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Somebody was mean to poor Rudy. https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1070134180544200704 (Click link in first tweet to see how) https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1070118915139923968 (Click here if deleted) Josh Marshall maps out the timeline. https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1070151203655376903 Replies try to be helpful ;) https://twitter.com/Krikalitika/status/1070145200037744641 https://twitter.com/Adognamedash1/status/1070143292497481728 https://twitter.com/Great_Handshake/status/1070140463699644417 https://twitter.com/durrati/status/1070153445942939648

Newsmax definitely bit off more than he could chew when he decided to try and besmirch New York Democratic Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez today. John might think twice about trying to take down this amazing young Lady. Wait, did...

As many of my longtime readers know, Trump became absolutely, positively dead to me when he plastered Jorge Ramos’ private cell number on Instagram. A man that reckless with someone’s confidential information is a...

Donald Trump calls the free press the “enemy of the people,” says that no one can prove Vladimir Putin has killed any journalists and has done everything possible to protect Saudi crown prince Mohammed...

"It seems that screaming, shouting, insulting and bullying, systematically destroying and dismantling everything that is already in place, is the mood of our times."

David Von Drehle: Has the best take on Donald Trump’s worst action of the week Washington Post After crawling over hot sands to kiss the, er, ring of the blundering Saudi crown prince — the most...

I guess that the world has just gone mad. Or, maybe I went insane back in Spring of 2016, when I saw that Donald Trump was poised to get the GOP nomination, and this is just one big hallucination, while I’m actually in five point restraint somewhere. I know that i felt like I was going insane at the time. And things have gotten steadily worse, not only in America, but now in the United Kingdom, where that other straw haired clown, with the “roadkill chic” haircut, Boris Johnson, just got elected Prime Minister. I confess to being totally appalled. He’s a virtual clone of the idiot we’ve got in many ways. Johnson is more educated and he was Mayor of London. But he’s got the same shock jock approach to politics as his U.S. counterpart and he’s an inveterate liar as well. Bess Levin, Vanity Fair: When Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, it appeared as though Western democracy had hit rock bottom. In retrospect, that was the high point of the past two-and-a-half years, which have largely been comprised of tumbling from one new rock to next, tearing society a new asshole with each and every descent. Which brings us to Tuesday, when the Conservative Party chose Boris Johnson to succeed Theresa May as Britain’s next prime minister. Like an early-aughts Olsen twins movie in which two sisters are separated at birth and years later come to find they’re living parallel lives in different parts of the country, Johnson has been described as the British Trump: both are pathological liars and flagrant racists who’ve had at least five children that they know of with multiple women. Their tabloid scandals are legion and both of their “hair” “styles” could be best described as roadkill-chic. Johnson may not be as aggressively anti-intellectual as Trump, having received some finishing school polish at Eton and Oxford, but he is similarly opportunistic, having arrived late in life to right-wing populism as a path to political power. They represent the low point of evolution, and their impact on the world can best be described as lancing a boil and then having the contents spray back in your face.  For those who buried the 2016 European Union referendum in the deepest recesses of their brain, Johnson was one of the chief cheerleaders of Brexit, which he promoted with a number of lies, the biggest one being that Britain was paying the E.U. “£350 million a week.” (The real number was about half that, but that didn’t stop him from slapping the falsehood on the side of a bus; when confronted in 2018, he said £350 million was an underestimate.) Of course, BoJo was peddling all manner of bullshit regarding membership in the E.U. long before the referendum; back when he was working for the Telegraph’s Brussels bureau, he wrote stories claiming that, among other things, the European Commission had banned Italian condoms because they were “not precisely 16 centimeters long,” and that “sniffers” had been recruited to “ensure that Euro-manure [all] smells the same.” This guy is nuts. It’s no wonder that the handle “Britain Trump” has been bestowed on “BoJo.” We need to bojo both of these clowns, in the way that that word is commonly understood by people in this community. Like Trump, he claims that he’s the only guy who can get it done and like Trump, he’s got no plan, he’s just grandstanding. Amy Davidson Sorkin, […]

Donald Trump seems bound and determined to incite an international crisis with our allies no matter what. He has been agitating about NATO, “you’ve got to start paying your bills,” and he makes no bones about how much he dislikes the European Union, which he says is “worse than China.” Before the NATO summit European […]

This is hilarious. "I guess Trump’s Fourth of July speech didn’t exactly unify the country." https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1147939959300612097 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1143892328236687361

It was going to be bad, I mean that was an absolute given. Even the choice of the “pastor” to give the prayer caused considerable controversy before the heretic/ass kisser even said a word. The reason for the controversy and the inevitable result was rooted in Trump’s choice to give the opening prayer, pastor Robert […]