Chalk this up as one more thing both sides don’t do: turn the presidency into a monarchy. But, now that John Roberts’ clown car of craven conservative corruption has turned America’s president into America’s king, Democrats might as well get with the program – since it’s a Democratic king now occupying the throne. As a line of succession hasn’t been clearly established yet – don’t assume under…
It’s a stone cold fact. America has and is normalizing treason. How else to explain the fact that so many elected insurrectionists remain in office. Or the fact that the insurrection’s mid-level planners – the Roger Stones, for instance – remain at large and, as far as we can tell, entirely free from investigation by anyone. How to explain the fact that even when Trump was still POTUS, we…
Donald Trump – not just a loser, but a convicted felon loser. Have ya noticed how pretty much EVERY SINGLE TIME Donald Trump has to deal with the court system – and juries especially – HE LOSES. There are REAMS OF DATA to back this up: LOOSING is the one thing Trump does consistently. Same thing with elections. Trump LOSES THEM CONSISTENTLY, too. 2020 is the shiningest example of course. But…
Here’s a stone cold fact: Donald Trump CORRUPTS everything he touches. E V E R Y T H I N G . That includes the news media. Now, the American press entered the Trumpian part of our history already corrupted by the conceit that “both sides do it”. “Both sides do it” is corporate journalism’s take on American politics. It insists that a thief is a thief is a thief regardless of whether he’s…
Donald Trump‘s election fraud trial has made two things crystal clear. First, it doesn’t matter what Michael Cohen says. Every other bit of evidence says Trump willfully misled the American electorate about who he is. Of course, the jury will have the final say in the matter. Having served on two juries, I have faith that they will take their oaths seriously. The hard evidence is irrefutable and…
I can hear TINA TURNER in my head as I write this. “What’s love got to do with it?” indeed. In the case of DONALD TRUMP and anyone he’s ever slept with, love’s got NOTHING to do with it. Take this to the bank: Trump never married for love either. He’s incapable of loving anyone other than himself. Trump married for arm candy and breeding stock. Take this to the bank, too: MELANIA TRUMP knew the…
Over the course of my career, I’ve written a few monster movies and shows (“Tales From The Crypt”, “Children Of The Corn 2”, “Bordello Of Blood”). I have a certain storyteller’s appreciation for monsters – and what makes them monstrous. And, the thing about monsters is, while all monsters are definitely monsters, not all monsters are villains. The difference is considerable. A perfect example –…
The writer and philosopher HANNAH ARENDT coined the term “the banality of evil” to describe ADOLPH EICHMANN and the Nazi environment. Not only had they accepted a brutal, thoughtless approach to everything – where crimes against humanity could happen – they were, by nature, extremely banal themselves. And their own native banality contributed to the ease with which they adopted the brutality they…
Donald Trump was a liar long before the press finally called him one. An authoritarian and a fascist, too. The same applies to “traitor”. He is one and has been one all along. Ditto the rest of the GOP. What, after all, is a pro-Putin Republican if not a traitor by another name? Calling them traitors isn’t political. It’s just accurate. As with Trump, some people, we must take at their word. And…
The Supreme Court: where corrupt dots connect In the next week, ex-president and lifetime criminal Donald Trump will have two huge cases before the Supreme Court. The weird thing is, they’re connected in essential ways. The even weirder thing? Our inept news media hasn’t seen or made the connections. But the two cases ARE connected – and the fact that no one’s connecting those dots and screaming…
Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley attended a town hall in New Hampshire. A citizen asked her a very simple question. “What was the cause of the United States Civil War?” Gosh, even as the Confederate states seceded, they rattled their sabres and said “we’re going to war over slavery!” They were quite proud of the fact. But, “slavery” was the word Nikki avoided in her…
How Trumpanistas should see the money they give to Trump or his friends. Our intrepid news media (my sarcasm font’s working, right?) still asks the bone-headed question “Why does Donald Trump have such a hold on the Republican Party?” They’re oblivious of the fact that they themselves exposed that truth eons ago. Way back at the start of this madness. If only they ever read their own copy.…
In Yiddish, according to Leo Rosten in his essential The Joys Of Yiddish, “schmuck” can mean three things: a penis, a fool or a son of a bitch. Looking around at the various problems pushing humanity to the precipice, I see plenty of penises, fools and SOBs. Plenty of schmucks. Hell, they’ve surrounded us as only schmucks can – with their “schmuck” aura. Elon Musk? What a schmuck! Donald Trump –…
Last night Elon Musk demonstrated (yet again) that not only is he a rich, white sociopath, he’s the poster boy for Rich, White Sociopaths! Elon The Rich, White Sociopath Even before he got to last night, Elon has consistently demonstrated a sociopath’s consistent disregard for right and wrong or the rights and feelings of others. Take the way he took over Twitter (never mind WHY he took it…
Somewhere, what’s left of Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall has been replaced by “Let Ukraine fend for itself”. How the hell did the party that bragged about defeating the Soviet Union become Russia’s number one cheerleader and Vladimir Putin’s personal fluffer? The Republican Party has already answered that question itself: money. They’ll do anything for…
It’s a trick question! Here in America, the answer is “Why, of course! If you’re a Republican, you absolutely can be a traitor – and still become Speaker Of The House!” The GOP finally held together and made Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson the new Speaker Of The House of Representatives. It only took three weeks for the Republican Party to accomplish this simple but essential part of…
President Joe Biden being a leader. President Joe Biden just gave a master class in “How To Be A Leader”, and another in “How To Lead”. Circumstances in the Middle East are pitched at a full boil. Israel is a war zone yet Biden 1) kept to his diplomatic mission despite the fact that all the Arab sides canceled on him, 2) ignored the political risks and focused instead on the humanitarian side of…
