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Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Bolton, Bernie, Paula White, and Mike Pompeo

Harsh Your Mellow Monday has plenty of ground to cover with everything from the delusional to the divine, so let us get right to it.

Andrew Donaldson
8 min readJan 27, 2020
“Metropolis”, directed by Fritz Lang, 1927 | Still image (detail) Courtesy of Kino Lorber [Public Domain]

Harsh Your Mellow Monday has plenty of ground to cover with everything from the delusional to the divine, so let us get right to it.

John Bolton, Hated Warmonger Turned Resistance Unicorn Turned Book Salesman

When Johnny beat the devil for the golden fiddle down in Georgia, he didn’t string ol’ Satan along half as well from that tree stump as John Bolton is currently working the news media over what he knows.

Now, you may believe that all the leaks from Bolton about how much he wants to testify, and how much he is just dying to tell his story, and how much amazeballs information he has to divulge, and his formula for turning lead to gold, and on and on and on…oh, and the excerpt from his forthcoming book about the President withholding aid just happened to circulate into certain eager hands on the day after the Democratic House Managers completed their opening statements and the Senate hit the pause button after a brief preview from the President’s rebuttal team. You can believe that is all just happening, or you can understand book…

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Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

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