What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers |
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Personally, I wish the National Prayer Breakfast, that relic of the dangerous commingling of red-baiting politics and red-baiting religion from the 1950s, never existed in the first place. (Worse, there now are two of the damn things.) Watching politicians take their performative faith out for a walk is never edifying. It starts out bad and ends up inevitably worse. However, the NPB on Capitol Hill Thursday provided an invaluable service. It demonstrated that the president of the United States has had the cheese slip off his cracker in a very big way. For example, let's talk about midair collisions ... and golf balls |
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HuffPost found a transcript of a phone call between President Musk and a handful of influential Republicans, including two senators, in which Musk proved himself just as delusional as his ostensible boss is. And it also provides exhibits 196 through 215 for the prosecution of Republican politicians as accessories to the murder of the American government—not to mention as accessories in the deaths of God knows how many Americans from industrial accidents, environmental cancers, epidemic disease, and food poisoning. Welcome to the hive mind. |
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If you're a fan of how the old government of East Germany did business—informers on every block, etc.—you're going to love our new and improved Department of Justice, which on Tuesday embarked on the extended final chapter in the case of You v. Your Lying Eyes, in which the events of January 6, 2021, are run through the rusty blender that is the mind of our new-old president. What will come out will be an explanation of events that did not happen and an account of those events created out of the thin, fetid air of the conservative media terrarium. |
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As regulars here in the shebeen know, I have a fundamental, long-standing distrust of the Agency and all its works. But it's entirely naive to doubt its technological and political power inside and outside government. A completely acquiescent CIA run by a lackey like John Ratcliffe and respondent to every whim of a criminal president who babbles daily about his dreams of empire is an altogether new universe of anxiety. |
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As Senator Susan Collins once again disappears into the furrows of her brow and the Senate Finance Committee's Republicans approve Robert Kennedy Jr.'s nomination, let's check in on what's going on with members of the Cabinet who've already been confirmed. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (confirmation vote: 99–0) is mulling a lunatic offer from the bizarro president of El Salvador. |
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