Sunday, June 28, 2026

Tag: Donald Trump

The Most Important Election of Your Life

The real nightmare is likely to emerge in 2020 or thereafter, if a far more capable politician than Trump embraces similar retrograde positions rides America B into Washington.

Looming Brexit Mayhem Will Expose Disruptive TrumpThink

So, brace for reams of critical Brexit analysis, implying the UK cut off its nose to spite its face. And let’s never forget Trump’s high-risk, gambling world is “winning take all.” That means “losers gets nothing.” Hardly a great model for parenting, let alone large-scale, global business planning or trade or health for complex, modern nation-states. Gambling for adults works when betting disposable dollars on transient sporting events when the results are instantly known. Will voters in November here not add false flummery about Brexit shortfalls as another crack-brain spoke in Trump’s broken-down political wheelhouse?

There’s No More Denying It: Trump Is Openly Racist

The GOP candidate's brouhaha with a Mexican-American judge exposes him as a manic threat to anyone he dislikes.

A White Man Just Tried To Kill Trump. Why Aren’t You...

When it comes to Michael Sandford, who is white, the narrative appears to be playing out differently.

Trump’s ‘Trust Me’ Political Religion Parlays Revivalist-style Flimflam with McCarthyite Scapegoating,...

Whether the result of calculation or a career of selling, Trump’s attention-grabbing package of dark and light explains how his national prominence surpassed an array of very talented evangelical crooks, most obscuring years of false prophesy, monetary or sexual hypocrisy.

Con vs. Con

The remainder of the presidential campaign will be characterized by an attempt among liberals to discredit third-party and popular movements. Yet our only hope for change will come by breaking free from the tyranny of the two corporate parties.

Trump, His Virus and the Dark Age of Unreason

He's the latest in a long line of American demagogues but has come closest to the White House. That makes him the most dangerous of them all.

An Asian Trump?

How can Filipinos and the country’s neighbors trust in the good intentions of a President implicated in over 1,000 murders?

Donald Trump’s Big Money Bait-and-Switch

Presumptive GOP nominee embracing super PACs, megadonors he once decried.

Is There Even an Iota of Courage in the GOP Hierarchy?

The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity. And, boy, America's Republican leadership is conforming like a pack of lemmings.

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Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future

Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.

Addicted to war?

War Fever, Trump-Style.

Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture

The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."

Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta 

Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.

The conservative ‘plan’ to dismantle public schools is entering the home stretch

The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education.