Ronald Reagan is to Philadelphia, Mississippi as Donald Trump is to Waco, Texas. Sound peculiar? Read on and it won’t.
SPECIAL NOTICE – RECOMMENDED READING ADDITION
I added Jeff Sharlet’s The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War to the Recommended Reading List yesterday.
The book is equally terrifying and informative (for other than the extreme right that is) I’ll put it plain (while still staying PG) the junk many Americans believe (and belief is the key) is as scary as it is incorrect.
I Can’t Understand Why Unless Or Unless
It didn’t get the “ink” that a lot of other stories did (including one that never happened) but I maintain that the biggest political story of the week just passed was the Fed raising interest rates again. This one almost certainly will have massive negative repercussions in the future. I read and heard all the justifications for the Fed’s move but I still can’t understand why they did it unless one of two -and neither are good – circumstances exist.
Going Down With Trump
Despite the fact that to any knowledgeable political operative he is a terrible candidate Donald Trump appears to be destined to get the 2024 GOP presidential nod; at this early point anyway and barring his demised I don’t see that changing. Continue reading Going Down With Trump
Where In History?
Timestamp: The very early afternoon (EST) of Monday March 20, 2023. The timestamp is necessary because many of the events discussed below either have just happened and I am not aware of the outcome(s) or will happen in the future. In some cases, between writing and publishing. They will be historic; just how historic and where in history they will land is yet to be determined. I’m also not naïve enough to believe that immediate reports will be sans a lot of window-dressing and secrets.