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In early 2017, soon after reprehensible right-winger Donald Trump first became President of the United States, I wrote a certain post. Now that Trump will depressingly occupy the White House again, I’m bringing back that post, revised and updated. Hopefully, my blog will return to “normal” next week. 🙂
I, Donald Trump, demanded to write a guest literature piece, and I always get what I want. Sure, I don’t read novels or know much about any of them, but I do read the backs of McDonald’s “Happy Meal” containers. Lots of back story, ya know?
Actually, I know a yuge amount about fiction, but more the “alternative facts” kind than the literary kind. I’m a fabulous fabricator! Liane Moriarty wrote Big Little Lies; I’m more into Big BIG Lies.
Anyway, I was told I should read The Ambassadors by Henry James, but I already have a list of the corrupt, distasteful envoys I’ll appoint for various countries. Including Chile, which McDonald’s has on its menu, though misspelled as chili. And my weird, startling, extremist, incompetent, fox-guarding-the-henhouse cabinet picks? They make Stephen King’s Misery seem upbeat.
The Red Badge of Courage? Believe me, bravery is for losers. I showed more courage getting Vietnam War deferments for alleged bone spurs in my heels, even though I played sports at the time with no problem. They called me The Natural — inspiring a Bernard Malamud novel that later became a movie starring one of those Hollywood “libtards,” Robert Redford, who’s no relation to Robert Redtesla. My best buddy Tesla guy Elon Musk owns the now-fascist-friendly X, formerly Twitter and still the Roman numeral for the low level of Musk’s social IQ.
Also, I bigly love Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie character. I’d like to grab her by the [deleted]. Make An American Tragedy Great Again? I’m on it!
You see, I have immense respect for women. But was George Eliot transblender or something? George is a guy’s name, but that 19th-century scribbler looks female in photos. Lock her up!
And the clever nicknames I come up with! “Sleepy Joe Biden,” “Crazy Kamabla,” “Tampon Tim,” “Deranged Jack Smith,” and “George Slopadopolus,” to name a few. From the past, there was also Chris “Agatha” Christie; And Then There Were None: cabinet positions for him in 2017.
I also know history, because I know everything! Toni Morrison was the lead singer of The Doors, Harper Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant, Richard Wright co-invented the airplane, and the Brontë sisters were at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. I always have a Tan, but it’s not Amy.
Another George: Orwell. Love, love, LOVE the oppressors in Nineteen Eighty-Four! I even tried doublethink, but I can’t think once most of the time. Ask Herman Melania, my wife’s ancestor, who wrote about a big white male — that’s me! Captain Ahab sounds kind of Muslim, doesn’t he?
My wife Melania was an immigrant, but an okay one because she’s white. I have promised to deport millions of “other” types of immigrants. Sure, it will ruin their lives, devastate communities, and wreck the U.S. economy. My response? The Art of Me Saying “Big Deal.”
No new non-white immigrants, either; Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez will never cross our southern border while I’m racist-in-chief, um, sexual-predator-in-chief, um, commander-in-chief. It helps that those two Hispanic writers are dead. Not much border-crossing potential there.
The Blacks, The Blacks. Why didn’t E.B. White use the name E.B. Very White? The title of Jack London’s White Fang novel rocks. I heard about Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 classic Their Eyes Were Watching God — thrilling that those eyes were watching me nine years before I was born.
Flowers for Algernon — also thrilling! It gave me a chance to mentally mock the disabled for pages and pages. Can you beat that? Which reminds me that I’ll encourage the police to beat up any Americans who oppose me. The Hate U Give? Nope, not the Angie Thomas novel. The Hate I Give.
Mark my words, I’m really going to build a wall this time — paid for by Mexico (aka American taxpayers). We’ll build that big, beautiful fence at The Border: a novel by Cormac McCarthy, whose last name reminds me of one of my heroes, Joe McCarthy.
Jim Casy of The Grapes of Wrath was a commie, wasn’t he? Not the good kind like Vladimir Putin. Although I don’t read any books, I love Russian literature — including War and War and Crime and No Punishment for Me. But Anna Karenina? Overrated! Blood coming out of her whatever (after she was hit by a train). And Alexander Solzhenitsyn? I like authors who don’t get jailed.
Did I mention I drained the swamp? So I could have a dry place to burn books by liberal, pinko writers. Ever read Fahrenheit 451? The same number as my IQ. It’s genius-ly high! But I actually never really drained the swamp — I made it swampier.
My second presidential administration — Trump 2.0 — will be like a dystopian novel come to life again. I have no idea what dystopian means, but right-wing media nut Ben Shapiro and my nasty vice president-elect JD Vance mentioned that word one day. I think of those two as The Sound and the Fury. Me? Pride and Prejudice.
It Can’t Happen Here? It already has.
Misty the cat says: “I’m waiting for the window to open, even though Godot’s not inside.”
My comedic 2024 book — the part-factual/part-fictional/not-a-children’s-work Misty the Cat…Unleashed — is described and can be purchased on Amazon in paperback or on Kindle. It’s feline-narrated! (And Misty says Amazon reviews are welcome. 🙂 )

This 90-second promo video for my book features a talking cat: 🙂
In addition to this weekly blog, I write the 2003-started/award-winning “Montclairvoyant” topical-humor column every Thursday for Montclair Local. The latest piece — about a problematic proposed townhouse plan and more — is here.
