• Trump is suing an Iowa paper and a polling company, what’s next if polls show his approval ratings tanking? Will he sue the polls? By Hal M. Brown

      Dec 17, 2024
      Uncategorized
      donald-trump, lawsuits, news, Politics, polls, Trump

      This is from the Raw Story article above: President-elect Donald Trump managed to cobble together a popular vote-winning coalition and he did so by making notable but modest gains with certain minority groups.  But the problem for him, wrote Ronald Brownstein for CNN, is that he won the election with a group of voters who broadly don’t like him, and may not even agree…

    • Trumpian Venn diagram: life imitates dystopian art. By Hal M. Brown

        Dec 16, 2024
        Uncategorized

        I found the Venn diagram below in a Facebook post. Then I made a version with a DonkeyHotey caricature of Trump in the middle. I was planning to end the blog without making my own version but changed my mind and made one which you can see below. Click above to enlarge. I don’t know…

      • Anti-Trumpers made a big mistake calling Trump just a convicted felon. By Hal M. Brown

          Dec 15, 2024
          Uncategorized
          donald-trump, e-jean-carroll, george-stephanopoulos, news, Politics, Trump

          Consider how public perception might have been changed if all the articles and signs saying “Donald Trump becomes the first convicted felon to be elected president” instead said “Donald Trump becomes the first convicted rapist or sexual abuser felon to be elected president” or billboards were put up like my version of the one below:…

        • Apple CEO’s visit to Mar-a-Lago caused my iPhone to throw up on my Mac laptop, by Hal M/ Brown

            Dec 14, 2024
            tim-cook
            apple, bluesky, NAZIS, social-media, tim-cook

            This was the the top HuffPost story this morning. It prompted me to spend some time using AI to create an illustration of Cook bending at the knees before King Trump. AI created a king and I added Trump’s rather large head. Oddly, the gods of AI made the man on his knees resemble Tim…

          • The delightful distraction of the dastardly drones, by Hal M. Brown

              Dec 13, 2024
              fantasy,
              aliens, Politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, star-wars

              Constructed by the autocratic Galactic Empire, the Death Star was capable of obliterating entire planets. It served to enforce the Empire’s reign of terror. It was protected by twin ion fighters (below) which the heros of the Star Wars stories had to battle in their Jedi Starfighters in space dog fights. Now we have these drone sightings in New Jersey…

            • Maybe writers should dispense with words and just use emojis to express opinions, By Hal M. Brown

                Dec 12, 2024
                linguistics,
                communication, culture, emoji, emojis, language, linguistics,, writing

                In today’s blog I take a break from pure poltics and write about about linguistics, language, words, and writing. There was an article about Kari Lake being selected to lead the Voice of America which was shown on the top of the page in HuffPost (above with arrow). It didn’t offer any opinion. All it…

              • Am I unempathic in wishing the worst for some Trump voters? By Hal M. Brown

                  Dec 11, 2024
                  Uncategorized
                  donald-trump, Politics, Trump, trump-voters

                  There’s a part of me that I don’t really know what to make of when it comes to wishing the absolute worst for the country during the next four years so people who voted for Trump suffer.  In order for this to happen lots of good people will also suffer. In fact it is the…

                • For some MAGA manly men, Hegseth’s sexual assault and drinking charges are badges of honor worthy of a medal, by Hal M. Brown

                    Dec 10, 2024
                    Toxic masculinity,Pete Hegseth,
                    gender, masculinity, men, mental-health, toxic-masculinity

                    Republicans Look Past Sexual Assault, Alcohol Allegations Against Pete Hegseth Reading this led me to react the with title of this blog and to spend some time trying to make medals to illustrate it (above) to show the kind soldiers in a sick toxically masculine military might be awarded for sexual assault and drunken behavior.…

                  • Drill, baby, drill: Three words that may show Trump isn’t mentally all there. By Hal M. Brown, MSW

                      Dec 9, 2024
                      Dementia,, John Kelly,, Trump
                      donald-trump, Politics, Trump, trump-dementia

                      In Trump ‘s “Meet the Press” interview with Kristen Welker, not only did Trump demontrate a callous disregard for the feelings of those he promised to deport (see my blog about toxic masculinty from yesterday) he uttered three words that were so unrelated to what he was talking about that at the least I would…

                    • If only the entire country could divorce itself from a toxically masculine regime, By Hal M. Brown. MSW

                        Dec 8, 2024
                        Uncategorized
                        gender, masculinity, men, mental-health, toxic-masculinity

                        I came across this in today’s NY Times (subscription): You can watch the video clip shown above here.In the Times article the following is revealed: Mr. Kennedy added that as part of an “anti-aging protocol from my doctor,” he also receives testosterone replacement therapy. “But I don’t take any steroids,” he said. “I don’t take…

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