ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST
Much ink has been spilled over the Reflecting Pool disaster, so excuse me for adding to the torrent. My partner discovered this picture on Facebook, and it does have its appeal (even if it never gets built) principally because it gives the finger to Trump. Continue reading “Maybe This?”
Vance: They put us up at this crummy hotel while the boss signs his ass away at Versailles. I don’t think he even knows how many disastrous treaties were signed there. And now the peace talks here are going to start again but will probably end up in the toilet. Continue reading “At the Hotel Ceasefire, Geneva”
“We” includes everyone but his investors, that is. For many of us the man typifies arrogance, smugness and swagger. One would think the world’s richest person (at $826 billion and counting) could afford some humility. But with all that money and power, Elon manages to generally behave like a yahoo. He is a very mixed bag of characteristics and has done some good works. I’ll give him credit for that. He’s still a yahoo. Continue reading “Why We Hate Elon Musk”
You know about his obsession with gold. You’ve been appalled with his record of corruption, self-dealing, and the slush fund. Grift and graft. Now he honors himself with a new piece of illegal tender decorated with his grotesque face (Who did his hair for this?) and signature. The bill is also supposed to reflect the country’s 250th anniversary. An old law states that “no living president can appear on currency.” House Republicans are working on bills to void this. Continue reading “It’s Always about Money”
Trump: Bibi, it’s simple. Your thing is just to destroy Iran. Everyone else knows I want peace. Why else would I keep negotiating with these assholes? Your way will keep Hormuz closed forever.
Netanyahu: My friend, you have deliberately kept us out of the negotiations, out of the loop. We went into this as partners, compadres to blow these terrorists to smithereens. Our goal, we agreed, was to knock out the regime, destroy their nuclear program, and annihilate their missile capability. Once you dropped us as a partner you blew any chance for our joint security. Continue reading “Dialogue 2”
Trump: It’s my great pleasure to see you again, Mr. President. No, no groveling, please!
Xi: Did you sleep on the plane?
Trump: Very little. Too busy posting memies on Truth Social. I get so many stupid questions directed at me. Continue reading “Dialogue”
The original project was to cost $200 million, provided by private donors. The cost soon jumped to $300 million, then $400 million, now $1 trillion, adding unspecified security and military spaces paid for by you and me. Now they are talking about a West Wing expansion to “balance out” the 90,000 square foot ballroom on the east. Continue reading “A Ballroom Built on Bloat”
Yes, I watched two hours of last night’s shocking event. I’ll refrain from commenting on it since it will be all over the news media today. I will say that Trump’s White House response was mostly fair and decent (except for his babbling about the need for the new ballroom). Instead I reprint my 2018 reaction to a Dinner when the event was well into its sad decline. I did attend one of these events in 1994 when things were more accepting and jovial. Politics was so different then. Continue reading “Past Correspondents’ Day Dinners”
We have to get rid of him. George Conway has a great summary piece here. He “lays out his case that Republicans will eventually have no choice but to remove the president before his term ends.” I urge you to read it. Until then, here are a few visual reminders of what this lunatic has wrought. Continue reading “See What the Mutant Has Done”
In these times of hysteria and sociopathology, it may be useful to remind us that there is “nothing new under the sun,” as Ecclesiastes put it. The Mark Twain of our time surely was Hunter S. Thompson, whose words still drive me crazy and apply so directly to what the Trumpworld has brought us. Continue reading “Trumpism Predicted”
Matt Spence