She is copying the Manchurian Pumpkin down to his fake spray tan.

The annual contentious hub-bub over municipal Saturnalia decorations would be MOSTLY solved if people just used a little goddam panache.

The Coonsian Center & DC-bubble Dems seriously need to be defunded.

The Losing Democrats Who Gobbled Up Money

Amy McGrath and other Senate candidates deceived donors to rake in far more cash than their Republican opponents. They got crushed anyway.

   

He has avoided so many consequences for so long that if avoiding consequences was an Olympic sport, Trump would be the Michael Phelps, Larisa Latynina, Paavo Nurmi, and Mark Spitz of it,  all rolled into one. But when Mazars, (global audit, accounting and consulting group employing more than 42,000 professionals in more than 90 countries) decides that Trump is toxic - you have to wonder if it is really bad news.

(Trump) may finally have run out of enablers, blind groupies, pliable bureaucrats, and general scapegoats. Companies want to survive. People want to keep their jobs. Nobody wants to pay whopping fines or risk jail time. Not for him. Not anymore. A collective decision is being made that in many ways, including on the balance sheets, the former president* is simply not worth it.

Truth, Justice Settlements and the American Way Remington settles with Sandy Hook families for $73 million - Prince Andrew settles with Virginia Giuffre for $? million(s)

• The civil court case in Connecticut centered on Remington's marketing of the gun used in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
• The lawsuit tested the scope of the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which grants gun manufacturers immunity from lawsuits related to crimes committed with their products.

For those of you too young to remember the events leading up the Viet Nam war - here is what happened. "...the North Vietnamese kidnapped 1,400 Americans and the United…

 "Never invest in a business you cannot understand"  -Warren Buffett  Reuters: The U.S.-based Cent executed one of the first known million-dollar NFT sales when it sold the former Twitter CEO's tweet…

Open thread will be late today due to supply chain interruptions related to the closing of the Ambassador bridge which links Detroit and city of Windsor, Canada. Talk amongst yourselves.…

Joe Biden (and to be honest most Dems and all DC beltway types) still cleave to 1980's political norms. So when a "scandal" breaks, its all "OH MY! HEADS MUST ROLL!" Whereas Republicans operate on 2020 political norms. So when a "scandal" breaks (up to and including scandalously trying to overthrow the republic) they say "LOL.  Nothing matters! Fuck You."  And presto! No scandal. I know many Dems, even commenters here, feel good about themselves and believe that they are destine to live eternity in heaven because they have the right norms.   That's comforting, I suppose.

Last week I asked what actual policy goals centrist like Coons are trying to enact.  The answer is that there are no goals other than to cool the passions of…