The turning point for Trump is in sight. He no longer stands “astride the world like a Colossus.” He is, instead, a lame duck, a whipped whining dog.

I have long believed that it was time to discontinue the penny. Like a broken clock, Trump is occasionally right about something but he is still Trump and still wrong - very wrong - about almost everything else.

I have one thing to say regarding the Epstein files: we want accountability, not acultability.

That kind of statement is welcome. More than that, it shows she now has her sights on something bigger than just being a member of Congress. She’s planning a presidential run.

We want accountability, not acultability.

JVL of The Bulwark makes the point that the coming struggle is between national socialism (Trump’s authoritarian project) and democratic socialism. Traditional free market capitalism is pretty much left out in the cold, largely abandoned by its conservative defenders who now are mostly with Trump.

I hadn’t seen this clip before. Thank you for posting it.

I’m a Democrat but I’m not angry at the eight Democratic senators who forced a compromise on the shutdown. As Lawrence O’Donnell explained last night on MSNBC, it was a compromise, not a “cave.”

Sleepy Don, the Nodfather, Don Snorleone

Exactly right.

That’s 5 and 1/2 feet of rain! Frickin’ unbelievable.

Meanwhile in the First World…

As one wit said this morning, “From A (Abigail) to Z (Zohran), the Democrats won big last night.”

The push toward mid-decade redistricting, which Trump kicked off in Texas, is starting to look like Trump’s worst idea since the Liberation Day tariffs. It may take a while for the chickens to come home to roost, but come home they do.

Lindsey Graham said the following during the 2016 GOP primary campaign: “If we [Republicans] nominate Trump, we will be destroyed... and we will deserve it."

Remarkably prescient.

At no time in history has so much fame been lavished on someone so unworthy of it as has been done with the FOOL.

Yesterday’s stunning Democratic blowout and Republican debacle can be tied around the neck of one person. From now on I’ll call him the Frenzied Old Orange Loser, or FOOL for short. Now I don’t have to say his cursed name anymore.

Yesterday’s stunning Democratic blowout and Republican debacle can be tied around the neck of one person. From now on I’ll call him the Frenzied Old Orange Loser, or FOOL for short. Now I don’t have to say his cursed name anymore.

Yesterday’s stunning Democratic blowout and Republican debacle can be tied around the neck of one person. From now on I’ll call him the Frenzied Old Orange Loser, or FOOL for short. Now I don’t have to say his cursed name anymore.

Yesterday’s stunning Democratic blowout and Republican debacle can be tied around the neck of one person. From now on I’ll call him the Frenzied Old Orange Loser, or FOOL for short. Now I don’t have to say his cursed name anymore.

I will not be surprised if Mike Johnson begins to get some more significant internal discontentment and perhaps rebellion from within his own caucus.

His members now realize they’re collectively headed toward being in the minority. And that a number of them individually are facing unemployment.

He will look for a fall guy. In his delusional mind he is infallible.

What a difference a year makes! Same country Same people. The difference is 9 months of Trump running wild without any pushback from Congress has people PISSED OFF. Today they got a chance in some states to do something about it. And they sure did!

Couldn’t love this more.

As Sam Rayburn said many years ago, “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”

Here’s a scary thought for Halloween. With Trump out of the country, and even when he’s here often “out of it,” Stephen Miller is effectively running the Executive Branch. That thought is far scarier than skeletons and witches.

The President is refusing to spend a cent of emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits from running dry, but he did move heaven and earth to send $40 billion to bail out Argentina.

I am not a Reagan fan because I remember his relentless undermining of environmental laws (James Watt), but he is spot on when it comes to tariffs.

The RR Presidential Foundation is kowtowing to mango Mussolini. Sad but not surprising.

Trump’s poop bombing video, which he sent out in response to No Kings, was true in a way he did not intend. His purpose was to show his disdain for rally participants but at a deeper level it summarized his last nine months in office: an ego-driven shit show.