Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Vol II – Episode 80: Saxons, Normans, and Towers, and Leek & Stilton Soup

Political Satire:  Having trouble surviving these times?  You’re not alone.  Join us in columnist John F. Di Leo’s exploration of an alternate universe, where we imagine the impossible: Joe Buckstop, an aging, corrupt old fool, somehow becomes president in his basement, and every night, an aide has to bring him his soup and discuss the …

Read more

Trump Has a Republican Problem

The public wants a winner. FJB and Republican senators are losers Philip Bump of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post reported, “Why Biden is underperforming Democratic Senate candidates.” Of course he got the story bass-ackwards. He wouldn’t be at the Bezos Post if he got the story right. Biden isn’t underperforming. Republican senators and congressmen are. …

Read more

New report: Biden administration conspired with Iran against their common enemy, Netanyahu 

On Friday, Axios reported that President Joe Biden’s senior Middle East adviser, Brett McGurk, and acting U.S. envoy to Iran Abram Paley held talks (through intermediaries) with Iran’s political deputy for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ali Bagheri Kani, last week in Muscat, Oman.  (Note: Following the sudden death of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian …

Read more