‘disgraced Christopher Steele’

It’s a polite word for enemies - you know age-old foes like Canada, Germany and the UK.

‘It also speaks to how absolutely terrible this mans sense of people is. To hire somebody so completely unqualified and untrustworthy to work in one of the most important locations in the world.’

Lindsey Graham has already arranged the requisite fainting couch so he can act all surprised and horrified that Trump would say such a thing. Paul Ryan will shake his head sadly and say everyone has to be nicer to one another and Mitch McConnell will wobble a throat wattle or two in sorrow.

Today in Space Force - Australia’s contribution to the madness:

“I was present at that wreath-laying, I don’t think I was actually involved in it.” YOU WERE THERE - YOU WERE INVOLVED. Jesus fucking H Christ; it’s bad enough that Corbyn can’t define antisemitism, but now he can’t remember if he was at a ceremony commemorating a group terrorists who committed one of the most public…

Eating paper is the only fibre he gets in his diet.

Don’t look to Renault, currently they have the Captur, Kadjar and Koleos - the first two sound like minor 1990s Disney characters and the third is almost certainly something you can contract from an infected airline seat.

Must admit I quite like ‘Road Machine’ - it’d work nicely in a advert with lingering shots of one racing along a winding mountain road with suitably etherial music.

Meanwhile - in Space Force:

One story that I don’t think got nearly enough traction this week is that Seb Gorka is not considered a credible person by - and you may need to sit down for this bit - Fox News!

I assume the in-laws took so long to get citizenship because they needed to find someone of good moral character to vouch for them.

Anyone know how many Norwegians have become American citizens since Norway became just about the richest country in the World with better education, social care and environmental protections than the US?

One thing to keep an eye on.

Apple hasn’t done enough - the Infowars app is still available in their store. If they don’t like Jones’s material they should close him down entirely.

Damn, I shouldn’t have read this as I’ve got to spend less time in front of the TV - but I need some Chu Chu Rocket in my life.

The EU is politically behind the deal, but European companies are pulling out of Iran - Daimler left yesterday. Things look very bleak for the vast majority of Iranians who are caught between Trump and the hardliners in Tehran.

Exactly - and the current Iranian government is being blamed by a large section of own people and the mullahs, not for failing to go along with American, Israeli and Saudi pressure - but for giving away too much to the West. The Iranian nuclear deal wasn’t perfect, but it was a lot better than the alternatives.

Flynn was invited to the headquarters of Russian military intelligence (aka. the Aquarium). They have something on him.

Desiccated Goblin makes a great grunge band name.