I Think Melania Trump Is on the same level as Maxine Sanders, Elena Ceaușescu, Marina Abramović, Meghan Markle, Jackie Siegel, Sarah Ferguson, Virginia Thomas, Marie Laveau, Eva Perón, Amber Heard, Leona Helmsley, Carlton Gebbia, Ri Sol-ju, Imelda Marcos, Eva Braun, Chrissy Teigen, Elaine Chao, Nadezhda Alliluyeva,Patrizia Reggiani, Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Sorokin, Rebekah Neumann, Asia Argento, Ghislaine Maxwell, Martha Bomgardner, Wallis Simpson, Heather Mills, Oksana Grigorieva, Michele Lamy, Lotta Volkova, Jiang Qing, Carmen Polo, Asma al-Assad, Cilia Flores, Grace Mugabe, Safia Farkash, Hinda Déby, Belle Gibson, Jordon Hudson,
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I Think Donald Trump Is on the same level as Jim Jones, Anton LaVey, David Koresh, Alexandrian Wicca, Charles Manson, Alex Sanders, Shoko Asahara, Baron Samedi, Marshall Applewhite, Guede Nibo, David Berg, Grigori Rasputin, Warren Jeffs,
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I Think Charlie Kirk was on the same level as Anton LaVey, Alexandrian Wicca, Maxine Sanders,
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I don’t recognize some of the names in your two comments, Cosima, but Trump is certainly on a very low moral level. And I was NOT a fan of the late Charlie Kirk’s views (though I feel bad for his children). The U.S. has way too many guns. 😦
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I Think The Republican Party is Party Of Pedophile
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I Think Donald Trump Is run a Occult child sex trafficking at Mar-a-Lago
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I Think Project 2025 is to make USA Into Authoritarianism
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Absolutely. 😦
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I Think Donald Trump Is a Fascism
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I agree that he’s fascist. He has shown that time and again.
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I Think Donald Trump Is a Charlatan
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In the Shadow of the Lie, In the Light of the Brit … Blood and Brit: A Judgment Against Revision and Hypocrisy.
In the shadow of the past, they twist and turn,
Revisionist tongues, where the embers burn.
Genocide,” they cry—a hollow refrain,
While Tora! Tora! fades in disdain.(1).
Infamy cloaked in a selective veil,
As kingdoms of Judea fade, their stories pale.
Three crowns of defiance, in history’s grip,
While the Arab presence slips, a phantom’s trip.
Jordan’s grasp on Samaria, a name to erase,
“West Bank” they call it, a political face.
No state for the people, no dreams to ignite,
Just shadows of rulers who vanished from sight.
Egypt held Gaza, a fleeting charade,
Yet Nasser’s ambitions left nothing but shade.
Arafat’s embrace of a name, ’64 newly found,
In the wake of recapture, the truth’s tightly bound.
Revisionist whispers, like ghosts in the night,
Denying the horrors, distorting the light.
To compare Gaza as Holocaust, a vile, bitter jest,
In the theater of history, they fail the true test.
So let them rewrite, let them spin their tale,
But the weight of the truth will forever prevail.
For history’s not written by lies that deceive,
Though buried in Arab sands of deception & fraud,
Israel arises in Zion, on its own ancient National feet.
WordPress participants, if you slap the term “genocide” onto Israel’s response to the Oct 7th Abomination War, then intellectual honesty demands you paste the same label on the Dec 7th, 1941 assault—the “day of infamy”—which launched America into World War II. Accusing Israel of genocide while excusing the Allies’ firebombing of Tokyo and atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reveals either flagrant hypocrisy or ideological dishonesty.
Revisionist hacks whitewash the role Arab states played between 1948 and 1967, fabricating a myth in which a sovereign Palestine once flourished—until Israel supposedly destroyed it.
In truth, Jews rooted themselves in the land through three distinct political eras:
The united Twelve-Tribe Kingdom,
The Judean Republic under Persian suzerainty, and
The Hasmonean Dynasty, which threw off Greek-Syrian domination through armed revolt.
No Arab or Muslim polity ever ruled a sovereign state in the land now called Israel. Between 1948 and 1967, Jordan occupied Samaria—renaming it the “West Bank” in a rhetorical land grab—but never lifted a finger to forge a Palestinian state. The British Mandate for Palestine dissolved in 1948; no successor Arab government attempted to revive it. Arab states rejected UN 181, Britain’s feeble divide and conquer UN 242. Post the Nakba defeat and Israeli Independence, the UN has no authority to impose 194 – “right of return” upon the Jewish state. Despite the Goebbels repeated mantra refrain: Zionist entity Crusader State.
Egypt, likewise, seized control of Gaza. Despite the 1950 UN condemnation (endorsed by every member state except England and Pakistan), Egypt’s monarch made no moves toward Palestinian statehood. Nasser later toppled that king, but Arafat didn’t even adopt the term “Palestine” until 1964—just three years before Israel’s recapture of both Gaza and Samaria. The PLO’s founding charter, penned under Arab occupation, refused to claim either territory; instead, it called for Israel’s destruction. Their silence about Gaza and the West Bank in 1964 screams louder than any later propaganda.
Revisionist history mimics Holocaust denial by distorting the record, concealing cause and context, and blaming the victim for surviving.
When Ben-Gurion and the Zionist leadership named the new state “Israel,” they didn’t merely select a name—they resurrected an identity. “Israel” evoked ancient sovereignty, tethered modern Jewish nationalism to ancestral roots, and announced a reborn nation. This name galvanized a people and reshaped geopolitics.
