The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Pundits keep telling us that Donald Trump is a genius at manipulating media and the public but that’s pure unadulterated bullshit. Trump manipulates and motivates his base and nothing else, and he does it by lying and intimidating those who are
It’s been a busy week. We’ve had an unsuccessful impeachment, a nasty State of the Union address and a flubbed Iowa Democratic primary, the results of all this being somewhere between depressing and disastrous. The Trump acquittal had all the recognition
John Bolton’s book, submitted to the White House back in December, but which they claim no one there has read, hit the Times this weekend and it got everybody’s balls in an uproar. The problem for the Republicans is that Bolton was
A new book, A Very Stable Genius, written by Carol Leonning and Philip Rucker, has just been published. It’s pretty scary, especially if you haven’t been paying attention to the lack of intelligence in the White House. It’s mainly it’s about
Last week Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian businessman who was involved with Trump liar Rudy Giuliani, sat for an interview with Rachel Maddow. Parnas is under indictment by the Southern District of NY for violation of laws concerning illegal campaign financing. What Parnas
Democrat Eric Swalwell (D) CA spoke on Deadline White House about the lack of evidence to support the Trump administration’s claim that they had information that indicated the Iranians under Soleimani were going to attack US embassies. This is what the administration
Last week we assassinated General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s military. The best thing that can be said of the good general is that he had it coming. Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American troops and civilians.
I know that with our news cycles being lightning fast and a President who does nothing but create chaos which makes those same cycles fly by even faster, this will seem like old stuff, but I just couldn’t let the last
The House has voted to certify that Donald Trump will be the third President of the United Stated to be impeached. Now as we await the Senate trial that will just as surely acquit him, the big question is why? Why are
Louis Gomert ®Texas told the House Panel today that he didn’t understand what the Democrats were doing. This is not surprising, as Louis rarely knows what anyone is doing, including himself. After watching Louis, Jim Jordan and a couple of other Republicans