My Journal

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I Miss TACO

Nice weather we’re having, isn’t it?  What happened to TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) when we needed him?  Let’s hope the president is better at ...
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The White House lit up in rainbow lights

Embarrassing Bromance

Well, the sudden implosion of the bromance between President Trump and Elon Musk has certainly made for a peculiar celebration of Gay Pride Month, hasn’t ...
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Push pin on Territory of South Africa

Shiny White Genocide

Alas, Mad King Trump and his trusty MAGA administration are only getting worse.  As many times as the courts block their actions, they charge ahead ...
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Bloody vampire from Sinners

Sinners

Having talked about the horrific Jim Crow South on multiple occasions, both here in my journal and elsewhere on my website, I applaud the fact ...
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Fasicm can't be voted out. The people must drive it out

The Sorrow and the Pity (aka Trump’s First 100 Days)

In Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning 1977 film, Annie, played by Dianne Keaton, and Alvy, played by Allen, go to see The Sorrow and the ...
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“Kiss My Ass” (aka Please Bribe Me)

President Trump is delighted to force other world leaders into subservience: “They all want to kiss my ass” (aka “bribe me”), he boasted.  We know ...
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Trump’s Twisted Truth

One of President Trump’s latest executive orders, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” targets the Smithsonian Institution, which includes 21 museums, libraries, research centers, ...
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Billboard with the word Tariffs and an American flag on it

Trump’s Self-Destruction

As I have often acknowledged, a sizeable portion of Trump’s MAGA base have good reason to be angry about their circumstances, even if that anger ...
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Putin and Trump Kissing

Trump’s Sacred Idol

Like a lot of people, this humble spirit suspected that all the excitement about Ukraine’s rare earth minerals was an obvious ploy that would allow ...
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King Trump

King Trump

It should be clear that Donald Trump wants to be America’s king.  He doesn’t want to work with Congress or respect their power (of the ...
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Plane crashing in a burning fireball

Trump’s DEI “Common Sense”

President Trump and his MAGAs are even more obsessed with DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) than “wokeness.” Their obsession represents a fanatical opposition to civil ...
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Map of Greenland

Trump’s Shiny Objects

Well, Trump saved the worst for last, didn’t he?  “The American Carnage is Over” was replaced by “America’s decline is over,” but there was still ...
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Trump smiling

Lies and Euphemisms

The bodies had hardly been cleared from Bourbon Street when President-elect Trump spouted off on social media about terrorists coming across the southern border as ...
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The Oligarch Brigade

Is there any question that Trump and his billionaire allies want to turn the country into an oligarchy, not unlike the one Putin created for ...
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Robber holding a gun

Delay, Deny, Defend

The reaction to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is one more demonstration of just how angry and unhappy many Americans are—and understandably so.  ...
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Matt Gaetz

“Your Body, My Choice”

There’s no pretending the Trump Campaign’s hateful misogyny wasn’t just that, blatant hostility toward women.  And not surprisingly, now that he’s been elected, it’s on ...
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow’s Hierarchy

The media pundits are currently obsessed with slicing and dicing the election results, because, after all, that’s their livelihood.  I’m not sure what there is ...
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Trump at rally

Cultural Heroin

“Cultural Heroin” is how J.D. Vance described Donald Trump before tech billionaire Peter Theil made him a rich man, paid for his Senate campaign, and ...
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Hurricane Warning

America’s Natural Disaster

Sadly, all the absurd and dangerous “misinformation” about the two recent hurricanes, Helene and Milton, distracts attention away from the fact that our poorest citizens ...
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Port Strike Workers

American Crisis Unfolding

Along with just about everyone else, this humble spirit fears that he’s spent too much time writing about Donald Trump.  Unfortunately, the man provides an ...
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