Trump and MAGA; they aren’t unlike the roadkill skunk decomposing down the block that the animal control boys aren’t getting around to picking up. Festering and funky in the afternoon sun it sits there and cooks, the effluvium is never ending, 24/7/365 – for four rotten years. And there’s no escape. It’s dark on the …
“Modern Hungary is not just a model for conservative statecraft, but the model. Americans, Brits, Spaniards, Australians—everyone—can and should learn from it.” Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, The Hungarian Conservative, December 2022. With his engaging kindly smile, the shortish, stocky fellow with his silver/white hair parted down the middle could be any child’s …
Here in Trumpistan it’s not all bad news. Take the now well publicized amateurish chat group of administration officials discussing a military strike against the Houthis in Yemen, using Signal, a retail messaging app, and accidentally inviting journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor in Chief of The Atlantic, to the party. When I read about this …
“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.” ~ Germany Kent Silence. They say it’s golden. Except when silence is complicity. These days the silence screams approbation. “Nothing to see here,” shouts the stillness. “It’s all cool, carry …
“But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it (Hitler’s Mein Kampf) before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there was still time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe. For whatever accusations can be made against Adolf Hitler, no one …
“You play to win the game. Hello. You play to win the game.” ~ Herm Edwards, American football coach. Coach Edwards’ point is well taken. That being said, in order to win you have to play and in order to play you have to take the field. And as I look about me I feel …
Welcome back my friends to the show that never endsWe’re so glad you could attend,come inside, come insideThere behind a glass stands a real blade of grassBe careful as you pass, move along, move along* *Karn Evil 9.Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield. A forecast of sunny and bright weather belies my mood this morning. …
There’s a scene in an episode of the drama/comedy, The Bear, in which Sydney, the young sous chef, knocks on the papered over glass door of the restaurant that she and her partner and crew have been remodeling – just a simple makeover, really. She’s spent the day bouncing around Chicago, visiting various restaurants, sampling …
This a repost of a piece written by Martin Fredericks IV, on his site, IV Words. In his piece, Martin wonders about the deafening silence following a Supreme Court decision that essentially paves the way for an American monarchy or autocracy. Two-hundred and forty-eight years ago today The Declaration of Independence was birthed, rejecting the …
It shouldn’t have come as a surprise that the six right wingnuts on the Supreme Court would pave an autobahn towards autocracy, closing out the SCOTUS session and in effect, closing out the scattered remains of democracy. The timing was both ironic and convenient. Ironic in that SCOTUS issued its decision shit canning the whole …
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