Category: America Descending

The Emperor’s New Week

Suddenly, Donald Trump is getting tough with Vladimir Putin, after ten years of political grovelling at the man’s feet. Suddenly, Trump is demanding that the press and the rest of the whole wide world forget about all the fake news related to that “creep” Jeffrey Epstein, after helping to wind up his cult for years with vague insinuations about “the list” which would...

Random Reflections on the Fading Wish Formerly Known As The U.S.A.

President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” has passed the United States Senate, surviving the No votes of the only three Republican senators who are apparently still able to muster a bit of shame. For the GOP, in abject obedience to the MAGA mob and its cult leader, has just produced one of the biggest and most beautiful instantiations of everything that is wrong with...

On the New American Progressivism

There has been no greater gift to the American Left than Donald Trump, for he and his personality cult embody everything that the Left tried for decades to pin, falsely, on American conservatives, without much success. Suddenly with Trump, every leftist lie about conservatism became an all too horrible truth, every untenably vulgar smear all at once an inescapably vulgar reality. Except for...

Trump Bombs: A Few Questions

Donald Trump has decided to follow the lead of Benjamin Netanyahu in bombing Iran, with the purported aim of destroying or at least weakening Iran’s nuclear weapons program. A few questions spring to mind. Everyone knows that a military escapade is the strategic stanch of choice for every political leader bleeding popular support at home. Netanyahu himself has the most obvious vested interest...

Random Reflections On Current Nonsense

Donald Trump attended the G7 economic summit, as American presidents always do. And as Donald Trump always does at such summits — unlike all other American presidents — he used his opening public remarks at the conference to advocate yet again for the interests of Russian “President” Vladimir Putin and to berate America’s major democratic allies for not including and embracing the notably...

When the Slime at the Bottom of Any Old Barrel Is Your King

Donald Trump, proving himself yet again to be the softest of soft tacos, has answered his own recent weakly-uttered and moral-equivalency-diluted half-criticism of Vladimir Putin’s maniacal bloodlust by immediately, and in the most public way, returning to his knees before his master, in the process thereby returning his country, the former United States of America, to the status of unequivocal fellow traveller of,...

The Wrong Side of History

Ukraine has just carried out a stunningly clever military operation at multiple and far-flung locations throughout Russia, successfully destroying a remarkable proportion of Vladimir Putin’s military aircraft at their home bases, before they could be used to inflict more destruction upon Ukraine’s civilian population and infrastructure. This operation was apparently planned and prepared for over a year in secret. It continues in spectacular...

How Far The Many Have Travelled

America’s Republican voters used to believe, with near unanimity, that nothing was more dangerous to their country than the threat of an executive branch that sought to circumvent the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers by legislating through executive fiat, i.e., without deference to Congress, and disregarding court rulings, such as by concocting phony emergencies to justify the expansion of presidential authority beyond the...

The Logic of Self-Obliteration

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...

Seeing Right Through “Them”

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...