Amy Bartholomew

So far, the highlight of the G20 summit in Argentina has been the spectacle of Vladmir Putin and Mohammad bin Salman “high-fiving” one another as they met to discuss expanding their respective spheres of influence in the world.  According to Josh Marshall from Talking Points Memo, “Heads of state high fives are always wild to see”.  And murderers gleefully exchanging high fives are wilder…   Good Lord! I actually predicted this (maybe low energy high five or side five but still!) pic.twitter.com/2TXnl70V4o — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 30, 2018 While Putin and bin Salman were asserting their alpha dominance, Trump could be seen skulking in the background. Question: Is this the face you make when you see your ex with someone new? Honestly a defining image of the Trump presidency. pic.twitter.com/To5aQKF6du — Jesse Lee (@JesseCharlesLee) November 30, 2018 Poor Donny has just realized that not only has he been replaced, but that the diminishment of the American President, which is routinely displayed through the incompetence of Trump and his Administration, actually leads to the erosion of American diplomatic influence on the world stage.  

What this dreary Sunday needs is some good news, and here it is.  According to Politico, the last-ditch bid by former Trump campaign foreign policy...

It's a tough assertion, I know.  To say that Trump's has said the most idiotic thing he has ever said (Ever!) while there's been...

According to the BBC, Donald Trump says he has finished answering questions into alleged Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential campaign. According to Trump, he answered...

Hugh Hewitt from MSNBC had the gall to say that Trump encouraging violence at his rallies was “equivalent” to Mitch McConnell being heckled.  Chelsea Clinton quickly chimed in to stomp on the stupid. When I was 14, an ACT-UP activist interrupted the Easter service our family attended. I never worried he would assassinate my father […]

Kanye West’s recent visit to the White House — apparently as a potential policy adviser — was hailed by conservatives and rewarded with rave...

The ultimate outcome of the rush job of pushing the vote of Brett Kavanaugh through the confirmation process without exploring all avenues will be the slow leak of new corroborating evidence.  Or maybe it won’t be so slow.  Blasey Ford’s legal team has already released a statement from her friend Keith Koegler, who provided an […]

Well, it’s been done. After seeing this you HAVE seen it all.  Please get your affairs in order since there is nothing left.  At a rally in West Virginia, Donald Trump demonstrated that there is no limit to the depth to which he will sink to appease his base, which laps up everything he says […]

This was taken directly from the column of the master satirist, Andy Borowitz, in the New Yorker.  We’ve all had a hell of a week watching the Kavanaugh train wreck unfold and sometimes it helps to see some humor in it – and Horowitz is the best at providing just that.  Hope you enjoy!   […]

The one thing that has struck me most about the Kavanaugh hearings was not that the good ol’ boys club backed him up (since we knew that was coming, didn’t we?) but that the headlines weren’t plastered with the obvious.  Kavanaugh was described as many things, but never as hysterical. That word has been (until […]