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2019.07.31 : Fight for the Soul of Our Nation

I'm reprinting Ilhan Omar's NYTimes piece because it's so glorious, gorgeous, and steeped in sanity. (Plus wonderfully well written.) And mainly because it offers a hopeful call to action in a dark political time.... (read more)

2019.07.16 : The Floor of Vileness

Well, once again, Trump has gone blasting through a previously unimaginable floor of vileness. After mocking a disabled reporter, attacking the bereaved parents of a fallen serviceman, bragging about multiple sexual assaults on tape, and his defense of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, it was impossible to imagine being shocked by anything - and yet this one left my jaw scraping the floor.... (read more)

2019.02.20 : Stream-of-Consciousness Rants of an Attention-Craving Narcissist
A Few Particularly Priceless Bits From Michiko Kakutani's The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

"Trump, of course, is a troll - both by temperament and by habit. His tweets and offhand taunts are the very essence of trolling - the lies, the scorn, the invective, the trash talk, and the rabid non sequiturs of an angry, aggrieved, isolated, and deeply self-absorbed adolescent who lives in a self-constructed bubble and gets the attention he craves from bashing his enemies and leaving clouds of outrage and dismay in his path."... (read more)

2018.07.17 : Demand for Impeachment

Dear Congresswoman Eshoo - I am writing to demand that you personally and immediately bring Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump. As of two days ago, he has committed treason by siding with an enemy of the United States against the people and democracy of the United States, for his own self-interest.... (read more)

2018.07.15 : London to Trump: F-O

Attention HMG: The normalisation of Trumpism is NOT okay. A racist, misogynist, nativist, ableist, authoritarian, violence-inciting, press-assailing, know-nothing, conspiracy-mongering, foul-mannered, pathologically lying, narcissistic, fascist kidnapper and confessed sexual predator should not be welcomed (or, indeed, allowed) in the UK.... (read more)

2018.06.24 : The Slide Into Fascism

So, secret concentration camps for children - how far down are they on the slide into fascism, actually...? (Are we close? There already?)... (read more)

2016.11.11 : Tired of the Two-Party System Yet?

The Republicans gave us Trump, and the Democrats gave us just about the only candidate so compromised and unloved that she could lose to Trump. Utter catastrophe ensues.... (read more)

2016.09.19 : Threat to the Republic

The rise of Trump, and Trumpism, is the worst thing I've witnessed happen in or to American in my lifetime. It is a hundred times more dangerous and damaging than 9/11, as it strikes at the very heart of what America is and represents. Right now, simply, America is having a close call with fascism.... (read more)

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	Dispatches tagged as: trumpism (8) 2019.07.31 : Fight for the Soul of Our Nation I'm reprinting Ilhan Omar's NYTimes piece because it's so glorious, gorgeous, and steeped in sanity. (Plus wonderfully well written.) And mainly because it offers a hopeful call to action in a dark political time.... (read more) 2019.07.16 : The Floor of Vileness Well, once again, Trump has gone blasting through a previously unimaginable floor of vileness. After mocking a disabled reporter, attacking the bereaved parents of a fallen serviceman, bragging about multiple sexual assaults on tape, and his defense of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, it was impossible to imagine being shocked by anything - and yet this one left my jaw scraping the floor.... (read more) 2019.02.20 : Stream-of-Consciousness Rants of an Attention-Craving Narcissist A Few Particularly Priceless Bits From Michiko Kakutani's The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump "Trump, of course, is a troll - both by temperament and by habit. His tweets and offhand taunts are the very essence of trolling - the lies, the scorn, the invective, the trash talk, and the rabid non sequiturs of an angry, aggrieved, isolated, and deeply self-absorbed adolescent who lives in a self-constructed bubble and gets the attention he craves from bashing his enemies and leaving clouds of outrage and dismay in his path."... (read more) 2018.07.17 : Demand for Impeachment Dear Congresswoman Eshoo - I am writing to demand that you personally and immediately bring Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump. As of two days ago, he has committed treason by siding with an enemy of the United States against the people and democracy of the United States, for his own self-interest.... (read more) 2018.07.15 : London to Trump: F-O Attention HMG: The normalisation of Trumpism is NOT okay. A racist, misogynist, nativist, ableist, authoritarian, violence-inciting, press-assailing, know-nothing, conspiracy-mongering, foul-mannered, pathologically lying, narcissistic, fascist kidnapper and confessed sexual predator should not be welcomed (or, indeed, allowed) in the UK.... (read more) 2018.06.24 : The Slide Into Fascism So, secret concentration camps for children - how far down are they on the slide into fascism, actually...? (Are we close? There already?)... (read more) 2016.11.11 : Tired of the Two-Party System Yet? The Republicans gave us Trump, and the Democrats gave us just about the only candidate so compromised and unloved that she could lose to Trump. Utter catastrophe ensues.... (read more) 2016.09.19 : Threat to the Republic The rise of Trump, and Trumpism, is the worst thing I've witnessed happen in or to American in my lifetime. It is a hundred times more dangerous and damaging than 9/11, as it strikes at the very heart of what America is and represents. Right now, simply, America is having a close call with fascism.... (read more)