re: #18 calochortus

August is a cruel month for political and/or news junkies. There just isn’t a ton of stuff to report. Not nothing, of course, but how long can you keep talking about N. Korea without any really new input?

Why is this August different than every other August?

Because there is a ton of stuff to report and because there’s truly new details that are ongoing about the Russia investigations, movement on the legal landscape regarding all of Trump’s cronies lawyering up (and changing lawyers to those that have a particular set of skills - like Manafort picking new counsel to address financial crimes), and Trump makes news daily with his endless barrage of insane tweets that show he is completely divorced from reality and who thinks that his tweets means that the utterances contained therein are now fact (such as when he thinks that the nuclear arsenal is updated or the military is now ready - when the units that would be fighting the war aren’t in position, but the nukes are as they’ve been for decades - waiting for the launch codes).