Times are uncertain and scary. Donald J. Trump and the Russians are on the offensive. Revered RBG is laying in state, already beset by blood-suckers seeking political advantage by abusing a corpse. Trump has already despoiled her glistening legacy by spitting on her final wish. Meanwhile, the Democrats are fumbling around wringing their hands, pretending […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday as quietly as she served our nation. No fanfare, no hand-wringing, no cries for supplication. Too bad the rest of us can’t follow her lead, there are already too many frenzies dining on the soul of the nation. Both parties are busy capitalizing on Ginsburg’s death. […]
Recently, a famous movie star threatened to leave America to protest the escalating inadequacies of Donald J. Trump. Perhaps his proclamation was mere hyperbole — actors’ careers are made of it — or perhaps it could have been the admission of a coward, only pretending to be noble. Quite a few people who commented on […]
Donald Trump must have heard something about the military-industrial complex since he was outed for slandering dead soldiers and Marines killed in France during World War I. He badly needs some shade from flamed Americans, particularly vets and active-duty military service members. Since Monday, Trump has several times babbled incoherent analogies about how America’s soldiers […]
The Atlantic magazine is reporting that in 2018, Donald J. Trump referred to the Marines and soldiers who died in the epic World War I battle at Belleau Wood as “losers” and “suckers,” a report he vehemently denies. The battle of Belleau Wood was so fierce that the gallant stand by the Marines who fought […]
In June, The Shinbone Star published Trump’s Support For Militarized Policing Can Get You Killed, in part lamenting the practice of American police departments’ use of 12-gauge pump shotguns as the final exclamation point in a crisis. The comments were tangential to an inquiry into why Donald Trump is encouraging vacuous yahoos brandishing military grade […]
I’ll bet you never knew Donald Trump was at war against a cabal of pedophile-cannibals within the Democratic Party, the finance industry, Hollywood and the “deep state.” But it’s apparently true, just ask “Q.” According to the nest of conspiracy addicts and loonies who collectively call themselves followers of QAnon, members are sworn to protect […]
Kamala Harris, a 55-year-old career prosecutor who plans to become our next vice president, didn’t have to wait long to be attacked by Donald Trump and his band of misogynist racists. On Thursday, Trump was unwilling to refute baseless reports that Harris, of Indian and Jamaican descent, is not an American citizen despite irrefutable evidence […]
Most people know the presidential election is less than three months away. Fewer realize it will be the nation’s first election without televised national political conventions since the medium came into use in 1952. It’s probably for the best. Trump’s swarm of clueless supporters are demonstrably capable of expectorating infectious clouds of flying coronavirus spores […]
Last Wednesday was the 75th anniversary of the sinking of the U.S.S Indianapolis, a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945 after delivering the first U.S. atomic bomb to an isolated Pacific island air base. It is a grim story, a primer for abject failure. Among the engaging legends […]
The New York Times on Monday shared the fate of a U.S. Naval Academy graduate in Portland, Ore., who wished to discover the identity of the men behind the faceless, robotic players in camouflage and body armor currently roughing up Portland’s protestors. The thugs are grabbing Americans in the dark of night and locking them […]
Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, wrote a scathing book with a very long title about her Uncle Donald, scion of her grandfather Freddie’s considerable fortune and 45th president of the United States of America. The highlights have already been shared and the low lights, the larger balance of her narrative, are tarnished by the confused […]
Donald Trump spent Monday morning spinning ridiculous tales on TV about his remarkable ability to save the nation from itself. He would be better served focusing on how he is going to extricate himself from the hell he has created. Trump’s enablers are probably remembering when plausible deniability still had some relevance in the political […]
The latest iteration of Teflon Don avoiding damnation for treason materialized amid a week of denials. He claimed he wasn’t informed that his Russian buddy, Vladimir Putin, was paying bounties to Taliban assassins to kill American and British troops in Afghanistan. Trump said he wasn’t briefed. Even if he was, he didn’t believe it. American […]
“Soldierin’ and policin’ — they ain’t the same thing.” — Maj. Howard Colvin, “The Wire,” Season 3, Episode 10 Sometimes the best of intentions turns into something ugly. The U.S. Department of Defense’s Section 1033 program, which provides guns and other excess military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, ranks high among the many well-intentioned law-and-order […]
Who would have thought George Floyd, a black man murdered by police in Minneapolis, would spark a revolt against Donald Trump by three generations of retired American generals who have honorably served our country since the Vietnam War. The retired generals’ decisions to speak out against Trump is not without possible personal liability. Retired officers […]
Donald J. Trump wants to add the anti-fascist anarchists of the loosely knit, poorly defined Antifa political movement to America’s international terrorist list (Antifa is shorthand for anti-fascist). Trump made his desire known last week the morning after hiding in a subterranean White House bunker until Secret Service told him it was safe to come […]
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’ […]
