Green Eagle

So here's an item that, I suspect, will be pushed out of the news as fast as possible.  From the Washington Post: "Protesters chanting ‘Death to America’ break into U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad... Hundreds of angry supporters of an Iranian-backed militia shouting "Death to America" broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, trapping diplomats inside in response to U.S. airstrikes that killed or wounded scores of militia fighters." No, this is not Benghazi under Obama, it is Baghdad under Trump. And this further information is, I think, hardly comforting: "Supporters of an Iranian-backed militia besieged the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes, breaking through the first layer of security at the embassy compound and damaging a reception area before being expelled by Iraqi security forces." Yes, the mighty United States military, so strong under Trump's wise leadership, was impotent...

The press, I mean, even as liberal a news source as Daily Kos: " Oddly committed to normalizing Trump by scrubbing off his hateful and dangerous rough edges, many in the Beltway press continue to play a strange game in which they refuse to describe what they clearly see in front of them. Whether it's the fear of Trump Twitter attacks or the nearly five-decade-long GOP campaign to demonize the "liberal media," newsrooms today nearly uniformly  refuse to address  the mounting, obvious signs that Trump is a deeply unstable man." No, it is not either of these things that cause the press to continue to minimize the criminality of the worst President in history.  It is because, due to Republican "deregulation," virtually the entire mainstream press has fallen into the hands of the rich, who see their possession as nothing but a way to continue their stranglehold on the country. And no, thankfully, sites like Daily Kos do not participate in this malign...

Glancing at the wingnut web yesterday, I saw a story that I had missed entirely: Diamond and Silk:  "BOMBSHELL: AG Barr Indicts 8 For Funneling Millions In Foreign Donations To Schiff, Clinton and Top Democrats" Catholic Answers:  "Barr Indicts 8 for illegally funneling foreign money to Schiff, Hillary and several Dem senators" State Department Watch:  "JUST LAST WEEK DOJ INDICTED 8 FOR FUNNELING MILLIONS IN FOREIGN DONATIONS TO ADAM SCHIFF AND DEMOCRATS… BUT SCHIFF HAS GALL TO ACCUSE TRUMP OF USING FOREIGN NATION TO CHEAT?" Lucianne.com:  "Bill Barr Indicts 8 Including Mueller...Top Witness for Funneling Millions in  Foreign Donations to Adam Schiff,  Hillary Clinton and Top Senate Democrats" Ace of Spades:  "Bill Barr's DOJ Indicts Pedophile/Mueller Source George Nader and Seven Others For Conspiring to Make Illegal Donations to Democrats, Including Adam Schiff...Bill Barr just broke up a massive scheme to illegally funnel fo...

I post it every year. And I hope you are all having as nice a holiday season as Cthulhu is.

From the Independent, courtesy of my friend Curt, the following almost unbelievable news: "China approves Donald Trump-branded spas, escort services, hotels and massage parlours without US Congress permission... The 38 trademarks include new hotels, spas, escort and concierge services, massage parlors, personal security services and insurance, according to public documents." Escort services and massage parlors.  Donald Trump has now reverted to his grandfather's business, which formed the basis of the family fortune, whore houses. Trump is now running Chinese whore houses out of the White House.  If this wasn't Donald Trump we are talking about here, this would be totally unbelievable, but unfortunately it is all too easy to believe with him. When is enough enough for the Republican party?  Do they really believe that running whore houses while President of the United States is not enough of a misdemeanor to throw this miserable excuse for a human being, who...

Yes, an abbreviated Wingnut Wrapup devoted to the reaction from the right to Trump's impeachment, on the day after it happened.  They usually have a lag of two or three days before they really get up to speed on things like this, so there will certainly be more, and worse, but here's  a pretty good sample of the graciousness with which they have accepted the current application of the will of their blessed founding fathers: Katie Pavlich, Town Hall:  "Mark Levin: Nancy Pelosi's Latest Impeachment Stunt Is Brazenly Unconstitutional..."Nancy Pelosi was apparently advised by leftwing Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe to delay sending the impeachment to the Senate. So she’s unilaterally sitting on the impeachment. This is another brazen unconstitutional act," Levin wrote Thursday morning on his Facebook page." Ha ha, Constitutional law scholar, and the most vicious right wing talk show host out there, Mark Levin, telling us that the greatest expert on ...

And the Republicans' reply? Again, from the Washington Post: The GOP’s closing impeachment argument: Denying basic facts And that is pretty much how this entire episode in American history will be remembered.  There is absolutely nothing the Democrats can do to stop the criminal Republicans from collaborating with this malignant traitor, but what they did today and what Senate Republicans will do now will never be forgotten.