International Politics - Texas Outlaw Writers

The Historic Mindlessness of Americans

"American politicians routinely describe Iran as a rogue state, an irrational actor, an existential threat. What they rarely do is connect that behavior to its historical origins, because doing so would require a reckoning with American responsibility that domestic politics makes nearly impossible."

War

Operation Epstein Fury

Iran will no doubt retaliate by bombing the FBI filing cabinet.

Trump

Our Lady of Eternal Rationalizations

It all seems so obvious, except it apparently isn't.

Trump

So, How's It Going?

To quote the late Queen..."Annus Horribilis."

Trump

Greenland? Really?

And it isn't about defense. Just like Venezuela wasn't about democracy. Or narcotics. What could it be then?

War

Operation: Massive Distractstein

Plus, we all dip our beaks in sunny Caracas.

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%.

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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?

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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."

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