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…
Trumpists thinking magical thoughts. Kellyanne Conway – Donald Trump’s staff Crypt Keeper lookalike – famously said that Trump World preferred “alternative facts” to actual facts. That was a remarkable statement when Kellyanne made it. We still hadn’t gotten used to the idea of Trumpanistas always saying the quiet stuff out loud. But, that’s what Kellyanne did: she articulated a core truth of…
On the one hand, the entire Republican Party is utterly full of shit. But, on the other, aren’t all actors? The GOP bailed on governing eons ago. It’s just not their thing. A sizeable chunk of the Trumpian base – the white supremacist core – only ever liked democracy when only they took part in it. To them, open, free and fair elections are crap shoots. Anybody could win – and that does not work…
Thousands of pro-German fascists gathered at a 1939 rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden. The way our news media reports it, Trumpism took over the Republican Party quite suddenly – like a terrorist hijacking an airplane. Prior to that? The GOP was an honest actor, holding up its end of the greatest experiment ever in human self-government. Don’t blame the poor GOP for what Trump and…
The bottom line is always the emperor’s birthday suit. That’s what he’s wearing and everyone knows it. The question is who will say it – out loud – bursting the bubble of bullshit? For a Ponzi scheme to actually work, everyone in existence would have to buy in. The goal of a Ponzi scheme is to keep suckering in new money to fuel the “old money” that started the scheme – and got out already. Ponzi…
To prosecute Trump or not to. Is that really a question? Black, meet white. Doing nothing in the face of evil and injustice is the same as being evil and unjust. It’s just more cowardly. We don’t expect any Republican (other than Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – both now out of office) to do anything about the evil in the Republican midst. The fact is, prosecuting Trump will invariably lead to…
America Needs A Trump-ectomy
Dear Donald Trump: America is soooooooo done with you. Stone cold fact: the majority of us despise the man. He couldn’t win a popular vote if his bloated, orange life depended on it. Winning the Electoral College is like winning a lottery you fixed yourself. Literally everything Trump touches turns to shit. He corrupts everything he touches. And everyone who succumbs in any way, shape or form.…
Welcome To Propaganda’s Golden Age
Take propaganda away from Republicans and they would literally have nothing else to say. Kellyanne Conway – of all people – nailed Trumpism’s biggest contribution to American culture (it’s what makes The Big Lie possible). In response to a question about whether Trump’s then press-secretary had lied to the press, she claimed (on Meet The Press, January 22, 2017) “You’re saying it’s a falsehood…
A Better America Versus A Bitter America
Hello, America: I’m the fork in your road! America has arrived at the fork in its road. This fork has always been here. Hell, it’s been waiting for us. In one direction lies the future. Though uncertain, it’s brimming with boundless promise for the most amount of people. In the other lies the past. The past was very good for some but downright awful for most others. In that way, most of us are…
