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Starve the Children and Ground the Planes

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:

    • the courts and Trump have mishandled SNAP and screwed its 42 million poor people
    • the shutdown keeps setting records
    • Trump melts down about “affordability”
    • the administration fails to pay air traffic controllers and, thus,
    • Trump has caused the biggest travel nightmare ever.

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All that glitters is not gold.

Matt Ford (TNR): The raw spectacle of Trump tearing a hole in the White House to hang out with his rich friends is already a potent symbol of his presidency—almost ham-fisted in a way, as if it were drawn by a third-rate political cartoonist for a fourth-rate newspaper. At every level, the entire project may be the perfect summation of what his administration has been like for the country. Continue reading “All that glitters is not gold.”

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There Are No Words

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”

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Live Evil

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”

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The Provenance of Witch-Hunting

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”

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Waking Up

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”

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Dr. Ronny Jackson Interview

One of the more forgettable characters of the first Trump term was Dr. Ronny Jackson. This goombah served under three presidents―Bush the younger, Obama and Trump. He was kicked upstairs to serve as Secretary of Veterans Affairs after numerous allegations of drunkenness, misconduct, and an hour-long kiss-ass press conference praising Trump to the skies. He lasted in the new job about a month.

Of all the early Trumpian characters Jackson was one of the most flagrantly unqualified. Therefore I thought he’d be a perfect subject for a bogus interview. I put it in the “Monologues, Dialogues” section of my forthcoming book, Trumpworld Begins. Continue reading “Dr. Ronny Jackson Interview”