ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Unless they hurt the Republicans in Congress.  As long as the Republican base wants Trump, other Republican politicians will give lip servi...

Are these very weird coincidences or something else?  You decide. First , on Monday, the US Treasury department said it planned to...

  Auguste Rodin:  Thinker It's impossible for me not to try to understand Donald Trump's mind.  I think it's impossibl...

There's a reason  for treason and a season,  too That's as far as I have gotten with my political ditty for yesterday, to cele...

This is such a hilarious time to be alive (in the tragic sense, of course).  Trump traveled to report to his liege-lord (at the Helsinki br...

The news snippets in the post are collected over time.  Some are very recent, others are a little older, but they are all of some interes...

I have been reading about Trump's European policies. They are a fun reminder of the fact that those who voted for Trump are getting cl...

That would be the Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's choice to replace Anthony Kennedy who is retiring from the Supreme Court.  Kavanaugh is a ...

The background for this post can be found in my first post on this topic:  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Donald Trump's official "mouth...

Remember "family values?"  They were the big talking point among Republicans in the 1990s, used to combat anything from abortion,...

These are unusual times we live in.  The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood may have been more realistic than many suspected.*  For on...

The US Supreme Court, now nicely on its way to becoming a permanent subsidiary of the Global Trump Corporations, decided on three important...

The Sarah Huckabee Sanders controversy is fuckin hilarious.  Sanders, the spokeswoman of our Dear Leader, the Supreme Shining Commander, th...

The Melania Trump jacket controversy is probably an intended distraction so that the media will incessantly natter about something which u...

The title of this post consists of two words uttered by Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski: Corey Lewandowski dism...

While we are mesmerized by the circus our Dear Leader is giving us (the panem et circenses principle of governing), the busy little Republ...

1.  The conservative Young Women's Leadership Summit takes place between June 14th and 17th: Turning Point USA, the student-aimed c...

I listened to Trump's press conference while cleaning behind the bookcases*.   I learned that his memory is so good he doesn't need...

The only mentally sound way to read news about Trump is as a form gallows humor.  It would be perfect if we were watching the end of the We...

I love Catherine Rampell's take on the trade wars Trump started.  She explains in very simple terms what is new about Trump's ta...