Lucian K. Truscott IV

How to plan for a war of choice you didn’t have a plan to plan for The problem with a country that is protected on its east and west and south by oceans and to its north by a sheet of ice is that everything you do to practice defending your nation is done by pretendi...

Don’t you get it? Real men don’t prepare for war. They make war! Watch out! I see a bearded Mullah who’s getting away! Lethality that evil bastard! We don’t need no stinking plan! It’s in God’s plan!
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I watched Trump’s Medal of Honor ceremony today. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This is a photograph of an explosion in Tehran.

“When I hear that sound, that beautiful sound behind me, it means money," Trump said. We will learn at some time in the future what Donald Trump’s war has been all about.
He can hear the pile drivers for his ballroom, but he can’t hear the bombs.
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Trump tells Iran: “You better not shoot back! It will make me very mad!" What he actually said was, “WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!” But whatever.

He’s bombing and killing little girls in Iran and partying at Mar a Lago wearing a gold tie. We’ve been wondering if there could be a new low that is even lower than the older low that Trump could reach, and ladies and gentlemen, we have our answer.
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He opened his mouth and lies came out and bombs fell and people started dying The only difference between the way George W.

Donald Trump isn’t afraid of Iran having a nuclear weapon. He’s afraid of an even bigger bombshell that might drop right on his cotton candy noggin.
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Paramount-Warner Bros. deal: They think they’re buying a casino. They should ask Trump how that worked out. There is nothing that Hollywood likes better than making a meal out of amateur lunch meat, and that’s what happened today when Paramount/Skydance bought Warner Brothers Discovery for a reported $110 b...

I can’t wait for Paramount and Warner Brothers under the ownership of the Ellisons to start generating right-wing red hat crap for the masses. You’ll be able to ski down the graphs of their companies’ profits and ratings. It’s harder than it looks.
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What the hell was the House Oversight Committee doing questioning Hillary Clinton today? Here’s the story: House Republicans eager to kiss the ass of Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton to be questioned about Jeffrey Epstein today in Chappaqua, New York.

Republicans questioned Hillary Clinton for six hours about a man she had never met and did not know. Why aren’t they interested in talking to a whole bunch of men who did know him, who traveled with him, who stayed overnight at his properties?
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Reflections of Trump in the Epstein files wilderness of mirrors This is a story about how difficult it is to maintain a coverup and what happens when it begins to unravel.

Now the DOJ is scrambling to re-insert some, but not all, of the “302” interviews back into the Epstein files, but they are still withholding the interviews with victims that mention Trump.
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That SOB's voice was in these things for almost two hours I watched the speech on my phone so you didn't have to.

he awarded the goalie a Presidential Medal of Freedom. That got another flood of applause. He was on a roll, so he also gave out two Medals of Honor, and he probably would have thrown a Bible up there to someone if he had thought of it.
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Will Trump announce attack on Iran tonight at SOTU? They call the State of the Union speech the “biggest stage in the world.” But of course that is what politicians do, especially Donald Trump – pat themselves on the back, exaggerate, posture, lie, and...

Trump has said his speech tonight will be at least two hours long and could go to three hours, getting into Khrushchev and Castro territory, which is fitting for an authoritarian full of shit-shoveler like Donald Trump.
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On the eve of Trump's State of the Union, Americans are in a foul mood We just had a power outage here at the Truscott-Harris Manse, now restored, and it has caused a late start, so I’m going to write about two recent polls tonight, and then I’m going to tell you what I ...

Tomorrow night, Trump is going to do what he always does when he’s mad, and he’s mad as hell right now: He’s going to double down. He just did it on tariffs, and he’ll brag about that.
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The storm is here. We’re still in a blizzard warning, and there are several different predictions for snowfall, anywhere from 6 inches to 16.

Good luck to you, if you’re in the path of the storm. Stay safe, stay warm, and watch your step.
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Donald Trump’s air-conditioned war on Iran The Trump administration has been engaged in a massive military buildup in and around the Middle East preparing for an expected attack on Iran.

So, buckle up. He’s going to spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars on his insane plans, and if we’re lucky…very very lucky…he won’t get a new crop of young Americans killed in the process.
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Donald Trump’s air-conditioned war on Iran The Trump administration has been engaged in a massive military buildup in and around the Middle East preparing for an expected attack on Iran.

So, buckle up. He’s going to spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars on his insane plans, and if we’re lucky…very very lucky…he won’t get a new crop of young Americans killed in the process.

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Wa-a-a-a-a-ah! Donald Trump’s Supreme Court surprised him today by taking away the emergency tariff power he’s been playing with since taking office last year.

