By now it's an undeniable fact that Donald Trump's most reliable advisers are Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Lou Dobbs, and Sean Hannity. Maybe toss Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro into that basket as well. For quite some time, we've all hypothesized that Trump gets his twisted ...read more
Like most on the left, I fully expect Trump's negotiations with North Korea to spectacularly implode. Like most on the left, I also dread the prospect that this implosion will push the already unstable Trump to retaliate against his fellow ridiculous dictator Kim Jong Un by ...read more
Days like these, I often stare at my blank computer screen, unable to zero-in on a topic to cover. Clearly there are way too many tantalizing bombshells bursting forth from the ongoing fire-hose of news. As a political writer, I'll never complain about an overly abundant news ...read more
Donald Trump crossed another line this week by naming John Bolton to be his next national security adviser. The semi-well known mustachioed pundit and former Bush era co-architect of the Iraq War, not to mention other foreign policy blunders, becomes yet the latest maniac to join ...read more
Today, we learned that Donald Trump's team of crackpot lawyers, Dowd, Sekulow and (snicker!) Ty Cobb (snicker!), are insisting that in order for their presidential client to meet with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Mueller has to agree to end his investigation and to limit the ...read more
I must confess that when I heard Donald Trump had agreed to meet with Kim Jong Un, I was pleasantly surprised. A part of me still wants to believe that Trump is capable of human decency and wants to make the world a better place to live in. His recent overtures towards gun ...read more
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. -Albert Einstein Donald Trump is dangerously unstable and appears to be laying the foundation to start a nuclear war with North Korea. ...read more
UPDATE: Trump just tweeted this ridiculous message to the wrong Theresa May (a woman with a protected account who has 6 followers) in what is further proof that he needs to be removed from office immediately. The tweet now appears to have been deleted: It is true that the left ...read more
Yesterday, former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton Robert Reich posted a truly terrifying account of a conversation he had with an old friend, an unnamed former Republican Congressman. It's nothing short of terrifying, and further proof that the United States is ...read more
As another grueling September comes to a close it has become clear that the Trump administration has no idea what is supposed to be doing in the White House. As the president stumbles from one gigantic disaster to the next, his administration's sole role appears to be cleaning ...read more
(Cartoon by Kap, La Vanguardia, Spain) His completely irresponsible tweets and outbursts about North Korea have almost become a mundane daily feature, but there's nothing -- absolutely nothing normal about the way President Trump is handling the worsening crisis between America ...read more
One of America's favorite ways to justify escalating hostilities with another country is to breathlessly decry the awfulness of said country. The media will regularly report on human rights abuses in China or food lines on Soviet Russia or, most recently, the inhumane prison ...read more
Rachel Maddow mentioned this story two nights in a row, but she hasn't gone the extra step to say out loud what the possible conclusion is. That's not to suggest she's unaware of what the story could ultimately mean, it's just that she doesn't have enough information yet for her ...read more
If the United States gets drawn into a nuclear conflict with North Korea, it will be for one reason, and one reason only. British comedian Ricky Gervais perfectly encapsulated Donald Trump's rationale for kicking of a potentially lethal conflict in a single, morbidly funny tweet ...read more
Petty, tinhorn dictator Kim Jong-un has been figuratively waving his penis at the United States for some time now, continuing in the footsteps of his father, Kim Jong-il. And now petty, tinhorn would-be dictator Donald Trump has decided to respond in kind, with an off the cuff ...read more
Appearing on Fox & Friends to tell his infantile boss what to think, White House adviser and white nationalist Sebastian Gorka tried out a few new North Korea talking points that will surely appeal to the enormous ego of one Donald J. Trump: “He’s saying don’t test America, and ...read more
Within a day of Trump threatening nuclear war against North Korea, his administration has begun walking back his claim that he would unleash “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” in order to prevent the volatile political situation escalating. Reported the Huff Post: ...read more
One of the popular ideas in far left circles is the notion that Hillary Clinton is a bloodthirsty monster who craves war and wants to invade the world to spread neoliberal economics. This theory is based on two pieces of evidence -- Clinton's vote on a resolution to force Saddam ...read more
It’s finally happening. On Tuesday it was announced that the first bilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will take place on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany. Just a partial list of topics that need attention include ...read more
Anyone who has ever watched a single war movie knows that the entire point of submarines is that they can hide from the enemy. A submarine that is exposed is a submarine that is sunk. We have a whole fleet of ships that sail on the surface to show off how powerful our Navy is. ...read more
Wednesday was a busy day for the administration. With the deadline for Donald Trump's first 100 days barreling towards him on Saturday, the president continued to be the kid in class who didn't do the work and tried to throw together a project at the last minute so it looks like ...read more
A week ago, if you would've asked me what motivates Donald Trump's decision-making process, I would've answered senility and a cartoon duck with giant breasts that only he can see. But that was before Trump made two recent comments that seem to suggest there might actually be a ...read more
Donald Trump is probably going to attack North Korea soon. If he does, there will be virtually no end to the destruction. On Monday, we learned that Trump summoned not just the Senate leadership from both parties to the White House but, indeed, the entire Senate. It's unclear ...read more
While the Trump's threats against North Korea are making Fox News giddy with the prospect of another Big American War, the real world ramifications are decidedly less glamorous. One of the major reasons why rather than approach the situation carefully and intelligently, Trump is ...read more
Donald Trump can’t govern. More specifically, Donald Trump doesn’t want to govern. We’re just shy of 90 days into his administration and already he’s shown a stunning lack of depth and appreciation for the job at hand. This past week alone, he reversed course on six major ...read more
