The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Psychos in Charge of Sinking USS America 2.0 Only the blackest of hearts need apply Donald Jeffries The old line about “truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne” comes to mind regularly now, as I observe the dying throes of the American Republic. It’s probably fitting that we’ve closed most of the mental institutions, since the entire country has largely devolved into the largest insane asylum the world has ever seen. Now, I understand that, being mere peasants and all, we don’t have the pleasure of seeing who our  real  rulers are. So I can only assess the leaders we  can  see, and they are the most pathetic lot imaginable. Not only is America 2.0 the antithesis of a meritocracy, we have accomplished the very difficult feat of elevating the wrong people into the wrong jobs in all the wrong places. There is no bright spot in this decaying civilization, not even a single small district somewhere, with decent and honorable people in charge. Not...

  The Unseen Israeli Election Fix in 2016 While the media chased shadows in Moscow, Israeli agents operated in plain sight at Trump Tower. José Alberto Niño For years, American media fixated relentlessly on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, yet  FBI documents  reveal a parallel story of Israeli contacts with the Trump campaign that received virtually no scrutiny despite evidence of attempted foreign intervention. This operation involved high-ranking Israeli officials, secret agents, and a sustained effort to provide Donald Trump’s campaign with what one participant called “critical intel” to defeat Hillary Clinton. The story only emerged through heavily redacted FBI search warrant documents released in 2020, more than four years after the events occurred. According to these documents,  examined  extensively by intelligence expert James Bamford in  The Nation , Israeli officials conducted a months-long operation attempting to establish ...