Had the Jews named the state “Palestine,” the identity landscape might have fractured. For centuries, “Palestine” referred to geography—not Arab nationality. During the British Mandate, the term “Palestinian” often denoted Jews, not Arabs. Arabs roundly rejected both the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the 1922 League of Nations Mandate, which carved out a Jewish National Home. That rejection didn’t spring from a desire for Palestinian independence—it flowed from opposition to Jewish statehood.
The Jerusalem Post bore the title Palestine Post during the Mandate, further underlining the term’s original association with Jews. The Zionist movement, founded on Herzl’s vision, drew legitimacy from the Balfour Declaration. Every Arab war against Israel traces back to Arab rejection of Jewish self-determination.
Foreign propaganda outfits often deploy the word “created” to smear Israel as artificial or illegitimate. But in 1947, two-thirds of the UN voted in favor of Jewish self-determination in the Middle East. Following Israel’s Declaration of Independence, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union immediately recognized the Jewish state. Yet Arab states categorically rejected the British-sponsored UN Resolution 181 and waged war to erase Israel from the map.
The emergence of a “Palestinian Arab” national identity didn’t arise in a cultural vacuum—it developed as a reaction to Zionism and the Jewish victory in the War of Independence. Jewish sovereignty forced clarity onto a region long trapped in imperial ambiguity.
We didn’t steal a land. We reclaimed a homeland—and we won our war of national survival. Arab propaganda still clings to the word “created” because it cannot stomach the truth: Israel wasn’t manufactured by foreigners. Jews rebuilt it. Fought for it. Bled for it. Secured it.
The Palestinian national identity emerged in opposition to Zionism, not as a longstanding expression of sovereignty. Historical facts—like the Jewish political presence across millennia, the origins of the term “Palestinian,” and the legitimacy of Israel’s statehood—have been distorted by propaganda.
“There are those who parade mitzvos in public and butcher the brit in private.” Yet even as we confront the lies of nations, we must confront the lies we whisper to ourselves—in the shadows of our courts and the corners of our sanctuaries.
They sculpt their piety for the crowd. They cloak themselves in tallit and tefillin while gutting mishpat behind locked doors. Their lips chant hallel; their hands extort, manipulate, betray. They don Torah like theater, not oath. They fear scandal, not sin. Exposure, not exile. They crave applause, not HaShem’s judgment. They hijack yirat shamayim and weaponize it for social control.
“And there are those who break Torah laws in Zion, but build it in secret.”
They offend the eye. They scandalize the synagogue. They clash with halakhic decorum. But when no one watches, they feed the widow, guard the convert, return the lost. They wrestle with the brit in the dead of night. No banners. No blessings. Just emunah forged in sweat and silence. They cut paths through darkness while the righteous sleep.
“I prefer the latter.”
The Kotzker doesn’t flinch. He scorches the hypocrite. He crowns the broken. He hunts the soul that bleeds for justice while the choir sings. Better the one who stumbles in daylight but plants mishpat in the shadows than the one who dazzles the crowd while hollowing out Sinai with assimilated Greek logic and statute halachic codes. Better the sinner who limps toward HaShem than the Cohen who flees like naked Adam who clothes himself in gold and titles.
A Mashal: The Two Sons of the King: Yitzak & Yishmael
To what may this be compared? To a King who had two sons.
One son dressed each morning in royal garments. He walked the palace courts with a Koran under his arm and Molotov cocktail burning in the wind while publicly fasting on Ramadan to show honor to the homeless poor. When courtiers passed, he bowed low and recited Surahs & Ayahs in full voice. He offered tithes from the royal table and dipped his bread with flourish. But in the cellar—where no servant dared tread—his corrupted scales weighted profits from theft, scrolls smeared with lies, two separate accounting books. His voice rang holy; but his hands shed the innocent blood of corruption.
The other son wore torn g’lut clothes and wandered the outer gates. He walked upon dusty roads while his lofty brother goose stepped upon paved sidewalks. He spoke roughly, fought openly, and refused to step into any court which switched the syllogism for פרדס(2). When he prayed tefillah within his heart, the k’vanna did not address any God in the Heavens, but rather he stood before the Torah ark and remembered the oaths sworn by the Avot. The ministers mocked him; the elders wrote him off. But by night he visited the sick. He buried the forgotten. He returned coins dropped by the blind. His door on Shabbat remained open to orphans and strangers. He studied Torah alone, by candle, and wept when he did not understand its common law פרדס inductive logic. No trumpet announced his deeds. No ledger recorded them but the King’s.
When the Day of Reckoning came, both sons were summoned. The first stood proud, wrapped in Alba, Stole, Chasuble, Cincture, Pectoral Cross, and Liturgical Colors. The second stood silent, eyes lowered, hands crusted and scarred. And the King said:
“Better the son who stumbles in the street but guards My brit in secret, than the one who honors Me with his lips but who Koran never once mentions the brit in print. (3) For I do not seek actors in My court, but servants who carry justice in the marrow of their bones.”
Thus taught the Kotzker Rebbe: “Give me no angel wrapped in costume. Give me the soul that limps, bleeds, hides—but clings to HaShem with both fists.”
Chagigah 5b:
The baal teshuvah does not merely regret; he wrestles, burns, and rebuilds. He rips out the rotted beams of his past and drives Torah into new ground. No pedigree props him up. No ancestral merit shields him. He grafts emunah into the flesh of his heart and buries it deep within the souls of his children—where no eye sees, where only HaShem weighs the kiddushin mitzva of ‘fruitful and multiply’. He constructs his legal identity from the rubble of assimilation and statute laws. He births halakhic common law identity out of intermarriage chaos—not through inheritance, but through fire. Through sweat. Through judgment. Through t’shuvah.
