The Associated Press (btw, thanks AP for handing the nomination to Hillary and hence, the presidency to Voldemort Trump), via ABC, tells us that the president-elect seems to be moving at glacial pace (or not at all) towards divesting his far-flung corporate empire into any kind of “blind trust” prior to the inauguration. Regular readers (whomever you are) know from a post just yesterday that Mr. Trump himself is deeply in bed with and/or in hock to Russian and Chinese entities. Aside from the possibility (or probability) that unwinding his own actual interests (as opposed to notional interests) might demonstrate...

That’s monologuist Mike Daisey (we’ve written about him before) and his recent presentation called “Trump Card,” in which he notes the original secret of the late Fred Trump’s business success (passed down to his heir apparent, the president-elect), that being never, Never, NEVER… NEVER…pay for labor. As a third separate contractor files a mechanic’s lien against the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., because… well… see above. The champion of the American working man, ladies and gentlemen… he’ll be here all week… and, evidently, for at least the next four years.

A Gallup poll shows that the majority of Americans surveyed do not believe that Cheeto Jesus the most unqualified man ever to be elected president [tm] President Elect Donald Trump is capable of doing the job of President. This is in sharp contrast to his three immediate predecessors, for example, each of whom had significant a majority of Americans expressing confidence in their likely performance. Perhaps Mr. Trump’s extraordinary divisiveness at the moment he might be expected to be drawing towards national unity has something to do with this… or maybe the public (the significant majority who did not vote...

The new year of 2017 rings in with a horrifying bang, as one attacker (or is it more?) apparently with a Kalishnikov automatic rifle, stormed into a popular nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey and murdered at least 39 people celebrating New Year’s Eve. Turkey has had a whole lot of bad crap of late, including bombings, the assassination of the Russian Ambassador, a near-coup, millions of refugees from nearby Syria… in short, a witches’ brew of much of the world’s instability, sitting conveniently at a junction between Europe and Asia, bordering Greece and Bulgaria on the European side, and on its...

An over-empowered minority of American voters chose the form of the destructor. Slate offers us this note that 2016 was some kind of a wake-up call for White liberals… as if. The president-elect wishes a happy new year to his enemies “who lost so badly.” At some point, he might consider stepping out of his professional wrestler persona and comporting himself with the decorum and dignity his newly acquired office requires. Then again, as long as the American media considers any emanations reaching us from the unfiltered, undrained swamp via his short fingers typing on his twitter account to be...

One day after Carrie Fisher died of a heart attack, Fisher’s mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, died at age 84 of a stroke. Pretty miserably awful. I got nothin’.

Her digs-ness points out the absurd wording of the GOP’s annual holiday messaging… Hey… I got nothin’…

Not yet the President Voldemort You-Know-Who suggests that the United States should expand its nuclear weapons capability. Apparently, this comes more or less around the same time that he pressured the Obama Administration with respect to a U.N. vote condemning Israeli settlements. I could go on. Times they are a changin’. That’s what a significant minority of American voters (adequately distributed under our slavery-era-invented electoral disposition to win) decided they wanted. The question is whether this person will lead us to ruination. “Developing.”

Item: A former RT (“Russia Today”) on-air anchor suggests that “there really isn’t a better mouthpiece for the Kremlin than Donald Trump.” Item: Media insider (and as offensive as anyone in this regard) Jake Tapper of ABC denies that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west the media was obsessed with coverage of the most picayune aspects of the DNC emails, Hillary emails and/or the Clinton Foundation while basically giving Trump a pass on his bad-ness. Good one, Jake. Honestly, our friend Professor Lemieux nails it by observing that the obsession with “fake news” overshadows the...

This just in from the beat poet of the far right: Sarah Palin (yes, that Sarah Palin) suggests “no worries, re: Russia… I’ll keep an eye on them from here.” More confirmation she’s not likely to be in the cabinet (unlike a neuro-surgeon in charge of housing, an Exxon exec and friend-of-Vlad in charge of policy helpul to Exxon and Vlad, Mrs. Mitch McConnell, a military general in charge of homeland security, an ex-Goldman Sachs employee and foreclosure maven in charge of Treasury, and a few assorted billionaires), because Washington, D.C. is just too far from Russia… so she won’t...