Enjoying the view from Limbo
Donald Trump continues to insist that the stumbling block to a peace deal in Ukraine is President Zelensky. (Why do I refer to Trump as “Donald” while at the same time referring to the leader of Ukraine as “President Zelensky”? Because I am a Platonist who believes that truth consists primarily in proper definitions. Zelensky is the president of Ukraine. Trump has ceased...
Remember how, back in the formative days of the so-called Tea Party conservative movement, the Republican grassroots mocked and ridiculed a woman who infamously gushed about how, if Barack Obama were elected president, he would pay her mortgage and put gas in her car? Today, these same Tea Partiers are listening to Donald Trump’s spokescheerleader answering a reporter’s question about whether the White...
America Descending / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published April 10, 2025 · Last modified April 18, 2025
Surprisingly, Donald Trump’s latest sociopathic fantasy lunge at becoming the most influential and beloved human who ever lived — namely his utterly illegal, immoral, and anti-American attempt to assume single-handed control over the entire world’s economy by way of a near-universal and whimsical imposition of wealth-killing tariffs — has had one, and only one, unequivocally positive effect. It has blessed us all with...
Sleep tight.– All this, so that seventy million frightened children may dream unto their graves, and finally unto their own private parcel of hell, in the warm cocoon of the most shameful mass delusion in world history. If their idol dies first, what will they do? I almost typed “frightened American children,” but decided not to sully the memory of a great country...
Elon Musk, the richest man ever to owe most of his fortune to government handouts and regulatory favors awarded to him to perform services utterly unjustified by the principles of limited government he now pretends to espouse, is trying to justify his random none-of-this-will-ever-affect-anyone-I-know torching of the federal bureaucracy in exactly the Trumpian way one would expect from an unprincipled businessman without a...
Donald Trump says that Volodymyr Zelensky is the primary obstacle to peace in Ukraine. Elon Musk, in one of those pot-calling-kettle-black moments that have defined the Trump era of the Republican Party, has called Democratic Senator Mark Kelly “a traitor” for daring to disagree with the Trump-Vance-Musk deliverance of American foreign policy to the Kremlin, and in an ant-calling-lion-little moment, replied to doubts...
Answers to a few of the near-universal talking points apropos the deliberate Vance-Trump ambush of Volodymyr Zelensky: This was not, not for one second, “a shouting match.” A shouting match is an argument in which both sides are shouting. Zelensky never shouted, never lost his cool, but merely expressed his points with a certain amount of exasperation and animation which were clearly and...
America is over now. That is sad, and I do not relish this tone of catastrophe, but I believe nothing can save it from here on out. Wealth exists there, and may continue to exist for a while, because the country has been reduced to little but wealth production, and the government is owned by people who, to put it mildly, will not...
America Descending / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published March 1, 2025 · Last modified April 18, 2025
Since there is nothing to say about this White House mafia act that cannot be seen and judged by the whole world now, thanks to Trump insisting that the meeting ought to be held on live television for the sake of entertainment, I will restrain myself from too much overarching condemnation of what the Trump administration is doing at this moment. God and...
The question that forms the title of this short post has been answered in one of the clearest ways possible: Appeasement of a tyrannical aggressor becomes open and active alliance with that aggressor when the appeaser explicitly sides with the aggressor in rejecting a simple UN resolution reiterating that body’s three-year-long condemnation of the tyrant’s ongoing war of annihilation against a sovereign nation,...
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