Some cheerful news to start your day off: Donald Trump is quite possibly about to trigger a global war because, well, what else do you do when your domestic agenda is falling to pieces? This from NBC News: The U.S. is prepared to launch a preemptive strike with conventional ...read more
Wednesday was a more harrowing day than most in Trumpworld. There's a meme going around based on an SNL spoof of the Christmas rom-com "Love, Actually" in which Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton knocks on a voter's door and holds up a series of handwritten signs, the most ...read more
Everybody have a good weekend? Awesome. Here are all the different ways the world lurched towards Armageddon while you hopefully cherished your time with friends and loved ones. Or in my case, let my daughter repeatedly win at Scrabble Junior because there probably won’t be ...read more
On November 8, 2016, America went from a nation that was admittedly rife with problems — albeit problems that we were slowly overcoming — to a goddamn dystopian horror show in the blink of an eye. To make matters even more terrifying, Donald Trump, the squinting, carrotoid ...read more
The people behind the Doomsday Clock must seriously be considering upgrading the clock to a digital version so they can start measuring in milliseconds. That's assuming they don't all drink themselves into a coma to get away from the horror that is Donald Trump's foreign policy: ...read more
The American Prospect's "Blustering Toward Armageddon" is a disturbing examination of how Donald Trump's arrogance and apelike need for dominance will spell disaster for global stability: Call it belligerent deterrence: If only we build intimidating military capabilities ...read more
Out of the many things that simply scare the bejesus out of people about Donald Trump, the scariest may be his seemingly cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons. Last spring he said he thought more countries should have nukes for their own self-defense. But when he got called ...read more
"We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom ...read more
If ever there were a country that could benefit from being invaded by wealthy industrialized super powers looking to plunder their natural resources and create a Coca Cola friendly corporate capitalist system, it is North Korea. Last month, vice premier Choe Yong Gon was ...read more
South Korean news outlet Daily NK is reporting that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un may have executed the manager of a terrapin farm for not supplying sufficient amounts water and food to the terrapins in aquarium tanks. States the report: “The manager was shot and killed ...read more
Retro fashion mogul and all round psychopath Kim Jong Un has yet again made his country the laughing stock of the world with another photoshopped photo of North Korea's military prowess. In keeping with a long history of botched propaganda photos (more on that below), Kim ...read more
Kim Jong Un is officially more insane than his insane father, Kim Jong Il. Kim the younger is apparently wreaking havoc upon the elites in North Korea, executing hundreds of officials he deems to be disloyal in extraordinarily brutal fashion. Kim's brutality is shocking even ...read more
Updated Below I know we've concentratedquite a bitof our efforts on the Sony hack and the fallout from it this week, but that's only because what we're all seeing here is really pretty unprecedented. If you thought everything that had happened up to this point was enough to ...read more
The day after President Obama ended over a half-century of hostilities with Cuba, The Other Evil Commie Empire, North Korea, continues to dominate the news. At Thursday's White House briefing, a procession of reporters tried to get Press Secretary Josh Earnest to weigh in on ...read more
The New York Times and other national outlets are now reporting that U.S. intelligence officials confirm North Korea was "centrally involved" in the cyberterrorism attack on Sony. The news comes right on the heels of the studio's announcement that it won't release the Seth ...read more
You knew it was going to happen eventually. You knew that one day the stonerrific, vaguely homoerotic relationship of Seth Rogen and James Franco was going to bring about the end of civilization. Their comedies have already been blamed for the violent rampage of a misogynist ...read more
Oh North Korea, you endless trove of "I have to laugh or I'll cry" bits of insane rhetoric that wouldn't make it in an action movie but yet somehow end up as direct quotes in newspapers, you've gone and done it again. The Telegraph reports that comments issued on Sunday by ...read more
At this point it isn't even news to bring up Kim Jong Un doing something vile, inhumane, and outright disturbing. But this is a whole new level of James Bond Movie Villain evil. The Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper, reports, "The North Korean regime has shut down the ...read more
It came down to the wire, with an entire country anxiously holding its breath in wonder, but it's official... Kim Jong Un has been elected to the Supreme Assembly in the constituency of Mount Paektu in a political blowout of his [non-existent] competition. And while this has ...read more
Happy Wednesday. Here's a picture of Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams, and here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. Ukraine Protests: Dozens Killed, Hundreds Injured As Police And Demonstrators Clash In Kiev The ministry of health says that 25 people have died and over ...read more
Thanks to a new UN report, the whole world is reminded yet again of how incredibly fucked up North Korea is. But while thousands and thousands of words have been written on the subject, it might be a few simple illustrations that really help nail that message home. A refugee ...read more
How bad is North Korea? According to a new United Nations report, it's really, really, really bad. Reports the Guardian: North Korea's leadership is committing systematic and appalling human rights abuses against its own citizens on a scale unparalleled in the modern world, ...read more
This morning during a live interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo, America's Sweetheart, Dennis Rodman, basically had a nervous breakdown. The topic was Rodman's ongoing campaign to bridge the gap between the ruthlessly totalitarian government of North Korea and the frivolous, ...read more
In a truly horrifying twist to the recent power struggle in North Korea between leader Kim Jong Un and his powerful uncle, Jang Song Thaek, it now appears the North Korean dictator may have fed his uncle alive to a pack of wild dogs. From NBC News: North Korean leader Kim Jong ...read more
It’s Wednesday, the day that separates the glass-half-fullers from the glass-half-empties. Here’s what’s happening on the interweb: 1. And The Award For Most Corrupt Nation Goes To ... Each year, Transparency International releases its Corruption Perception Index, and this ...read more