• If we have President Trump, President Vance, or both, in the future we’ll be living in 1984 on steroids, by Hal M. Brown. MSW

      Oct 6, 2024
      2024 election,, Democracy,, fascism,, J.D. Vance,, Politics, Trump
      donald-trump, news, Politics, Trump

      Well known promo picture for 1984 colorized by Kolorize.cc Click image to enlargeThere’s no real need to go chapter and verse through George Orwell’s 1949 novel “1984” to understand why referencing it here (as is done elsewhere) describes what Trump and Vance want the United States to become. Each hopes to become Big Brother. Vance anticipates that…

    • If Trump ends up going to trial and is convicted is he capable of saying he’s sorry? by Hal M. Brown, MSW

        Oct 5, 2024
        2024 election,, Law, Law and Crime,, psychology, Trump, Trump trials
        crime, donald-trump, news, Politics, Trump

        Digital illustration made by Perhance Photo AI You can click these images to enlarge them. I made them to illustrate blogs I wrote in the past. Trump got the king-making ruling from his Supreme Court and Jack Smith filed what hopefully will be a historic successful indictment trying to lay out alleged crimes that Trump…

      • Will the drip-drip-drip of Trump being Trump overflow his bucket and ruin his chance of winning? By Hal M. Brown, MSW

          Oct 4, 2024
          2024 election,, Trump
          donald-trump, elections, Politics, Trump

          Digital image created by Perchance Photo AI You may read articles like this (above, subscription)  which is summarized in RawStory here: ‘Scores of people leave early’: Interviews reveal why Trump rallygoers bow out prematurely Of those who leave and who were interviewed by far most of them will still vote for Trump. Here’s an example of why…

        • It can’t happen here. Some people “get it” and want it. Some people don’t “get it”, don’t want it, and may vote for it. By Hal M. Brown, MSW

            Oct 3, 2024
            2024 election,, Democracy,, fascism,, J.D. Vance,, MAGA, Trump
            donald-trump, MAGA, news, Politics, Trump

            J.D.Vance just put a sugar coating on what he and Trump want to turn America into. Those watching the debate who want Trump’s MAGA dictatorship for the country saw through this as a performance to make Trump look reasonable, although, lest they believe he was more moderate than Trump, he made it clear he was…

          • “On the initiative of the vice president” should be on the top of the page story today, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

              Oct 2, 2024
              2024 election,, J.D. Vance,
              25th-amendment, donald-trump, J.D. Vance,, news, Politics, Trump

              Why is this man laughing? Image of laughing Vance from Perchance Photo AI Unfortunately you need a subscription to read this entire Washington Post article: The major coverage on the WaPo website was the Vance-Walz debate: On your computer you had to scroll past a couple of ads and even the Better Living section to find the article “Trump…

            • Vance doesn’t project the villainy vibe that Trump does, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

                Oct 1, 2024
                2024 election,, J.D. Vance,
                Democracy,, donald-trump, news, Politics, Trump

                To be a popular villain in fiction a character has to express their villainy with panache. Trump is a master of doing this, from floating the idea of putting alligators in the Rio Grande or shooting immigrants trying to cross the border in the legs to, just the other day, talking about having one day…

              • There’s shtick, there sick, there’s sick shtick, and there’s sick sick shtick. By Hal M. Brown, MSW

                  Sep 30, 2024
                  2024 election,, Trump
                  mental-health

                  Consider the meaning of these two words: sick1 | sik | adjective 1 affected by physical or mental illness: nursing very sick children | (the sick as plural noun) :  visiting the sick and the elderly | we were sick with bronchitis. • relating to those who are ill: the company organized a sick fund for its workers. • (of an organization, system, or society) suffering from serious problems, especially of a financial nature: their economy remains…

                • I hope these two articles are right but I am still scared. How scared am I and how scared are you? By Hal M. Brown, MSW

                    Sep 29, 2024
                    2024 election,, Trump
                    Democracy,, donald-trump, Politics, Trump

                    Image by Perchance AI Photos I was perusing the internet this morning and among the first few articles that caught my attention there were two that gave me some guarded feelings of optimism. Still, I am scared. How scared am I? There’s one English idiom that some may consider vulgar but it describes better than any…

                  • It can happen here, right? RIGHT!!! Start by asking what kind of monsters put children in cages and go from there. By Hal M. Brown, MSW

                      Sep 28, 2024
                      neo-NAZIs,, Trump
                      auschwitz, History, holocaust, poland, world-war-ii

                      Thinking of this, which I often do, evokes a feeling of horrow beyond words. I see in my mind the well known photos of the the entrance to Auschwitiz. (Photos and captions from Wikipedia) Above: A doctor, center, with the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army, walks with a group of survivors at the…

                    • Let’s say the new $100,000 Trump watch is worth $100,000, why the hell does Trump think it is a good idea to sell it now? By Hal M. Brown, MSW

                        Sep 27, 2024
                        Trump
                        donald-trump, humor, humor, news, Politics, Trump

                        In case you haven’t heard it being discussed on MSNBC or elsewhere, Trump is now selling the Trump watch for $100,000.This is from Wired: If you read RawStory there are two articles about it:  and There are other $100,000 watches semi-rich watch aficionados can buy or already have in their collections. For example, these are…

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