Sitemap - 2021 - Lucian Truscott Newsletter

What matters most

What was the biggest story of 2021?

We have turned a corner with COVID

Pssssst. C'mere.

Silent night, lonely night at the Tango Palace

How we can win back January 6

What we've lost

Return to forever

Seasons greetings...and bookkeeping!

American Mao

Liz Cheney is driving the 1/6 investigation into Watergate territory

What the Meadows texts reveal about Trump's secret life

Why the hell hasn't the House Jan. 6 committee held hearings? What are they waiting for?

A winter weekend off...

WH batshit cray-cray plan to steal election on Jan. 6 revealed!

We need to be ready for the political violence that is coming.

We're not going anywhere

Self-defensive fascism

Les Misdemeanors et Les Mushrooms

The gun nuts on Twitter are very angry with me.

The GOP wanted to takeover the judiciary to end abortion rights, but they also wanted to keep themselves out of jail.

Schools in this country are shooting ranges with living students as targets.

Disingenuousness ruled, irony died, and flat-out falsehoods rang out loudly in the Supreme Court today.

Love, Dog.

Words kill. It's going to happen

They're eating their own

Here we go again

A sharp knife and a well-roasted turkey find their meaning in life.

The season of the knife

Josh Hawley is afraid "The Left" is neutering American men!

The American horror story

Pride and prejudice: Forget critical race theory. Let's talk about critical race facts.

It's not Eastman. It's not Meadows. It's not Bannon. It's Trump.

The Lex

Run on it

Things don't work the way they did anymore.

Another gorgeous morning on Accabonac Harbor

You used to have to do something significant to get death threats

The murder trial that wasn't

The Rolling Stones and me.

The Weather Aboveground has issued its Port Huron Statement, and it's a doozy

Get your finger off your cell phone screen and stop ordering stuff!

Democrats can beat Trumpian pipsqueaks in fleece vests. Here's how.

Growing up Truscott

I'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat.

The facts are in: being Republican, white, and Southern is hazardous to your health

What happened at the Supreme Court today

I watched 100 traffic stop videos so you don't have to.

We rode 10-speed bikes halfway across America in 1964.

The only Republican on the ballot in the mid-terms is Donald Trump

Remember Deborah "Shoulder Scarf" Birx? She's finally decided to tell what she knows.

Owned by Orange the cat

How this column gets done

Trump's Big Lie is the new Lost Cause

I am a citizen of the Lion's Head

There really is a bottom, and we've arrived

Living life out loud

My testimony on Jefferson before the NYC Public Design Commission today

The crack that reveals the darkness inside us

I just had to turn off the news, I was so disgusted by what I saw

The Supreme Court has become a political body.

What would a 21st Century American Civil War look like?

This is not the time to be depressed

My empathy erosion

A new Confederacy: Trump and the Republicans have seceded and are fighting a Civil War

Trump won't make the same mistake twice

This is how stupid Facebook's algorithm is

WTF is wrong with this fool Josh Hawley?

$86 billion and what do you get? Another war lost and deeper in debt.

For Democrats, failure is not an option. For Republicans, failure is the point.

We finally have a general who is a hero: Mark Milley

The dog cottage

I've had it. I'm done with Republican voters and politicians who cater to their ignorance.

Why our chaotic exit from Afghanistan was perfect

Newsflash! Trump loses Arizona...again!

It's voter suppression for now. It will be voter intimidation next.

$3.5 trillion for jobs and families is cheap. Pass it.

Look at this man's face. He is Tate Reeves, the governor of the state with the second worst record of COVID deaths in the entire world

Our COVID update

Few turn out to support Nazis, white supremacists and Confederate sympathizers in Washington D.C.

My growing rage at the unvaccinated and unmasked

The permanent campaign is killing people

Amy Coney Barrett wants you to know she isn't a partisan hack

Why do Republicans want to control vaginas? What about their dicks?

What is this madness?

9/11 and the birth of the Big Lie

Merrick Garland is trying to save Texas from itself

Addendum to the column on Bret Stephens

Bret Stephens is the worst NY Times columnist in history

How far will Republicans turn back the clock?

A writer's labors on Labor Day weekend

Don't despair. The Texas fetal heartbeat law can be beat

Just when we thought we were safe from the storm...

Texas Republicans have planned your future and you're not going to like it.

How much crazier can Republicans get?

How much crazier can Republicans get?

Empire minus one

Empire minus one

How we got COVID: We did everything right and still got breakthrough cases

Our COVID honeymoon

Hurricane Henri is aimed straight at us

Words and me

Fascism fanboys: Charles Lindbergh and Tucker Carlson

Lay off Joe Biden

How air assault helicopters helped us lose the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan

Beyond touchy-feely: Cuomo, Trump and the politics of sexual abuse

Sending troops into Afghanistan so we can pull them out

How Trump blew his chance to steal the election

We're getting married today!

