Donald Trump’s ties to Russia are the subject of several investigations. One is underway in the Senate, another in the House of Representatives. The one that matters, however, is the criminal investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of crack prosecutors. It’s to be expected that Congressional Republicans,
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The Disaffected Lib: Is He Dumb, Stupid or Is It Cultivated Ignorance? Robert Reich Thinks It’s All That – and More.
Robert Reich doesn’t dispute that the 45th president of the United States is both stupid and ignorant. He’s not as accomplished as he pretends. In fact, he would have done better clipping coupons. Writing in TruthDig, Reich says Trump is really just an accomplished hustler, a con man. He knows
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: You Might Want to Wait for the Audio Book
Fire and Fury, the kiss and tell book on the Trump campaign and its first year in office, is set for release on January 9. Trump and his minions at this point have little choice but to dismiss it as fanciful bullshit but now there’s word that author, Michael Wolff,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Will Trump Sue Bannon? Don’t Hold Your Breath.
It would be a real Punch & Judy show. Trump wailing away on his former campaign CEO and chief political strategist, using a confidentiality agreement to bludgeon both Bannon and the vaunted First Amendment to the American Constitution. I’d pay a buck and a quarter to see that, wouldn’t you?
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Writing Trump’s Obituary
He’s got a thoroughly creepy tattoo of Richard Nixon’s face on his back between his shoulder blades and he’s got the sexual appetites of a goat although he describes himself as a “libertine.” He’s an old pal of Donald Trump and today a Trump loyalist. During the election campaign he
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Nuclear War – Just "A Tantrum Away."
You couldn’t ask for two more mentally stable people than Kim Jong Un and his orange alter-ego, “Dementia Donald” Trump. The world faces a “nuclear crisis” from a “bruised ego”, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) has warned in an apparent reference to US-North Korea tensions. Accepting the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Time Magazine’s "Person of the Year." It’s Not Trump But It’s His Victims.
Donald Trump doesn’t have to feel left out by Time magazine’s choice of “person of the year.” After all he’s been very close to several of them – touching, fondling, groping-close. This year’s award went to “the silence breakers,” women who have risked so much to come forward and speak
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Morbid Curiosity Aroused by America’s WTF President
The New York Times’ Frank Bruni performs an autopsy on the bloated body of America’s WTF president only to discover that Trump is empty inside. Show me a person who has no true friendships and I’ll show you someone with little if any talent for generosity, which is a muscle built through
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: About Jerusalem
Trump has broken with previous administrations to announce that the United States will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The question on everyone’s lips is “why?” He wasn’t compelled to do it. If anything the decision seems ill-thought out, even capricious. It threatens to set the region on fire.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Fitting End to a Country Grown Too Old
Remember when North America was called the New World? Well, in some ways, it’s rather old, very old. The United States boasts of being the world’s oldest constitutional democracy and, even if that means brushing a few other nations such as Switzerland under the carpet, it clings to that claim.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America is Broken, Probably Beyond Repair
The sad fact that America’s Congress is “bought and paid for” is well known. America has long lost any notion of “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” It is instead government of the people by a few people acting for the benefit of a select, privileged
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Every Now and Then Justin Comes Through
A pleasant surprise from prime minister Justin Trudeau – he pissed off the gangster/president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte. Good one, Justin. Trudeau said he told Duterte about the need for the rule of law in the Philippines, and also made a friendly offer of support to help the Philippines
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Evisceration of a Thug.
Few have done it so well as Roger Cohen’s op-ed dissection of Donald Trump in Der Spiegel.Many of us tend to take Trump’s insults to decency as they come, one at a time, but Cohen stitches them all together to paint a picture that’s much darker and dangerous than we
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Africa Wants Trump Given the Boot
African states attending COP23, the UN climate summit in Bonn, want America’s delegation turfed out. From Deutshe Welle. The Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) represents a coalition of civil society organizations from diverse backgrounds across Africa. Secretary General of PACJA, Mithika Mwenda, told DW that part of the organization’s mission
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Guns for Jesus
New Rule – from now on, as in “henceforth,” those who wish to praise Jesus had better be packing heat. The Cheeto Benito has spoken. Responding to the latest massacre (I think it’s still the “latest”) at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, the Trumpster opined that, but
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Well, We Know How They Feel About Trump
Donald Trump has nations a bit on edge, even America’s friends. Take the Swedes for example. Sweden is a country with Cold War memories. During those dark years when the Soviet Union vied with the United States, Sweden constructed 65,000 nuclear bomb shelters. That’s a lot. Today, of course, the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Oh Dear. How Will Trump Square this Circle?
Donald Trump screwed up, big time. He forgot to get Congress to repeal the US Global Change Research Act of 1990. And, today, that earned the Mango Mussolini a swift kick in his climate change denying ass with the release of the programme’s fourth National Climate Assessment. From The Washington
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Just Sayin’ It Sounds a Little Weird to Me.
America’s new ambassador to Canada is Kelly Knight Craft. It looks like we got a winner this time. Her remark that there is good science on both sides of the climate change debate made me wonder just who Ambassador Knight Craft is and what she’s all about. It turns out
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: I Hope Bob Mueller Has a Sense of Humour
There are some things that just get better with age. That includes scandals. They need time to soak and simmer. Yesterday it was Manafort (plus one) and Papadopoulos. Trump began yesterday running for cover, focused on distancing himself from Paul Manafort. His former campaign manager’s foibles had nothing to do
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another FBI Investigation to Worry Trump. This Time It’s Whitefish.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI has launched an investigation into the incredibly smelly $300 million no-bid contract given to Montana company, Whitefish Energy, to rebuild Puerto Rico’s shattered electricity grid. Whitefish is basically a shell company incorporated just two years ago that had, prior to hurricane Maria’s devastation
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