The righteous man who never falls may stand, but the baal teshuvah ascends. Not like a Cohen on temple steps—but like a soldier dragging himself up Sinai, gashed, ragged, but clutching the sworn oath brit in stained bloodied hands. The baal teshuvah climbs from the pit of assimilation and intermarriage ruin to build something stronger than innocence—he builds justice from ash.
This Kotzker line doesn’t whisper piety. It shouts Torah common law. It carves a verdict: authenticity belongs to the one who fights for the brit in secret. The Rebbe doesn’t moralize—he judges. He cuts down the pius religious Jew who bases statute law Judaism code upon Greek foreign logic.
۞ Haqq al-Kadhib: The Truth of the Lie ۞
In the cadence of ancient reproach
Have they not claimed what they did not build?
Have they not wept over stones they did not lay?
Have they not called themselves what they were not named?
Lo! The land spoke before their tongue.
The hills bore witness before their fathers’ dust.
Zion remembered her children—
But they remembered not her name.
They cry “return”—but whence did they come?
From Kheibar? From Damascus? From the sands of Najd?
Not from Yehudah, not from Shomron.
Their fathers did not plant olives in Ephraim.
Their mothers did not sing by the waters of Zion.
Woe to the people who inherit envy.
Woe to the nation born of grievance.
They forged a people from negation.
They raised a flag over a wound.
And say: “Nakba! Nakba!”
But who cast the first spear?
Who heard the call of Mufti and Pharaoh?
Who marched seven nations against one boy, wrapped in prophecy?
And they were broken like clay jars on the threshing floor.
And lo—they claim Jerusalem!
Did their prophets anoint it?
Did their songs rise from her gates?
No—
The Temple did not weep for them.
The Cohonim did not speak their tongue.
Say to them:
You are Ishmael, son of the field—
And we are Israel, bound to the altar.
We remember the fire.
You remember the sand.
So perish the lie that cloaks itself in keffiyeh.
Perish the myth born in Cairo’s tongue.
The land knows her children.
The stones cry out against their claim.
And history is not mocked.
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(1) “Tora” references the Japanese military code for “lightning attack” (totsugeki raigeki), famously transmitted during the Pearl Harbor assault on December 7, 1941. The line critiques modern willful ignorance or contempt toward historical warnings or aggression.
(2) “פרדס” (Pardes) – A one-line footnote or aside explaining the four levels of Torah exegesis (Peshat, Remez, Derash, Sod) might enhance the meaning of rejecting syllogism for covenantal reasoning.
(3) The koran affirms earlier prophets but omits the concept of the brit as a legal-political alliance cut with Israel. The first word of the Torah בראשית contains ברית אש.
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I Think Donald Trump Is a Convicted Rapist
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Definitely found guilty of sexual assault.
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Lawfare and Leviathan: How the Bureaucratic State Became the Real Sovereign. The Prosecution Presidency: Biden, Trump, and the Death of Neutral Law. Justice or Anarchy? The Weaponization of Law in a Post-Constitutional America. Who Runs America? Bureaucrats, Billionaires, and the Puppets They Fund. From Republic to Regime: How Corporate Donors and Unelected Agencies Usurped the Constitution. The Invisible Coup: How Corporate Power and Federal Bureaucracy Replaced the Voter. The New Liberalism Is Conservative: How Populism Became Revolutionary. Anarchists in Suits: When the Left Became the Defenders of Empire. Trump the Radical, AOC the Conservative: The Great American Role Reversal. Rule by Indictment: The Fall of the American Constitutional Order. Soft Tyranny in the Age of Biden: Law, Lobbyists, and the Loss of Liberty. Technocracy Unmasked: The Corruption of Courts, Congress, and the Corporate State.
The U.S. no longer operates as a republic but as a technocratic, bureaucratic regime controlled by unelected officials, lobbyists, and billionaires. Legal warfare (“lawfare”) is not just a symptom but a strategy used by this managerial class to maintain power — and Donald Trump’s prosecution marks its most radical form. The American republic has fallen not with a coup, but with a quiet regime change. The new regime maintains democratic aesthetics, but behind them lies a fusion of lawfare, corporate oligarchy, and bureaucratic inertia.
The attempt to develop a provocative and thematically coherent framework that blends political theory, populist critique, and institutional analysis into a meta-narrative about the decline of the American republic and the rise of a technocratic-managerial regime. The titles and framing devices — such as “Lawfare and Leviathan,” “The Invisible Coup,” and “Anarchists in Suits” — effectively dramatize what many populists and dissidents perceive: that the traditional Left-Right spectrum has inverted, and that power now flows through informal, unelected, and often opaque networks of influence.
The United States no longer functions as a constitutional republic but as a bureaucratic-managerial regime, where unelected actors — from federal agencies and corporate lobbies to tech billionaires — exert de facto control through mechanisms like lawfare, regulatory capture, and financial influence. This regime maintains the appearance of democracy while insulating itself from genuine democratic accountability.
Anarchism is typically anti-state — yet the accusation here is that the state is growing too powerful. This legalistic anarchy, where the rule of law is no longer predictable or binding but selectively applied to punish dissent. Biden’s figurehead governance or executive inertia, compares to the Wilson Administration after he suffered a stroke and collapsed.
