Author: craigcrawford

The lunatic heading for the White House wants more. Guess he’s jealous of Putin’s land grab. His son makes it clear they’re not kidding.

‘We are not for sale’: Greenland and Denmark clap back at Trump

It’s really happening.

House GOP report recommends Liz Cheney be criminally investigated over Jan. 6 work — The Hill

Liz responded on Bluesky…

Sen. Chris Murphy sounds the alarm…

Trump’s incoming FCC chair already putting TV networks on notice they’ll be punished for coverage Trump doesn’t like.

Elon Musk, DOGE, net worth $315.7b
Linda McMahon, Education, $3.2b
Howard Lutnick, Commerce, $2b
Doug Burgum, Interior, $1.1b
Scott Bessent , Treasury, $1b
Vivek Ramaswamy, DOGE, $960m
Kelly Loeffler, Agriculture, $800m
Chris Wright, Energy, $171m

This feels like the Boris Yeltsin era, when Russia’s oligarchs took advantage of an aging & somewhat incapacitated leader to privatize the state for their own interests.

Losing the White House, Senate, House sounds bad because it is, BUT this was NOT a landslide blowout.

It was one of the smallest popular vote margins of victory in history (& under 50%). Harris got nearly half the vote in a 100-day campaign despite the administration’s record unpopularity. Shifting just 237K votes across 3 states would have changed the outcome. GOP lost 4 of 5 battleground Senate races, no big House gain.

So this was NOT shameful! And certainly not permanent.

I was in the traveling press corps for Michael Dukakis 1988. Similarities abound (he was 17 points up in July, until Willie Horton landed). There was lots of post-defeat despair among Dems then too — but just four years later Bill Clinton showed up.

There’s always another election! And this dictator wannabe is already outrunning his mandate.