Before historians wrap an American flag around convicted liar Michael Flynn based on Impeached President Donald J. Trump’s current campaign to repair the retired general’s public image, it’s important to recall what Flynn did to get fired as national security adviser less than a month into the job. Simply put, Flynn lied to FBI investigators […]
It burned Donald J. Trump so badly he was noticeably sweating during a Michigan campaign rally just hours after the U.S. House of Representatives legislatively implanted it figuratively on his chest. It is the “Scarlet I.” Yes, now and forever Trump’s so-called presidency will be tagged with the descriptor “Impeached.” It will follow him wherever […]
It’s this simple: Republicans who endorse Donald J. Trump’s actions as the current Oval Office occupant support Russia’s takeover of the United States. When they sing along with congressional Republicans that the impeachment inquiry is a “witch hunt,” just another attempt to oust the criminally inclined, wannbe dictator of our country, they are supporting Russia […]
Defenders of the mafia-styled crime boss currently occupying the White House — you know who you are, Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Rand Paul — deal with this fact: Solicitation for assistance in a domestic political campaign of a foreign national official is a crime. On solicitation, Donald J. Trump hisownself provided the evidence of that […]
House Republicans are claiming that America’s President is grossly misunderstood. What we have here is a failure to communicate. All Donald Trump was trying to do was root out corruption with his thuggish demand for a personal political favor from a foreign head of state. In fact, former Vice President Joe Biden was providing Trump […]
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is a patsy. Donald Trump used and abused him like everybody else he encounters and the aging lawyer fell for it. He’s a shell of the man who once took New York City by storm. The 75-year old media magnet rocketed to fame as a get-tough New York City mayor in […]
From the U.S. Constitution (as amended; emphasis added) “It shall be unlawful for a foreign national directly or through any other person to make any contribution of money or other thing of value, or to promise expressly or impliedly to make any such contribution, in connection with an election to any political office or in […]
For more than a week, news feeds have been filling up with rip-n-read stories of betrayal and inconsistency, manic highs, depressive lows, unanticipated reversals, upheavals and humiliating concessions. Donald Trump, Syria, the Kurds, war, ethnic cleansing, well-intentioned lying, benign extortion, moral failure, deeply considered impetuosity, malignant stupidity, and morbid idiocy are all good metadata words […]
Let me get this straight. Donald J. Trump, 45th Oval Office Occupant, pulled our troops out of Syria, leaving our Kurdish allies open to slaughter by Turkish and Russian troops. Immediately thereafter, we bombed our own ammunition supply area to keep it out of either Kurdish or Turkish hands, even though ignorant Trump knew he […]
Our sister paper, “The Amazon Washington Post,” has reported that our traitorous lump of a president has spun more than 12,000 lies or misleading claims during his time in the Oval Office. But one rare truth from the fetid lips of Donald Trump — as also reported by The Post — is just as troubling: President Trump told two […]
Let’s be crystal clear with Donald J. Trump on this one. There is no way, not in our lifetime or Trump’s, that Russia President Vladimir Putin gains entry into our country on the eve of the 2020 presidential elections. It would be like opening the hen house door and inviting the fox to come on […]
“President Putin outsmarted President Obama,” Lying Donald Trump declared on Monday during his ill-conceived, rambling solo Presidential dissertation of lies and gross distortions following his embarrassing performance at the G-7 economic summit in France. Wow, defending a former Communist intelligence operative and contemporary murder master against a universally admired and frequently lauded former President of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Special Counsel Robert Mueller might not have found criminal activity connected to Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign or his two-plus years as chief executive of our country, but his investigation did not cover the “Big Lies” uttered and promoted on a daily basis by the current occupant of the White House. During the […]
President (for Life) Trump’s annual Dictators’ Ball at his Mar-A-Lago estate was, by all permitted accounts, a rollicking success. The event was a sellout, though the 500 highly coveted $1 million dollar tickets were restricted to “current and former dictators, their spouses, mistresses, cronies, money-launderers and weapons-suppliers, and Fox News hosts and executives.” As always, […]
Our recent advertising campaign on Facebook brought a few new supporters to The Shinbone Star and to them I extend a hearty welcome. But the ads also attracted something else: Trump Trolls. And while their presence has always been unwelcome, the mini-invasion presents an opportunity to explain a few things about what our publication is all about . […]
Barack Obama strode onto the stage at the LDAC — Liberal Democrats Action Conference — and began hugging and humping the American flag near the podium. He then launched into a two hour, invective-laced hate speech directed toward conservatives and the vindictive, failing policies of the Republican Party. Then he . . . Sorry, that was […]
Oligarch (definition): A very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence. Oligarchy (definition): A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. Donald J. Trump is the American oligarch, not president of the United States. He has turned our country into an oligarchy — not a dictatorship or […]
Otto Warmbier, god rest his soul, was victim of his perceived white privilege: “I like that poster on the wall in the hall of my hoteI, think I’ll take it.” Really? “But what the hell? What’s the worst that could happen? I’ll say it was a dumb prank and apologize.” Oh son, you were in […]
All we need to do is to grit our teeth and bear the next two years. And we best keep quiet about it too — for fear of arousing red-hat lunatics into pointless argument. I hear the same sentiment everywhere — even as recently as a couple days ago in Helsinki from Finns, who are […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn’t waste any time bitch-slapping Demento Don for being such an obdurate jerk. On Tuesday, she suggested that President Demento either reschedule his second State of the Union speech or simply send Congress a letter. She can do that. Pelosi can even tell Trump to pound sand. It may be the […]
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