Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation,
The Curse It Is Cast
". . . history and even corruption itself have a way of normalizing the unbearable."
- Naomi Wolf on Substack
That 60-Minutes interview with the President Sunday night was a doozy: he allowed Ross Douthat (moonlighting from his New York Times column) to over-speak him so audaciously you had to wonder why Mr. Trump even bothered to show up. He barely levered a word in edgewise and looked rather glum in the process. Actually, you were watching an act of political ju-jitsu: the president pretending to take it like a whipped dog, so that his antagonists would think he was offering himself up for slaughter. They'd better think again (but watch, they won't).
Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed at His Victory Celebration
Also on Sunday, Roger Stone wrote that Stephen Miller, the new chief of staff, was just promoted to "wartime consigliere." You are a little off, Roger. It's more like wartime field marshal. The president has gone to war against the treasonous Democratic Party, the Party of Victims. Now they know. And now you know. The positions on both sides have hardened-up. I'm dreaming of. . . a strange Christmas.
Pardon me for going out on a limb here. The Party of Victims has flat-out said it wants to see the president drawn, quart