Rudy Giuliani was Donald Trump’s most trusted advisor. And Giuliani was too well lubricated to advise anyone. That’s one of the conclusions you have to reach after watching yesterday’s hearing into the Trump insurrection. Dana Milbank writes: Giuliani, once America’s Mayor and Time’s Person of the Year, long ago became
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Politics and its Discontents: The Lighter Side Of Dementia?
In which Rudy Giuliani amply illustrates the old adage that it takes one to know one. May the farce be with him. Marching behind Mayor Adams is @RudyGiuliani who gets into a shouting match with a Democrat. “You are a jackass… You are a brainwashed asshole… you are probably as
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: George Orwell Meets Rudy Giuliani
“Truth isn’t truth,” proclaims the increasingly zany and demented uncle known as Rudy Giuliani. Start at the 1:20 mark to take the full measure of the man, the man he represents, and the fulfillment of George Orwell’s direst warnings: Recommend this Post
Continue readingAlberta Politics: U.S. and Canadian right-wing politicians march in lockstep as they dismiss facts as conspiracy, disagreement as criminality
Apparently infected by the decline of political discourse in the United States, the Canadian right is increasingly moving toward defining the use of facts that run counter to its narrative as conspiracy and policy disagreement criminality. If you doubt this, consider recent Tweets by the likes of Calgary Conservative MP
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Stephen Harper’s Paris speech to Mojahedin-e Khalq: No laws were broken; appropriate interests were served; get over it!
Many readers would be offended if someone were to suggest the Roman Catholic Church was a former terrorist organization with cult-like attributes. Still, wouldn’t terrorism be a fair description of the Inquisition, the brutal effort to root out heresy carried out from the 12th to the early 19th centuries by
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Disastrous Return of Rudy Giuliani
Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani haven't been seen together since the heady days of the Republican leadership race.But Trump has been shaking up his legal team as Robert Mueller closes in on him, so he decided to call on Giuliani again.And it may have been one of the worst decisions of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Labyrinth of Lies
In his book The Art of the Deal Donald Trump called his compulsive lying "truthful hyperbole," or "an innocent form of exaggeration."But they are lies, if his nose really did grow with every one he told, by now it would it would have had to be declared a dangerous weapon.And the way he reacted to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Hillary Clinton, James Comey and the FBI Coup D’Etat
If Hillary Clinton loses the election to Donald Trump, it will be largely due to the FBI director James Comey's decision to inform Congress that another batch of Clinton's e-mails had been found in the laptop of the sexting pervert Anthony Wiener.Even though Comey had no idea what was in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Pseudo Medical War on Hillary Clinton
It couldn't be a more bizarre allegation, considering the way Donald Trump has been behaving recently.Or his advanced state of desperation.But believe it or not, Trump and his RepubliCon clowns are now suggesting that Hillary Clinton is suffering f…
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