What does Proud Boys, Three Percenters, Oath Keepers and all the other self-styled patriots who ignited the rampage inside the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021 have in common with disaffected Pennsylvania patriots who fomented the failed Whiskey Rebellion in 1794? History says quite a bit. Historians agree the dead-on-arrival rebellion in PA […]
I started looking for all the FBI-reported war chatter cluttering up Facebook and Twitter and conversations in right-wing blogs to see what all the hot scoop was about. Never look up a right wing organization unless you are prepared for a barrage of the “latest hot poop from the city of baked beans (Boston)” or […]
“Sen. Hawley was doing something that was really dumb-ass,” said Sen. Ben Sasse on Saturday about Josh Hawley’s enthusiasm for the Jan. 6 Trumpite invasion of the Capitol. Speaking on NPR, Sasse said, “This was a stunt. It was a terrible, terrible idea. And you don’t lie to the American people, and that’s what’s been […]
The political news in the first week of the New Year is enough to depress a clown. A fortnight away from inaugurating a new president, outgoing presidential pretender Donald J. Trump threw a tool box full of monkey wrenches into the business of democracy. Instead of Vice President Mike Pence simply rubber-stamping the Electoral […]
Donald Trump’s vanity finally collided head on with his inherent ignorance when he tinkered with the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Deep inside this act lurks a locked and cocked .44 Magnum disguised as an unrelated piece of boring regulatory legislation about locking up money launderers. The wily congressional solons’ who put it there […]
The crafty grifter hanging onto the White House by his fingernails would have you believe he is totally insane. During a report Monday from the White House, CNN correspondent John Harwood reported, “The President himself is a kook.” While Harwood’s latent discovery is not earthshaking, it may be the first time a CNN reporter — […]
Donald Trump has gotten mighty cozy with the bigoted gangbangers who call themselves Proud Boys. When not so occupied, he is reportedly telling friends he may back out of the 2024 election for president if the climate is still gray and bleak in 2022. Politico reported Monday that the doddering wannabe bully boy “has spent […]
A mountain of a man whose career could be the source for several Rambo adventures is President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of defense. Biden introduction of retired four star Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, 67, ended speculation about what had been a badly kept secret buzzing around the dispirited, misled Puzzle Palace while […]
There are two ways to look at what Donald Trump’s last gasp of electoral intransigence has accomplished. The Washington Post, along with several other national news organizations and prominent commentators, say people are confused about the sanctity of our election process. They openly blame it on Trump being nuts. But Trump was nuts when he was […]
Lying flat on my back watching the world rush by in opiated slow motion was a good way to witness one of the most tumultuous presidential races in American history. And no, this missive is not the confession of a fallen scribe, I had to be in the hospital for a while. Some of that […]
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 […]
