appalling statement about the Saudis and their murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The statement...
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