You nailed it. Feel so impotent in doing anything about it, though. Never did I think so much could crumble so quickly. Feels like 1933 Germany. I feel like Stephen Miller has a book in his drawer with the timeline of the Nazi takeover.
Jay, you have probably seen this but it fits with some of the other things you’ve written:
Trump says that he thinks that if he can end the war in Ukraine it will help him get into heaven. His PAC immediately put out a statement asking people to send money to help him get into heaven.
Napp Nazworth (@nappnazworth.bsky.social)Trump says that he thinks that if he can end the war in Ukraine it will help him get into heaven. His PAC immediately put out a statement asking people to send money to help him get into heaven.
Early in the war, a local Marine was killed in Iraq. The Crazy People Church in Kansas announced that they were going to come and "protest" at his funeral. Like burning the flag, a "right".
Locally we decided that we had the right to demand trial by a jury of our peers and lined the roads during the funeral.
Long story short, the Crazy People never made it here. Every time their vans crossed a county line in Tennessee, they got pulled over for an improper lane change or burned-out break light or a drug dog would alert...
Jay, I am in total union with this sad reflection. However it misses a most important point:
the craven Republican caucus submits to their mob boss out of fear his mob, their constituents, will abandon them if they object.
We see how incompetent the man and his cronies are. We are chagrined, disgusted and embarrassed by the image he projects as a person and as a national leader. We cringe at his ignorance, dishonesty and immaturity. In your own expression we "gasp" at his lack of taste and unprofessional behaviour.
Nevertheless, millions of our neighbours, friends and family members chose to elect him "President," and remain perfectly willing to follow him as "Boss." I fear that they will not admit their mistake until irreparable damage has been done.
To the Village Idiwitt, I endeavor to make one think a second time and,even better, make one laugh.
There is no flag controversy. As with all thing coming out of the Trump dumpster fire for a satan given brain (hat tip South Park for cartoonishly playing with the idea secret to The Dons success is he made a deal with The Devil), Heat Miser is just a monumental troll…and if some dumb arse leftist, or rich white trash college kid burns the flag…well, of course no one in even Trumps Amerika is going to be sentencing…but it will be good for MAGA countries to get their collective rocks off sayin you see, we told you they are a bunch of America haters. God help U.S.
On tariffs, I have a two fold, contradictory, sneaking suspicion that the reason our loyal opposition party has done nothing to try to stop our President from unconstitutionally turning trade into his one man command economy, is because that Dick Gephart may have left the Democrat Party scene, but believe in tariffs never left the mobbed up union boss part of the Democratic, now turned Trump aligned conglomerate…and, if they hurt the economy, which of course the big government mandated tariffs only can, well, that’s good for the Democrat Party too
I have always thought that David Horowitz was a loon…like R.F.K.J. just listen to the sound of his voicem(I know, I know, it is not his fault, but fitting karma he sounds like something is stuck up his…), being the first person I ever heard use the words “Deep State”, I believe years before the Trump phenomenon rose out of the black lagoon and descended from the escalator…Bit, to wit, I always thought he should have called it the “Deep Bureaucratic State”, because that is what most of our Federalis are made of…died in the wool partisans, mostly to the way left side of the aisle. Big government is good for their business and bottom line they are true believers. God help U.S.
To Pete Hegseth, and all Trumps willing executioners. I just wish I could say to his very ugly face, lest you repent and atone for your misspelnt life, I would not want to be you when you have to answer to the God of your autographed copy Trump Bible. Cowards, one and all in Congress that placate, enable and do their Dear Leaders…speaking of Caeserism, the Il Duce wannabes awful bidding.
One more time, one more dub (hat tip The Clash). A Nobel Peace Prize, I say, would be a fitting foot note to all things absurd in your tell all book about that which the Nobel Peace Prize committee has always been on the side of terrorist apologia…just like “My friend Xi” Don Trump God HELP U.S.
Boys and Girls just wanna have fun. But in these crooked times with a mobbed up slum lord presiding over U.S. like the anti truth Neo nationalist sociopath that The Don is…well, I will try to give your beautiful musical recommendations a jingle. GOD HELP U.S.!
(As an aside, on a highly personal note, I did not much care for your celebrating Austrians for never caring to commit the high crime against the Republic hilariously called “Jay walking”. Me thinks the same thing that passes as German/Austrian common sense is the same dumb mass attitude that welcomed the Anschluss (just sayin, we are talking about a country so backward that in my old man’s lifetime its people still had something called an “Arch Duke”…in America we the people have no such thing, because our forefathers declared war on such…the irony, the irony one hundred thirty eight years later). Unlike a stupid sign, the American mind and spirit can think for itself…that, is until, a slim majority of our fellow Americans voted for Il Duce wannabe. GOD PLEASE HELP U.S.
Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward Peace through superior mental firepower
Many Canadians feel about the Trump administration just as you have described the Danes do. And many of us wonder: the divided power of the US federal government was supposed to be protective of power abuses. Where, for the love of country, is Congress?!?!
For anyone wondering how the Soviet Union could have been so deceptive about the Chernobyl disaster and the radioactive cloud it spewed, life here in the post-truth United States of America makes it much easier to understand.
You nailed it. Feel so impotent in doing anything about it, though. Never did I think so much could crumble so quickly. Feels like 1933 Germany. I feel like Stephen Miller has a book in his drawer with the timeline of the Nazi takeover.
