national politics - Texas Outlaw Writers

Cemetery America

"We avert our eyes from the cause and nod sadly at the effect, but take no steps to prescribe a solution. The culture of the gun in the U.S. has lost no battles in the modern era. Our politics keep fertilizing the bloody fields with fewer and fewer controls."

Trump

Useful Idiots

Yeah, it's Russia, Russia, Russia again. That's only because it is. It's as though Reagan said, "Mr. Gorbachev, do whatever the hell you want with this wall."

Election

Death Branding and Other Cons

"It is all marketing and brand because the reason people choose things 98 percent of the time is not rational. It’s emotional."

Election

The Campaign We Deserve?

There are so many issues to confront - domestic and foreign. Inflation is down to 2.5% and will come down more when the Fed cuts interest rates in the Fall. I just filled up at $2.69 a gallon. GDP grew at 3% this past month. Border arrests are at a 4 year low. Campaign on that, for heaven's sake!

Trump

Lying All Along the Line

"Trump often looked constipated or maybe he was grimacing at the memories of how he had been diminished to a punch line by speakers in Chicago. He was cuddling up next to his favorite issue, snuggled there with his lies about how he had built 400 miles of wall on the border."

Religion

Boxing with God

"Tonight at 7:00 p.m., Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick will join Matt Crouch, Chairman of Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Dr. Phil for a thought-provoking discussion: whether President Trump’s survival of the recent assassination attempt was a mere stroke of luck or divine intervention."

Election

Vote For Me! Here's Some Stuff!

"The Milwaukee excitement was as artificially pumped up as Hulk Hogan's biceps or Kimberly Guilfoyle's lips. I expect no less in Chicago, only with more tofu."

Election

What Would Molly Ivins Say?

As we often do in times of political stress where we need a laugh and a bit of hope, we remember Molly Ivins, and wonder, "What the hell would she say about all of this?"

Trump

American Dreaming

"We are tired of his anger and name calling and lying about subjects as mundane as crowd-size comparisons between his speeches and those of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Further, how does he think he can win by calling Kamala Harris a “fucking bitch” while rolling around on a golf cart?"

Economy

Crypto Crooks

"Though "currency" is in the name, cryptocurrencies aren't and never have been. They're made up, a fantasy, have no intrinsic value, aren't backed by anything, & require complete suspension of belief to invest in. As I keep yelling at people in Walmart "pajamas aren't pants!," Bitcoin isn't money!"

Science

Are We Sure They Were Actually in Russia?

"No one is trusted, expertise is doubted, those who have worked their entire lives toward a goal, scientific, journalistic or political, are immediately dismissed because some vacuous lamebrain on YouTube made a video. "

Election

Hillbilly Hypocrite

"Vance also does not care about the Constitution, which he would be sworn to uphold should Trump and he win. Vance said he would not have certified the 2020 results were he the VP. He would happily defy the constitutional laws he was sworn to uphold."

Biden

OK, Now What?

Those running for President, the line forms to the right.

Travel

Everything is Fine

They announced pre-boarding, and suggested that we all line up for our seating. "Except for those connecting to Nassau, your flight is canceled."

personal stories

A Summertime Dream

"It's hard not to feel hopeful on days like this and it is just as difficult to avoid thinking about how little America has changed since that Dallas gunfire took us off course. We have had our victories, but they feel now as if they are dissolving in the old anger and we are back where we started."

Trump

Is It Over?

It's horrible. It's sad. And it will immediately become political.

Biden

A Speech for the American President

I realize this might sound awkward, but the electoral processes in many nations tend to be far shorter and less costly than the ones by which Americans choose their leaders. This can be done, and a new national discourse will arise that will show voters the strength of the Democratic Party...

Trump

The Debate Debate

His falsehoods ranged from "oh, bullshit," to "this is the kinda crap that produces violent fury." Which is his M.O.

Trump

Alarming On So Many Levels

Being President is not a debating contest any more than it's a golf game. But it's one thing to have a bad debate, and as a former debater I know how that feels, and another to reveal things that alarm folks.

culture wars

When the Elite Meet to Eat

"You ain't gonna get any nouveau, amandine, thin crust, bottled water, sauteed city food. Food's brown, hot, and plenty of it." -Cookie, the Chuck Wagon cook in "City Slickers"

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

An Innocent Man?

Republicans are so concerned about Trump’s political ego and their proximity to his putative power that they are willing to toss the rule of law into a ditch flowing with their lickspittle, and further Trump’s destruction of U.S. democratic institutions.

Trump

Trumpus Agonistes

There is, not a pseudo-religious devotion from evangelical clergy and their followers, but it seems genuinely religious. It is indeed as though Trump is seen as a heaven-sent savior for a nation that is actually, cruising along fairly well.

national politics

Inside Our Party Bubbles

Should the big things be of concern? Of course! Social Security, Medicare, the horrors of Gaza. But we're a parochial people and the big picture, foreign affairs, they're far down the list, sadly. Most middle-class folks are more worried about the price of eggs at Kroger.

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.

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