COVID: The long view

Fast track fascism

Stark raving mad

Republicans want the right to open-carry COVID

Big news! Trump pressured DOJ and tried to overturn election!

A deadly calculus

Will things ever return to normal?

We've been invaded by aliens

Nancy Pelosi is ready to shove 1/6 down Republican throats

Tennessee attempts double reverse COVID triple Salchow

It's Saturday and I'm taking the day off.

COVID! COVID! COVID!

We're going to look back at this moment and ask ourselves WTF were we thinking?

A gray day on Accabonac Harbor

Facebook isn't killing people. Fox News is.

The virus is not political

The death wish party

A picture of privilege

Republicans eat one of their own

Sledgehammer racism

Woodstock for wussies

Inside the Hotel California

Maybe this will convince unvaxxed men: Covid has been found in penis cells and is linked to erectile dysfunction

Cut 'em loose

Voter fraud is the Republican Party's new WMD

New poll shows Trump Republican Party bleeding voters

Seize this day

The next insurrection

The disappearing of America

They got caught because they were greedy and they were cheap

A really futile and stupid gesture

On a hot day, a cool view

Even Trump's suck-up loyalists end up bleeding when he's finished with them. Just ask Bill Barr.

You can't rewrite history that is staring you in the face

The Florida coast is headed for a grim reckoning

Military might, white fright

Senator Dither determines something definite

The roots of our current predicament

The game is over.

Donald Trump's new Lost Cause

New video of attack on Capitol Police released by DOJ

The Putin-Carlson Axis of Idiocy

There weren't enough hours in the day for all the crimes Trump committed in his final weeks in office

Sometimes fascism arrives on tiny cat feet.

Taking a day off on Accabonac Harbor

Tom Cotton's new racism is just same old racism with a diploma from Harvard

God is dead and buried under the parking garage of the Southern Baptist Convention headquarters

Donald Trump's desperate, cynical gamble

The Republican Party has turned into a minefield

Backward Pants-Man is a laughable buffoon, but he is also a mortal danger to these United States

Telling stories in the dark

Attending the school of Ruby

I'm sick and tired of writing about guns

Sergeant Schultz Republicanism: Racism? What racism? I know nothing! I know nothing!

Court-martial Flynn's worthless seditious ass

They are here in ghostly assemblage

The uniquely American fascism of the Senate

The Republican stinking, disgusting, scum-sucking, cowardly cover-up

WTF is wrong with rich people, Part Deux

It's official: We will have lost the war in Afghanistan in July.

Autocrats R Us

When Bob Dylan practiced downstairs from my loft

Ryanair flight forced down by military jets in Belarus

It's all on the line now

You can't rewrite history that is staring you in the face

Whatever they can get away with

Gaetz gets got

Liz Cheney and the responsibility of being right

Fighting fire with fire

Donald Trump wants to Putinize the presidency

Their squeaks and squeals must have been deafening

All you need to know about Republican voter suppression

A gigantic gaping suck-hole has opened in Trump's Land of Lies

The Liz Cheney dilemma

24 hours offline

Fake news about the Big Lie

They finally said the quiet part out loud

The scourge of unwoke Republicanism

100 days of Joe Biden

No Tempur-Pedic mattresses where Rudy's going to be sleeping

A real president gives a real speech

Merrick Garland, stealth bomber

This mask saved my life

The future of American elections is happening right now in Arizona

Philip Roth cancels himself

All the ways Joe Biden is making a difference

What are we to do about these Republican fools?

It just never stops

You can believe your own eyes

The utter futility of a 1/6 commission

A milestone of sorts

The other pandemic

We are losing the ability to share in the suffering of others.

Law enforcement has become a war between police and the American people

Twenty years of war, and for what?

Tucker Carlson is a pusillanimous putrescent prick who needs to be replaced

What the fuck is going on in Minnesota?

It's my birthday, and I'm taking a night off!

It's spring! It's time to dine outdoors! Remember what that was like?

Gaetz' goofy grin is going...going...gone!

Joe Biden's gun sanity

They're white, they're racist, and they're stupid

Joe Biden's New Deal

Georgia wants minorities to have 3/5ths of a vote

Flame

Schadenfreude is the best Freud

Videos of police killing suspects are a thing

ATTENTION! If you see this man, call the Tucker Carlson Show

Breaking news: CDC Director nearly broke in tears as she warned of "impending doom"

Down, down, down we go

Truscott novel on sale!

