R Thomas Berner

Is Witkoff the new Chamberlain?

FYI: Bailing out farmers is socialism.

“Trump and Putin have teamed up to murder Ukrainians” is a better headline. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u... You would think all 100 senators would have signed this letter. Whose side are they on?

Because of his manipulation of Starlink, is Elon Musk an accessory to murder in Ukraine.

Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/765... This will divert attention from Sen. Schmitt.

"If you're too sweet and nice, they just leave tire tracks on your back."--Gert Boyle (from a collection of quotes I have gathered over the years from numerous sources)

The only threat to elections next month is Donald Trump.

If you ever feel the need to make people laugh but can't think of a good joke, just say the words "Senator Eric Schmitt"

Missouri senators do not have the greatest track record on dealing with J6 issues.

You would think at some point MAGA would get tired of the incompetent buffoons they have representing them. But it seems like they’ve pretty much just accepted it as part of their brand.

Fox News hosts spend their day telling their audience that Democrats are communists and communists are evil people, then in the evening they all got dressed up to attend a state dinner honoring a communist.

“I fear we are careening toward a future with fewer and fewer journalists to do the expensive, difficult work of original reporting.” — A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times. We thank the reporters who have been a part of our 175 years of fact-based journalism.

Robots in Poland "protested" outside the Digital Affairs Ministry on Monday, demanding greater regulation of AI, as organizers warn about its potential impact on the labor market.

I’m just glad Kushner and Witkoff weren’t around to negotiate a “win-win” for Germany and Japan in 1942.

"Rather than lead and unite to fight the spread of the potentially deadly disease, President Donald Trump and his minions divide and misinform," writes The Inquirer Editorial Board.

Some people just can’t appreciate the greatness of someone who has designed a badass triumphal arch for their enjoyment.

So our friends now are North Korea and Russia and our enemies are Canada and Denmark. Makes sense.

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u... Why would anyone assume Jeffries will be the speaker?

Trump pissed on the graves of a lot of Korean War vets today.

Whatever pretext Netanyahu needs to come up with to get Trump to have Americans continue to fight Israel’s wars is what he will say. Our young people will continue to die and our treasure will be spent for old, corrupt men at home and abroad.

Any "journalist" who goes to the White House Correspondents Dinner after Trump subpoenaed three New York Times reporters—simply for doing their jobs—should be ashamed. If, indeed, they have any shame.

Happy Sunday to everyone, except the Trump crime family

This is election interference.

With the terrible, horrible very bad air in so much of the US, here is a video I made showing how you can make your own air filter for cleaner air. At home. With just a few items. (I made it during pandemic but it works for any time you want cleaner air.) www.washingtonpost.com/video/scienc...

Let’s gooooooo

Bye

Glad to see that Mitch is functioning. It would have been a horrible situation had he been maintained on life support just to keep the GOP majority in the Senate alive. That would have been the nadir of the Senate.

Let's face it: ICE is *not* a law enforcement agency. It is a ragtag collection of angry, arrested development vigilantes and malcontents that has gone "Lord of the Flies" on us.

Rep. Sylvia Garcia: "Apparently ICE has learned nothing. If they really think a car is gonna hurt somebody, even a kid would tell you you shoot the tires, you don't shoot the driver."

I did not talk to Senator McConnell for 20 minutes yesterday. I'm glad so many others did, though.

So i expect Russia will be desperately trying to escalate pain as will Ukraine since both are out of air defense. So it will be a massive escalation to try to reach the “uncle” pain threshhold first. Give Ukraine air defense now

The Trump economy

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" — Samuel Johnson

Trump says communism is a threat to the U.S., then why is he best friends with the world's leading Communist, Putin?

I would have thought that the SCOTUS decision on birthright citizenship would have been 9-0.

I wish Trump would get out of the way and let professionals negotiate a settlement. That means the State Department, not the Witkoff-Kushner two-trick pony.

Who lost Vietnam? Who lost the Strait of Hormuz? (The guy in the White House at the time.)

Too late.

Centrist Democrats should join the GOP and help purge that party of MAGA. Then we can ignore the fringes and get back to sensible governing.

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/w...

Where were all the GOP critics of Trump's MOU with Iran before he started the war? How's that Kool-Aid tasting now?

Appealing to the “politically homeless” Never-Trumper Sarah Longwell’s news site is on track to increase its revenue by 50% this year.

If Putin can end the war in Ukraine by going home, why can't Trump do the same?