Is anyone beginning to wonder if the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse are running amok? Have they always been more than a metaphor? China, Asia and the rest of the known world are threatened by plague. War and famine is consuming the Middle East. Kenya is tormented by spreading hordes of locusts. And intemperate Donald […]
It’s no longer a question of if Impeached President Donald J. Trump is a dictator, it’s a matter of when will he shout down the Bill of Rights and then pass a law — by executive order — that will allow him to stay in office for as long as he wants. Not true, you […]
We’ve just about covered all the bases here at The Shinbone Star when it comes to Donald Trump and Trumpism. Still, even after 1,284 posts, new subject matter keeps rolling in. Like, for instance, enchiladas. Yes, we’ve touched on the Trumpian “taco bowls” that are served at the edifice in Midtown Manhattan that bears Trump’s […]
Until recently, understanding how Donald Trump became president of the United States was the overarching conundrum, where the answers to all the other Trumplandian mysteries were hidden. How could a man of such disreputable character and evil intent ride triumphantly into Washington, D.C. on the back of a Republican elephant that has been crapping all […]
Last fall Foreign Affairs put it this way: It has been a good decade for dictatorships. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the magazine followed up with this eye-catching statement: Conversely, it has been a terrible decade for democracy. Impeached President Donald J. Trump is riding this wave of authoritarian takeover of the world’s political […]
It’s not like Donald Trump has given us nothing. In fact he’s greatly enriched our vocabulary, with new words and phrases like yuge, bigly, covfefe, fire and fury, foistered, infantroopen (infantryman badge), heroilynn (heroin), susbesdig, deligitimatize, resaption, pivittible, and many, many more. They’re all Trumpisms, if you will, and thanks to Trump, they’re all unique […]
It is estimated that fewer than half of all incidents of domestic abuse go unreported by the victims, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. One possible reason is fear of retribution. The victim is worried about what their angry, resentful partner might do if they get arrested […]