Jay, you have probably seen this but it fits with some of the other things you’ve written:
Trump says that he thinks that if he can end the war in Ukraine it will help him get into heaven. His PAC immediately put out a statement asking people to send money to help him get into heaven.
Napp Nazworth (@nappnazworth.bsky.social)Trump says that he thinks that if he can end the war in Ukraine it will help him get into heaven. His PAC immediately put out a statement asking people to send money to help him get into heaven.
Napp Nazworth (@nappnazworth.bsky.social)
Rights....
Early in the war, a local Marine was killed in Iraq. The Crazy People Church in Kansas announced that they were going to come and "protest" at his funeral. Like burning the flag, a "right".
Locally we decided that we had the right to demand trial by a jury of our peers and lined the roads during the funeral.
Long story short, the Crazy People never made it here. Every time their vans crossed a county line in Tennessee, they got pulled over for an improper lane change or burned-out break light or a drug dog would alert...
Jay, I am in total union with this sad reflection. However it misses a most important point:
the craven Republican caucus submits to their mob boss out of fear his mob, their constituents, will abandon them if they object.
We see how incompetent the man and his cronies are. We are chagrined, disgusted and embarrassed by the image he projects as a person and as a national leader. We cringe at his ignorance, dishonesty and immaturity. In your own expression we "gasp" at his lack of taste and unprofessional behaviour.
Nevertheless, millions of our neighbours, friends and family members chose to elect him "President," and remain perfectly willing to follow him as "Boss." I fear that they will not admit their mistake until irreparable damage has been done.
To the Village Idiwitt, I endeavor to make one think a second time and,even better, make one laugh.
There is no flag controversy. As with all thing coming out of the Trump dumpster fire for a satan given brain (hat tip South Park for cartoonishly playing with the idea secret to The Dons success is he made a deal with The Devil), Heat Miser is just a monumental troll…and if some dumb arse leftist, or rich white trash college kid burns the flag…well, of course no one in even Trumps Amerika is going to be sentencing…but it will be good for MAGA countries to get their collective rocks off sayin you see, we told you they are a bunch of America haters. God help U.S.
On tariffs, I have a two fold, contradictory, sneaking suspicion that the reason our loyal opposition party has done nothing to try to stop our President from unconstitutionally turning trade into his one man command economy, is because that Dick Gephart may have left the Democrat Party scene, but believe in tariffs never left the mobbed up union boss part of the Democratic, now turned Trump aligned conglomerate…and, if they hurt the economy, which of course the big government mandated tariffs only can, well, that’s good for the Democrat Party too
I have always thought that David Horowitz was a loon…like R.F.K.J. just listen to the sound of his voicem(I know, I know, it is not his fault, but fitting karma he sounds like something is stuck up his…), being the first person I ever heard use the words “Deep State”, I believe years before the Trump phenomenon rose out of the black lagoon and descended from the escalator…Bit, to wit, I always thought he should have called it the “Deep Bureaucratic State”, because that is what most of our Federalis are made of…died in the wool partisans, mostly to the way left side of the aisle. Big government is good for their business and bottom line they are true believers. God help U.S.
To Pete Hegseth, and all Trumps willing executioners. I just wish I could say to his very ugly face, lest you repent and atone for your misspelnt life, I would not want to be you when you have to answer to the God of your autographed copy Trump Bible. Cowards, one and all in Congress that placate, enable and do their Dear Leaders…speaking of Caeserism, the Il Duce wannabes awful bidding.
One more time, one more dub (hat tip The Clash). A Nobel Peace Prize, I say, would be a fitting foot note to all things absurd in your tell all book about that which the Nobel Peace Prize committee has always been on the side of terrorist apologia…just like “My friend Xi” Don Trump God HELP U.S.
Boys and Girls just wanna have fun. But in these crooked times with a mobbed up slum lord presiding over U.S. like the anti truth Neo nationalist sociopath that The Don is…well, I will try to give your beautiful musical recommendations a jingle. GOD HELP U.S.!
(As an aside, on a highly personal note, I did not much care for your celebrating Austrians for never caring to commit the high crime against the Republic hilariously called “Jay walking”. Me thinks the same thing that passes as German/Austrian common sense is the same dumb mass attitude that welcomed the Anschluss (just sayin, we are talking about a country so backward that in my old man’s lifetime its people still had something called an “Arch Duke”…in America we the people have no such thing, because our forefathers declared war on such…the irony, the irony one hundred thirty eight years later). Unlike a stupid sign, the American mind and spirit can think for itself…that, is until, a slim majority of our fellow Americans voted for Il Duce wannabe. GOD PLEASE HELP U.S.
Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward Peace through superior mental firepower
Good article.
Thank you, Cynthia.
Luckily we don’t have to find out…yet.
Many Canadians feel about the Trump administration just as you have described the Danes do. And many of us wonder: the divided power of the US federal government was supposed to be protective of power abuses. Where, for the love of country, is Congress?!?!
Trump fatigue is a real thing.
By the way, Zeeland, Michigan is in Ottawa County, which went 59% for Trump last year.
Interesting!
Based on my reading of your book, and more recent awards, I assured my wife that Trump will not win the Nobel. Was I wrong in my punditry?
I think you are right.
The current wars prove your point about peace being an incomplete standard, at times.
For anyone wondering how the Soviet Union could have been so deceptive about the Chernobyl disaster and the radioactive cloud it spewed, life here in the post-truth United States of America makes it much easier to understand.
If you control the means of media production, the world is your…even the world’s biggest troll and ignoramus Trump knows how to play that wicked game