Professional Left Podcast Episode 1002: It’s Still the Republican Party

“Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.”  -- Ron Swanson

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The Hunt For The Mysterious "Furor Bunker Leakers"...

...has begun.

From Raw Story:

Trump White House hunting for insider who leaked details about Epstein freakout

The Trump administration is launching a "massive leak hunt" to find out who spilled details on a panicked conversation inside the White House.

A new book by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan has the Trump White House scrambling to find out who leaked details about the Trump administration's "freakout" over the release of the Epstein files, according to reporting by CNN. The New York Times published an excerpt of the book, "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," on Wednesday.

Because what would Stupid Watergate be without Stupid Plumbers?

I Am The Liberal Media

Hey, Hey, JDV! How Many Dead for Fox TV?

"He died in the suffocating embrace of Lyndon Johnson.” -- How historians later described Hubert Humphrey -- trapped by his fealty to Johnson and unable to break free from a war that was sinking them both.

Given that, this might be the savviest act of evil Iranian regime genius in Trump's Iran Debacle so far.  From The Daily Beast:

Iran Gives Trump an Ultimatum on JD Vance

Iranian officials are refusing to talk to Trump’s top negotiators.

Iran said it is done dealing with the two emissaries President Donald Trump has tasked with leading negotiations in the Middle East.

The country, which Trump began striking over three weeks ago, is not keen on any more attempts at negotiations with Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, or Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, both of whom were leading the nuclear negotiations with Iran before the war.

Iran now says it will only engage in negotiations with Vice President JD Vance, according to a report in The Guardian...

Yes, Witkoff and Kushner are the worst possible humans to trust with any serious negotiating about anything, but that aside, Vance's utter hollowness and ravenous ambition are not exactly state secrets, and so far he's been as AWOL from this catastrophe as a Trump vice-president can be.  But come the day he is forced to become the public face of Trump's doomed war for oil, it won't matter how much eyeliner he smears on or how purdy he talks to the MAGA mouth-breathers.

In 1968, the #1 reason that made Humphrey non-viable was the fact that he was Lyndon Johnson's vice president.  It didn't matter where he'd stood on Vietnam before that, and it didn't matter how good a liberal he was on any other issue. In the end the only thing that mattered was that the Democratic Party was deeply divided and he was the war criminal's veep.

Which was a tragedy, the fallout from which we are still living with today.   

But as a lesson of history, it's impossible not to note that requiring Vance to publicly lash himself to the plummeting albatross of Trump's doomed war for oil may not just "Humphrey" his chances in 2028, but why not dream bigger than that?  Pretty soon MAGA zombies are gonna be starving for scapegoats, and Vance is tailor-made for the role.  With a little luck, this could bury Vance's ambitions under the rubble of Trump's corruption, failures and treason for the rest of his life.

I Am The Liberal Media.