Enjoying the view from Limbo
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...
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...
Imagine you are an ambitious career man being offered a prestigious executive position at a major corporation. You learn, however, that the last man who had that job was ordered by the boss to violate the fundamental law of his country, his personal principles, and a solemn oath sworn on the Bible; that the boss not only announced this demand to the whole...
2024 U.S. Election / America Descending / Ideas and Reflections
by Daren Jonescu · Published July 20, 2024 · Last modified July 25, 2024
I watched approximately thirty seconds of the Republican National Convention live on the internet. The first fifteen of those seconds were devoted to a careful examination of the first half of a sentence by Donald Trump’s former press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The second fifteen second block was my intensive study of the vice presidential nomination speech of J. D. Vance, which only...
Have tongue, will shine shoes.– I was seeing the red headline at the top of my internet homepage all morning in Korea, alerting me to “live coverage” of the Republican National Convention, available at the touch of a “click here.” Finally, quite late in the morning, which I presume means near the end of the evening’s fermented festivities in Milwaukee, morbid curiosity got...
As if aching to remind everyone that, heroic gestures on a podium aside, he is still just a girl with a cult, Donald Trump has, after weeks of teasing America with his “four or five” not so secret options, selected as his running mate the man who is no doubt the very worst of the bunch, J. D. Vance. Trump’s short list apparently...
America Descending / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published December 12, 2023 · Last modified July 16, 2024
One of the benefits of the Trump cult era in the Republican Party is that it has certainly exposed a lot of underlying and unappetizing truth about a goodly proportion of the grassroots of the GOP, which used to be properly mitigated or moderated behind the old Tea Party’s constitutionalist mantra. Thanks to the rise of flagrant demagoguery, populist vulgarity, and a certain...
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