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Posted by on Nov 20, 2025 in Blog | 2 comments

Orange is the New Juice

 

 

ORANGE IS THE NEW JUICE
(HOW TRUMP BECAME THE NEW O.J.)

If and when they’re ever released, the TRUMPStEIN FILES don’t really matter as much anymore.

Whatever slimy details are burrowed therein, the remaining “evidence” isn’t trustworthy. Not anymore. Can anyone really trust the hand-picked sycophantic inner-circle of blind loyalists inside Trump’s DOJ to allow any dirt on their boss to surface? Does anyone really expect to discover a hidden treasure drove of legitimate materials related to sex crimes by Jeffrey Epstein and all those who willfully participated and enabled a decade of abuses?

The Trumpstein Files are now in the process of being scrubbed so clean it’s gonna’ read like Dr. Seuss wrote it. According to the bill that was just signed mandating the release, the Orange House now has 30-days to redact, block, strike out, delay, alter, and/or obliterate ANY evidence that might possibly link Trump to any wrongdoing. THIRTY DAYS!

Fortunately, most Americans will know when they’ve ordered steak of the menu and then get served a heaping pile of bullshit. What in the hell is this? This isn’t what we ordered.

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Posted by on Oct 29, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

Review: “A House of Dynamite” (Netflix)

 

 

REVIEW: “A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE” [NETFLIX]

A House of Dynamite is the hottest new show on Netflix. It’s so impactful that some top government officials are now commenting on it. They’re denying its realism mostly — which probably means it’s frighteningly close to being accurate. Yes, it could happen. The movie — and particularly the ending — has triggered a broad spectrum of reactions from political insiders and the general public alike. This isn’t surprising given the deep divide within our nation and the chronic depth of disinformation poisoning healthy discussion and made constructive debate difficult if not impossible.

Directed by the Oscar winner of The Hurt Locker (along with Zero Dark Thirty) the film and story are signature Kathryn Bigelow at her very best, reflecting her own unique brand of style and storytelling. Fast-pacing, jittery camera shots, imperfect angles across paper-stacked desks, awkward pauses and occasional interruptions, and devotion to the tiniest details are Bigelow’s cinematic trademark. Reminiscent of the best film adaptations of Tom Clancy’s novels a generation ago, she’s carrying that legacy and level of authenticity. Bigelow clearly hasn’t lost a step returning to the all-too familiar subject matter of another intense political and military conflict, though this crisis is not played out on battlefields, but rather beneath florescent office lights burrowed in bureaucratic concrete mazes and newsroom-looking situation rooms operating 24/7/365 under the government’s alphabet soup of letter abbreviations.

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Posted by on Oct 2, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

These Disunited States: A Serious Question About Secession

 

 

THESE DISUNITED STATES:
A QUESTION ABOUT SECESSION

How many of you would vote for a national divorce? Another word for this is — a secession, which then becomes a partition. That would mean a state or group of states leaving the USA and forming a new sovereign nation. Of course, several states did try this once back during the 1860s and things didn’t turn out so well. But, let’s assume a modern hypothetical secession could be peaceful—-would you support it?

Answering this question requires creative imagination. Given the sprawling U.S. map and how states could presumably divide, many isthmuses would be necessary to connect states scattered everywhere. Moreover, big cities in some states would protest. And, rural people in other states would protest, too. No one wants to be a minority inside their own “country.” So, even if it could happen, there are problems with dividing along red-blue boundaries.

When you think more about it, secession sounds next to impossible in practical terms. But for the sake of discussion, let’s shelve those concerns for now and just talk hypothetically —

WOULD YOU AGREE TO A PEACEFUL SECESSION IF GIVEN A CHANCE TO VOTE ON IT?

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Posted by on Sep 30, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

What If the Band Refuses to Play?

 

 

Imagine taking the grand stage, expecting music, and then suddenly without any warning — the band refuses to play.

Stone cold silence.

According to early reports, that’s apparently what happened this morning at the Trump Wolf’s Lair, a gathering of 800 top military leaders summoned by the current crackpot regime which was held in Quantico. I wondered how these generals and assorted military brass who flew to the nation’s capital from all over the world would react to this unprecedented mandatory test-trial of a loyalty oath. I do feel great sympathy for these decorated military leaders, now forced into the excruciating decision over their careers and everything they’ve worked for (and rightly earned) *versus* becoming political mercenaries carrying out orders to go after their fellow Americans in a looming domestic conflict unseen since the Civil War. We’ve reached that point, right now.

The answer to this question may have revealed itself on this glorious Tuesday morning. Seventy years ago, it was the American military who stood up to the bullying of right-wing zealot Joseph McCarthy and effectively ended his witch hunts during the Army hearings. Fifty years ago, congressional Republicans may have saved America from the worst insecurities of Nixon. Today, it might be these generals doing much the same —– throwing up a gauntlet against Trump. Too early to tell–yes, of course. But this was encouraging, and a much-needed beacon of hope that perhaps we’ll make it through this idiocracy after all.

I was EXTREMELY PROUD to read this early report, of the military leaders choosing to remain loyal to the U.S. Constitution and refusing to go along with this MAGA madness. I didn’t write this (and I’d credit the author, if I knew the source *), but it’s an excellent summation of what happened today:

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