I could almost feel bad for UK PM Theresa May

she looks perfectly miserable standing next to Donald Trump at all their events in London...and indeed why shouldn't she?
She is bound by referendum to preside over "Brexit" the UK's fabled departure from the EU, a policy she AND a majority of the electorate know will be a catastrophe when implemented.  Trump is treating her quite openly as a retarded stepchild, she can expect no worthwhile trade deal with the USA with Trump in charge thus her open promise to the citizenry seems to be "chaos, well managed".
And lets face it, the woman's main political talent seems to be stitching together rickety coalitions by which to survive another six months in power....Eduard Deladier seems to be her best and only true leadership inspiration.

And hell she looks uncomfortable as hell in that posh frock...like she realizes that one more rash tweet from Trump and her government will fall before sundown.

Putin must be chuckling...

With Trump trying his level best to bust up NATO, the Russian Tyrant is one step closer to his own Personal Iron Dream of painlessly recovering Mother Russia's Lost Belt of "Buffer States" (Poland, Romania, the Baltic States etc).
Its axiomatic that the US President's Actions are those of a Russian Asset, whether he is being blackmailed or coopted is immaterial at this point, Trump must be stopped.
Sadly, the only thing that permits Trump to persist on this suicidal course is the continuing willingness of the GOP majority in congress to enable him. Partly this is out of fear of his maniacal hold on the party base (truly has any majority in congress feared their own voters so much as the current GOP??) and partly out of a bad Faustian bargain the GOP has struck with Trump to put up with his antics as long as he cuts taxes and deregulates and appoints Falangists to the Judiciary.
Except now, to get all those wonderful gifts, they've got to sacrifice NATO and aggrandize Russia as well. So far they seem reluctantly willing to allow this...I know it's sad, but also funny to me personally since I spent the first thirty five years of my life being called a Commie by those same enabling, boodling conservatives.
Mind you this is all perpetuated by a minority of voters, the majority, who are not silent but simply not being represented, are entirely opposed to all this shit.  They need to be heard from, they need to vote they need to end some careers in DC before those careerists in DC do nothing as democracy goes the way of the Pteradactyl in the USA.

Brett Kavanaugh is Trump's nominee for

For Judge Anthony Kennedy's soon to be vacant seat on the US Supreme Court...personally I think of. Kvanaugh as "Trump's own Harriet Myer",  loaded up as he is with backroom skullduggery involving the appearance of a deal with Justice Kennedy and some allegedly chicanery involving that same Justice's son and his own business dealings.
So yeah...Harriet Myer Returns, except sheer shame and indignation probably WON'T keep Kavanaugh (a labor bashing sumbitch straight out of the Bush White House's Infamous Ideological Fever Swamp) off the Court. Of course the big irony at the moment is the McConnell et al warned Trump AGAINST nominating Kavanaugh as it was felt the Judge was insufficiently homicidal towards precedent and rule of law....don't worry he has the rest of his miserable life to put us all behind barbed wire Mitch...

Great...

Now I've got conservative pundit George F. Will on my side...we're bound to win now. He joins swelling ranks of Never Trumpers that include everyone from Kim Kardashian to Lynda Carter, Caesar's Tenth Legion to be sure....
George Will is such a priggish mealy mouthed little stiff it seems hard to believe to me at least that he wouldn't sell out his pseudo puritanism for a ludicrous tax cut and some delicious wing nut Golems on the Supreme Court. But he isn't...and thats my point, even he has a red line he won't go beyond.
I suppose that should be made clear.
But if he is willing to take that sort of a risk, Will may has well go "whole hog" and gin up a conservative third party challenge to Trump. If George & his ilk really wants to damage the President's prospects that might be the best and quickest way. It'd have to be a credible challenge from a fundraising and candidature standpoint but I'm sure someone can be found. I'd even up the ante, said candidate (say oh I dunno Bill Weld maybe or maybe Jingle Money Swift) could go on the record as declining to run IF the GOP does not renominate Trump.
If said candidate could somehow track into the double digits thats bad news for Trump out in the Heartland and elsewhere...its exactly the sort of hardball move that would drive The President  Crazy...Think About It George.

Scott Pruitt resigns from the EPA...

but what they don't tell you is that VP Pence had to go over to Pruitt's office and count the silverware...oh and Jared Kushner had to make sure the Office Supplies Closet wasn't looted.
For that fact, send Don Junior out to make a sweep of the local pawnshops....although Donnie is reputedly so stupid he'll likely come back completely penniless save for a handful of "magic beans"...

:)

This is what happens when Barbarians are elected, anyone feel safe yet?

Happy Independence Day

Just remember when a lone protester climbed up onto the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty to protest the excesses of I.C.E., dozens of police descended on her, Staties, Park Rangers NYPD you name it...that woman caused the whole island to be evacuated.

Just remember this, when Armed Nazis decided it's be fun to demonstrate in front of the Beth Israel Congregation in Charlottesville VA, the rollers couldn't be bothered to show up....

Poor Alan!

Attorney Alan Dershowitz is in a lather, apparently the Jet Set is cutting him Dead on Nantucket due to his loud (and slightly inexplicable) defense of Donald Trump in the Public Prints.
Y'know I feel for Alan, no one wants to feel invisible, unloved or unwanted...take me for example I'm being laid off in three short weeks from My Big Box Corporate Employer.  Truly there is NO ONE more Invisible, Unwanted & Unloved than a fifty five year old man trying to start over in this economy, The Boston Globe insists that it may take me eighteen months to get reestablished, IF I EVER get reestablished.
So feel for Poor Alan out there alone on Nantucket, Sandcastles for One is a Lonely Business Indeed.