trump – Ice on the Moon

Comments On Frum

Every day America is shredded a little more and will take far more to rebuild than to tear down…at some point the cancer will end any hope of a return to any form of functioning democracy. @Mulchavelli3 days agoDOGE did achieve their goals just not their stated goals. The goal was to steal all ofContinue reading “Comments On Frum”

Suckers and Losers

Trump Was Always Going to Betray Veterans By Sarah Jones, senior writer for Intelligencer who covers politics and labor In filmmaker Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of Starship Troopers, military service guarantees citizenship in a futuristic — and fascist — regime. The policy is simple: Join the war on the alien bugs or suffer a second-class life. Verhoeven’s satire workedContinue reading “Suckers and Losers”

The End Of The Story

Abridged Transcript, On Point (my favorite Public Radio Show)Part I MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is back with us today. She’s a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She writes a Substack newsletter on threats to democracy called Lucid, and she’s author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. And throughout this year,Continue reading “The End Of The Story”

Trump For Sale

11:25 is where the truth-telling about fossil fuel interests and climate denial really kicks into high gear. “Among the biggest donors to Trump’s campaign.” Elon Musk called Space Solar Power “the stupidest thing ever.” The reason Musk hates Space Solar Power is because he cannot own it. In a 2012 interview: One thing we learnedContinue reading “Trump For Sale”

Solve The Right Problems

The naive theory of information: Most information is not truth, it is fictions and fantasies and delusions and errors and lies. Truth is a very rare and costly kind of information…a small subset. Flood the Earth with information and the truth sinks to the bottom. Fiction is very cheap, no research, fact-checking. Truth is complicatedContinue reading “Solve The Right Problems”

Thanks VOX, Zack, and Tim

The Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts The Trump years revealed a dark truth: The Republican Party is no longer committed to democracy. These charts tell the story. by Zack Beauchamp Graphics by Tim Williams Mar 1, 2021, 6:30 AM CST A visitor wears a face mask with a picture of former President DonaldContinue reading “Thanks VOX, Zack, and Tim”

Trumpist Social Darwinism

By Jonathan Chait Last week, Donald Trump appeared before a rally in Iowa, where he regaled a crowd of supporters with stories of the great wealth of his inner circle of advisers. “When you get the president — this is the president of Goldman Sachs — smart! — having him represent us, he went fromContinue reading “Trumpist Social Darwinism”

One Year Ago and now Kamala

How did we get here? The dumbing of America, from Reagan to Trump and beyond by Brian Karem writing for Salon How screwed are we? I’ll tell you. On Wednesday, the news was all about a big bag of wind destroying Florida and flooding the South, spreading destruction and threatening pestilence and death. Then there’sContinue reading “One Year Ago and now Kamala”

Chauncey Tells It

“The enduring power of old-fashioned biological racism in American society is made even more terrifying given how Trump is now openly channeling Hitler, complete with threats to remove the “vermin” from the country and complaints of how non-white people are “poison” in the blood of the nation. How Trump and the MAGA movement and largerContinue reading “Chauncey Tells It”