Clinton’s prostitution of MSM like Maddow’s chirping for three years the Russia-gate scandal slander of President Trump, Pelosi’s twice attempt to impeach the President, the Jan 6 Democratic committee lynch mob, Tom Homan vs AOC, or the Hunter Biden laptop suppression. Each anchor, abstract critiques in concrete controversies. The EU’s technocracy, Trudeau’s Emergencies Act, WEF influence show how the “invisible coup”, not uniquely American but part of a global managerial turn.
The United States no longer functions as a constitutional republic. It has undergone a silent regime change, not through armed insurrection or revolution, but via the incremental expansion of an unelected managerial class — one composed of federal agencies, tech oligarchs, corporate lobbyists, and judicial partisans who enforce their will through a new weapon: lawfare.
This new regime maintains the aesthetics of democracy — elections, laws, and televised debate — while insulating itself from true democratic accountability. The real power lies in what the public never votes for: the bureaucrats who write regulations, the judges who interpret law by ideological alignment, and the billionaires who fund narratives, campaigns, and policies from behind the scenes.
The hallmark of this new regime is the politicization of justice. When courts cease to be impartial and prosecutions become tools of political suppression, the republic dies by a thousand subpoenas. Trump’s legal troubles, regardless of personal guilt, are emblematic of this transformation: trials as political theater, indictments as electoral strategies.
The managerial state rules by inertia. Congressional deadlock, executive figureheads, and judicial activism have created a vacuum filled by alphabet agencies and “public-private partnerships.” These unaccountable bureaucracies write binding policy with the force of law — but without a single vote cast. The merger of tech censorship, legal persecution, and bureaucratic overreach simply not some ‘democratic oversight’ — but oligarchic enforcement dolled-up in liberal clothing.
Today, populists who challenge the bureaucratic order branded as “criminal radicals,” while those defending entrenched power modelled as whores advertising their trade behind window-panes, as “progressives.” The roles have reversed: dismantling unaccountable federal agencies, restoring legislative primacy, and enforcing transparency, now exist as “revolutionary” ideas. Meanwhile, defending a bloated alien blob infested federal apparatus has become the hallmark of “liberal” governance.
Anarchy doesn’t always burn like Molotov cocktails thrown at SS soldiers at the Warsaw Ghetto revolt. Today, anarchy wears a suit, like as does the current dictator of Syria, or sits on some judicial bench. Law in America, no longer consistent, Court prosecutions politically selective, the consequence of this political corruption — legalistic anarchy — an unstable bankrupt regime cloaked in all manner of legal pretense. This, simply not a critique of the Biden administration alone. That would make it shallow reactionary Trump derangement syndrome stupid. Nor does it limit its condemnation only to the Democratic Party. Republicans too have become fat and sassy comfortable puppets of the same donor class and administrative inertia. The crisis confronting our American Constitutional Republic – structural.
If America rejects the Bush slander of the US Constitution, calling it just a GD piece of paper! We the People of the United States must confront this Leviathan perversion of our Constitutional Republic unto a bureaucratic dictatorship — not just by winning elections, but by dismantling the unelected machinery of governance that makes elections irrelevant, and restore the autonomy of the States to bureaucratically regulate all Industry and commerce transactions within each and every State of the Union without Washington Big Brother. The original Constitution, designed for a limited, representative republic, not Carpet Bagger Federal unelected bureaucrats employing more Americans than does private industry. This bloated post American Civil War technocratic regime, cloaked in democratic ritual, governed by lawfare, money, and media manipulation as replaced the power of the State Legislatures to hold elected Senators and Congressmen accountable to represent the States which appoint them to power in Washington in the first place.
Previous Biden administration’s multiple legal confrontations with Trump (including criminal trials and accusations of politically motivated prosecutions) could be seen as “anarchist in political orientation” — taps into a widespread right-wing concern about the politicization of the justice system.
Supporters of these prosecutions, both State & Federal, argue no one is above the law — and Trump’s actions legitimately warrant investigation. Yet this ignores the historical fact that the manner the Democratic Party conducts itself while in power – totally unprecedented in American history.
This “arrest your political opponents” smacks of socialist/communist Anarchism. Have no heard any defense made by any Democratic leader which contends and rejects this observation made by an outsider US citizen living abroad. Anarchism typically means the rejection of law, order, and authority, often aimed at dismantling state structures, and the Federal and State Court systems together with the entire Federal bureaucracy, based upon all the corruption which Elon Musk has uncovered and exposed, totally corrupt and debased.
Especially under the mentally handicapped Biden Administration the suspicion stands: “Who operates and controls the Government? The President, Congress, and Supreme Court vs the Federal bureaucrats in alliance with the lobbies/Corporate monopoly donors who make huge “investments” which Democrat or Republican or Independent leaders get elected to Office. This infusion of “corporate investments” into the political election process” has cause the costs to elect or run for political office to force political candidates of all stripes – left or right – to prostitute themselves as the whores of the Corporate monopolies! Hence the question stands: “Who actually runs the Federal and State Governments? Do the Constitutional bodies/legislature in the States\ run State and Federal Government OR do the CEOs of corporate monopolies pull the strings of the elected official puppets?
Tom Homan vs AOC serves as an example. Does the Trump Administration seek to dismantle the huge Federal bureaucracy vs AOC who promotes maintaining the old order status quo? This conflict in effect reverses the roles of liberals vs conservatives! Maintaining the status quo – Conservatism. While dismantling the expensive Federal Bureaucracy and holding judges accountable for their legal rulings qualifies as “Liberal”.
