Upon waking this morning, I am informed by The New York Times that the firm owned by Lev Parnas, one of Rudy Giuliani's HENCHMEN in his Ukrainian adventures, is called Fraud Guarantee, and I would like everyone in the 2019 writer's room fired immediately and blacklisted from ever working again. Thank you.

But in terms of events that are not funny at all, we move along to the United Nations where, on Thursday, a resolution was proposed in the Security Council condemning Turkey's invasion of northern Syria. Its principal sponsor was the European Union. Then, this happened. From the EUObserver:

EU envoys to the UN Security Council (UNSC), from Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Poland, and the UK spoke to press in New York after the US and Russia blocked an EU-drafted UN resolution on the conflict. The German ambassador, Jurgen Schulz, read out the EU statement anyway. "We call upon Turkey to cease the unilateral military action," Schulz said, as the Turkish military bombarded Kurdish positions in northern Syria and Kurdish artillery fired on Turkish towns on the other side of the border. The Turkish offensive would create "fertile ground for the resurgence of Da'esh" in a "significant threat to regional, international, and European security", Schulz added, referring to an Islamist militant group that is sometimes known as Isis. It would also "exacerbate civilian suffering and provoke further displacements which will further increase the number of refugees," he said.

This country joined with Vladimir Putin's thuggish, failing petro-kleptocracy to veto a UN resolution that would have condemned the slaughter of the people who helped the West defeat ISIS in Syria. That we engage in any joint international activity with that murderous regime is disgraceful enough, but it's made worse by the fact that our own president* is so deep in Putin's pocket that he's probably got a polonium-laced breath mint stuck to his head.



And what of the president*? Well, he jetted off to Minneapolis to hold another one of his noisy wankfests in which he a) mocked Hunter Biden for doing about one-tenth of what his useless spalpeens do before breakfast every morning; b) did a truly terrible imitation of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page achieving orgasm, and I can't tell you how little I wanted to type that; Serge Gainsbourg, the president* ain't, and c) remarked that Joe Biden was only vice president because he knew how to "kiss Barack Obama's ass." The president* of the United States said that. And his crowd went apeshit bananas in reply.

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My goodness -- Trump is now diving into conspiracy theories about Ilhan Omar's marital status he read on a right-wing blog. Completely unhinged. pic.twitter.com/kjy3qCwK5i — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 11, 2019

He also whipped up the goobers with a slanderous attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar. This is going to be the worst, most racist presidential campaign since 1868, and I don't think the elite political press is ready for it. For example, here's the NYT's lede on the president*'s latest episode of public insanity.

A fired-up President Trump lashed out against Democrats at a combative campaign rally on Thursday night, deriding them as “very sick and deranged people” who were only investigating him for abuse of power in order to “erase your vote.”

"Fired-up." "Combative."

The Hill called the rally "feisty."

It's right in front of their eyes, all of it. The company's name is FRAUD GUARUNTEE, for the love of Christ.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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