Politics
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Click to read above article This was my comment: I wrote: This is clearly a diversion. I wrote about how he does this here: Trump is throwing yet another dead cat on the table.There’s nothing that really needs to change as far as creating something like the EU. With smaller countries in Europe this made sense.…
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No matter that historians and polls rank Jimmy Carter near the middle of American presidents in terms of best to worst, all of them say something like the following (with my highlights): Based on the C-SPAN survey, Jimmy Carter is ranked 26th out of 45 pre-Biden presidents. Carter’s ranking among his White House peers was…
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Trump’s post on Truth Social (shown above, click to enlarge) was the subject of an article in RawStory. One of the commenters to the article “‘What is going on here???’ Trump melts down over Harris endorsements weeks after election” questioned in one way or another whether Trump had dementia.” wrote “Does anyone in America believe that we should…
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Consider this Google News search for Laura Loomer. I like this story from The Times of India in part because of their illustration. Click above to enlarge image. Groypers are a group of alt-right and white nationalist activists, provocateurs, and Internet trolls.Look at Loomer’s Wikipedia profile. Read about her background and history and ask yourself why this woman…
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Will Susie Wiles go from being one of Trump’s closest and trusted advisors to be vaporized by Musk’s Starlink satellite disintegration ray? This is from an AP article published the day after the election about her: She can control some of Trump’s worst impulses Wiles was able to help control Trump’s worst impulses — not…
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How long before Trump starts wearing the MAGA Panama hat? I want bragging rights for predicting this if he does. President Theodore Roosevelt wore a Panama hat when he visited the Panama Canal. Will Turmp wear his own version when he goes there if he can take it back? My hunch is that Trump felt…
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As I completed this blog this was on CNN: I can’t take the comparision between the competition for the designation of “boss” as in “who’s the boss” between Trump and Musk beyond the title of the long running award winning (eight seasons) tv series starring Tony Danza and Judith Light as the the adults, Tony and Angela,…
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The irony of all this, depicted above with a generic AI created billionaire bending at the knees (you have to imagine he’s before Trump), is that Ben Franklin ended up with his face on the $100 bill. I wonder how he’d feel today about the role money plays in politics? He might remind us of…
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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…
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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:…