ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST
Finally, unless I croak, Trumpworld Begins should be published in a couple of weeks. There have been problems, naturally. The book consists of blog posts, from the period 2016 to 2018, that clearly show the chaos unfolding as the participants fumbled their way through Trump 1. As characters in this earlier drama they are almost, but not quite, as batty and inept as those in our contemporary cast. Continue reading “The Importance of Trump 1”
Gavin Newsom captioned this AI pic “Goodnight, Peasants!” as Trump fled to Florida to escape the intense pressures of Washington. Unless you’ve been asleep for the past week, you know how:
Continue reading “Starve the Children and Ground the Planes”
The actions of this administration and its leader often leave us open-mouthed and tongue-tied. Trying to categorize what’s going on we use defective, inaccurate, fuzzy words like fascism, conservatism, liberal. Yes, we resort to clichés. We argue. What does “liberal” mean anymore? The imprecision is not just in the political context. Abstract and broad concept words tend to become not only ambiguous and diverse; they vary with the user’s understanding, background and purpose. Continue reading “There Are No Words”
No, I don’t mean the old Black Sabbath album. It’s what came to mind as a short take on Trump’s transfiguration from the bumbling dodo of the first term to the crazed sociopath we deal with today. Black Sabbath’s music was a pretense, a masquerade for the masses. Trump and his crew are all too real. Continue reading “Live Evil”
The President is king of the witch-hunt. He loves to accuse his enemies of pursuing that activity to harass him. But in fact, “far from being the victim of witch hunts, he is the orchestrator of them.” Thursday he outdid himself in orchestrating the indictment of James Comey. To do that, he illegally pushes the Justice Department to destroy his enemies, that is, anybody who dares cross him. Continue reading “The Provenance of Witch-Hunting”
It’s been barely a month since I began my hiatus from the blog, and I feel like Rip Van Winkle. You know that story—Rip sleeps twenty years through the American Revolution and wakes to find everything changed. I took time off in hopes of getting a handle on the daily mutations enacted by our delusional President. Now my metaphorical twenty years have passed, and every day brings forth a new monstrosity. I may go back to sleep. Continue reading “Waking Up”
As some of you know I’ve had several medical issues. And we’ve all had emotional issues with Trump & Co. The combination has led me to put this blog on hold for awhile as well as my book project, Trumpworld Begins. The flood of bad news worldwide exacerbates everything. I need a break. We all need a break. Continue reading “Taking a Breather”
With strong echoes of how he treated Zelensky, Trump recently hammered the genial South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with his racist topology. A piece about white identity politics I wrote eight years ago suggests how these ideas take root. It will be part of my new book. Continue reading “Another Ugly Scene in the Oval Office”
This is what Hervé Villechaize (Tattoo) kept shouting in Fantasy Island, that popular comedy show of the ‘70s, now come to life as Trumpie lives out his fantasies with that grandiose gift from Qatar. It is the highpoint in a life of corruption. It is an out-and-out 400-million-dollar bribe. Continue reading ““De plane! De plane!””
Trumpia, that country the Psychopath is trying to create, shows signs already of coming apart as its perpetrators trek further into Nutland. Every day it’s a new outrage. Thursday’s shameful arrest of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk comes right out of the Russian playbook. Bat-brained Kristi Noem uses human prisoners from El Salvador as props for her video. And of course Hegseth, whose head should roll soon, produced the most lethal shock of all.
Today I wanted to write about the transparently psychotic Trump. His revenge-filled speech at the Department of Justice last Friday really set me off. But finally, this was a fool’s errand because my blog readers already know most of the evidence. Just repeating this does nothing to keep us from cowering to a wannabe dictator. There is so much more behind the Trump phenomenon. Continue reading “Trump the Pig Farmer”