Lawfare and Leviathan: How the Bureaucratic State Became the Real Sovereign
The rise of legal warfare, political prosecutions, and the triumph of unelected power in post-constitutional America. The Prosecution Presidency: Biden, Trump, and the Death of Neutral Law. How weaponized justice marks the collapse of bipartisan legitimacy and opens the gates to civil unraveling.
Justice or Anarchy? The Weaponization of Law in a Post-Constitutional America
When courts become political actors and elections become proxy wars for bureaucratic control. Who Runs America? Bureaucrats, Billionaires, and the Puppets They Fund? Inside the shadow regime that governs Washington — and the illusion of electoral choice. Trump the Radical, AOC the Conservative: The Great American Role Reversal. How populist revolt threatens the administrative state — and why today’s “liberals” are defending empire.
The Invisible Coup: How Corporate Power and Federal Bureaucracy Replaced the Voter. A diagnosis of American democracy in decline — and the managerial elite who stage-manage consent. Anarchists in Suits: When the Left Became the Defenders of Empire. The paradox of order through chaos — and how progressive rhetoric now masks the enforcement arm of oligarchy.
A polemical, politically charged analysis of America’s transformation from a constitutional republic to a bureaucratic-technocratic regime. The American Republic has not fallen through revolution, but through a bureaucratic-technocratic quiet coup — one that hides behind the façade of law, elections, and democratic rhetoric while consolidating power in unelected, unaccountable networks of billionaires, lobbyists, and federal agencies. States Rights bureaucrat Washington bites.
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“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.”
-Martin Niemöller
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One of the most profound, accurate, and heartbreaking quotes ever. Thank you, Harper Ross.
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I Think Donald Trump Is a traitor to United States
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I totally agree, Harper. 😦
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I Think Donald Trump Is a sexual predator
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No doubt about it. That has been proven by his words, and by the courts.
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I Think Donald Trump Is a Insufferable Bully
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Totally agree.
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I Think Donald Trump won’t be deported Prince Harry
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Both aren’t going anywhere, though one is eventually bound for hell. 🙂
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I Think Prince Harry & Meghan Markle helped Donald Trump get re elected
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Makes as much sense as white working-class Americans thinking Donald Trump is going to make their lives better.
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I Think Christian nationalism Is just Fascism
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Not exactly, but they’re in the same neighborhood. 🙂
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I Think Donald Trump Is a Members of the Illuminati
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I Think Melania Trump Is a Members of the Illuminati
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Donald and Melania are certainly members of The Elitist Club, The Not Very Nice Club, etc. 😦
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I Think Melania Trump Is on the same level as Carlton Gebbia, Meghan Markle, Virginia Thomas, Amber Heard, Katie Britt, Marina Abramović, Hilaria Baldwin, Louise Linton, Casey DeSantis, Elaine Chao, Erika Jayne, Patrizia Reggiani, Nikki Haley, Lotta Volkova, Rebekah Neumann, Ghislaine Maxwell, Doja Cat, Heather Mills, Eva Braun, Oksana Grigorieva, Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Sorokin, Lucy Letby, Sarah Ferguson, Usha Vance, Michele Lamy,
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Definitely a gallery of some less-than-admirable people, some much worse than others and some whose names I don’t recognize. I have more positive feelings about Meghan Markle’s actions than you do, I guess. 🙂
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I Think Donald Trump has casts a curse upon the House of Windsor
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The money-hungry Trump does like that Buckingham Palace includes the word “buck.” 🙂
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I Think Donald Trump had links with Diddy
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Maybe, maybe not, but he certainly had links to sexual pervert Jeffrey Epstein — as you note in the comment below. (As did Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, etc.)
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I Think Donald Trump had links with Jeffrey Epstein
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See my reply above.
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I Think Donald Trump having Freak-Off Parties’at Mar-a-Lago Club
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Perhaps different kinds of parties disturbing in other ways…
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I Think Donald Trump has ties to the Voodoo occult
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Maybe to “voodoo economics”?
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I Think Donald Trump Is a Felony
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That’s a great way to describe him! Thank you!
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I’ve been thinking about Grover Cleveland quite a lot recently, the only president besides Donald Trump to be elected to two non-consecutive terms. Cleveland was not one of the presidents who got a lot of coverage when I read books on American history.
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Thank you, Tony! Great mention of Grover Cleveland; he and Trump definitely share the non-consecutive-terms thing. (Cleveland was born about five miles from my New Jersey apartment in 1837; his house is still there — now a small museum.)
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Hi Dave, from a distance, we are watching this all unfold, a bit like a circus show. A most entertaining post which would be much better as fiction than non-fiction.
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Thank you very much, Robbie! I agree — the U.S. political landscape is a circus show, with “trapeze” and “Trump” sharing the same two first letters. And, yes, if only this were dystopian fiction rather than dystopian reality. 😦
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🤗💗
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I have no words….
But someone from the past has the right words: “Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.” John Adams
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Thank you, Rebecca! That’s a profound John Adams quote. Makes me think about how people in our parents’ or grandparents’ generation fought fascism during World War II, and now a part of the U.S. population willingly again elected a President with fascist tendencies. 😦
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I just signed up for Blue Sky today and am now following you. I closed out my Twitter account months ago!!!! Looking forward to connecting!!
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Great, Rebecca! I followed you back. 🙂 You were wise to leave Twitter/X months ago. I unwisely left later than you did, but better late than never! 🙂
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A terrific quote, Rebecca.
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John Adams had the best lines. But I think his wife had even more dramatic lines!!
“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”
Can you imagine how that statement would go over at a dinner party in the 1700’s. YIKES!
