President Donald J. Trump's renewed tweetstorm

By Mona Goldwater, Twitter and Tweets Ed.

That Twitter discipline didn't last long. And when 45's Tweet-fast broke, all sorts of crazy followed. 

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AG Jeff Sessions recuses himself from Russian-Trump investigations

By Mona Goldwater, Justice Dept. Ed.
Illustration by Jack Brummet

In this instance, recusal is a half-measure. You know what they say about half measures. The President gave the AG a half-vote of confidence yesterday.  When asked if  he believed Attorney General Sessions had told the truth at his confirmation hearings, The President said “he probably did.”

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Kellyanne Conway makes herself comfortable

By Mona G., ATIT Social Mores Ed.

Well, he knew she wasn't housebroken when he took her in. 



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Where is Congressman Dave Reichert?

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The Electoral College DJT attacked this week has catapulted him into the Oval Office

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

Illustration by Jack Brummet

Earlier this week, DJT tweeted: "The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy." His "rigged system" catapulted him into the White House.

Reconciling the 2016 Presidential Election

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.


A lot of people are posting and tweeting angry messages about Donald Trump voters. And, yes, some of those voters are bad people. But people have been wanting and needing change. 

A lot of people voted not for DJT, but for something—anything—different. And they took something different—bleeding, gangrenous warts and all. That's how desperate and disenfranchised they were. We accomplish nothing by hating them. More than ever it's time to focus on caring for ourselves and the many people around the world who depend on us. We need to push to be better and tap into that vast reservoir of love in this whole world.

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The Ku Klux Klan's endorsement of DJT

The end of the line for Donald J. Trump, a/k/a The Boneyard

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The Trump Presidential Transition Team

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.

We have not heard much from Governor Chris Christie and the transition team of late.

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The end of the line for Donald J. Trump

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.
illustration: by Jack Brummet, 2011 (from his first possible run)

Fallout, Lust, Ambition & Madness. Oh DJT, you put a cork in it tonight. I've had The Willies about you for the last year or so but tonight, you laid my fears to rest. 

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James Cameron's trailer for the 3rd Presidential Debate

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Reince Priebus reacts to Trump's tape ("Downfall" mashup)

From the YouTube contributor Cranapple.

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Donald J. Trump's reverse bandwagon juggernaut

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.

As a politics geek, it's fascinating watching this shipwreck, especially the accelerating Reverse Bandwagon Juggernaut of friends and foes jumping off as the boat takes on water and lists even further. It's actually hard now to feature just how the debate tomorrow will look.

Mr. Donald J. Trump has nothing to lose. It's coming down to a Captain Queeg moment tomorrow night. Maybe DJT will come out all contrite, and every answer will be like a cocktail of Socrates, Jesus, and Bobby Kennedy; but you know he's going to come in hot. And I think probably half of HRC's debate prep must be based on the five or six targeted crooked Hillary accusations.

It is good fortune for Hillary that the WikiLeaks release of her speeches for corporations occurred just when this whole firestorm went down. They are virtually unnoticed.

So tomorrow we'll see contrition, defiance, or savage counterattacks and scorched earth craziness. Or, something like, I apologized yesterday, now let's move on to Crooked Hillary and these WikiLeaks. Will they pillory him? Will the moderators and/or the audience pile on? For all we know, more Trump tapes will appear tomorrow (his Apprentice 1st and 2nd season producer says there are tapes that make the Access Hollywood tapes look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm).

I'm not sure an amazing performance tomorrow can make a difference now. Stay tuned, eh?

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Three stages of Hillary Clinton processing the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape

[Illustration by Jack Brummet]

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Donald Trump's last 24 hours

Certainly has been an interesting 24 hours!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2016 on Twitter

The Gutter King, Donald J. Trump

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

After Donald Trump's hedging [1] apology last night (ending "I pledge to be a better man tomorrow"), he inserted a passage like a song's bridge, where he seemed to evoke RFK spending time with the poor folks, and being transformed. Then he crawled back in the gutter on Bill Clinton, and ended his 90 seconds on a [shockingly] defiant note.

[1] a) that's not me; b) this is a distraction; it's ten years old; d) what about Bill Clinton?

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Mike Pence's whoppers at this week's VP Debate #PantsOnFire

From Huffington Post Politics:

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Donald Trump tweetstorm

by Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

Donald Trump is in the middle of a bizarre tweetstorm. His staff is still asleep apparently. He's bringing up #sextapes?

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Florida voters weigh in on Donald J. Trump's debate performance

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Donald J. Trump cashed a thirteen cent check

In 1990, Spy magazine performed an interesting experiment to find out "Who is America's cheapest zillionaire?"

Spy sent various people a 13 cent check , and waited to see who would actually cash it. They sent the checks to the home addresses of the rich people. DJT cashed his. So did the Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi.

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