A headline in The Washington Post on Wednesday screamed, “Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican lawmakers in a bind.” Donald J. Trump’s incessant drum beating has reached enough disenfranchised fools with guns seeking liberation from frustrations they can’t otherwise escape. In their own bizarre way, the raging boys […]
Mother Nature apparently doesn’t like the way things are going in the world at the moment and banded together with irresistible karma to take a whack at Donald J. Trump, the original source of most of the chaos in the world today. It seems the Fates selected a close adviser inside Trump’s White House to […]
A pandemic provides writers with abundant food for thought. Mix it with anything Trumpian and it is suddenly a penny novel. By Webster’s definition, uttering something insensitive is crass, but there’s a certain charm to being tactless, how else could Trump survive? When everything slows down, crassness and insensitivity seem to rise. “What’s the f#%kin’ […]
“Hydroxychloroquine, I don’t know,” Trump said on his evening dog-and-pony show a few days ago. “It’s looking like it’s having some good results. I hope that, that would be a phenomenal thing.” It could be incredible. In Oregon, 13 veterans treated in part with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine recovered from COVID-19, including a 104-year old […]
This story was going to be about Donald Trump’s new persona. He tried being caring and humble for a few minutes in a daily broadcast featuring dead bodies being loaded into the refrigerated trailer of an 18-wheeler at the Elmhurst Medical Center. That’s all it took for the news media to speculate that Trump was […]
Donald Trump’s favorite lap dog, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), landed in the doghouse instead of the White House last week when Democrats, during his unregulated throw-money-at-industry pandemic responses, discovered his bark was worse than his bite. Instead of earning a special snack for guiding his Republican sheep, Mitch received a brutal smackdown that […]
Donald Trump was at his putrid finest on television over the weekend, a double-talking huckster babbling with incoherency about his obvious and repeated mistakes in the days before. Meanwhile, the do-nothing Senate is deadlocked on a $2 trillion relief bill so full of goodies for Trump’s buddies, it could raise the dead. The only thing […]