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Abigail Adams was amazing!
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Interesting. It wouldn’t go down well in many homes today.
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True, Robbie! There’s still plenty of patriarchal behavior around in 2024. 😦
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Sigh…….
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Hellarious post, Dave. 😱
I’m simply sick about this.🤢
I just know truckloads of garbage are heading Canada’s way. We’ve already been warned to play by the rules, or else. This is re: immigration.
WTF?
Literally literarily speaking Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas could be rewritten to be Fear and Loathing in Washington DC.
They would need to import a painted pony carousel to the House Floor. There wouldn’t be enough ponies for all members to ride on, but oh the joy of watching them claw each other for a seat!
Of course there would be a Gold Ring for members to kiss as it goes round and round. Whomever plants the most kisses, gets a box of secret documents.
Sigh… looking forward to getting back normal next week! (amap)
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Thank you very much, Resa! That is QUITE a comment. Well said. Yes, the whole situation is sickening, and the Trump administration’s impending nonsense will indeed affect other countries — including your Canada.
Love the image of a painted pony carousel in Congress, and the satirical commentary you surrounded it with! The ponies would have to be painted white, of course…
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White..Okay.. (although black is the feeling)
So happy you liked my satire. I’m trying in trying times.
OH! I quit X.
I’m on Blue Sky. I love it! I’m at @resalis.bsky.social.
Let me know, so I can follow you. I even put a Blue Sky sharing button on my blog!
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Just followed you on Blue Sky, which I joined a few days ago! I quit X, too, earlier this fall — and don’t miss it a bit.
GREAT drawing of Freddie Mercury!!!
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Eeeee! How exciting!
Heading over!
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🙂
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Hi Resa, I didn’t know that about Canada being told to toe the line. Interesting. Your comments are always hilarious.
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In the spirit of being positive; in those rare times when I get angry, I do like to use humour.
LOL! Probably the more irritated I am, the more sarcastic I can get.
Since the US election, my wit has been sharp as a spoon.
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Haha, Resa, you are so funny! Thank you for making my day better.
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You are welcome. Back at you!
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Smile
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I am overwhelmed by your insightfull post or by what I could learn about your newly elected president! Many thanks, Dave:)
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Thank you very much, Martina! 🙂 Trump will be the 47th President of the United States, but I don’t think he’s even in the top 50 in terms of ability, integrity, etc. 🙂
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I, in Switzerland,would never have thought this, but your people?
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Many U.S. “leaders” and a too-large portion of the U.S. population are unfortunately okay with some really bad stuff. 😦
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Me too, Martina. We get the inside track about US politics through Dave. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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You see, Roberta, we seem to have become confused! It is, however, always good to hear from you, many thanks:)
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Cleverly done, Dave 🙂 I chuckled at the references, each one spot on. In this deeply disappointing time, laughter is helpful. So thank you for this 🌞
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Thank you very much, Dave! 🙂 Laughing so as not to cry, to reference a cliché. 😦
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There are some clichés that make me groan like with a bad joke, but that one resonates with me right now 🙏
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Yes, some clichés work at certain times…
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Just an observation: One of your commenters mentioned Huxley’s Ape And Essence, which caused me to immediately think of Vonnegut’s Welcome To The Monkey House.
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Thank you, Anonymous! That’s a great connection you made! If Huxley and Vonnegut were alive, they’d both be scathing about today’s political situation in the U.S.
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I stand with what Bernie Sanders said: self-serving political clans have brought the US to this moment of truth. Congress isn’t a mirror of society but a club of senile lawyers who didn’t manage to earn their bread otherwise because the US is already inundated with them. Big time to introduce a numerus clausum for these studies.
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Thank you, Shaharee! Bernie Sanders is almost always right about things. He’s one of the very few politicians I admire. And, yes, Congress is not a mirror of society. It’s mostly bought by corporate interests, the vast majority of its members are richer than us, it has a disproportionate number of lawyers (as you allude to), etc. 😦
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Tanks-giving is coming for the Ukrainian turkey but in the halls of fortune Christmas bells are already ringing to indicate the coming of Santa under a rain of freely launched rockets in Europe while the 30 trillion timebomb under the federal reserve slowly reaches its expiration date.
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Vividly expressed! To address one of your points, Trump does seem to be more on the side of Russia than Ukraine.
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Now the elections are done with the Biden administration gave the Ukrainians a tanks-giving that is long overdue and will probably not change the outcome anymore. Rocket showers at newyear, surrender soon afterwards.
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Yes, it does not look good for Ukraine.
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It would all be even funnier if it weren’t so true:(
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Thank you, Becky! You’re absolutely right; this whole situation is basically NOT funny. 😦 Wish it were fiction.
