Munich in Ankara: Mike Pence, the manikin from Hobby Lobby, met in Ankara with the Turkish dictator, Mr. Erdogan. And they agreed that Erdogan could have part of the Czech, I mean Kurdish territory, with the understanding that Erdogan would exercise self-restraint and by nice to the Kurds. This is impressive for it suggests that Erdogan will be able to overcome centuries of Turkish hostilities against the Kurds.

Just wait and see how nice Erdogan is to the Kurds. He’s going to hold back for five days so that the Kurds can evacuate their country, and then turn loose the kind of atrocities we’ve already seen. This is all dumb-show that tries to maintain the Trumpian pretense that Old Bone-spurs did not sell out our close allies, put them in deadly peril, and put us in deadly peril from a resurrected ISIS. Sending St. Michael to see Erdogan does not even apply enough lipstick to the pig.

I do wonder if the U.S. would be behaving like this if a nascent Kurdish nation were being attacked and there were 5-6 million Kurdish American citizens.

Trump & Gang flip over again: Trump’s slogans of “complete exoneration!” and “no collusion!” had lately been replaced by “no quid pro quo.” That was the case until Trump’s Little Me announced: Of course there was a quid pro quo, dummies! That’s how our sophisticated foreign policy operates. Get used to it!

My God how the money rolls in: Mulvaney also announced that after an exhaustive search it was decided that one of Trump’s babylonian country clubs is the perfect place, the only place in the U.S. for the G7 meeting next year. He assured us that of course the President is not going to make a penny on this (Wink, nudge!).