Shulkin was fired as head of Veterans Affairs because the Koch brothers wanted him out, Pruitt, whose ethical violations as well as violations of his environmental-protection employment mandate are much, much more severe, is given an Atta-boy by both Trump and one of those saintly, infallible generals who were going to save the country from Trump.
Remember, nothing pleases Trump more than damaging the health and welfare of the American people.
Today their stooge Scott Pruitt, who refers to any ability to establish nation-wide health protections as dictatorial, vows to override California’s ability to set higher-than-national environmental protections.
The only reason that Veterans Affairs Director Shulkin was fired–his ethical lapses were far less severe than Pruitt, Zinke and other Koch-owned secretaries–is so that the Kochs can put another puppet in to destroy VA by privatizing it.
American arts organizations that continue to legitimize the Sociopathic Siblings by accepting their turbid Mammon need to be publicly shamed.
This could be one of the explanations for the disconnect and contempt Tucker feels for the common people, whom he insults like clockwork with his preposterous mugging–he has at least five facial expressions–his lying, and his avid participation in obstruction of justice.
Naturally, his books will be worthless where substance is concerned, and they will probably earn nowhere near enough to justify the advance. No matter how many bogus bulk orders are submitted by conservative front groups.
David Akadjian runs down some of the stats on this coddled, pampered, over-indulged, and certainly over-paid elitist, the selfsame mouthpiece who dares to call the NEA a subsidy of rich liberals.
love to wage war on every country in sight, and recklessly send young Americans to risk death and injury in fruitless battles against over-hyped risks to U.S. national security.
If people like Bolton and Cheney even stop to think of the agonies needlessly inflicted on civilian populations, they don’t waste any time dwelling on them, let alone letting the gruesome realities stay their hands as they plot mayhem. And in Trump, Bolton has found the perfect vehicle, co-dependent and patsy.
People’s Artist isn’t a book that Bolton or Cheney is ever going to read, but in it Lisa and I are intent on evoking the almost unimaginable toll that World War II exacted on the Russian population.
Bolton is too indifferent to human suffering, however, to let anything stand in his way, which is why it is up to us, the U.S. population, to ensure that this criminal’s crimes are prosecuted.
as though the Peter Principle accurately predicted what would happen to the “mainstream” media.
As Dean Baker writes at Beat the Press:
“I realize it would be too much to ask that people who write on economics for major news outlets have any clue about how the economy works. I say that seriously; I have been commenting on economic reporting for more than two decades. Being a writer on economics is not like being a custodian or bus driver where you have to meet certain standards. The right family or friends can get you the job and there is virtually no risk of losing it as a result of inadequate performance.”
Best not look to the guys and gals out there to demonstrate honesty, integrity, or political courage.
They’re lined up at the Trump trough and they’ve checked their consciences at the entry portal.
Jack Nicas reports in the Times about that rosy glow manifesting on Silicon’s sachems as they intone the name “Trump”. . .
As Harry Stein tweetplains:
“The GOP economic agenda:
1. Increase deficits with tax cuts for rich people and corporations.
2. Pass Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.
3. Watch Federal Courts cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to enforce the balanced budget rule.https://politi.co/2pMmCHb”
David Hogg is calling out the Fascist, racist, lying, violence-and-hate-mongering Ingraham.
He’s calling for a boycott of her advertisers, and you can sign me up on the dotted line.
UPDATE:
Hogg trounced Ingraham, who’s now trying turning all contrite [?!], trying to make nice, while two [as in, now six] of her advertisers have already bailed.
P.P.S.
When’s she going to apologize for all the other dreadful, defamatory swill she’s spewed along the way?
Her “Mi Tradi” in Czinner’s 1954 Don Giovanni is one of the greatest pieces of operatic acting ever filmed, which means it’s one of the greatest pieces of acting on film. Torn by different, completely warring emotions–hate, love, pity–she is so moving.
And no, it’s not naturalistic–it’s operatic, and it’s on an entirely different, equally truthful, and actually equally internal plane of rhetoric and expression from what you just saw in the movie theater last night.
And did I mention she’s singing the entire time? Beautifully, too.
Grassley concludes his Senate career in disgrace, and surrounds himself with the best class of extremist.
At Pro Publica, Robert Faturechi blows the whistle on Grassley adjutant Jason Foster, who’s working overtime to sandbag Mueller’s investigation.
“For the last year, Foster — empowered by his boss, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the committee’s chairman — has been the behind-the-scenes architect of an assault on the FBI, and most centrally its role in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to interviews with current and former congressional aides, federal law enforcement officials and others.”
