That Donald Trump will fail or betray his conservative white American supporters is a better bet than its opposite. But as it remains only a probability for now, at the moment I wish to praise him, maybe for the last time, for his under-appreciated destruction of “Barack Obama”—put in quotes here to indicate the failedContinue reading “The Digital Revolution: How it Started, How it’s Going”
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An Offer We Don’t Get to Refuse
There’s a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold –Joy Division Trump’s self-image as the consummate deal-maker has its advantages and its disadvantages. His willingness to bargain with Putin to end the war in Ukraine, for instance, promises to break the current administration’s determination to keep the slaughter going–if an act of war partyContinue reading “An Offer We Don’t Get to Refuse”
MAGA is as MAGA Does
Somebody tell me it’s not just that stupid, that Donald Trump, lame duck president, is picking Cuban closet-case and AIPAC favorite Marco Rubio as Secretary of State to reward Hispanics for voting for him, as if Mexican construction workers in LA will be hiring mariachi bands for the grand parties they will throw in celebration.Continue reading “MAGA is as MAGA Does”
Riot on Schedule
A New York Times “analysis” of Telegram activity breathlessly warns of the potential for rightwing violence on election day. More than 4,000 of their posts went further by encouraging members to act by attending local election meetings, joining protest rallies and making financial donations, the analysis found. Posts from other right-wing groups reviewed by TheContinue reading “Riot on Schedule”
Noticing and Nothingness
Steve Sailer’s Lifetime Achievement Award I come to bury Sailer, and to praise him If you’re reading this you probably know who Steve Sailer is, but if you don’t he’s a former marketing executive whose interest in genuine racial diversity (as opposed to the “Diversity” of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion”) led him into journalism inContinue reading “Noticing and Nothingness”
Axis: Bold as Hate
Bernie Sanders sees in the global trend toward nationalism an “authoritarian axis”, and proposes a new progressive international front to oppose it in an op ed for the UK edition of the Guardian At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, when the world’s top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 99%,Continue reading “Axis: Bold as Hate”
Whose Treason?
From that notorious anonymous op ed in the NYT The dilemma — which [Trump] does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. Wait a minute. That part about working to frustrate parts ofContinue reading “Whose Treason?”
Fake Views
Comes now the New York Times weighing in on Trump’s South Africa tweet Mr. Trump’s comment came after the Fox News host Tucker Carlson presented a late-night program on South Africa, including land seizures and homicides, and described President Cyril Ramaphosa as “a racist.”The tweet gives prominence to a false narrative pushed by some right-wing groupsContinue reading “Fake Views”
The Alt Right is Dead; Long Live the Alt Right
This Atlantic piece by Adam Serwer, “White Nationalists are Winning”, is a torrent of paranoid hyperbole from the bugman’s id, but gets the important part right. A year after white nationalists in Charlottesville chanted, “You will not replace us!,” their message has been taken up and amplified by Fox News personalities. Tucker Carlson tells his audienceContinue reading “The Alt Right is Dead; Long Live the Alt Right”
Implicit Civil War
After General John Kelly called out Frederica Wilson by name he called her out by implication: I’ll end with this: In October — April, rather, of 2015, I was still on active duty, and I went to the dedication of the new FBI field office in Miami. And it was dedicated to two men whoContinue reading “Implicit Civil War”
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