Posted on Jan 29, 2019
The emergence of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a major player in the American political scene has been astonishing to watch. The 29 year old Latina from the Bronx is not only a fearless progressive, but captivatingly self assured and incredibly well informed. This potent mix has unnerved the political establishment, and put the fear of God into the Republican Party — and for very good reason. The attacks on Ocasio-Cortez have been...
Posted on Jan 25, 2019
News broke today that former Trump campaign adviser and notorious conman Roger Stone was arrested in Florida by the FBI on charges of obstruction, lying to Congress and witness tampering. Stone is facing a total of seven counts related to Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and was released on $250,000 bail. Reported the Guardian: Mueller alleged in a long-anticipated indictment that Stone was asked by Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign to get inside information about emails that...
In a matter of weeks on the job, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to checkmate Trump over his government shutdown in spectacular fashion. Not only has Pelosi refused to back down from Trump’s childish threats over his border wall, she has managed to bully the bully and forced him into a completely impossible situation. While Trump may have been good at ripping people off in business with his...
Posted on Jan 08, 2019
Capitalism as an economic model for society is basically an untouchable concept in America. Anyone who disagrees with this is a socialist, or worse, a communist who doesn’t understand “how things work”. And by “work”, this means making as many people materially wealthy as possible. But capitalism also makes us sick, and has other consequences so severe we dare not mention them out loud. There are some serious problems...
Posted on Jan 03, 2019
Over the holiday season, I spent time with an uncle in the U.K who is decidedly more right wing than I am. He supported Brexit, and views liberal pc culture as one of the biggest problems in British society. My uncle is a highly intelligent man, a professor, lecturer, and columnist who is routinely invited onto news shows to do battle with lefties. I am not as emotionally invested...
Posted on Dec 18, 2018
The rapidly changing nature of the Mueller probe and the extraordinary confession from Rudy Giuliani, the walls are closing in on Trump so quickly he may have no other option....
Posted on Dec 11, 2018
Perhaps feeling the backlash from his little outburst against president Trump, Tucker Carlson is back to doing what he does best: shilling for the president and protecting him from the liberal “Deep State”. In a truly ludicrous segment on his show last night, Carlson claimed that despite Federal prosecutors explicitly stating that the president has committed a crime, Trump is in fact the victim of extortion and a liberal plot...
Posted on Dec 03, 2018
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, it would be a fair assessment to say that my entire world view changed — almost over night. The seemingly never ending stream of high profile men accused of horrific acts of sexual assault laid bare the reality most women live in. Far from the equal society many of us believe we inhabit, a world of predatory, deviant, men who abuse,...
Posted on Nov 27, 2018
This is the second and final part on Donald Trump and the 48 Laws of Power, as laid out by author Robert Greene. In this part, we take a look at Trump’s flouting of many of the laws power, and how it could undo his presidency. Trump’s Flouting of the Laws Law 4: Always say less than necessary: Persons who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself,...
Posted on Nov 26, 2018
The Evangelical Christian movement is unique in its support for Donald Trump for good reason: it is a uniquely empty religion. ...
