Just when we thought Trump had caused enough death and destruction, we are reminded who pulls his strings
Hyperbole yanks my fingers across the keyboard. I want to exaggerate. I need to vent. The back of my neck is replaced by a dull ache and the image of my chiropractor’s hands ease the pain a bit — her hands have not been anywhere near me in over a year.
I am calm again. I actually feel somewhat safe. You know why? Simple.
Because I write these words from Russia. Russia is whole. The cyber skin keeping Russia intact hasn’t been pierced by the arrows of American cyber-ninjas lately. …
To begin to understand ‘how did we get a Trump,” historians should start with the DeVos and Van Andel MLM brainchild
Historians will be pondering for years, how did the phenomenon of Donald Trump happen in the United States. Many will look to the end of the actual years of Trump, and at the most extreme elements of his following, and say it was all based on racism. Others will look at the incongruity of the support evangelicals gave to a man who openly bragged about physically dominating women he wanted to be intimate with — whether they wanted it or not.
Trying to understand Trump cannot rely solely on the Trump years; rather, we need to understand what happened over…
Extremist immigration policies will be the norm when tens of millions start moving.
The World Bank estimates that by 2050, just short of 200 hundred million people could be on the move, victims of “sudden onset” whether events —flooding, forest fires after droughts, and intensified storms.
The regions that will be most severely affected soon will be Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. This means that the democratic and more developed countries closest to these regions will be forced to either deal with the massive influxes of these climate refugees; or, they will be substantially shifting their governing models to permit them to keep the future refugees out — likely by force.
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The story of guns, God, anthems, Trump-addiction, conspiracy theories, etc.
They call him “Teflon Don,” and we all know the long-term effects that Teflon can have on us; especially, when heated with the rhetoric and emotion of the stupid, anti-America right.
America has failed. If we couldn’t impeach Donald Trump for what he did on January 6th, then no president in the future need ever fear being punished for his actions. The Republicans, Fox News, and the whole great list of the unusually venomous, dared to call the second impeachment a “partisan witch hunt.” …
A real discussion as to why he was kneeling could’ve healed so much but instead…
On August 26, 2016, Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem. When asked the next day why he had done so, his answer was simple:
I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color,” he told NFL Media in an interview after the game. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder (Kaepernick sat Before He Kneeled).
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Why aren’t we taking drastic measures to save our democracy?
One of the reasons Black Americans end up in the penal system more often than whites is because of our nation’s “non-existent” systemic racism — remember, the Right tells us that systemic racism does not exist.
These same people tell us that George Floyd was a criminal and had he not “resisted” arrest, then he’d be alive today. They also tell us that Ashli Babbit was a patriot and executed by the police. I am not making this up, this is what they believe. This requires some context.
Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona painted the people who participated in the…
Gas shortages, pandemics and angry mobs, brought to us by the GOP, will be our new normal
It reminds of me of “The Great Toilet Paper Rush of 2020.” History will not soon forget how Americans showed the world that a clean ass is more important than civility — oh, how fast the fall happens once set forth, yes? The pandemic brought out the best in some of us, and the worst in a lot of us — especially one of us.
It is a year later, and the shadow of the nightmare we thought we had ridded ourselves of grows longer, deeper; not only has he really not left us to repair damage but his failures…
Mob-rule has taken over the GOP and its leader is a former president
The first time I think many of us knew that things were getting really weird was when President Trump gathered his cabinet together for a ring-kissing moment in front of the whole world.
It was truly a surreal moment where not only was the president praising himself, but a group of grown men and women, with their own varying degrees of career accomplishments were literally swooning over the president as if he were one of the Beatles arriving to JFK Airport in 1964.
They spoke lavishly about having the privilege to have served with the “greatest president ever” — he…
Empowered loud mouths now disrupt civility at every turn but they are doing it all wrong
If you are from New Jersey, which I am, then the existence of the mob of Trumpists wreaking havoc in sane, civil society is almost like a moment of amnesty.
They have become the uncouth loudmouths, replacing us. They are the aggressive “gavones.” A gavone, a favorite word of my mother, describes someone who is unkempt, slovenly, rude and simply offensive in their manner.
Trumpists are gavones and if you think I am just being mean, a name-caller, then take a look at what is happening on flights all over America these days. Trumpists, like a mob of petulant brats…
Each time he has the opportunity to chop down the tree of lunacy, he instead prunes back the branches to make way for more fruit
After January 6th, there was a golden opportunity to fatally wound Trumpism. Many Americans were so appalled by what took place in the assault on the Capitol Building that they had finally decided enough was enough — “thank God we can get back to sanity.”
Fox News, however, immediately planted magical beans. Even though the people on the screen were showing support for Trump, there is a good “chance they might be Antifa.” The rewriting of history was underway.
One of the most important voices from the right, the man who at the end of his career will be remembered…
Brian Kean
A writer, a father and a student of history, the past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts
