McDonald’s In Moscow

As I have often suggested, T***p is a stone-cold threat to escape American justice by absconding to Russia or any other authoritarian country which will allow him to park his loser clown car in the shadows.

This morning I was intrigued to read an article by Julia Davis in the Daily Beast which added even more veracity to this notion. Read the article here and take a few minutes to poke around the Daily Beast: it’s an excellent source for unadulterated news and commentary.

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Je suis Charlie

The sad fact is there is no one else to defend them. Satirists
are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.
That’s the great irony of their situation. — Harry Shearer

I may have mentioned this before but I have been troubled by a tendency here in the United States to be shocked and saddened by horrible events such as killings and assassinations, but only if the victims are “good guys.” Back in the ’60s we experienced the assassinations of of John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. But around the same time a totally despicable individual named George Lincoln Rockwell was also assassinated. Rockwell was the leader of the American Nazi party and he was straight out the the Third Reich. But as Americans, we accept that everyone has the right to life, liberty, freedom of speech, etc., so Rockwell’s unpleasant demeanor and political views were protected in this country.