Earlier today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi teased a press conference tomorrow: “We will be talking about the 25th Amendment.” Anyone who has been following Donald Trump’s tweets lately, even in the most desultory way, has to have wondered what that amendment has to say about mental capability. Trump is recovering from covid-19, which is known …
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Après Moi Le Déluge
As a bunch of jackals have noted in the comments, Trump’s entered his burn it down phase: President Donald Trump has ordered his negotiators to halt talks over a new stimulus package, after the two sides have struggled for months to reach a deal. “I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the …
PSA: Donald’s New Drug Can Kill You
Man, I hate articles like the one in Axios about Donald’s latest snake oil. I’m not going to link to it. It should have started with OLEANDRIN CAN KILL YOU, AND OTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE OLEANDER PLANT *WILL* KILL YOU Instead, it cites papers to look authoritative and buries a quote from one researcher that …
Russian Military Unit Offered Bounties To Afghans To Murder Americans
Trump’s love affair with Russia continues. WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter. New …
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John Bolton Tells All – Maybe
Peter Baker at the New York Times has a copy of John Bolton’s book about his time in the Trump administration. Baker shares some of the goodies with us. There is the usual evidence that Trump is a fool: Mr. Trump did not seem to know, for example, that Britain is a nuclear power and …
Criteria For Loosening Restrictions
Last week, President Donald Trump decided that the country must open back up. He issued a slide package about requirements for opening things back up. The next day, he issued three “LIBERATE” tweets, naming specific states. The purpose of those tweets seems to have been to encourage demonstrations against distancing provisions issued by those governors. …
DKE-19 Strikes Over The Weekend!
Over the weekend, compounding the epidemic of SARS-CoV-2, there was an outbreak of DKE-19. It even struck the New York Times, and I had to deal with a case of it on Twitter. DKE-19 results in long and convoluted justifications of letting more people get sick and die so that (maybe) the markets will perk …