I listen to a couple of conservative podcasts. Boy are they gonna be pissed.

Holy hell, that was some exciting Senating right there. Kudos, America.

Our Parliament's efforts at entertainment is a re-enactment of the Night of the Long Knives. A pair of Greens Senators have been found to have dual citizenship, and thus ineligible to sit in Parliament for owing allegiance to a foreign power. And now they're going through the rolls and have turned up another two or three so far with question marks over their citizenship.

It doesn't quite top Mad Dog McCain's final cigar-chomping mission deep behind enemy lines to cut down Mitch "Turtle" McConnell and the Cheeto-Faced Shitgibbon at the knees , but we're a simple people with modest tastes.

I was busy yesterday, so I'm still laughing about the Mooch's call to the New Yorker and Steve Bannon sucking his own cock.

BTW, I'm listening to All The President's Men on my commute. First of all, there's a lot more to Watergate than I knew. Second of all, the parallels are really strong. Replace the ratfuckers (not my term) with Russian operatives and it starts to look really similar at least at a surface level.

about the Mooch's call to the New Yorker

My wife told me I had to read that New Yorker article, and I was blown away. That's who the White House has running the comms department?

I KNOW! COMMUNICATIONS!!

I was busy yesterday, so I'm still laughing about the Mooch's call to the New Yorker and Steve Bannon sucking his own cock.

This is of course a blatant misrepresentation by the New Yorker. What he really accused Steve Bannon of doing was cucking his own sock.

I KNOW! COMMUNICATIONS!!

It reminds of FireFly when someone asks Mal what Jayne does on the ship and he says 'PR'.

That's who the White House has running the comms department?

Ha ha yes, it's beyond parody. Though thank heavens Colbert, Meyers, Oliver et al are still giving it their best shots.

I don't think that conservative pundits have any idea what this whole orange fiasco is doing to the US's reputation in the world. Or perhaps they are just so convinced of American Greatness that they can't imagine anything could affect it. But the current administration seems to be doing its darndest.

I do have a question though. By most metrics, the US healthcare system is one of the worst in the developed world, and Obamacare was at least a step in the right direction. But 45 and many Republican Senators, including McCain in his statement, repeatedly claim that it is "failing". On what evidence? I mean, other than "rich people have to pay more".

Edited for clarity.

My wife told me I had to read that New Yorker article, and I was blown away. That's who the White House has running the comms department?

In tonight's sketch, the part of Sean Spicer will be played by John Cleese, Anthony Scaramucci by Graham Chapman and the White House Press Corps by Michael Palin. [link]