What a day. Three card monte tariffs turn into global tariffs as the most criminally corrupt administration in our history continues to accrue wealth for its Master and Commander.
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The day before Stonewall The Trump administration took down the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument across Christopher Street from where it all began.

The Trump administration took down the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument across Christopher Street from where it all began. What they really want to do is turn back the clock to the day before Stonewall.
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Has Elon suddenly grown a conscience? Stick with me.

I guess it will remain a mystery why Elon Musk did not bar Russian use of Starlink technology right from the start, since he is the one who makes all the decisions about how Starlink is used and by whom.

But he’s done it now.
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The Boss strikes back! I’m going to do some cheerleading tonight, and let me tell you right now that I am not ashamed of it.

There is strength in numbers. There is strength in talent. Put both together, and we can turn these assholes and their hate inside out with their jealousy and anger.
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Have you had a look at the pantload Trump has nominated to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations? His name is Jeremy Carl, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, a parking garage for right-wing fools and outright racists.
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A balmy 43 and sunny! Our glorious Gracie taking advantage of the glorious day in the sun room.

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Reach out As a lifelong cynic, I have always hated feel-good pieces like the one I’m about to write.

We can…here’s that phrase again…reach out. To our families. To our friends. To people we know casually, people we work with, even to people we encounter in our daily lives.

Pick up the phone, write an email, send a text.
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Minneapolis showed us why Trump and his fascists will lose Trump’s Stupidity Czar, Tom Homan, announced today that the “surge” in Minneapolis is over.

MAGA or no MAGA, this is not a fascist country. Fascism doesn’t work. Trump’s refusal to learn this is going to cost him dearly.
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Halloween for cowards Here are two things that definitely don’t belong together: guns and masks.

ICE and Border Patrol agents are beyond the reach of the law and the courts. Masks and not displaying names are violations of the Constitution’s provisions against unreasonable searches and seizures and guarantee of the protections of due process of law.
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How many more times will we have to read the words, “It’s way worse than you think?” That phrase was uttered this time by, of all people, Marjorie Taylor Greene after she had visited the ultra-secure room in the Department of Justice where members of Congress can read, but not copy, t...

When you’ve lost Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both of whom have had a look at the unredacted Epstein files, you have a whole lot to worry about. Trump is cornered by the life of sexual abuse he led in the past.
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The suicidal politics of trashing Bad Bunny Let me begin by revealing a truth about myself: I don’t have any tattoos, not even one, but if ever I get the desire for a tattoo, it’s going to be “Bad Bunny.”

Coming at the end of the week that Trump posted the video showing Barack and Michelle Obama as apes...

Going to war with Bad Bunny is like a comma on his racism, spreading it beyond Black people to specifically include those with Brown skin.
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It's 1 degree and howling outside and I'm just in from walking Ruby and I'm taking the night off Here we are in full outdoor regalia: Down vest and down jacket for me; two layered dog jackets for Ruby.

Somehow Ruby and I will survive another day of ‘round zero temps while the other four feline furries and Tracy await our return from the cold with hot coffee and love.

Life right now in Pennsylvania in February is cold, but good.
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Afraid for my country I was going to use “No Words” as the title for this column and run the picture of Michelle and Barack Obama depicted as apes, but I decided not to reproduce that disgusting racist image from the loath...

6,000 years of history has taught that racism is like rust. The soul of civilization is eaten away by its evil.

He thinks it’s a joke. It’s not. Donald Trump and his blatant and prideful racism has put us in danger.
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Optimism, not despair Here is what we should do: We need to figure out another way to deal with Donald Trump at night, and Donald Trump in the morning.

Don’t listen to Donald Trump when he farts up the Oval Office. He’s so full of shit, he’s about to blast off from the Resolute Desk on a blue flame, and we should be treating him like we’re watching the lift-off and laughing at his increasing desperation.
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They are different from you and me You wish that you could say it’s what money does to them, and that can be part of it, but it’s not all.

You wish that you could say it’s what money does to them. You wish it could be ascribed to people with wealth that is inherited, or wealth that has been recently come by, but people from both groups are among them.
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“It’s not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein.” Bari Weiss, who recently took over the helm of CBS News, the storied network of Edward R.

These men – Trump and Attia and others in the Epstein network of partying and getting “massages” -- can slough off criticism of their behavior in years past because today, the Trump Department of Justice has said officially that they did nothing wrong.
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Proof and truth and lies Buckle up.

That is why “there is nothing on me” is a lie, and yet when it comes to the law, it is true. Proof is neither truth nor evidence of a lie. It is legal and cold and naked.
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