Weekend update of disgusting news

American gun madness

The Lucian solution to the stuck ship

Kicking ass and taking names

Effortless

End the filibuster

What's it going to take?

My debt to the 60 Minute Gourmet

Super-spreader Ron DeSantis is the new Mini-Trump

My first night off

A scourge of INCELS

Weaklings, racists, and drooling loners

And the hits just keep on coming

Love among the Ginkgoes

Capitol insurgents were volunteer FBI informants

Dirt, smoke, fire and steel

It's time to start treating Trump like the entirely ordinary, grubby, grasping, corrupt, banal politician he is.

Tucker Carlson should shut the hell up

Key witness against Trump called in for 7th time by Manhattan D.A.

Joe Biden's BFD

Wear your mask!

Whatever happened to national security?

Blooding Sunday

Trump's post-presidential fund-raising scam

The sun is out, the sky is blue...

Men are pigs

Congress caves

A tower of lies

Free love wasn't free. Sometimes it wasn't even love.

I gutted it out!

Duh: Pentagon finally admits the F-35 "flying Swiss Army Knife" can't fly

Trump is turning the party of grievance, greed and graft into the party of fear

76 percent approve of Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus

White people can do no wrong

We were young and we were beautiful and we were addicted

There has to be a special corner in hell for Cruz, Hawley and Cotton

It's bigger than we thought

How the truth gets through

The Grand Old Pole Dance Party

Ruby, my dear

Republican politics is like robbing banks.

Roger Stone and the Oath Keepers who attacked the Capitol

Morning light is the best light

There will be no vacation from Trump

Stop being angry with Democrats for not calling witnesses

Mitch McConnell's master class in soulless double-dealing

Trump's last stand

The power of words

The big elephant in the room: a fable

It's time for the senate and house to make new rules

The enormous, overwhelming, unforgivable futility of it all

Which side are you on?

A few suggestions for the House Managers

Who are these goof loons?

The Boss gets bossed

The hair years

Bye-bye, farewell, and good riddance

I was a ghost writer for "True: The Magazine for Men"

Motels I have known: The hair metal Ramada in the 80's

The GOP has become the GOQ

Lies and the lying liars who learned from the Lying Liar in Chief

Motels I have known: the van years

Don't fall for the fiction that guns are political

Motels I have known: the Hollywood years

McConnell isn't playing a "long game," he's just stuffing his wallet.

Never send your son on the road

Elites R Us

Republicans aren't a party anymore. They're a mob.

Rioter in Pelosi's office was brazen, entitled and dangerous, judge rules

David Duke set the stage for the modern Republican Party

Holocaust remembrance day

Mass hysteria comes to your inbox

Republicans are ceding the battlefield to the Democrats

The coup evidence is damning and disgusting

Trump doesn't need to start a new political party

Bright, boring, bitter and dangerous

Living with paintings

How to convict Trump in the Senate

Trump is headed for indictment and trial in Georgia

Biden is the perfect antidote to Trump

Democrats need to take power and get things done

It wasn't a peaceful transition of power at all

The day the walls came down

So long from the Swami of Smarm and Harm

Evel Knievel and the day Agnew resigned

Trump hasn't said a word.

Members of congress seek last minute pardons

PTSD: Post Trump Stress Disorder

Donald Trump is a man without a country

Catching up with Doufus Douthat

Why Trump must be convicted

It could have been so easy for Trump

White supremacy is a wounded animal

Who loves America?

They are putting up razor wire around the Capitol

Playing dress-up for the insurrection

Hustling pool in K.C. with Ricky Ketler

Hustling pool in K.C. with Ricky Ketler

It's Jim Jones time

There are now four times as many troops guarding the Capitol from Trump's insurgent army than there are in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Democrats should show riot footage on the floor of the House

President Biden should award the Medal of Freedom to Colin Kaepernick

Republican members of Congress gave "private tours" of the Capitol the day before the insurrection.

Trump has not said one word to discourage his violent insurrectionists from attacking on January 20.

Trump knew. He was in on it.

McConnell and McCarthy are real profiles in Republican courage

MAGA maniacs are hitting Republican leaders where it hurts: in the wallet

Kevin McCarthy edging away from Trump

First turn of the screw

It's war

Trump's dangerous parting gift

Who is to blame for the success of the attack on Congress?

Planning for Biden's inauguration should be a national security emergency

Everyone must read "The American Abyss" in the New York Times

Why Washington D.C. was so unprepared on Wednesday

It was a race riot

Trump's minions brought him down

Why it hurts so much

How much is our liberty worth?

Believe it or not, four good things happened today in Washington D.C.

We needed this

Yeah, Trump sounded like a mob boss, but...

Politics, culture, and whatever's rattling around in my head..