Charlie Sykes

On Wednesday, Trump flew out of Turkey on the old Air Force One instead of his new billion-dollar Qatari-gifted plane, because it turns out that the wingéd bribe is a ginormously lame sitting duck. The Metaphor Gods never sleep, do they? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

The online ghouls who are celebrating and/or justifying the shooting of Charlie Kirk have no idea how much damage they are doing…

What can we do? Where is the pushback? Well, ICYMI, here is what it looks like. So I thought I would do something I rarely (if ever) do… share the whole damn thing. No snark. No spin. Just the whole speech. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

The moment when it becomes most difficult, perhaps even impossible, to tell the truth, is the moment when it is most critically important to tell it. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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This is actually a pretty remarkable split screen. While Democrats declare that a credible allegation for sexual assault is disqualifying, the GOP continues to shrug at the actual adjudication of sexual assault charges against Donald Trump. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Trump’s new “Palace in the Sky” was accessorized and gold-gilted to Trump’s specifications, complete with faux-books and all the luxuries befitting a Middle Eastern potentate. But they left out all the stuff that you actually need on a real Air Force One. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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No one trusts the US anymore. Today's 'To the Contrary" Podcast w/ General Mark Hertling.

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In the era of “Me Too,” the Epstein Files, and a president who was found liable for sexual abuse, the warnings and testimonies of one woman after another were brushed aside — until they simply could not be ignored any longer. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

How did Democrats find themselves embracing such a flawed candidate? Why were so many red flags missed or ignored? And how did a party that often declared we should “believe the women,” decide to ignore so many of them? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

And then the bottom fell out because, unlike the Trump/Paxton GOP, the Democrats are not a cult. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

The Graham Platner Reckoning open.substack.com/pub/charlies...