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A collection of 41 posts

Trump

Hey! I Put Out the Fire! (I started)

Just when I think I'm out, they drag me back in.

Trump

The World Turned Upside Down

OK gang, here's where we are in a nutshell. (Spoiler alert: "King George is dead! Long Live King Trump?")

Trump

The Mad King

Like an evangelical minister doing coke rails behind the pulpit, Hegseth paced and preached. “No more division, distraction, and gender delusions. No more debris. As I’ve said before, and will say again: We are done. With that. Shit.” And then he gave them 45 minutes of that shit.

Trump

Autocrats in Alaska

"In a sane world, one not run by war-mongers, defense contractors, convicts, corporate media, and giant banking and investment firms, Putin and Trump would have been arrested and detained before their feet touched the red carpet strewn across the tarmac at Alaska’s Elmendorf Air Force Base."

Trump

Incident at Buc-ee's

Trump supporters have taken the hint and are ready to punch or to shoot. Trump haters feel cornered and out of peaceful options. Both groups may find common ground in their collective nihilism - ready to declare war on a common enemy - Trump and the rest of the 1%.

climate change

The Fires of Our Time

Droughts last longer, winds blow harder, rain falls longer and in greater volume, blizzards turn colder and snow gets deeper, hurricanes and tornadoes spin up stronger and more deadly as American policy makers reduce environmental regulations on fossil fuels and pollution.

Trump

Thank you For Your Attention To This Matter

No more endless wars...OK, except this one.

Trump

"We Love You God"

Nobody changes leaders in the middle of war. Trump, hammered in the polls for tariffs and DOGE cuts, is posturing as a war president and using phrases like this attack “was the likes of what the world has never seen,” and “We love you God,” even as he is launching an unprovoked attack on Iran.

Trump

"You Effed Up. You Trusted Us."

Can we get a mulligan on the last election?

Trump

Render Unto Me That Which I Want

Holy Week in the holiest place in the nation, Washington. Well, actually...

Economy

The Great Leap Forward

Yeah, that's from Chairman Mao, but it fits. Or was it Richard Nixon? Maybe J.D. Vance?

Trump

Can Anyone Here Play This Game?

If you have to keep yelling "Incoming!" it loses its punch.

Trump

Who is it For?

We hated them Commies because 'They don't take care of their people!' As the Trump Train rolls on, with African Immigrant Musk at the controls, it's hard to say we care about anyone anymore... except the billionaire class.

Immigration

Down on the Rio Grande

The border is booming but the economic expansion is at risk because of the new American president. Consider that exports from Texas supported more than 1 million jobs in this state and we exported $129.5 billion of goods to Mexico in 2023.

Trump

And...We're Off!

Correcting the veritable fire hose of misinformation and just plain dumbassery is exhausting. And frankly, after the first four years of trying, everyone is just plain worn out.

World History

When Stupid is Dangerous

History is often seen as an outline of man's continual advancement through time. In reality, it's one dumb, arrogant stumble after another.

Election

A Turbulent and Troubled Land

"We refuse to own our history, to learn from it, and cannot know who we truly are as a people or what binds us as a nation, because we have been hiding from ourselves for too long."

Trump

A Garden of Stone

Arlington National Cemetery was supposed to be their last place of sanctuary. Surely, no politician would ever dare think to produce a campaign commercial. Who walks among those gardens of stone and contemplates themselves? Had America ever produced such a politician?

trave;

On the Loose

"I never stopped returning to the Grand Canyon and never will. There is no medication to cure political and emotional ills coursing through your country and your brain but one hike into the canyon can temporarily render them into near irrelevance."

Election

The Horrors, The Horrors

"Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another." Was Cpt. Willard heading to the 2024 election?

Election

My Debate Prep Involves Whisky

"We are sure to hear the buzzwords that have made our national eyes roll every time some self-described pundit uses them. I'm not by nature a violent man, but I find my grandfather's antique Smith & Wesson mighty tempting when one of them talks about the "Weaponization" of anything."

Trump

The Old Man with a Spray Tan

The notion that anyone can accept the idea that the former president is the last, best hope to save American democracy is repulsive in the extreme. The opposite, in fact, is true.

Trump

Fact Checking is for Suckers

We continue our seemingly never ending series on gullible politics.

War

When Johnny Came Home

The odds of Johnny Mata encountering harm or great danger were considered minimal. But Nancili Mata knew her husband, and it made her worry while her family expressed confidence.

Israel

Biden Did What!

On Meet the Press today, Senator Lindsay Graham (R-Belle Reve) was so aflutter when the host mentioned the Reagan precedent, he will need to take to his fainting couch for a spell.