In the SECOND HOUR of The Ochelli Effect, Chuck & JP unpack the schism in the American psyche and how Trump’s omnipotent sense of himself could lead to war with Iran.
Trump’s Boy Scout debacle highlights the moral turpitude of his Evangelical base.
So, now that Junior stupidly dropped the emails on Twitter and the blatherati are now gleefully picking away at the carcass … let’s take a moment to recognize that this is still all about the optics. Yes, “optics” is an unctuous political buzzword, but it fits here because this all looks really terrible … despite…
HOT TAKEAWAYS: 1. Trump is an idiot. This attack comes hours after Politico ran a story titled “Trump seizes the advantage in war with media.” And that represents a wider sense in the political zeitgeist over the last 24 hours that the CNN debacle has given him the high ground in his war on the…
The newscycle is spinning on the Washington Post’s new story about the Obama Administration’s response to Russia’s cyberattack. It’s fairly detailed, it claims that the CIA got smokin’ hot intel directly linking Putin to election interference and it’s been expertly parsed by the indefatigable Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel. As ever, it seems to leave as…