Arthur D. Hlavaty

John Bolton (aka Dr. Strangestache) is a dangerous loon who has been trying to get the US into a major war for years. He worked for the Trump Gang for a while, and now he doesn’t. So he wrote a revenge book, and Trump panicked about what it might contain and set in motion plans to keep it from being published.

It’s been leaked to the newspapers, and now we can see why Trump wanted to suppress it: It is chock full of examples of Trump’s stupidity, ignorance, power madness, etc. etc. I would be perversely amused if Trump “won” and kept the book off the stands, so all the juicy stuff gets out but Bolton, who is in his own way as horrible a person as Trump, doesn’t profit from it.

Maybe debate is something we should leave to scumbags like Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek. Or to machines. [Guardian]

Thanx to Metafilter

Trump is bad for the conservatives too.

Thanx to Follow Me Here

Melania Trump sues Daily Fail for claiming she had a more honorable business career than her husband.

Peter Thiel vs. Gawker

Thanx to andrewducker

tRump finally gets it right about a candidate being born in a foreign country.

Charles Pierce cruelly mocks the battles within the Republican hierarchy.

Selective antiterrorist Peter King says that Rand Paul doesn't deserve to be in Congress. (Needless to say, it's for one of the few things Paul gets right.) I agree with him. If Paul were to return the favor, I would agree with him, too.