Rex Tillerson finally managed to get himself fired yesterday, apparently for telling the obvious truth that the Russians assassinate people in other countries, often England. His no-class piece of shit boss didn’t bother telling him, letting him find out at the same time the rest of the world did.
Hey, at least he didn’t get the Russian termination notice, which now seems to involve a deadly nerve agent devised by an illegal Soviet biowarfare program. Again, this is why Manafort won’t flip. These high-profile assassinations serve two purposes.
Buzzfeed’s profile of Trump business crony Felix Sater makes an interesting case for Sater’s continuing employ by U.S. intelligence agencies.
That special election in Pennsylvania today has Republicans shitting their pants. They’ve been relentlessly lowering expectations for a week now, mainly because they spent $8 million on ads that didn’t move the polls. Mudslinging isn’t working anymore, and neither is the link between a good economy and the party in power. Final pre-election polls show the Democrat in the lead.
Stormy Daniels isn’t known for her legs — her prime assets are right out front — but her story sure has them, mainly because Trump keeps denying anything happened when every other sentient being on the planet knows he’s lying. Why is he bothering, when sex with porn stars actually burnishes his brand? Josh Marshall has a theory: What if Trump enjoys, as Marshall so delicately puts it,women who don’t treat him nicely? Mr. Macho’s image might not survive if we found out he likes porn stars to spank him.
Sussex County politicians are good at selling off land for development, not so good at dealing with the infrastructure problems it brings — for instance, what to do when people in all those new homes flush their toilets. Rehoboth Beach’s answer was to pipe it out to sea and pretend that made it disappear, but the contractor digging the trench for the outflow pipe has run into problems that could cause cost overruns on the $50 million-plus project.
For anyone who missed Nancy’s comment on this on another thread, researchers have linked religious fundamentalism to damage or underdevelopment in the brain’s prefrontal cortex, particularly the areas involved in mental flexibility. In short, science has pinned down the source of evangelical stupidity.