My Journal

Nibbling at the Edges

How did the Democratic Party become the party of college educated “elites”?  What happened to the party of the American middle class, the working people?  …

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MAGA Hat

MAGAs Defining “America”

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) always contains disturbing revelations, but this year they outdid themselves.  As a sample, right-wing activist Jack Posobiec opened the …

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Trump and Putin

White Christian Existential Panic

Lately it’s hard to ignore MAGAs’ dangerous attraction to white, male authoritarian rulers.  What the hell?!  Donald Trump and other prominent MAGAs, including House Speaker …

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Texas Border Crisis

Civil War at the Border

As someone who lost his life fighting (on the wrong side, of course) in the American Civil War, your humble spirit humbly suggests that MAGAs …

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Davos Summit

The World Economic Forum

Committed to improving the state of the world?  Who do those people at Davos think they’re fooling?  The only world most of them want to …

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Trump or Death

New Year’s Realizations

As unrealistic as they may be, your humble spirit has some heartfelt wishes for 2024.  Wishes for Donald Trump and MAGA: Putting aside the obvious—such …

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Donald Trump Mugshot

Happy New Year!

This humble spirit has been hovering about the earth for well over 150 years now and I can hardly recall a grimmer holiday season or …

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Adolf Hitler

Happy Genocide!

What a grim holiday season this has turned out to be.  Talk about the Grinch who stole Christmas!  There are more wars going on around …

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Titanic Stamp

“Bidenomics” Going Down with the Ship

The White House seems determined to make “Bidenomics” the center of the president’s 2024 presidential campaign, and given how things stand (Trump and Biden in …

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Trump Behind Bars

Trump Gets His Comeuppance

Last week, Yusef Salaam, one of the “Central Park Five” who were wrongly convicted for the 1989 rape and beating of a white jogger in Central …

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Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson
(Speaker of the Christian Right)

It turns out that Mike Johnson, the new House Speaker, is no less a far-right MAGA bomb thrower than Jim Jordan, only he’s quiet and …

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Donald Trump

It’s All About Him

Judging from how he talks (and tweets!), it’s clear that Donald Trump thinks he’s still President of the United States, or maybe a co-president with …

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Capitol Building behind a fence

Barbarians at the Capitol Fence

When retiring Army General Mark Milley referred to Donald Trump as a “Wannabe dictator” in response to the former president suggesting he might deserve execution …

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Donald Trump Mugshot

All Becomes Clear

As Agatha Christie’s famous fictional detective, Hercule Poirot, liked to say, “in time, all will become clear.” Well, in case we still had any doubts, …

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A protester waving a flag that says "He'll be back 2024"

Trump’s GOP Challengers are a Joke!

It’s now clear that Republican voters will not give up on their hero, Donald Trump, under any circumstances, no matter how vile his behavior, no …

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Trump pointing his finger up in air

Throwing Sh*t at the Wall

The 98-page Georgia indictment against Donald Trump and his eighteen co-conspirators—no less worth the read than the 45-page January 6th indictment brought by federal prosecutor …

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Trump

A Conspiracy to Defraud America

How fitting that the first of four charges included in the January 6 indictment against Donald Trump be “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States Government.” …

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Jason Aldean (“Try That in a Small Town”)

As Washington Post columnist Paul Weldon correctly put it last week, “Aldean’s latest single, “Try That in a Small Town” — is an exercise in …

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Presidential Election Take Back America 2024

A New Crop of Republican Lackies

Yeah, there’s no question we need to take America back!  Among Trump’s many challengers for the Republican presidential nomination are numerous fresh faces, but upon …

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In God we Trump

I’m Being Indicted for You

Former President Trump tells more lies than there are stars in heaven, but he’s once again outdoing himself when it comes to explaining why he …

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