beyond the pale...

The fact that Trump constantly makes it sound like the USA is an aggrieved party in the world stage is beyond the pale.  GOOD gOD!

The USA: a superpower that has imposed its will and might, welcome or not, all over the world for decades; a power that has shaped the world with its policies and treaties, and that has been instrumental in molding the planet to look exactly like it looks like right now...

To cry out that "Mexico (or any other country for that matter) has not treated us fairly" is so ridiculous, it is beyond unbelievable!

It is really the end of the world that I, the product of a freedom loving American education, once envisioned and hoped to grow old in.  GOOD gOD!  The man is textbook bully!


Alternative fact:

A well oiled machine, I tell you...

Who out there still believes in the alternative facts?  Good god, what does it take...

small thoughts

Fascism is the norm; democracy will be but a blip in human history.

....And not even that in the history of this planet whose biosphere we have been modifying at a geometric pace...  

... and which the planet will (possibly) replace with some wondrous thing else once we are no longer here to witness it.

The road is perfectly lit by a beautiful rosy sky, but my google maps just turned to night.

  Liberté    Égalité    Fraternité    blah    blah    blah

Trump finally says something the whole world probably agrees with!

In his usual 6th grade English, Trump defends "the killer Putin" by equating American leaders with him:

“There are a lot of killers,” Trump replied. “We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent?”

Ahhh finally something the rest of the world can get behind!

glee

Ahhh the pesky problem of checks and balances

I wonder how President Trump is enjoying "this great country's" system of checks and balances...

And I wonder if when he says, "I am going to make this country great again," he just means that he is going to get rid of the non-executive branches of the government whose strange voting system has placed him at the head of its executive branch with a minority vote...

I don't follow what he tweets, but I am certain he is, as usual, misinforming his followers with his little tweet-tantrums....

And I wonder if one day even his most ardent supporters might get tired of his little missives and start seeing past all the "alternative facts".

yawn

2 day old kvetching

The Machete Wielding “Terrorist” in France was apparently a citizen of Egypt and a resident of the UAE; last I saw, countries NOT on the Trump list; not to mention that the biggest terrorist act perpetrated on this soil was done by a bunch of Saudi Arabians, another country NOT on the Trump list (but that's an old story). 

Logic does not seem to be part of our new president’s agenda.

 ...Though profits still do, since he has not imposed any travel restrictions on Middle East countries where he actually has business in; businesses, I might add, that he supposedly no longer pays attention to...

ugh

Another day... another fis...

It is not every day, in fact it is (very very) never, that I agree with statements coming from Iran; but their reaction to Flynn’s (and Trump’s) inexperience is on the money (not that I don't think the regime shouldn't be viewed with extreme suspicion).  Moreover, Flynn's abstract and unspecific threat feels like President Obama’s “red line” in Syria; and we know how well that turned out… Does anyone ever learn anything in this crumbling Nation?

....Ah yeah, there is that thing about history repeating itself first as tragedy and than as farce....

ouch