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I’d bet the mortgage money that it was spelled out as “BAG DADDY” on anything Trump had to read with Baghdadi’s name on it.

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Nate is afflicted by MSM BothSider Disease. People like him have been desperate to "give Trump a good news cycle" for ages, y'know, "to be fair". Bet those creeps never thought of giving al-Baghdadi a good news cycle, and yet Trump is in some ways more dangerous.

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That's weird because the actual ordinary people of Idlib (including the HTS Islamists who broke away from ISIS) would have hanged ABB themselves if they'd known he was there.

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A mashup of the two would probably be almost unbeatably the worst ever unless you count the love stories of Donald Trump and anybody.

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Baseball fans.

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I'm sure the real reason Delta Force didnt fly out of the closer base in Turkey is that standard operating procedures would have required them to first spend a couple of nights in Trump Towers Istanbul (did you know it has two towers instead of the usual one?) which is way more pest infested than a random GP medium in the Iraqi desert.

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The next twenty or so presidents will have their jobs cut out for them repairing even a tenth of the damage the dumb blob of piss and goo has done to this country and around the world.

It's just too bad that a tiny handful of Deep State baseball fans, no doubt egged on by George Soros, have lost the High Moral Ground for the Liberal Elite. Both Sides Do It. Don't believe me? Everybody says so: Cillizza, Brooks, Neckbeard, Morning D'oh, Lady Noonington, assuming she is up and about and marginally coherent.

In conclusion, I call for Real Democrats to vote for the new Sorehead Party and its nominee Tulsi Gabbard in 2020. (Aside: Dare we hope that Michael Flynn will be her Vice-Presidential running mate? He is clearly the best choice. Even Putin says so and what Vlad says goes.) MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD, SHEEPLE!

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Of course, in Trumpian terms, trying SO HARD amounts to fucking off for a game of golf and then bragging a lot. A whole lot. And then bragging some more. And then getting butthurt and sulking.

So, in terms of actual physical and mental effort, he's not trying as hard as I do when I attempt to open a can of sardines without breaking off the ring. But in Trumpean terms, a HERCULEAN effort.

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"Nutria" was the punchline for an inside joke amongst several of my friends back in HS. I don't even remember the joke anymore, but just seeing the word took me back. :-)

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I have a feeling we'll eventually find out that Trump was never informed about the raid in advance. Would you trust that notorious blabbermouth to keep quiet about an operation like this? If I was the general in charge, I'd tell Trump: "We haven't decided on an attack yet, sir. Anyway, isn't this a beautiful day for golfing? Sure wish I could go, but I have some paperwork to do. But you could go, sir..."

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Speaking of cell-based organization, Trump will next claim to have cured cancer by blowing off the head of a cancer patient while simultaneously defunding scientific research and giving the money to the top .001%.

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Those W's, they come so rarely for him.

Maybe some day.

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I am currently mouse free (I think). Caught one in my bedroom the other day. Nothing that destructive should be so darn cute. There was construction going on nearby until recently. I ended up with a ground squirrel in my place! I had to pull the oven away from the wall to block the opening it used to get inside.

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Of course they didn't inform him. At most, they may have put it in the morning briefing with big words and no pictures.

The proof: If he had been informed, he would have called Putin, MBS, and Hannity, in that order, to spill the beans.

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Squirrels are capable of much mayhem

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Trump Towers Istanbul. Where you will find a scorpion thoughtfully placed under your pillow every evening.

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