The title of this post is a direct quote from commenter “Cornhead” today on one of the posts about the Ukraine phone call and its fallout. I don’t know about the American people, although I suspect Cornhead is right. I … Continue reading →
Yesterday I became interested in the question of just how corrupt the Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was – the man Joe Biden bragged about pressuring the Ukrainian government to fire. That’s because it is at least possible that Joe Biden’s … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “sdferr.”] In one of today’s posts I wrote: “This time they decided to go the ‘whistleblower’ route instead of the ‘leak to the Times‘ route, just to add variety and supposed gravitas.” And that was true, as … Continue reading →
You know that game people sometimes play? The one where you choose which superpower you’d want? Sometimes the choices are limited, such as in this typical group: “Telepathy, teleportation, super-strength, invisibility or the ability to regenerate your cells.” But I’ve … Continue reading →
Well, well, well. Not a whistleblower, just a person who heard a couple of people describe something about which they may or may not have had first-hand knowledge. And as we know from the transcript of the call plus the … Continue reading →
By the way, in case you haven’t seen it, here it is: Feel free to pass it around, if you’re into sending people links to videos. My guess is that, just as the left is saying Trump really meant much … Continue reading →
One thing I know is that it’s not about the content of Trump’s phone conversation with Ukraine’s president Zelensky, which you can find here, although the Democrats and NeverTrumpers will pretend it is. It’s about other things. The undoing of … Continue reading →
It’s been fading for quite some time, but the line between satire and news has now officially disappeared: “Donald Trump has committed the high crime of TBA,” reads the resolution written by freshman congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, “and should be impeached … Continue reading →
It waxes and wanes, but impeaching Trump is always in the air. The only thing that really changes are the reasons given, as each crisis du jour comes in a steady succession. The hope now is that Ukraine will do … Continue reading →
Hard to argue with this by Arthur Chrenkoff: While China now produces more CO2 than the United States and the European Union put together, the Asia-Pacific region (which does include a few industrialised countries, like Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, … Continue reading →
…is framed by the WaPo as Prime Minister Modi of India “soothing tensions with the United States by stroking President Trump’s ego.” (Hat tip: Althouse). Also this: Once Trump arrived, live video of him and Modi walking down a red … Continue reading →
It has occurred to me and many others that the charges the media is currently salivating about against Trump, those concerning Ukraine and Joe Biden and the supposed whistleblower (who might not actually be a whistleblower), may ultimately boomerang back … Continue reading →