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That’s for sure…
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Hi Dave, in a hurry here so I’ll read more slowly and comment in more depth tomorrow, I hope. If there’s any fun to be had from the situation, you’ve distilled it into this. I’m a bit worried about Trump in this though – he hasn’t used enough exclamation marks by far!!! lol. Catch you again later. 🙂
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Thank you, Laura! Ha — 😂 — more exclamation points were definitely needed. Perhaps billionaire villain Elon Musk had them eliminated even before he started work on that stupid government efficiency committee he’ll be co-chairing for Trump? 🙂
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Quite possibly. I guess gallows humour is the best way to go at present. It’ll be an interesting new year, that’s for sure. 😐
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Gallows humor is definitely on the agenda! 🙂
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Hang ’em High, that’s what I say. I think we’re going to be seeing a lot of it for the nextv4 years. Which reminds me: last night my husband found an ad for a cruise from the USA beginning next Janary. It’s a round-the-world multi-stop trip lasting 4 years – for those who’d rather not be there for the duration. 😂
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Ha, Laura! 😂
I’ve heard about that cruise, too. In a way, I love the idea. On the other hand, I realize that only the very wealthy could afford such a cruise and the very wealthy will be mostly immune from all the awful stuff a Trump administration will do. The rest of us are in trouble… 😦
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So true, I’m afraid. In gallows humour mode, I guess a group of the less-well-off could hijack the cruise ship, sail it here and claim asylum. You and yours would be very welcome at my place. Seriously, our thoughts are with you. We’re going to feel the effects, but at a distance, so our thoughts are with you. 😦
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Tee-hee, Laura. 😂 That would be the best ship hijacking since the one in Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno.” 🙂
Yes, perhaps the worse effects in the U.S., but also bad elsewhere. 😦
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I loved ‘Benito Cereno’ – just so sorry that it didn’t work out for the slaves. As to the Trump circus coming to town, as another friend on here notes, ‘Buckle up, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.’ Hang in there. 🙂
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I agree — I wish that Melville novella had a happier ending.
The Trump circus doesn’t even have professional clowns. 😦
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No – a flim-flam outfit headed by a snake-oil salesman. 🙂
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Perfect summary!
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Dave, you had me in stitches from the moment I read about Chile 😀 Knowing everything 😀 😀 😀
Forget about returning to “normal.” Normalcy got sucked into a black hole from the moment he descended that escalator to mingle among us folks who love books.
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Thank you very much, Rosaliene! Great, descriptively expressed point about nothing being normal anymore. (Although there’s a street called Normal Avenue in my town that hasn’t had a name change. 🙂 )
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Thank the gods that something remains the same ! 🙂
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Yes, a little bit of comfort. 🙂
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Living in Canada is like being nice and warm while sipping a hot chocolate and while the Titanic go down.
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Thank you, Tofino Photography! Vivid image you offered! Yes, much better to live in Canada than in the United States these days (though of course things are not perfect north of the U.S.), but Canada and other countries will unfortunately be negatively affected by the actions of a Trump presidency. 😦
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Hi Wayne, this is an apt comment. I think you can say the same for everyone outside of the USA currently.
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Well done, Dave. I’m sure you’re on a list now. The Enemy Within adapted from The Enemy Below.
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Thank you very much, Dan! Ha! 😂 I think I’ve been on a list for a while. At first I thought it was a list of possible Trump cabinet appointees, but then I figured…nah, probably not. 🙂
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This country desperately needs a Secretary of Inappropriate Humor.
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LOL, Dan! 😂 Love that idea!!!
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Interesting!
I wondered why Aldous Huxely’s book, “Ape and Essence’…wasn’t mentioned, and because:
‘Do you like the Human Race;
‘No! Not much is my sentiments for ‘All of We Primates’ that act-out as monkeys over politics!!!’
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Thank you, Anonymous! Hmm…that Huxley novel sounds rather relevant. 🙂 Then there’s also the slightly retitled “Depraved New World…” 🙂
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Sadly funny. Thanks for reposting.
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Thank you very much, Marie! 🙂
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Yes, it has already happened, hasn’t it, and with every staff appointment, it gets worse–and it isn’t going to get better for a long time. I smiled at all the book titles you worked in, Dave, but otherwise I’m having trouble smiling much at anything.
When we were driving toward the mountains to charge our car two hours ago, we got an exceptionally clear view of the Alps across the entire horizon, the sun gleaming off the snow on Bern’s three most famous peaks, Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau. The sight was a good reminder that no matter what happens under Trump, some things are permanently magnificent and will still fill me with awe whenever I see them (even if Trump will help reduce the snow that falls on those mountains in years to come.)
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Thank you very much, Kim! Yes, each new cabinet and staff pick feels like another nail in the coffin. 😦 Not much to smile about indeed. 😦
I suppose the U.S. and the world will survive until 2028, but so much more damage will be done over the next four years — including to the climate, as you allude to when describing the view of the Alps so well and so evocatively.
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Dear Dave and Kim,
What a witty satire you have rendered here for us, Dave!
It’s time for a ditty from me regarding Trump, who is after a President of Flaw and Border.
Will Trump get his wall
Or will he get us all
In addition, he has been exercising a flawed plutocracy bordering on autocracy.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I have turned the essence of Trumpism into a cartoon as follows:
This cartoon is featured in my post entitled “Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity“, which you can easily locate from the Home page of my blog.
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle🦅
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Thank you very much, SoundEagle! Terrific satirical poetry, and I love your phrase “Flaw and Border.” Sums up Trump in three words. 😦
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Dear Dave,
You are very welcome! Here is where you can find out what others have thought about my Trumpism cartoon:
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle🦅
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It IS a very interesting cartoon, SoundEagle!
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Thank you. I would be delighted if you could kindly submit a comment there.
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Done!
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1984 love the oppressors )))
And Sister Carrie 10/10
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Thank you very much, Milena! 🙂 George Orwell and Theodore Dreiser would NOT be fans of Trump.
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How about Amy Tan? Just kidding, Dave
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Ha, Milena! 😂
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Will do. 🙂 Thank you, Jim!
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Very clever, but I’m glad I got a tetanus shot in September.
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LOL, Liz! 😂 (Your tetanus quip.) Thank you very much! 🙂
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You’re welcome, Dave.
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🙂
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